The
"yellow" course proved to be a tricky one. It required the
combination of brute horsepower with a touch of finesse which in the
end still didn't make much of a difference. You were going to get stuck
unless you got the combination juuust right. Ask Dave. He got the combination
wrong and his Stage I showed what articulation looks like on a Series
Land Rover. Dave, I never knew leaf sprung trucks could articulate like
that.
Simon
got his Series II bogged down at the top of the course and at one point
we had to tell him to stop as we were all starting to see kangaroos
coming out of the hole he dug.
So
what's the cruelest thing you could probably do to a Land Rover owner?
How about make them do traffic maneuvers? Our two "special stage"
courses simulated city driving obstacles. Normally that wouldn't be
too big of a deal but when there's someone standing there with a stop
watch, things get a little tense and people do some crazy things. Make
someone drive into a 25' by 18' box through an entrance not much wider
than the vehicle and then tell them to turn around and come back out
as quickly as possible was rather amusing. Talk about an elephant in
a bread box. Right Jason??
To
wrap up the afternoon, we ended the day with two courses in a peat bog.
Sounds like fun doesn't it? Vern, if it weren't for the vehicles in
the background, you look like you're driving through the African savannah.
