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Dabbi wrote:http://www.arctictrucks.is/?pageid=5023
Kurt wrote:Dabbi wrote:http://www.arctictrucks.is/?pageid=5023
4.5 days. My jaw will remain dropped for about 1 year.
lightstalker wrote:Fuck Landrover, save yourself the money and just get one of these
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS3d4w4YdRM[/youtube]
khalampre wrote:I hate Russian cars!
But as ever, the true heroes of the event are those racing on a budget and living the dream. On the start line I found a team running in a Range Rover that they'd pulled out of a scrap yard for $400. Pretty much everything on the car was standard, yet they left the startline full of confidence for the massive 1000 km of rough desert waiting for them. I found them in Ensenada a day after the race and Elias Christeas was still buzzing with energy even after only having a few hours sleep over the last 3 days. "It was so amazing," he smiled. "We were actually leading the class for a long while and we were overtaking Trophy Trucks. One guy in our class had a tubeframed Bronco that must be worth about $100,000 and we were beating him in a $400 Rangie! Man, there are so many stories... We got to mile 410... no, write down 411! The tracks were so rough that we didn't even know that we were driving on a flat tyre for who-knows how many miles... and we only noticed that something was wrong with the suspension when the strut started poking through the bonnet. We were still going into the second night but heard that people were falling off the cliff in front of us... and we were just about out of time, so we called it quits... but we're already talking about next year. And the biggest memory, the thing that I will take away from this... being part or the Baja racing community where the best of human nature comes out. Total strangers helping you out! Every difficulty and hardship we went through was worth it to experience that!"
we were beating him in a $400 Rangie! "
khalampre wrote:Kurt,
When I first moved to Geo I had a 1990 VW Vento. I parked it outside of the office everyday. The office was on one hell of a hill, and an old man with a Zaparovich (SP) used the hill to push start his car. One day he slipped while push starting his car and it rolled into the door of my car. The Georgian guys that I worked with urged me to just let it go because the damage was going to cost more than the other man's car. I guess they knew a bit about him and knew that he did not have a lot of money. I would still like to find a Zapo and burn it to the ground for revenge.
Soon I am going to try to find my father-in-laws Lada. He had it for 30+ years and tried to sell it once, but I bought it and gave it back to him. When we were back in the US I heard that he needed cash and sold it again. I am going to find it, remove everything, have it painted, have the motor and trans worked over and then give it back to him. That car really did mean a lot to him and he was comfortable driving it. I still hate Russian cars!
khalampre wrote:I hate Russian cars!
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