4WD ACTION - D3 Picture

[DiscoWeb]

Some months ago I made the following post in the trip report section as I went down to have a crack at the Nissan Patrol clubs, "Son of Trials" event at River Island Bend near Mittagong, the rest you can read in the post is you want.

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/nsw-act-reports/116806-son-trial-plus.html

Well anyway and mate rings me today and said, did you do that Nissan event a few months back, "Yep". Were you the only standard Silver D3, "Yep, only one I saw".

The there is a photo of you on page 244 of this months 4wd Action mag.

I went out and purchased the mag and sure enough there is my D3 on the sand track, with some positive commentary about how the traction control made the D3 perform much better than some would have expected. No mention of my expert driving (for obvious reasons).

Flying the flag for D3's, pretty pleased I must say.

Ok, back to anonymity now.

George.

[ozscott]

Well done mate. I must say that over the years the mags are getting much better about the series II Disco and D3/4 in general.

Cheers

[DiscoWeb]

Managed to pdf a copy of the relevant page of the mag to stave of anoymity for a little longer if possible.

Hope I am not breaching any copy right laws but it is photo of me !

George.

[rmp]

You are breaching copyright, but I doubt the copyright owners will worry as you are not making profit from it and rather giving them extra publicity. Would be different if it was resold, content re-used etc.

Yes I don't imagine there were that many D3s competing! Good work!

[Celtoid]

You are breaching copyright, but I doubt the copyright owners will worry as you are not making profit from it and rather giving them extra publicity. Would be different if it was resold, content re-used etc.

Yes I don't imagine there were that many D3s competing! Good work!

Did they pay George for the images of his beautiful machine...LOL??? :wasntme:

Well done George.

[DiscoWeb]

Did they pay George for the images of his beautiful machine...LOL??? :wasntme:

Well done George.

No payment received, but I am sure somewhere in the small print of the waivers and liability releases etc I would have signed away all my rights to images of me taken on the day etc. etc.

Not too concerned about my breach of copyright as I only did this for personal glory, not personal gain !!!.

And thanks Celtoid, my machine does look nice.

George

[rmp]

Amazing as it sounds, you don't actually own the copyright of images taken of you or your vehicle. The copyright rests with the photographer and there is no restriction on profit making per-se as a result.

[gghaggis]

Well done, good to see someone carrying on the D3 flag! I well remember the guffaws that turned into shock when we were competing :D

Cheers,

Gordon

[stevo68]

Top stuff....saw that in my copy of the mag....even better it being someone of here, Smokey has been in the mag twice now......feel almost famous ;)

Regards

Stevo

[Owl]

Let me add my congratulations George. It's good to see a D3 out there doing what it was designed to do! Even better that it made it to the mags!!

Ian

[tunnelthug]

Good on you! Saw the article in the mag too - how did you go in the rankings?

[DiscoWeb]

Good on you! Saw the article in the mag too - how did you go in the rankings?

tunnelthug,

No, did not rank, mostly because I did not attempt all the events.

There were a couple of the tracks I walked and decided against, one was the hill climb which was getting pretty chopped up, it had been raining most of the week prior.

Being classed in the "plus category" because of the e-diff I would have been directed onto tuff track. I had watched a few lifted, double locked, big tyred trucks grinding sills, diffs, rear bumpers and rearly struggling on one of the rock ledges and as you can see my D3 is bog standard, so I thought, nah not for me.

A couple of the other tracks I would have been happy to do however that would have meant waiting in line for over an 1hr or so to do a 2 - 3 min loop, so I packed it in having completed 4 of the 7 tracks on the Saturday morning.

Also I had my 8 yr old son and one of his mates on board and the afternoon they we pretty bored with all the waiting around so we head off to Wombeyan Caves, did a self guided cave tour, grabbed an ice cream (a highlight for the kids) and headed home.

It is a good event and I was happy to have entered it and partially complete my first 4wd competition but it does involved a lot of waiting around and I would not rush back to do another.

The Nissan Patrol Club volunteers running the thing were great and it was generally well organised once I worked what to do.

George

[85 county]

I was not much of a fan of the eleckie gismos and thought the D3 was a bit poofy. but i got to play tail end in September last year with a D3 placed in front of me ( deliberately) the D3 had a new 4x4 driver ( i think it was his first trip) the only things i had to point out to him was to let the preceding vehicle finish an obstacle before entering and about wheel placement especially the rear wheel clipping protruding rocks. (low profile rubber) apart from that i was really ( REALY) impressed. on one decent which got a bit bumpy, the D3 had to go though all the bumps ( sheesh) I watched it get all unsettled then sort its self out again. Quite impressive.

Makes me wish there is an aftermarket traction control kit for the county

[DiscoWeb]

[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I thought the D3 was a bit poofy. but i got to play tail end in September


Right :angel:, a bit of a "Broke Back Mountain" moment there 85 County !!!:wasntme:

I think the D3 gets scoffed at a bit by those in more "ruggard" Land Rover products because it is so refined, can be used as a luxury school run about by the better half during the week and many take it no further than a trip to the snow or farm on a couple of times a year.

But anyone who has actual got out and used the D3 properly or followed one in a more "ruggard" truck generally comes away very surprised at just how capable they really are.

Now I know there are something I would not try something in my D3 that others would be happy to have a crack at but I guess mine is bog standard (other than AT tyres), has no bar work etc so I do get a bit worried about ripping of plastic parts, but to date I have not found or even been close to the limit of what I think it is capable of.

Ok, back to checking on that fishing gear !!.

George

[tunnelthug]

Sounds like a good day out - Wombeyan caves are beautiful, went through there a few years ago, then through Lime Burner's into Yerranderie. Was planning on going through to Jenolan, but Lime Burner's claimed one of my CV's, so decided to take the Oberon Stock Route out instead!

With all the waiting around, sounds like the event was quite popular - maybe they need to braoden the categories a but.

Cheers!

[tunnelthug]

Sounds like a good day out - Wombeyan caves are beautiful, went through there a few years ago, then through Lime Burner's into Yerranderie. Was planning on going through to Jenolan, but Lime Burner's claimed one of my CV's, so decided to take the Oberon Stock Route out instead!

With all the waiting around, sounds like the event was quite popular - maybe they need to braoden the categories a but.

Cheers!

Sorry - woeful typing - 'broaden the categories a bit!

[Peter]

Saw this article and then the thread and have to offer my congratulations.

I particularly like the comments about your truck being close to stock. The inference being that the shiny topped D3 has “off road” capability delivered standard rather than an aftermarket option.

Also note that there is a D3 on page 302 of the same mag with the note that the owner “sold his Jeep to gain some reliability”. :o OMG.

This edition was a big step for these guys.

Well done and keep it up.

[Mully]

Great stuff George.. Thanks for the share... Yeah I have had my D3 airborne a few times and done silly stuff with it and have some broken plastics and severely dented undercarriage etc... No regrets but they are so capable you (read "me") tend to get a little carried away and make some damaging decisions.

No regrets mind you but to stay silly, I'd prefer a different truck I'm happy to break a little. :D

Thanks again for the share!

[CaverD3]

NPWS closed Lime burners. :twisted:

I don'think they intend to re-open it. Anyone know anything?