Thread: Off-roading Holden Commodore?

......and on the blokes comments with the commodore, he didn't help??
I couldn't do that to anyone.
Steve

A common mode of transport on the Gibb river road some one told me

Yep, and came across an old Magna with an overload of pax on the bottom end of the Canning.

Originally Posted by Saitch

Yep, and came across an old Magna with an overload of pax on the bottom end of the Canning.

That would have been the "bush mechanics" Did they have a 'roo on the parcel shelf?

Originally Posted by Saitch

......and on the blokes comments with the commodore, he didn't help??
I couldn't do that to anyone.
Steve

Maybe he didn’t want to be liable for ripping off the plastic bumpers?

Or he wasn’t driving a Land Rover?

Originally Posted by LRT

Not the same tractor but very similar.
Chamberlain Tractors towing caravans around Australia! - Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia - YouTube

We have an industrial Chamberlain Champion FEL & on a straight road it’ll wind up to 80-90kph. Just the stopping is very vague above 10kph!

I have met the guy that took that Chamberlain around the country. I think he did it to raise money / awareness for prostrate cancer. My neighbour built / modified a gear box to give him a faster road speed.
The Chamberlain has been sold.

Before dad bought his Jeep in about '71 and my uncle then bought a Series III, they loved telling the story where they'd taken their Holden's on a typical for them picnic trip bush one weekend with the families.
A few weeks later there was a newspaper report on the Sydney Land Rover club going bush and how tough those particular tracks were, how a number of cars broke axles, several had to be towed, etc.
They were the same tracks!!

I have seen a Commodore at Pineapple Flats before, but it was also in the company of another 4wd. I am sure it was towed a fair bit as we did see it earlier on on a track being towed through a rough patch.
A company car will go further than a private vehicle off road but not as far as a rental!