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check this out - its awesome!
rivkombi - July 26th, 2008 at 06:12 PM

check this out - shot by an ABC journo - its awesome!
http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2008/07/24/2311741.htm?site=riverland[/url] 

pod - July 26th, 2008 at 06:20 PM

awesome:tu:

66deluxe - July 26th, 2008 at 06:22 PM

Thats awesome.

ian.mezz - July 26th, 2008 at 06:23 PM

anyone we Know????:cool:

kroozzn63 - July 26th, 2008 at 09:01 PM

i cant watch it? :grind: no plugin?

megalania - July 27th, 2008 at 08:30 AM

what? No baja beetles :smilegrin:

Tim Andrews - July 27th, 2008 at 08:33 PM

Love it!

donn - July 28th, 2008 at 06:56 AM

Stop telling us how good it is, I can't see anything!!!!!!!

dangerous - July 28th, 2008 at 07:53 AM

That tree on the outside of the turn is a worry, especially if things go wrong under brakes.

But pretty impressive off road racing. (sorry donn)

Kimbo - July 28th, 2008 at 10:51 AM

Yeah, I was racing there, and there’s a brief 2-second shot of my buggy towards the end of the video.

Dangerous: there were trees on the outside of most of the turns, and they were all pretty worrying, especially when you drifted a little closer than you'd like, and more than a few competitors came off worse - two were taken to hospital for checkups after a particularly hard shunt, but were OK (which is more than could be said for their buggy, which is now a bit shorter than when it started).

There was some very impressive machinery there. One I know was a recent imported Jimco from the US for the princely sum of around $249K and this particular buggy didn’t get much further than about 6-7Kms from the start before the engine seized, so money’s not always the solution. In total my navigator and I reckoned we must’ve passed close to $1-mill worth of broken machinery on the first lap. On the other hand my $7K buggy went past all of them several times before a blown fan belt pulled my up on the last lap – should’ve remembered the spare, but ya live ‘n learn.

Kimbo