Saturday, 8 May 2021

GRUMMAN LSS ROVER ON FILM: THE PROJECT S.W.O.R.D ANT

 Oh my God! I have been checking for footage of this old rover for ages on YT.

Here it is!


Project SWORD called this vehicle the ANT in the 1968 Annual - click on the labels.

It would had made a fab Century 21 SWORD toy!

Do you agree?

Has anyone seen this rover in the flesh?

4 comments:

  1. Paul Adams from New Zealand5/08/2021 9:15 pm

    Amazing. As soon as I saw this I thought of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile advertising vehicle. The colour scheme of light grey and white is interesting - the same as that used on US Navy aircraft of the period, and Grumman was a major supplier of combat aircraft to the Navy and Marine Corps at the time. That makes painting a model simple.

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    1. Yes, the sterile lab-coat colours of many old space rovers is striking. I wonder of a toy version would have been that colour or is it too boring for kids? This vehicle is now hanging from the ceiling in a museum in the US.

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  2. A full scale model was in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum.

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