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Subject: RE: Skins was Re: [OM] thoughts on ...etc.........
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:43:46 +1100
Sod the Landcruiser - how's the tree? I believe that the most remote tree i
the world - somewhere in the Sahara - was killed when someone managed to
drive a truck into it.
Andrew
(Just nipping out to take the ARB roo bar off the Pajero....)


>I remember years ago when a fellow member of a four-wheel-drive club built
>a huge bullbar on the front of his Landcruiser. He bolted this massive
>weldment to the vehicle's frame with 1/2" high tensile bolts with the
>thought that no kangaroo in Oz would ever harm his pride and joy.
>
>A month later he fell asleep at the wheel somewhere near the Simpson Desert
>and ran head-on into the only tree for miles around. The 4X4's chassis was
>so buckled the rear doors were jammed solid!
>
>And THAT'S why I always like to use a rubber lens hood.
>
>Regards to all,
>
>John.

>Damn - of course he did. But the basic point stands. I'm about to make a
>wooden tool to remove a ring-ding so my mind was elsewhere.
>Still - crumple zones......hmmmm.
>Andrew
>



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