Member - bushfix replied:

here y'are

but is the video in reverse?

Coyote replied:

Call me silly but surley no one expects that you can drive a car across a creek with water across the bonet like that and it wont get hurt?
The car in that video must have been set up specifically for it.. What about the water cracking the head, stopping the fan etc when the engine bay fills up.. fair enough with a snorkel the water isn't going to go inside the engine, but there are a lot of other things that can go wrong..
To the novice, it looks like all you need is a snorkel and away you go.. you could practically submarine the vehicle as long as the snorkel was sticking out.. good luck...

Sand Man (SA) replied:

Do you mean you are a non-believer???

Vince NSW replied:

When you look at it, the Safari goes into the water as well. Amazing, I want one, it can tell the difference between water & air

Flash replied:

Fake or otherwise I have always loved it ever since first seeing it years ago.
I think the narrator has a great sense of humour too!

Eric from Cape York Connections replied:

A few years back now there is a quite famous picture of the cape with peter on one of his trips very early season of a 80s
It has been in 4x4 Australia many times.
The water is about 50mm under the collar of the snorkel.
And yes they did make it.

All the best
Eric

geocacher (djcache) replied:

Yeah and then there was the GU tray (I think) in last years Outback Challenge. All you could see was the snorkel and it didn't :o)

They did fix it and run the next day though, I'm pretty sure.

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, and I'll bet someone has pics. I may still have somewhere. I'll look.

Dave