Poser tourists in Mansfield!

Forgot to say the stories are in our local paper.

Hi Mark,

Sounds like they are compensating, Dont know why people like posing, Id rather do it then show people I've done it lol.

Cheers Wilko

....or perhaps....just perhaps....they are responsible 4wdrivers who have just enjoyed a great weekend of responsible driving and have pulled up in town for a quick chat before they head back to Melbourne.

Or just maybe....their wife and kids have gone to get some food and they are having a chat about their much loved 4wds.

Not at all uncommon - have done it many times myself in Mansfield!

Hi Mark,

I'm a bit confused. They could have been waiting for their other halves to come out of the craft shop, bakery etc. Have we not all stood and admired our vehicle once or twice? What is the connection between these people having mud on their cars and camp-sites being closed?

Do you support tourism to small country towns? These blokes sound like they went out and had a great weekend and stopped to spend money in your town. Why are they posers? I just want to clarify the intention of your thread.


TJ...

Saw the same thing here in the Riverland today, cars parked out front of the servo all covered in mud. Had to laugh myself because they would have had to bucket the water onto the track to get that much mud around here.
Shouldn't be cynical, sorry. They might have split their water tank on the camper. Nah couldn't have been, Didn't have any campers amongst them.

Now days when there is a mud hole in front of us with a perfectly dry side track I start going through the list of engine parts that don't like mud. Guess which track is chosen.

I think you are being a bit harsh. I wonder how many times you have been out with a few friends standing around "arms crossed seemingly proud". You see the photos of the cars lines up on Fraser etc!! Yes a lot of us are guilty of being proud.

When our club stops at the bakery, the shop owners rub their hands. So does the petrol station. How much fuel goes into eight to ten thirsty big diesels after a weekend in the Vic high country.

There was a thread about "show ponies on a forum recently and it reminded me of when I was a "showoff" if you like. I had a show off Kingswood when I was young. It could also "GO" as well.

We now have a 4.2TD landcruise with nothing on the outside to show how it performs apart from paint scratches from forrest regrowth. But I don't go knocking those with half a dozen lights on the roof, a beautiful paint job and low profile tyres. Thats their bag.

But then again I do chuckle now and then also.Well the oldies may have chuckled at me with the "Kingswood:.

Have a good day

Phil

Oh, I dont know Mark. There may be something to your observations.

We have the Powerline track just out of Perth, very butchered and challenging.
Known to locals as 'Cowboy Alley' and you'd understand why if you saw some of the blokes, their cars and what they sometimes do.

The Lakes servo seems to be the favourite gathering venue before and after playtime, where mud and egos are on full display.

They wear their mud with as much pride as an old digger wears his medals.

Not knocking them though. Its great to see everyone out there having a ball, enjoying the outdoors, the tracks, their cars and mates.


Sooooo!!!!.......When are ya heading back out there TEX, oops, I mean BUNDY...hahaha.


Cheers......Lionel.

Nothing wrong with boys being boys, and boys and mud do go together. Sounds like they were having fun, hey Mark they got your attention posing and here they are famous on ExplorerOz..! Very funny, thanks for the report, pics next time would be even better.! LOL.

Poser = the need to let everybody know about ones own superiority.

Mark
I think you raise a valid issue. We have just returned from a short trip in the lower Darling area where there has been some recent rain but most roads are well on the way to drying out again. We regularly got passed in NPs and station tracks by 4wds going like bats out of hell, covered in mud and seemingly intent only on getting kms under their belt, rather than taking in the surroundings and experiencing the bush at its slower pace.
We managed to do about 1000 kms off the bitumen with only minimal mud on the Cruiser and C/T by avoiding mud holes on the roads, using the sidetracks the locals use. Chatting with a property owner, he commented on the "clean" condition of the vehicle and thanked me for my consideration, contrasting it with the behaviour of many 4wd drivers who seem to take every opportunity to drive through the muddy sections, thereby damaging the roads that the locals have as their only access and that, in some cases, get graded once every 2 years. He told me that he pulled up one guy in a Discovery and told him what he thought of his behaviour and what it meant for him and his business to have his roads carved up by twits from the city who behave like "boys" rather than mature men.
There are many articles in 4wd magazines bemoaning the increasing restrictions being placed on 4wd use and yet these same publications promote the very behaviour that brings more restrictions about.
Regards
Andrew