VANS & LORRIES
When you think of a safe house, you imagine it to be a highly secure location that is on the top floor of some g with heavy fortifications surrounding it. And you’d be right to think that – those are all ideal criteria for the perfect safe house. However, have you given any thought to having your safe house in the back of a van or lorry?
Naturally, there is the issue of fuel to be taken into consideration when thinking about having a fully moveable sanctuary but should you be able to overcome that difficulty by accessing an alternative fuel source – such as alcohol, biomass, wood, gas, steam, compressed air, cooking oils, peddle power, hydrogen or liquid nitrogen, to name a few (there are a lot of alternative fuels about) – then a moveable sanctuary is just as good an option as a fully secure stationary one, as long as it is fortified correctly.
Size does matter when considering a moveable home. You cannot just hook up a caravan to a hatchback and hope for the best. Should you be attacked by zombies, a reasonable number of them will be able to tip your caravan over with no problem at all.
If we’re honest, enough zombies could topple any vehicle but we shall gloss over that fact as I like the idea of a moveable sanctuary – especially in the back of a juggernaut like in Knight Rider. And this brings us to the perfect vehicles to use for moveable safe houses: security vans or police vans. If you can get your hands on a police or army control centre van then even better (as they’ve got radios and televisions and chairs in too).
All these vehicles are heavy, which will make it more difficult for the undead to tip you over, and they also generally have armour-plating that will stop hundreds of grabbing hands and beating fists putting a dent in the side. This means that minimum customising will be necessary, apart from the fuel source. You may want to put a cattle grid on the front and you will also have to make the driver’s cab accessible from the rear area, if it’s not already, along with adding support and security to the windows of the cab to keep the driver safe.
The only issue with these vehicles is that you will have to ensure your team is kept to a minimum, as the only way you will be able to accept more members is if you create a convoy. But more vehicles would attract more attention and more zombies on your tail.
The alternative, should you wish to make more room, is to trade up your van for a big red AEC Regent ‘RT’ double-decker bus and then you could ride across country and across the Channel to Athens with Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett whilst being chased by a girl’s mother and agent as well as zombies too. You’ve seen it in the movies, so let’s see if it’s true.