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Re: I'm parked in front. < Reply # 560 on 5/10/2010 2:10 PM >
Posted by bandi
I'd like to challenge this.
went offroad in my 91 Cavalier more than once... it's not so much the mud, but the ground clearance and pan-claiming rocks that one must be wary of. I lost count of how many front sway bars I snapped boldly going where no Cavalier had gone before...
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Re: I'm parked in front. < Reply # 562 on 5/10/2010 3:32 PM >
The toughest WRC stage I've ever seen, is still no worse than the fire roads I take to get to my offroading camp/staging area.
Granted, my 4x4 can't do 90mph sideways thru the forest. But no $500.000. WRX can follow me up Millers jeep trail or the road to Oldsmobile hill, and I can do it with 2 motorcycles in the back, and all my camp gear.
Sorry, back on topic. Parked in front of an abandoned port container facility. 1.
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Re: I'm parked in front. < Reply # 563 on 5/10/2010 4:41 PM >
£1,500 two-wheel drive African cross-country car challenge
The presenters were sent to Botswana to buy a car that was not an off-road vehicle and had only two-wheel drive which they would drive across the country, from the eastern border of Zimbabwe to the western border of Namibia (approximately 1000 miles).
This was to prove "to the people of Surrey that they don't need 4x4s in case there are leaves on the road".
Clarkson bought a Lancia Beta Coupé, which was the most unreliable car of the lot, Hammond bought a 1964 Opel Kadett, which he named Oliver (consequently becoming the butt of jokes of the other presenters), while May bought a Mercedes-Benz 230E.
If you haven't seen the episode, you should watch it: it's very funny!
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Re: I'm parked in front. < Reply # 564 on 5/10/2010 5:34 PM >
I had a lifted VW Rabbit Diesel that did plenty well off road. It was more of a joke than anything, but held it's own just fine. While it's not as capable as the Jeep with it's fancy 4WD, and front and rear lockers, and mud tires, and a real motor, as long as you know it's limitations, you can do ok.
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Re: I'm parked in front. < Reply # 567 on 5/10/2010 7:56 PM >
cr400 - suggested viewing; 'Top Gear Polar Challenge' and 'Top Gear US Challenge', where they are the first cars in history to drive to the North Pole and survive a redneck onslaught, respectively.
As for 'Oliver' - Hammond did indeed bring it back- it comes out for car shows every now and again. He almost backed a HGV (lorry) into it in another challenge.
Anyway, point of that was - you don't always need a 4*4 for off road stuff; poorer people in other parts of the World make do with ancient, badly maintained 2 wheel driven clunkers.
In many situations, we rich first-worlder's use a 4*4 simply because we can.
Chris...
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Re: I'm parked in front. < Reply # 568 on 5/10/2010 7:58 PM >
Posted by bandi Richard Hammond actually brought the Kadett back to the UK and restored it.
I thought about that about half way thru, seemed he really liked Oliver. I had a friend in school that had a red '66 opel Kadett fastback. I thought it was a cool little car.
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Re: I'm parked in front. < Reply # 569 on 5/10/2010 10:20 PM >
Thanks for the viewing suggestions, I'll watch them. Here's the type of wheelin we,ve been doing for years. This is a pretty much stock jeep, I don't think he could make it up this.
But this is the type of stuff that a WRX, EVO, or Corolla can't follow me. Thats why I take out my motorcycles in the back of my 4x4, Aint no way a 4x4 can keep up with me on the bike thru this type of stuff.
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Re: I'm parked in front. < Reply # 574 on 5/15/2010 12:55 AM >
Keith, where do you get these cool old clunker bikes. Those are hard to find around here. Everything is all rusted here on the coast, and can't last long.
Turbo, I've watched tons of Top Gear now. Saw the Vietnam episode, very cool. I still think the Bolivia episode was top shelf. I've been broken down, or been broken boned so many times out in the desert, that I love seeing those Brits solve the same type of problems I've encountered.
Parked in front of a semi abandoned garage. 1.
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Re: I'm parked in front. < Reply # 575 on 5/15/2010 1:20 AM >
Posted by cr400 Keith, where do you get these cool old clunker bikes. Those are hard to find around here. Everything is all rusted here on the coast, and can't last long.
well we have a shop here that specializes in old bikes, the purple bike came from that shop, the green one came from a shop named geppetos, and my german folding one came from a temp shop ran by this dude who i am pretty sure is in the mafia, and im pretty sure he likes to rape little boys too, and that is why i didnt stick around there to long.
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