I sneaked in with the humans!

And I can beat that as ive had my explorer longer than you Baz ,nah nah nah ;) :)

You know, i reckon all these men and women with Cruiser's and Patrol's wish they had an Explorer dont you, so come on fella's out of the closet, own up, you want one !! come on !!!!

Ah....Ha....... greetings from my co author!

My kids.20 & daughter 18 were NOT amused by our joint effort.

"Daaaaad......... it's got your real name on the screen!!!....... I don't want my friends finding out about this............."

"It's okay honey, I don't think 18 year old girls visit this forum often........"

"Aw but Daaaaaaad........ change your name or something........"

"No Rhiannan, you can change your when you get married and LEAVE HOME...... ( she costs me a fortune to run)."

"Muuuuuuum........Dad's being stupid again.........."

"Pour him another Bourbon dear, and he'll go to sleep........."

"Here Dad................."

Teenager's gota lovem, mine kust looked at me and said, your strange, the other half said, what the hells that it's backward i'm NOT reading that it's stupid, i wonder if George Lucus was teated like that. hahahahahaha.

Baz.

ps, it was fun though !!

If God took away my CRUISER and told me I had to mave a Explorer, I would give up the sport lol Sorry Baz , I know ya love your toy

Sorry about the spelling went on that million paws walk today, i'm knackered and the scotch is relaxing me.

Baz.

I have a Cruiser, but I'd take an Explorer if you were giving it away. Then I could give it away and keep my Cruiser LOL. Must say that the leather seats were nice though (in the one I took for spin recently) ...

Loh and behold, I have yet to come across a track or trek that the FORD cannot do or go just as easily as an UNMODIFIED tojo or missin nissan , can all rave on about height ,depart,aproach,rampover ect,,,,just goes to show that the base tojo/nissan ect is /was not good enough in the 1st place.

Your on , tee it up . Next EO day out . Your Explorer & ill bring a standard Cruiser , 100 or 80 ? Whats the wager ?

Eric , the bet ,,, 1 doz 99 grange if your game.

OH , and by the way ,Eric , landcruiser mtn park now only use nissan as recovery vehicles ,why???? and all the snow fields are sponsored by and use ?????????? FORD EXPLORER ,,, take your self centering cruiser ideology and place in the centre of your being ,,being where your mother never kissed you.

hey undertaker...if you can afford to lose a dozen grange, you should have been able to afford buying a vehicle with a bit of class...like a Discovery ;)

Cheers........

Honda........well....... I can travel at 140 kmh on good roads, therefore I can rack up a lot of bitumen kilio's real quick if I want to. Let's face it, most of the place I go the ratio of bitumen to dirt is around 80 / 20, so I may as well be comfortable on the road.

Delica, well....... I havn't done anything in it at all. I am not that adventurous off road, can't really see the sense. Hey......if it's more than 300 metres from my car.......it's not photogenic!!

Delica just sort of come up at the right time. It's a 1995 Space Gear, Chrome Mags, Scorpion Tyres, really really DARK tinted windows ( drive around the Northern suburbs and the poor buggers probably think there's a drug bust going down! ).

We bought ours from a bloke who still imports these at 12 at a time. He wanted to keep this one for himself, but I won in the end.

I am sure it will do all I need it to do, but it's a bugger to park though....... bit long.

Cheers

ain BEE

I'll let you know next year !!!! 50mm lift and from Bourke to Tibooburra came over a rise and into a big sand hole at around 90k the trailer broke the car did'nt and i know the trailer left the ground i saw it !!!!

Baz.

Ian, i can understand why you bought the Honda, what a nice car, go well bloody comfortable and they do look good, if they are anything like their motorbikes it will be around for a long time to come. As for the Explorer they are comfortable, it's a compromise, off road it's OK on road it's great. Mine is the model that has 16in rims( ie) no Exploding problems that was the 15in rim models.

Baz.

Cheers Baz.....

Bought the Honda new 5 1/2 years ago. It's just the right size for one to go away in, which I do a lot of.

I like to be completely alone whilst doing a little photography.

I manage to get away about evey 3 - 4 weeks.

Honda is modified somewhat, all the add ons that you can & can't buy ( I own & run a Sheetmetal & Welding Workshop ).

Just fitted my SECOND set of King Coil Springs to the rear........standard was 12 mm then I went to 13 mm. now I am running 14 mm diameter.

Cheers

Ian BEE

" most of the major treks in this country seeing as there is very llttle real four wheel driving involved any longer. Only places like the Simpson, Canning, Central and Western Deserts tracks, High Country, and some Top End tracks might stop a soft roader. "

That's sort of what I have figured as well.

Oh, by the way........ I've shelled out for my membership here as well. Perhaps I can post a small picture of my honda as my signature lol!!!

Cheers

Ian BEE