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yep, going with Possum..... :D
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motorhead wrote:
motorhead wrote:So far it's;
Motorhead (Sausages)
WilliamHamilton (butter & bread)
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Thanks for the seat Skid :D :mrgreen: :D

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What a great day :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Left M-boro at 10:30 got back at 5:45. A couple of pic stops and lunch and we only have seen about 1/3 of the trails available to us. Thanks everyone who took a chance on an unknown trail with a newwer member, hope you had a great time also :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

One broken CV, a dented guard and a park light that went walkies was the only reported damage.

Will post my pics later, time for a nanna nap :shock:
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Yeap was a great day, Glad it didnt rain even tho that prob woulda made it a tad more fun :lol:

Had a few hairy moments with the Abs kicking in.
Had a bit of a branch find its way into my wheel well :twisted: but no damage so thats good.

The zuzu aint looking soo shiny now :twisted: :lol:

Heres a few pics.
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Heres a bit of a random pic, was tryna capture Skids Landcruiser in the rearviewcam screen.
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Once again Thanks and had a great time.
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Great trip, thanks for organising this Motorhead :D , and thanks for the seat in the rattly old Hilux Possum :D (My back and hearing will recover in time :lol: )

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Theres some good lookin country there, gotta give that a go when the Lux is back on da road
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Real enjoyable day, thanks Motorhead for organising it, good to meet some new faces too.
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motorhead wrote:

One broken CV, a dented guard and a park light that went walkies was the only reported damage.





this piccie shows all my damage.................

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Park Light decided it didn't want to stay on the vehicle

Drivers side mirror was about to fall out, but I caught it in time

Top of snorkel has lost a screw and is hanging there



BLOODY AWESOME PLACE

thanks heaps motorhead and you be assured we will be wanting to go back sometime in the future, even if its just to look for my light :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


and I have a shitload of pics as well, that I will upload when I get home tomorrow night
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skid wrote:
motorhead wrote:

One broken CV, a dented guard and a park light that went walkies was the only reported damage.





this piccie shows all my damage.................

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Park Light decided it didn't want to stay on the vehicle

Drivers side mirror was about to fall out, but I caught it in time

Top of snorkel has lost a screw and is hanging there



BLOODY AWESOME PLACE

thanks heaps motorhead and you be assured we will be wanting to go back sometime in the future, even if its just to look for my light :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


and I have a shitload of pics as well, that I will upload when I get home tomorrow night


Not wanting to suggest anything BUT.. would that be a park light that Possum is stashing down her top in the photo? :)

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Headed to the high point of the back range
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At the lodge
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Old retired or just tired 40
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Lunch
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Lodge from marine ariel on Mt Adams
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Days end back at the lodge
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Oh the carnage
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you like standing on your roof dont ya skiddy
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Never been a fan of the Vehicross but yours looks GOOD.

It looks like you guys and gals had a great day out. Loving the scenery
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Bloody awesome place have to go back to try the side tracks and talk the owner into letting me have the 40 before skid gets his hands on it :lol: :lol:
Thanks Motorhaed for the day and it was good to put names to faces

Thanks everyone for a good day
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what an awesome day thanks to motorhead and rodger can't wait to go back :mrgreen: the scenery and the wild life was amazing not to many places around now that you can say you saw 10plus deer wondering around :twisted: , it was also great to meet new people :D

jerry learnt about being a passenger in my truck with my darlings :shock: don't think he'd be to keen to repeat it again :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Rob spotted 17+

Full zoom on my camera....
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Where we went....
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Looks like everyone had a good time there motorhead. Well done.
A few less pix of that good looking bloke "skid" and a few more of the other folks would of been good. :D
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petefj40 wrote:A few less pix of that good looking bloke "skid" and a few more of the other folks would of been good. :D



THE LINEUP..........
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ASIAN GILLIGAN TAKING PHOTOS............
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NOT SURE IF MOTORHEAD IS TRYING TO HIDE OR IS HAPPY, BUT HERE HE IS DRIVING THE FARMERS $500 BEATER............
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NIZSAFARI GIVING THUMBS UP, COZ HES STARTED FARTING.........
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AFTER 30 MINS OF GRAVELS ROADS AND TRACKS WE ARRIVE AT THE PLACE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE 4WDING..........
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WHERE ME AND RED IMMEDIATELY SPY SOME 40 PORN.
YOU CAN'T QUITE SEE IT, BUT ITS A FULLY FLOATER REAR END..........
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THEN WE WALK ROUND TO THE FRONT FOR MORE ITEMS OF INTEREST...........
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HERES A FEW SHOTS OF THE CONVOY ON THE TRAIL............
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AFTER A GOOD DAYS CRUISING THE TRACKS, WE ARRIVE BACK AT MT ADAMS LODGE............

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STOPPED FOR A COUPLE OF PICS OF THE RIVER AS WE LEFT THE STATION...............
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AND THEN A QUICK STOP FOR A BEER ON THE WAY OUT...........
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cool pics skid, the wraps, definatly my fav part of the country :D
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Very cool pix there skid.
Thanks for uploading those.
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Awesome pics Skid :D
Tho on a bit of a off-note for me, After realising how many scratches are in my shiny kinda put off for going through trails that will scratch the paint now,

The zuzu is scratched all down both sides and the recently repainted bonnet insert has a couple of biggies. :x
So yea kinda put off but happy to go on the shiny tracks,

Thats 4x4ing for ya but i know now, Shinys stay on shiny tracks if they dont wanna get scratched :oops: .

Think ill be on the search for a 2nd 4x4 :twisted:

Off to the panelbeaters soon to get looked at, more $ to be spend.

But yea as said above was a unknown trail so i took the risk.
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sprey wrote:The zuzu is scratched all done both sides and the recently repainted bonnet insert has a couple of biggies. :x
So yea kinda put off but happy to go on the shiny tracks,

Thats 4x4ing for ya but i know now



Sorry to hear that, ewas told it would be more shiney friendly :oops:
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motorhead wrote:
sprey wrote:The zuzu is scratched all done both sides and the recently repainted bonnet insert has a couple of biggies. :x
So yea kinda put off but happy to go on the shiny tracks,

Thats 4x4ing for ya but i know now



Sorry to hear that, ewas told it would be more shiney friendly :oops:



it was shiny friendly

in my opinion, those tracks were very well manicured.

if ya dont want a single scratch, then ya best to stick to coastal trips and motorways and supermarket carparks.

go to almost every website belonging to 4wd clubs in NZ and you will find that they state on thier shiny trips, that bush scratches can be expected in 95% of the trips.

its the nature of 4wding, you have to drive in inhospitable terrain, otherwise theres not much point in having the 4wd in the first place.

otherwise invest in a bloody big buffing tool and a shiteload of polish, coz ya gonna be needing it dude.
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sprey wrote:Awesome pics Skid :D
Tho on a bit of a off-note for me, After realising how many scratches are in my shiny kinda put off for going through trails that will scratch the paint now,

The zuzu is scratched all down both sides and the recently repainted bonnet insert has a couple of biggies. :x
So yea kinda put off but happy to go on the shiny tracks,

Thats 4x4ing for ya but i know now, Shinys stay on shiny tracks if they dont wanna get scratched :oops: .

Think ill be on the search for a 2nd 4x4 :twisted:

Off to the panelbeaters soon to get looked at, more $ to be spend.

But yea as said above was a unknown trail so i took the risk.


dont worry about it, its there to be used right? from the pics looked like an awsome trail, whats a few scratches to see awsome country like that.

then again, that 2nd truck would be more fun :twisted:
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Yea true guys, Thanks Skid, as yea was my 2nd ever trip so my knowledge of the actual 4x4ing stuff was pretty limited.

Dont mean to be a bit of a whinger about it all :lol:

I guess im just real fussy :?
Dont feel bad motorhead :(
As said i didnt really know what a shiny trip actualy was,
Most parts of the track were fine it was just the last bits where i started to rub against the bush etc.

For now im gonna stick to the coast trips etc. And yea back to the supermarket and highway. :oops: :shock:

Otherwise i really enjoyed the experience, and would like to do more of that sort of terrain and of course harder as time goes on but thatl be in a different vehicle.

For the buffing panelbeaters can prob sort that out as knowing me ill stuff it up.

Sorry if i affended anyone.

I do agree with you basics in the fact brought it to use it, but damaging or marking it up isnt something i wanna do to this isuzu considering only 6 in its color wanna keep it nice.

Def gonna look for a 2nd 4x4, not sure what type i love landies but that can be said with 100s of other 4x4s :lol:

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woops , Cheers for the comment above Smurf :D
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I gotta say. When I saw pictures of that 4X4 of sprey's on the track i thought, man, he's a real keen off roader. :shock:
Coz like skid said, most shiny tracks will give your truck scratches.

If you see a mean as looking offroad truck without scratches? It's an on road truck, period. 8)
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petefj40 wrote:I gotta say. When I saw pictures of that 4X4 of sprey's on the track i thought, man, he's a real keen off roader. :shock:
Coz like skid said, most shiny tracks will give your truck scratches.

If you see a mean as looking offroad truck without scratches? It's an on road truck, period. 8)


Haha yea i guess the zuzu can stick to being a bit of a sort of bullshit 4x4? lol. you know look at him with the mud tyres and shit i bet he never takes it offroad :lol:
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I have found unless driving fast through gorse and broom (oops) that erratic woman driving Pak n Save shopping trolleys which have a natural steering motion when unaided to run into one's pride and joy to cause more paint damage than all but a decent tree branch.

Therefore I conclude, off roading is safer on paint work (and sanity) than supermarkets.
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NJV6 wrote:I have found unless driving fast through gorse and broom (oops) that erratic woman driving Pak n Save shopping trolleys which have a natural steering motion when unaided to run into one's pride and joy to cause more paint damage than all but a decent tree branch.

Therefore I conclude, off roading is safer on paint work (and sanity) than supermarkets.


agree there, all the dents on my cars have been trollys and doors at supermarkets.
dogs do a good job of scratches too :lol:
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its all good sprey

keep your wagon, coz as weird as it is, its still one cool looking vehicle and theres faaark all of them and the mods you have done to yours actually make it look sort of horny (that'll bite me in the ass)

so keep it as your daily driver and save ya pennies for a cruiser or a little 413 suzuki for those scratchy shiny trips, or better still buy an 80 or a LWB safari and kit it out for freedom camping and join me on a wee trip I'm planning for next year :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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sprey. My truck has shit loads of scratches and even a couple of dents round it. But that doesn't stop people from telling me it only gets used for supermarket carparks. :lol:

Good on ya for getting out there and giving it a go mate. :wink:

Having a truck that you can bash around in is the best way to experience offroading I recon. Get an old Toyota. :mrgreen:
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