Outback 6×6 Dual Cab

History

The four-door crew cab Outback 6x6 - 'Truck, Crew Cab, Light, Winch, MC2' - built to carry five soldiers under cover with a canvas-tilted cargo tray behind them. Just 26 were built, the smallest of the mainstream 6x6 variants.

Almost every 6x6 variant kept the standard two-door cab, and the crew cab is the exception: the published variant table lists 26 examples of 'Truck, Crew Cab, Light, Winch, MC2', making it the rarest of the ordinary 6x6 body types. In place of the usual single row of seats the vehicle gains a second pair of doors and a full-width rear bench inside a lengthened hardtop cab, with the shortened cargo tray behind carried under the familiar hoop-and-canvas tilt. The Fitted For Radio element in the REMLR nomenclature implies the auxiliary radio electrical fit that the FFR 4x4s and several 6x6 variants carried, and the vehicle keeps the 6x6 family's Thomas winch, front bull bar, two 62-litre fuel tanks and helicopter sling, shipping tie-down and recovery points. With so few built the crew cab is thinly documented and no dedicated REMLR variant page exists for it, though the type does appear indirectly in the record: REMLR notes that Parakeet communications modules were sometimes seen fitted to dual-cab 6x6s.