Amen, Bryan. my abs pump burned itself up on saturday, luckily just after
pulling off the trail. time now for old style brakes.
for those of you who've relegated your poor rangie to mall duties, be sure to
show it some dirt once in a while, eh? :) those ol woodheads enjoy a good
stretch.
http://community.webshots.com/image5/5/31/41/62553141eLkOSk_ph.jpg
jeeps: i hear ya, but it's the crowd majority that I can't stand, not so much
the vehicle. LRO's tend to be a somewhat filtered crowd, and I like that
aspect and the quality of people that I've met enough to put up with the costs
of maintenance.
as far as off-roading goes - I guess I've never understood the purpose spending
all that money to limit my fun to about 2% of the trails in the state, and
places like Moab. I like to go off-road to be with friends, enjoy the country
side, and the driving challenge of navigating a stock/close-to-stock vehicle.
This is a whole different mindset than the "watch this" aspect of the jeepr
majority, and those are the characteristics of the people that cement my
loathing for the vehicle itself, and the reason I will never have one.
cheers,
isaac
--- Bryan Hoult <bhoult@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>
> Isaac Fain wrote:
>
> > ......the stock rrc goes pretty well off-road, can't
> > imagine the fun i'd have with a semi-stock series.
>
> I can imagine it fairly clearly - believe me. The biggest
> mistake I've made with my 88 was to let it get beat. Land
> Rovers are comparatively expensive vehicles to take on a
> trail and do things to you wouldn't do to a farm animal. I
> know that we all loath Jeeps, but I live in trailer trash
> Jeep country and they're for sale around me all the time.
> One of the neighbors with a plethora of vehicles, including
> snowmobiles rusting in the garden, has a nice jeep for sale.
> It has a good running chev 327, adapted T18 and Dana 300
> TC, custom reverse cut dana 60 front, narrowed ford 9 inch
> rear, spring over axles, 35" tires, warn 8274, front disk
> brakes, hydraulic ram steering, yadda, yadda. The price for
> this prize (straight body in Tonka yellow, BTW) is $3,950.
> To make a series truck the trail equal of this beast would
> cost huge. I have had a great time camping and off-roading
> in my 88, but it has cost me plenty. I still hate Jeeps by
> the way, but I've lost track of why.
>
> Bryan
>
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