Whats going on with the fraser trip and who is going? How many buggies are going?
pete -
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I will be there as will the Geko
Brad
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Meyers Manx Australiafingers crossed i'll be there, all depends if i can sort a couple of little issues the cars got.... trying my hardest to be there tho...
steff.................
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DubCrazy wrote:fingers crossed i'll be there, all depends if i can sort a couple of little issues the cars got.... trying my hardest to be there tho...
steff.................
WTF your not taking that Baja on the beach are you ???
Brad
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Meyers Manx Australiaand why would i not take said Baja on the beach??
😂
steff.............
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Brad
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Meyers Manx AustraliaBesides we always have a crappy time. I mean the day starts out fine, we have Macca's for breakfast cruise up the coast thinking we are cool. Then we get to some stupid sandy place and try and figure out which way to go
Eventually we find some more sand and end up on a boat
Then more often that not the boat runs aground, and no where near the luxury resort we are planning on staying at so we all have to get off and fend for ourselves.
More often that not we end up pushing our buggies in an attempt to save fuel.
Then before we know it we have to sit under the trees, drink beer and try and cool off from all the pushing
Some guys even take their wheels off to try and save on the cost of tyres
Eventually we just give up and camp on the side of the road and wait for rich people in 4WD to bum a smoke and bag of ice off
When that fails we end up lining up and begging all those who go buy to help push us home
When that doesn't work we are forced to travel in pairs
Cause if we don't we get into poo poo
Then when we do get off the beach and try and go looking at stuff the traffic SUX..
Not to mention how long it takes the damn RACQ to show up
I tried to get help but could not seem to get my buggy on the flight so decided to stay
So back to lining up and beggying for fuel money
Then by the time we get back to the boat and try and go home it has all turned to ^*%&*^%
Yep the Fraser Trip SUX and should be avoided at all costs, damn Manx Club Members making me organise it again .....
Now once we are on
Brad
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Meyers Manx Australiaoh I forgot to mention the condition of the roads, have these people never heard of drainage ??
Brad
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Meyers Manx Australiahehehe. Looks great. Wish I could go 🙁
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Gee that's a hard act to follow 😵💫. After that run down I might have to change my mind - nar, I'm still going 👍. Although it's only as a buggy spectator. Maybe next trip I'll make the big time! 😂
After talking to Eileen today, I am there, either scabbing a lift or hiring something I can thrash.........festy is currently in a coma and it's been too long... *thinks back to a happier time when festy and I took a solo adventure up past Rooney point because I didn't have a map and mistook the rangers tyre tracks as an early morning tourist who turned back.............................pretty isolated, boggy stuff when you head to platypus bay, though did get to see the 'other, smaller shipwrecks the tourist maps don't show"* 🤓 😂
Mybe i need to go out and by HILUX for this trip and not take the buggy...
Then we can be the Manx Hilux Club.....
pete -
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BlueV2 wrote:hehehe. Looks great. Wish I could go 🙁
Me too!
Pay your debts, CxxT
Pete wrote:Mybe i need to go out and by HILUX for this trip and not take the buggy...
Then we can be the Manx Hilux Club.....
NOW NOW Princess , settle pettle
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
Cool i never knew there was a fraser trip. when is it, n will anybody object to me taking my cruiser instead- my beetle isnt a beach car!!!
Is there anybody coming from wide bay area?
trip is 18 - 25 Oct 08
Bring what you want, there will be a few unfinsihed buggy owners there, aka 4wd drivers.
Brad
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Meyers Manx AustraliaThe more the merrier!!, by the way Andus I refuse to pull the ute out of a bog with the manx cause I dont want to ruin the duco!!!!,ps dont dock my pay for that comment xxx
pete -
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Well as expected the trip sucked, good call by all those who didn;t make it along.
Brad
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Meyers Manx AustraliaOh and i'm glad you didin't get a chance to tow me Pete as i like my front end right where it is
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
OZ Towdster wrote:Oh and i'm glad you didin't get a chance to tow me Pete as i like my front end right where it is
Tow you ... you were the only guy that got bogged more than twice .. from memory you even got bogged going down a hill .. WTF ....
Brad
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Meyers Manx Australiaoops that is only if you don't call floating down the creek bogged. if you do then Hell Toy also got bogged more than twice.
Brad
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Meyers Manx AustraliaJust got back.
We had:
Pete - Blue Manx
Dave - Blue Baja
Mat - Blue Supa Sports
Troy - Blue Manx Clone
Tim - Red Manx
Ses - Red Calita
Ben and Anne - Yellow Manx
Paul and Kate - Green ManxIberty
Steve and Sue - Geko
Andrew and Eileen - Orange Baja Bus
Support Vehicles
Mike, Amanda, Lex, Marg - White Hliux
Craig, sue and 3 kids - Silver Hilux
Ronnie and Boy - Silver Navara
Tratty and Dave - White Landcruiser
Terry - Poootrol
Brad, Jen & Stu - Maroon Cruiser
I hope I haven't missed anyone.
Was a great week. Thanks to Brad for organising it.
As I said before it was crappy and not worth the drive.
Damn sun stayed out all week and and buggied kept getting stuck and making me wind the windows on the 80 series and let the air con out ...
Although a few people did say that swiming was a much better way to cool off,
If only they had of been smart enough to get out of the buggy first.....
As
Brad
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Meyers Manx AustraliaSome did manage to do it with a bit more style
And I have no idea how but Andrew managed to keep the EG33 Powered Baja Bus in one piece, although I did hear he hit a tree.
Brad
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Meyers Manx AustraliaI'm looking at some of the places showing people stuck and it amazes me how some of you do it???
i drive a 4wd tour bus throught the same tracks and dont' seem to have an issue at all....
In fact i have been on truckloads of holidays to Fraser in the last 30 odd years and the amount of times I have had to get out of VW to get it out of a sticky situation i could count on a couple of fingers....
and this is ALL over the island(cause back in the day you could got everywhere)
Will be back on the island doing tours soon as busy season is starting already(bring on the Brazilian back packers hehehehe)
ACCEPT THAT SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE PIDGEON AND SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE STATUE
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LIFE IN THE LOW LANE wrote:I'm looking at some of the places showing people stuck and it amazes me how some of you do it???
That is easy to answer, Driver Ability and the other idiots on the beach.
Whilel we were there I saw a few tourist buses get stuck, always due to incompetant drivers, no other reason. Pretty sure I even have video of one of the boys pulling up beside and asking if they wanted a tow.
The other issue is other drivers. If you are going through, say the Indian Head cutting and some idiot is coming the other way and crosses over causing you to slam on the brakes then chances are you are gunna be stuck. Not your fault but stuff happens.
I spent some time towing clowns out, main reason they were stuck was driver error, ie they were too stupid to let their tyres down cause they knew boats.
You would think when some guy pulls up in a loaded Landcruiser beside them and then drives around stops in front and pulls them out in there new $80 000 4WD they would ask themselve, how can he do that.... I would say about 30 PSI less and half a clue... people just seem to think their great new 4WD don't need to let its tyres down.
Anyway, the buggy in the creek was just plain stupidity, but it made good video and I didn;t have to clean it out, just tow him ..
The majority of the guys that came over drove around liek it was sealed road all week and never had an issue.
Brad
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Meyers Manx AustraliaBuggy Brad wrote:
🤪 no idea
The buggy in the water, how did it fare after that shot? Ingested water and unable to keep going?
Great shots, thanks for posting....starting to wonder why I sold my buggy. Oh, thats right...Canberra winter....
Mattie was wonder why on earth he ran swamper on the beach .... oh well at least it did good roosters until it stopped ..
The Police where around a fair bit but apart from one driver getting a caution for drink driving nothing much happened.
Brad
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Meyers Manx AustraliaYou only have to look at the photos at Rainbow Beach to realise tour busses are not immune to bogging and accidents. It is all about driver ability not the vehicle, somewhere on this site I believe is a shot of a Porsche Cayenne bogged on Teewah where the owner has obvously spent heaps of money expecting his vehicle will take him anywhere only to find out otherwise. Sit on the beach for an hour at high tide and watch the cars coming along through rutted sand, the more skilled/knowledgeable drivers just seem to cruise along reasonably smoothly but then you'll see someone fighting the wheel and the car jumping all over the place, the speed is the same. BTW I'm not sure my choice of the word 'ability' is the right choice but you catch my drift.
