zuks first outing

[moonhopper]

Well we had replaced the waterpump and decided to take the truck out for it's first play, It's still not quite finished but enough is done to take the toy for a spin, so it was of to Guppy road on Sat arvo, Weemsy had the camera and a tow rope to get me there. So after a short road trip we got to the river and it was time to get the trucks toes wet

and since it didnt die i decided to go the whole hog

so we started to have a play around and see what it would do, tested the flex and was quite suprised
had to have the obligotory posser shot
and even got to test the rear tow hooks by pulling out the MU


all in all it was a good first outing, a couple of things to tweak, and put in the rear welded diff tommorow and then its play time. Cheers Wemsy, great day

[Weemsy]

great day mate. gotta say that all that weight you shaved off yours has made it a frickin missile, the take off speed is impressive.

the way it throws mud up though, thats class

will get that diff done before the weekend then maybe go play again ay?

oh, and sorry for ripping your front hook off

[Weemsy]

couple more pics of the new 'MOONHOPPER'









and one of me, very stuck.......


cheers
weemsy

[turoa]

thats not a moonhopper weemsy

[Weemsy]

whats a moonhopper then

[cool__bananas]

this is a moonhopper

[Weemsy]

i thought that was the new shape cruiser??

[Heath]

this is a moonhopper

Nah that's the new financially adjusted ford falcon/Holden commodore/nissand skyline. Seems with the credit crunch the car manufactureres got to gether and are just making one car and putting their badges on it.

[turoa]

whats a moonhopper then

that was the original moonhopper built by dan cowper, resurrected by tony. Thanks to a certain ginger successfully managing to sell me a new motor and also my over enthusiastic personality, its now being completely rebuilt much lower, lighter, faster and cooler than before

[Weemsy]

yeah, just been at tony's rebuilding and refitting his rear diff and i asked him about the moonhopper thing.


hes got loads of photos etc was good to look at.