GCLRO/AULRO Club Social trip & BBQ 12/8/07 Photos

[defender90]

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[Quiggers]

Geez, you didn't muck around, def90.

That was lotsa fun and turned out to be quite warm...

Thanks all, nice to meet you.

Can't believe how easy drivesafes Rangie made the creek climb out track look. (or the D3s for that matter).

Need some serious rain to make it really interesting!

Cheers, GQ

[WhiteD3]

Drivesafe et al,

Thanks for a great day. The boys and I felt very welcome and everyone was so polite to not comment on my amateur 4WD techniques!

Special thanks to Justine for getting my two lads some exercise!

Cheers,

Mark

[WhiteD3]

Got some photos of you coming up the hill climb. Let me know your email address and I'll send them.

Cheers,

Mark

[Loaded]

Thanks Tim and Harry for the day.

Very enjoyable and relaxing with some great scenery.
I did very poor in the photo department I only have a couple.


http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h104/Loadeddisco/TheConvoy.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h104/Loadeddisco/TimsCarwash.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h104/Loadeddisco/HarryRockClimbing.jpg

It was good to finally meet some of the people from the forum. :)

[100I]

A nice sunday drive. The camera bag was in the back but I didn't take any photos or vids at all in the end. I was too busy playing nav for Sue.
What amateur 4WD techniques? You climbed the hill didn't you. You didn't break anything. Boys had smiles on their dials. Job well done. PM coming at ya.

[WhiteD3]

What amateur 4WD techniques? You climbed the hill didn't you. You didn't break anything. Boys had smiles on their dials.

Easy when all you have to do is press a button and steer! And yes, the boys thought it was FANTASTIC. Only problem was they were disappointed I didn't floor it up the hill like the Freelander.

[100I]

..problem was they were disappointed I didn't floor it up the hill like the Freelander.
:D Sue always hits the loud pedal at the first call, but I had to shout back off 3 times as she crested the steeper one, lest we'd argued with some rocks & lost.
Bloody leadfoot.

[Blknight.aus]

was a good day ,nice change of pace for me, finally a trip where I didnt need to actually get the spanners out.

Ok once to do a quick diagnose on a disco v8 as the driver was worried about a noise but i was only using it as a stethescope and it wasnt my spanner so it doesnt count...

Came up with a new theory too...

we all know that electricy and water dont mix, thats why petrol v8s dont ford so well..

We also know that the new td5 has electronic control of the most important part of the diesel cycle, the fuel injection..

Landrovers know this and so develop a leak in the system that places oil in the wiring to prevent water ingress, preventing water drown outs thus making the vehicle more capable.


Clever buggers them landrovers.....

[Quiggers]

Amazing isn't it; it's the middle of August and I'm sunburnt... Mr (shy) 13 yo, who had his first drive today,
has already flaked out...
BTW: Thanks to Tim, Harry and of course, Inc.
My photos are, well, er, so what, but the video material of him having his first drive is priceless!
Now he wants one...

...just out of curiosity, what were your total door-to-door kilometres today?
I ran up 240 ks...

GQ;)

[wrex]

Hi all...

Thanks for a great day
I now know the importance of a good set of tyres when you have open diffs (or no electronic gizmos) however I think the Disco did Ok. once i put my right foot down.

Here are some photos... I'll load up the some video on youtube (Need to work out how to do that)

Carlos

[wrex]

Some more photos

BTW... how do I just insert the image as per the other photos on this thread instead of icons??

[Quiggers]

You didn't lack any right foot Carlos!
Wish I got a pic of you going up 'the hill' !!!
how much dust did you get in your Disco?:D:D
Good pics!

Photos at a decent size: have a look here search for threads (instructions) using 'photobucket', which seems to work very well.

Funny sight on the way home dept: A holden rodeo single cab 4x4 lwb with a full cage over the tray; in the cage was a horse, a live one standing upright; who needs a horse float? (how good would the centre of gravity be? crikey!)

cheers, GQ

[wrex]

I did think my car was looking a bit dustier than everyone else's..... i thought it was because of the darker color but now i know why:D

[beforethevision]

Thanks guys, esp drivesafe for organising the trip., and the gentleman who lent me a UHF(call sign is on the top of my tongue). Had a great time, what appears to be very dusty inside the car! but no damage, so good fun to be had.

[x-box]

Yep, good day out!
Also very nice to finally put some faces to "handles" so now i know who it is that posts on the forum.....
Was nice not to break anything for a change and meet new people from up North and also Quiggers from the South. Thanks for the goodies Blknight - good to meet you too.
Thanks Tim and Harry!!
Wazza, how did your return trip go over the mountain?

[Killer]

...just out of curiosity, what were your total door-to-door kilometres today?
I ran up 240 ks...

GQ;)
Mine read 287 kms when I got home. Great day out, thanks Tim and Harry for another well organised day.

Cheers, Mick.

[djhampson]

Thanks for a good day all. Esp thanks to DriveSafe for the organisation and to Josh for the radio. It was really good to have a bit of a play with the D3. HDC is very cool!

Photos can be found here. I'll upload the rest tonight. (http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/djhampson/)

[Wazza]

Wazza, how did your return trip go over the mountain?

Yeah was nice. Three Defenders made the trip back across to duck creek and over the mountain. Was a nice pleasant drive and got to show Simon, Justine and Alex some more of the country around the coast.

Thanks to everyone for the day. Was great to see some of you from the last run and to meet some new faces.


Can wait to the next run Tim.

cheers

Wazza

[stevo68]

Thanks all for a great day out and a little play time, good to catch up with some familiar faces and get to put faces to names on here, though it may take a couple more get togethers to cement that part :D. Thanks also to Tim and Harry for organising, I have quite a few pics so when I get a moment will post them up,

Regards

Stevo

[wrex]

I worked out how to do the youtube thing, I'll upload them in the next couple of days.

Does anyone here mind if I upload video of their trucks having a little fun?

Let me know

[Loaded]

I worked out how to do the youtube thing, I'll upload them in the next couple of days.

Does anyone here mind if I upload video of their trucks having a little fun?

Let me know


Go for it, and dont forget to post a link on here where the youtube vids are.

[stevo68]

I worked out how to do the youtube thing, I'll upload them in the next couple of days.

Does anyone here mind if I upload video of their trucks having a little fun?

Let me know

No worries here :D

Regards

Stevo

[Quiggers]

Fine with me,

I'd also like to see what Harry shot (as in videotaped)...

BTW: Of the 20 Land Rovers on site, there was a fair representation of all the varieties,
except for the RR P38...curious...

Cheers, GQ

[incisor]

..just out of curiosity, what were your total door-to-door kilometres today?
I ran up 240 ks...

488klms for me...

had a ball, nice to meet those i hadn't met before and great to see familiar faces.

many thanks to tim and harry and all that had a part in organizing the day...

one on the northside of the river is in the works, i just have to get time to piece all the bits together...

[stevo68]

Hey all,

As promised here are the first batch of pics, cuppla double ups from others that have been taken. Click on for full size. If anyone wants me to email a particular pic, let me know as I have had to reduce the size for these ones:

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Regards

Stevo

[harry]

thanks for the day all, tim did a good job finding the play pen.
i have sent a few pics to josh, and have about 25 mins of vid which i will transfer and will give the club a copy sometime.
white d3 an awsome ascent the first go! those things are really better than they are given credit for, and the freo, wow can't that go.

[100I]

I worked out how to do the youtube thing, I'll upload them in the next couple of days.

Does anyone here mind if I upload video of their trucks having a little fun?

Let me know

:wheelchair:
it's been 8hrs...

:tease:

[Blknight.aus]

Hey all,

As promised here are the first batch of pics, cuppla double ups from others that have been taken. Click on for full size. If anyone wants me to email a particular pic, let me know as I have had to reduce the size for these ones:

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Regards

Stevo


Thats the kind of pic I was talking about when I was suggesting the flying V coming over the hill...

picture that but with 1 car in the center (make it a freebie or the D90 then getting pogressively larger as the go out and back to maintain scale with 8/9 cars a side with another flying V in the middle like a command group say the 2 conspiritors that did convoy command, TEC and the big ass rangie that was there


Looking something like

X___________X
_X___X_X___X
__X___X___X
___X_____X
____X___X
_____X_X
______X
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______V (DIRECTION OF TRAVEL)





______Camera
I know the idea was thought o be dangerous due to spaceing but from the rough pic you can see that each car maintains about a cars distance from one another.

maybe one that we can prep up for pre cooma so that we can do an AULRO poster? one with the cars, one with the drivers on outside the car and then another one done up with just the drivers and done close enough so you can make out people....

Not sure if it would work well with 20+ people but it does look good when you do it with 11 Bushies.

[JohnE]

Glad to see everyone had a good/great day out.
Would have loved to put more faces to names,
Too bad i couldn't make it, quiggers may have given my apologies if he didn't, thats fine.
Reason, one broken bent car, one bent bruised wife.

Maybe next outing I'll be able to make it.



john

[drivesafe]

Hi folks, this is the unofficial trip report.

We got up early, BLOODY EARLY, first lot met at Nerang, drove west to meet the second lot at Beaudesert, then drove south, met the third lot and had fun.

Now if you weren’t there, it’s not much use trying to tell you how good it was.

Cheers and thats it. ( for now );)

PS please note the time this was posted and I have already been down to the local 24 hour car wash.:(

[WhiteD3]

white d3 an awsome ascent the first go! those things are really better than they are given credit for.

Thanks. As I said in an earlier post, in the D3 you press a button, steer and hope for the best! Which I must say is very very good:D!

[WhiteD3]

.

picture that but with 1 car in the center (make it a freebie or the D90.

....aah, disagree, I think I cut a dashing figure as is!

[Outlaw]

HEY DRIVESAFE!!!

That trip reports NOT GOOD ENOUGH :eek:

Now i expect 1000 words by COB today.... please :D:D:D

[Pedro_The_Swift]

HEY DRIVESAFE!!!

That trip reports NOT GOOD ENOUGH :eek:

Now i expect 1000 words by COB today.... please :D:D:D


what he said,,,,
:angel:

[drivesafe]

Hi folks, I suppose I had better give a half decent trip report.

First things first, I would to give a big thanks to harry for all his help both with this the reeces and as Tail End Charley, on Sunday.

I would like to thank Loaded for jumping in and helping as Tail End Charley for a few kms when I stuffed up ( can’t count )

And a special thanks to Outlaw for crawling out of his sick bed to help with the BBQ ( and yes he DID remember to ring the gas this time ).

Well as posted, it was a ( BLOODY ) early start and if I thought I had it bad, the poor folks from up north had to rise even earlier.

The Gold Coasters meet up at Nerang and then made our way to Beaudesert where we meet up with a much bigger crowd.

After a few pictures and a short tutorial, we were on our way and by this time we had 18 vehicles in convoy.

We got to the Border Spiral Loop Lookout with literally seconds to spare as the XPT was on time ( surprise, surprise ).

By this time we had picked up three more vehicles from down south ( Mexicans )

After watching the XPT run round the mountain and off into the distance, we headed off for our first bit of off roading.

Harry had found a nice easy water crossing and of those that had a go, no one had the slightest problem.

After our water play and a quick shamble over which direction we were going, we headed off back over the range and to a main play area.

After a few photo runs and the likes, the games began with everybody heading off in different directions for different obstacle courses.

The many photos posted will have already given those poor unlucky ones an idea of what they missed out on.

Even the dust didn’t deter anybody from having a go at what ever the heart desired and all had loads of fun while quite a few found out just how easy it was to do things with their vehicles they never thought they would try.

This is exactly what the day was intended to be all about.

We then settled down to some lunch and then people started going their separate ways.

I was nacked so with a few others, headed back to the coast, others headed north and south, while a few hardy travellers made there way over to Duck Creek for even more off roading.

From all reports everybody had a great day and the best thing of all, NOT ONE SINGLE DING TO ADD TO THE GCLRO Club DING Tally.

Thats how I like it.

Cheers and thanks to everybody for making it a great day out.

PS, I’ll try to origins another social run and BBQ for about early December.

[DiscoTDI]

Its a pity, I was down in bris but it was to go to an engagment party that day. Seeing as I was not there it means I lost the argument:mad:. She wasnt at all happy when I said they will probably get divorced anyway:twisted:

[Blknight.aus]

just out of curiosity did anyone get any pics of the nutjob reversing up the hill in the red deefer?

[Quiggers]

No I didn't, damn....

...must get a bigger card for the camera,
and use it!!!

That was pretty funny, tho....maybe I should've tried that....

GQ

[beforethevision]

I think i was the only one that couldnt make it up the hill forward.! The supercharger should help with that. Plus i may have toasted a shock absorber, its beginning to squeal quite loud. :D

BUT, no dents, which is good :P

[Blknight.aus]

buy your shockie and swing on by I always wanted to have an up close and personal with a freebie....(bout the only rover I havent done proper spanner turning on).

And I'll take you out to hendersons farm some time and let you have a play there...

[wrex]

Ok. managed to upload 3 videos, with many more to come.
It takes a long time to upload them, so I'll post the other links as they are done.

A few landies crossing the creek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t36kSC97JpI

D3 up a hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe3wWQl9PRw

The creek with the on-board camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOiAS-a-Wxc

By the way, there has not been any editing done.... so sorry for the quality.

[Quiggers]

Thanks wrex

looks all so easy

GQ

[Captain_Rightfoot]

The commentary was priceless :)

[Redback]

Looked like a good day, pity the NSW members aren't as willing as you guys to meet up for a day out.

Baz.

[stevo68]

I would just like to note that in respect to the D3 up a Hill video that I was just showing others how one gets the D3 to go into extended mode :D, despite the commentary of "he cant get up" :angel:. Also thanks Carlos for posting all the video action

Regards

Stevo

[Loaded]

Thanks wrex for the video action. Yes the commentary I could not stop laughing. :)

[incisor]

despite the commentary of "he cant get up" :angel:.

mate, it could have been a whole lot worse :P

[stevo68]

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despite the commentary of "he cant get up" :angel:.

mate, it could have been a whole lot worse :P
:p:p

Regards

Stevo

[wrex]

yes.. the commentary well, it's all natural "live" style commentary

I love the comments from my son " I want to go home now daddy", and here I thought he was having fun :(
It just goes to show we need to get out there more often

Most of the video is there now, just follow the link

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Wrex74

[wrex]

One more video went in there of Drivesafe and the Range Rover going up the hill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnAlv5vzVeo

[drivesafe]

One more video went in there of Drivesafe and the Range Rover going up the hill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnAlv5vzVeo

Nice vid wrex and it just goes to show, the traction control doesn’t always work quite the way it’s supposed to.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Nice vid wrex and it just goes to show, the traction control doesn’t always work quite the way it’s supposed to.

compared to the dark (green?) D1
the RR was effortless:eek:

[harry]

yep pedro, the d 1 was me, i was the first up the hill, so made the track, and it didn't want to do it.
what we missed out on doing that day was showing the difference when you let the tyre pressures down.

[drivesafe]

PS, I’ll try to origins another social run and BBQ for about early December.

Sorry folks but as I have resigned from GCLRO Club, I won’t be organising another trip.

Cheers and apologies.

[Outlaw]

But never fear Harry and Outlaw are still here so business as usual... actually we've got one to be posted shortly to the D'Aguilar Range - Sunday 28th October ;)

More details to follow in the Upcoming Events section in the next few days :D:D:D

[djhampson]

More details to follow in the Upcoming Events section in the next few days

Which reminds me that I need to hurry up and join the club!!

[MickG]

Which reminds me that I need to hurry up and join the club!!
Welcome anytime djhampson, we meet first Thursday of every month at options Tavern Helensvale....check out the GCLRO section at the bottom of AULRO for all the details or PM me or Outlaw if you need any more info.

Aye, Mick