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18th April 2010, 12:48 AM
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Blast from the past
Hi all,
Just saw this link on a 4X4Earth forum thread: LANDROVER TRIPS FROM THE 1970's Photo Gallery by creakingbones at pbase.com Stubbies, beards and big bad bullbars  I've been going through some club mags from the same period and wish half the tracks then were still open now 
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18th April 2010, 03:52 AM
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old LROC trips
clicking your high lighted section ,looking at that 1st pic of 1973 trip and clicking rest of pics it looks like one of the dvds in the library showing that same LROC trip back then.
looks like same place / time and 4x4s ,well if anyone interested seeing it on dvd as a moveing film (with musical jazz type sound added on to it ) ,you know were i hide at the back. footnote on the last pic has a group of 14 people and under pic matt wrote (some names to faces would be good ) any ideas from our 25 + year members like neil / bob / young howard / keithy / jim / ewan ect ? .
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21st April 2010, 12:52 PM
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Wirraba ridge! i would love to go there.... to bad its closed...
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22nd April 2010, 10:46 PM
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Have been there many times since the early/mid 70's in everything from a Ford GPW jeep that I rebuilt,to LJ50 and 80 Suzukis,series 2a and series 3 Landies to 86 Hilux and 60 series Toy.Unfortunately when the new owners bought the property at the Putty Rd end.They turned out to be Greenies and wanted to lock people out.And by that time the Big tyre and Big suspension fad had begun,and a lot of people used to go there ,causing a lot of damage and without authority and that was that.I used to have a great film we shot on super8 of a trip we did there,but lost contact over the years of the guy that I gave it to,who was going to convert it to video tape when it first came out.Now all I have is some pics of later trip there in my Hilux.
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23rd April 2010, 10:22 AM
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There's a big thread on Wirriba in the Trips section over on OuterLimits at the moment. There's lots of videos & photos from the old days that have been posted up.
http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/ftopic94319.php
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28th April 2010, 12:09 AM
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Wow the Wirraba Ridge pic brought back memeriories.
My folks would camp in a road side cutting just before little weenie CK and I as a kid would watch the groups of 4wds drive by to tackle the track onwards to gosspers air strip. Three of us and a dog would fit in a SWB ex army 2a rover towing a trailer with a volkswagen buggy on it to travel to Putty. the buggy would take three people to Kandos dam and back in the same day. I remember a landrover club doing the same trip and take a week and a extra vehicle to carry spare axles. At the the face on the narrow neck of the ridge I remmber there was only one really good winch anchor point tree and it was a good example of why tree trunk protectors were developed (they were not advailible then) as the tree has alot of marks on it and died. A high light as a kid was watching the vehicles cross little weenie CK as about 25 percent got stuck in the solf sand. the other thing I remember is than about 50 percent of the winches were home made and some were hand powered . The old days......good tracks and camping spots, no lockers,hard springs and no creature comforts, home made winches as professional ones were too expensive and electric only were only just coming on the market, old canvas tents with wooden poles,no air con in 40 degree heat in summer, the wirraba had very good views and rocky climbs from hell. the track was short as the crow flies, but it deserved its place as the tuffest 4wd track in NSW. Real 4 wheel drivers in those days ron
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30th April 2010, 09:41 AM
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It was a great difficult trip. It's a pity that morons in J***s went up and dynamited the place, from then it was gate closures, seeking permission and eventually closure.
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30th April 2010, 01:07 PM
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For more LROCS history, The January to June 1979 Trip Programme featured the following trips:
Hunter Range Berrico Trig Araluen Valley Seal Rocks Currarong an economy run Bowen Mountain Macpherson State Forest Mittagong-Joadja Capertee Hill End Jenolan Area Long Point Policeman's Gap Kangaroo Valley-Nerriga McDonald Rover Pigeonhouse Sunny Corner Rylstone Wolgan Valley Hanworth Fire Trail clean up campaign Colo Wirraba Ridge Wollombi and the first ever LROC Ball I wonder just how many of these can be run in the same format/on the same tracks today?
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30th April 2010, 02:01 PM
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And from August 1975 LROC News
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