Roo guard..
 

Phil It is for splashing wild life all over it...
They do the same thing with their semi's in Newfoundland..but it is for moose..

'roo guard?
 

We have the same problem in the Hill country of Texas, 'cept with White-Tail deer.

Cheemo! :cheers:

Derek

Totalling Chevy CMP's??? :D :D :D No, I think to make Kanga mincemeat. :)

Cheers,

Jeep for a jeep
 

Hi All

As I restored a 1942 MB Willys Jeep and which is now becoming a regular sight around our town during my weekly drives. I had to naturally purchase a Jeep Cherokee to tow the Jeep trailer to events and to take the wife to the shops as she refuses to get into the MB Jeep. I am more than happy with the combination and we can scoot up the highway with the trailer in tow and you would not know it was even there. A very happy chap :D :D :D

Cheers

Tony :no4:

The primary use is making fox feed out of roos then the next truck can get the fox which is the real vermin :D further west the bars are called camel filters, I don't fancy hitting a camel myself. :cheers:

Check the time stamps on our posts.
 

Great minds think alike!

Derek.

Mines a 2003 Land Rover, Defender 130 TD5.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...e/SANY1317.jpg

Easo

Daily Driver
 

I Drive a 1993 Ford Truck . and for awhile I drove My 1942 Dodge Power Wagon.

I expect hitting a camel is much like hitting a Canadian moose...lots of weight sitting on a few spindly legs..with the weight at windsheild height on cars (which is why there are occasional deaths in Canada)

for 300,000km I had a 1994 mercury villager van (rebadged nissan quest) pretty good, but while parked some (drunk? stoned? stupid?) fellow in a contractor van (Cheve Express) knocked the front end off it while pulling into his driveway..(normal speed about 5km/h) and ripped the sheet metal on his own van from stem to stern

Then to replace that, a 2001 totally ubiquitous ford windstar for $2K..seems ok, Had 176,000km (alleged) upon purchase.....it has a fair amount of road noise, but has made many 600km trips without incident this year..

i like a van coz it has lots of junk storage space..and all of it stays out of the elements unlike a "ute"

. i miss the advantage of the opening back window of the Mercury/Nissan..at the time, I thought all van rear windows opened...now realize thats not the case..somewhat harder to carry long pieces of lumber now.

(oh and there is another vehicle...a very fast/expensive thing, but thats just too much fun and it never goes out in rain or winter anyway)

For a particulary work purpose, the company rented me a new dodge journey for a day.. only spent a couple hours in it to this point ...very quiet on the road, but so far do not like it much...a bit clumsy to get into and out of due to high sills....it so far feels like a bit of a pig.

Old is good!!!!
 

1975 Toyota Landcruiser FJ45 with a Western Australian built Arkana body. They built these on ute chassis before the Toyota built Troopies became available in 1976.

Petrol 4.2 litre 2F engine, rebuilt several times over, untold kilometres.

Paint job is custom spray can over rust and scrapes as required.

They're the best aren't they. :thup2:

Mines (well....Ours) is just a common, garden-variety 2010 Mercury Mountaineer GLX, but we also run a Yanmar Cub Cadet Tractor with bucket and backhoe around the garden in the spring/summer/fall (which is about a month each in Colbert: the rest is either 'leaving winter, winter, or approaching winter'!) The little tractor is as close as I get to an off road vehicle these days!

Mike C

I'm out of the drivers seat. Today my job was to sit in the pasanger seat while the young lady drove the truck, she should be confident enough to do her driveing test soon. I get to ride shotgun again next week. :D

Real Truck
 

Bob..
here is a real truck..but women drive these too.
Canadian women..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZq-X...eature=related
But they have to start some where..
Well done the young lady.

Update
 

Time to update my post on this thread!
Some time back I shortened the XG by about 8 inches when I didn't pull up as quick as the car in front of the car in front of me.
So I updated to a BA Falcon ute
http://www.shedfullofshit.com/images...bum/12/Ute.jpg
DOHC 4.0 litre gives me 182kW (244hp) and 380 Nm torque (280 lb/ft). This too I converted to LPG/Dual fuel but this time I fitted a Vapour Sequential Injection LPG system which is just outstanding.
Not to be outdone, Jo as given the Fairlane the flick & now drives a Nissan Pathfinder.
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...m/70437281.jpg http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...m/70437679.jpg
4.0 litre V6 petrol, 198kW rocket ship, and, you guessed it, converted to LPG/Dual fuel with VSI injection. Love it.

my drive
 

My daily driver is a 1995 EF XR6 in Heritage Green. Full body kit and sunroof just some of the factory fitted options. It has a 164kw 4L straight six engine.
Next to it in the Ford Geelong carpark is a mates Navy Blue EL XR8.

I drove the semi today while the owner took his daughter for a licence test, She passed and now has her MR licence. :thup2:

My daily driver is a 1996 Ford Falcon Futura,costs about $50 per week to run,and her in doors car is a 1996 mitsy v6,simular petrol milage,oh the Falcon is a 4.1 6 cylinder.
The best part is my Falcon aint Japanese as i have to work on mainly Japanese cars all day long!and am sick of them!!hahaha.