My Grandma drove one of those through a bomb crater somewhat unintentionally, she'd say "they missed me by this much" then laugh about almost getting obliterated. Grandma was a badass

Fantastic job showing them off and getting it all to fit in the timespan of a Short. Keep up the great work! ❤

Now show the blackout lights from different distances! The lines (or cat eyes) are used to establish following distance in a convoy. If you see one red line from a taillight, you are too far behind, two lines and you are the correct distance and 4 lines, you are too close.

The important thing to keep in mind, for those who don't know, is that these were meant for sneaking around at night, and therefore would only be used at low speeds alongside Infantry.

A vehicle built with purpose. We scratch our heads today asking why but 80 years ago these quirks meant you lived to see another day. And your ride did too.

Everybody all of the sudden an army jeep light expert

Cheers for sharing, these look awesome! I also love the yellow/amber lights cars used to use in the war

I hear some military vehicles also equipped with glowing axles, like it's painted with phosphor to make it glow and serve the same purpose as blackout lights Is it true???

Years ago i wanted to buy one of those but then i saw the price. (western europe area) Now i've got an old Beetle which suits me better i guess due to the sh*tty weather we have here :P

go offroading with it at night

Love it!

We currently own these jeeps and I loveee them

What does the horn and engine sound like?

Thats awesome!! Thanks for showing at night, after the last video i was curious how that would work. Not what i thought

It's common practice for infantry too, to point their flashlights down just right in front of their feet, so they don't attract as much attention. Ofc it can still be seen, but it's a lot harder to notice a flashlight pointing on the ground than one pointing right at you.

How about showing the ground so we can see what the driver is looking at?

Need this going to Chicago for a week

Nicd car dude

Where can I buy one of these beauties

Awsome !!

Wow

When I saw this, I realized that my Volkswagen Passat installed blackout lights.

I'm curious as to why they didn't use red light for blackout driving. Also, aren't you glad NVG's are a thing now?

I’m sure this would be pretty badass to have as a weekender

So cool

Do you have a full video of explaining this jeep?

Sure don't remember hearing about many jeeps driving in occupied France and I'm pretty sure the Germans weren't retrofitting captured ones.

Human eyes could see them in a convoy.

those are cool but the ones with infrared lights are even cooler.

How many miles does this one have if you remember?

When they said 'Blackout' they meant it 😆

That is so cool, never new that

Wouldnt it be better to just make the blackout lights red lights? Since red light cannot be seen from super far away? (Unless its super strong)

Now show it night, but stitch the guy at the end. You know what I mean. Make those rears smile. :D

Incognito mode

The tail lights if spotted might resemble an animal i think

That's so cool tho, but here's the question so what about the engine roar from driving or did enemy war planes can't hear it

The modern LED ones are bad as well LMAO But considering how loud modern diesel/multifuel trucks/vehicles are is kinda funny honestly

I mean, i couldn't see anything on my phone, so I guess they worked at being hard to spot

IS THAT A CIVIC SHUTTLE?

Cat eyes. Same as today

I want to buy one of these and put a Toyota Hilux engine in it

cool, really

this worked against airplanes, but not for land much, due to the fact that the engine is loud enough to be heard, only in dense forestation would the sound get absorbed by the environment sufficiently to cover the noise - however, at that same area you'd not really need the blackout lights much either. the sound of the jeeps obviously cannot be heard by a plane, so you're virtually 'cloaked' in the night like this, in places like the desert for example,. war would have looked vastly different if there were proper electric powertrains back in the day with range. i mean the engines were there to be fair, but the battery capacity wasn't, nor a reasonable way of charging. but i imagine the only thing more scary than being able to drive a completely silent electric jeep with blackout lights at night, would be a completely silent electric tank.

When I got to my unit from AIT in 87 my Infrantry unit 1/52 Inf 1st AD still had Jeeps with the infrared blackout light and these blackout lights Tommy is talking about

As you can clearly see, the lights are very clearly visible in the night to the enemy. If you to use these lights for sneaking past enemy at night, they will get you spotted! Turn off all lights, even tiny indicators on the dashboard, and then you can drive without alerting anyone more than a moving shadow making loud revving noises can alert people already.

wow how did every one of those jeeps not get totaled when nobody could see with those stupid blackout lights.

Please blackout the comments. It’s disturbing

It's not really dim in person it's just the camera

I like how 40% of this video was just the headlights. Not the blackout lights, of which we saw little

Well out back proceeds to show a black screen of black. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Now destroy it

Sweetness!!! ☺️🥲😎✊🏼

How tf do you see

Why use blackout lights at night when you can just go to bed and actually get some sleep? 😂

They could have done that so much better

Might as well turn it off

I can see the 1984 civic station wagon back there lol

Now show it mid 1944 in a convoy in occupied france

LS SWAP IT😂

a heat seeker will turn that sweet ole jeep into a few grilled cheese sandwiches....