OUR BIG TRIP

MARY & OLI GOING AROUND AUSTRALIA
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30 September 2007, Sunday

Continuation of the Jeep Muster story...
Aaron going up the Rubicon, I guess 0 psi in the tyres -
possible with internal beadlocks - look at the rear tyre
flexing.
I am guiding Mike up the Rubicon, he did put me under
pressure telling me that his son did well last year as a
spotter.
We did hit all markers and did it in quite a quick time
considering all others we had seen before. Well done
team.
The Northwest guys - Mike and Callum besides the
Monster CJ from Mike.
Mike doing his last obstacle - the tyre wall which already cost him one rear axle on Friday - look at his face on the left
- this is when traction kicked in again and he moved towards the trees. This was the second attempt and he (against
his saying from Friday) dropped the clutch to make it up at very high revs. No breakages - well done.
The Tonka Toy doing the
tyre wall - very slowly -
not sure why. No chance
even after longer run
ups. At the end the
engined died and he had
to be pulled out of the
mud hole. Very
disappointing - but
people said that he could
not do it last year - so no
surprise to them.
Eddies's son in the Rancho Jeep - easy way up the tyre
wall.
Doing the Tree Slalom. Twice I came very close to
hitting a tree - luckily Mary was not in the car.
The race track - great !!! There are also off the track areas you have to negotiate and in the back a few nice tracks. This was the best fun and
Mary had to go with me because at the end we had to open a gate and the time stops when the gate is closed. It is not all full power driving
also skills are required and reversing into a small spot. Great event - well done to JOCWA. Maybe one of the best videos was "Crazy" Dave
going around the track in 2WD and rear locker engaged, but too long for the webpage. Below are a couple of pics from Andrew and myself on
the track.
The Mud Plugga was the last event of the day
- just for fun. Eddie was showing the guys
which exists are possible and that you can
only try them twice, so they do not get
destroyed that quickly.