Off-roading Holden Commodore?

**LRT** · 29th January 2018, 09:53 AM

Came across this on Instagram...

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**donh54** · 29th January 2018, 10:04 AM

Don't do instagram, but a (reasonably) common thing out here in bogan-ville used to be grafting an HQ ute or wagon body onto a landcruiser or patrol chassis.

**LRT** · 29th January 2018, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by donh54

Don't do instagram, but a (reasonably) common thing out here in bogan-ville used to be grafting an HQ ute or wagon body onto a landcruiser or patrol chassis.

The link should work but in case it doesn’t I have copied it below:

**bee utey** · 29th January 2018, 11:21 AM

Fond memories of off roading in P76's, all those years ago. No challenge doing it in a lifted and locked 4WD, is there now?

**Homestar** · 29th January 2018, 11:40 AM

Used to take our dunny door off road once in a while when I lived up at Licola - only in the drier months and with a mate in his Pajaro. Got it to some interesting locations - even had a group of Toyota drivers ask how we got up to one of the huts and where the '2 wheel drive track' was. Pointed down the hill from where they had come from - they didn't believe us until we trundled off back the way we came. Nothing stupid mind you or anything that required high clearance and always had my mate to help if needed, but apart from some scrapes underneath, never got stuck.

**rammypluge** · 29th January 2018, 11:42 AM

They needed an HQ sedan.

I have taken 2wd's all over the place including the top of Mt Tingaringy.

They just need to fit bigger AT tyres, a mild lift, and if possible shift some weight to the rear for traction!

**LRT** · 29th January 2018, 12:07 PM

I have used my Triumph 2000 & 2500 for a lot of off-road driving but I drove according to its ability rather than trying to do the impossible. I used my Triumph to tow a 6x4 trailer full of red gum through muddy ground and just used a couple of pieces of grid mesh to put under the wheels if it started to spin. It certainly helps to use a car without all the modern plastic bumpers though!

**LRT** · 29th January 2018, 12:08 PM

Then again the little Freelander 1 is able to go much further off-road than what meets the eye.

**loanrangie** · 29th January 2018, 12:42 PM

i think i know that track, in the Pyrenees. He should have kept to the right (high side ) and he may have made it

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There should be a trail of duck down from Marty's sleeping bag bursting and sending a cloud of feathers into the air.

**steane** · 29th January 2018, 01:02 PM

As a kid I travelled in my parent's VB and then VL Commodores from Adelaide to Darwin and back (back when the road was more of a track), as well as all through Kakadu, the centre and a lot of places that most people bought 4WDs to travel through. People would line the banks of water crossings to watch dad take the VL through and clap when he made it across. Both cars had homemade bullbars, had been lifted a smidge and ran standard wheels and road tyres. They travelled extensively through outback WA, SA and NT in little Commodores and while there were plenty of places they couldn't go, they went more places than many expected.

They've been doing much the same in a Patrol for the last 17 years.

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