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 The_Bronze.
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The Loaded Dog
This is the Dog-O-War outside our new home in Dubbo. We moved house from Newcastle 4 and a half hours west over the Great Dividing Range to inland New
South Wales. It took me 5 and a half as the Tranny mounts were all preished and snapped providing a soothing swaying motion above 80k's an hour!
All the hills were second gear and with 40 degree heat the motor was often around the +120c mark.
There was about 6 kids bikes, a pedal car, a dolly (moving truck) and about a kilometer of rope. The Baja was fully loaded within as well with
fishtank, clothes, esky, plants, aquarium rocks and gardening utensils.
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The_Bronze.
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| posted on May 3rd, 2003 at 09:29 PM |
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The Loaded Dog.
Our most recent trip from Newcastle to Dubbo proved exciting as well as I had about 400kg's of timber within. The materials for our new queen
size bed. The longest lengths were 220mm. The foot well to the back window is 240mm. I put the passenger seat on the roof rack with the spare and
packed it all in nice and tight. My navigator was posted to the back seat drivers side. The pics are in the conventional camera so when they have been
developed and scanned I'll post them as well.
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| posted on May 3rd, 2003 at 10:19 PM |
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kool love all the pick feels like i was actually there. sortta like dvd quality :bounce |
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| posted on May 10th, 2003 at 03:11 AM |
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good to see my spare tyres getting some good use steve
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One man's junk...
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The_Bronze.
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| posted on May 13th, 2003 at 10:29 PM |
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Yeah thanks Sam - didn't have a flat but good to carry just in case. Since you were just goin to turf it I'm happy to carry it around - just
have to get around to fixing the leak one weekend.
Yeah - I love the pic quality. When you budget for a digicamera, spend an extra hundred dollars on the one you think will do you. Get optical zoom and
not digital zoom.
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| posted on May 13th, 2003 at 10:41 PM |
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Uh bugger it - just when I was convinced I should go ahead and paint it!
Yeah Bronze, If you ever paint the Dog-O-War you must paint it that interesting browny/orangy colour again (sorry but I don't know it's
proper name), with the orange and yellow stripes. If you don't, no one will know that it's the Dog.
Though if you really want to improve it you only need to shorten it by about 14 inches. Then you can put a lovely manx body on it.
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| posted on May 13th, 2003 at 11:32 PM |
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Hmmm - I think Mr. Plod would have somthing to say about me putting the kids on the roof rack. Not to mention what the wife is going to say about the
window winder being left with the old shell.
She'll be right mate - I stick with what works. You just keep enjoying being blasted by my sand.
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| posted on May 18th, 2003 at 08:42 PM |
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Da Boyz working it hard.
"One day son - this will be all yours!"
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| posted on August 5th, 2003 at 08:41 PM |
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Update:
Well we have decided on the colour. It's a secret for now but when it's 100 percent done I show you all what the finished result is.
For now the under coat will be going on after some sanding and dechroming. Just forked out a few hundred dollars upgrading the electricals and
brighter lights. The pans under the pedal assembly is being replaced - currently there is a VB can patching the previous owners holes. Some
mechanicals and the rego.
Hopefully this will all give the Dog a new lease on life and I can stop driving the wifes car for may caches!
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| posted on January 6th, 2004 at 07:23 PM |
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Update:
Preperations on the dog are going well.
The paint sampled on the guards is holding up to the weather well and appears to be suitable the hard work and tight places the Dog squeezes into.
Lights, mechanicals, electrics and minor panel repair are all complete. Now just a sand down and respray. Easier posted than done.
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| posted on January 7th, 2004 at 02:35 PM |
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Good Luck!:thumb |
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The_Bronze.
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| posted on September 28th, 2004 at 05:44 AM |
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Howd'y all,
I'm the Bronze and the pilot of the Dog-O-War.
1600 TP - It's aim is to get in and out of the bush, dunes, creeks, gullies and cities.
The Dog-O-War has some mild modifications, suspension, electrical, exhaust, carb, cage, guards etc.
A 71 model it is reliable and comfortable - believe it or not.
Enough room for a co-pilot, the kids, camping gear and spares / tool it get me where I want to go and turns head while were at it. I love this machine
and its heritage. You can call it a bucket of $hit and you'd be right but it my bucket of $hit and you can go and get your own.
The Dog-O-War is no trailer queen although it is getting a paint job at present, thats just because the old paint has fallen, faded, scraped,
scratched or been sanded of at some junction in it history. The goal this year is to get it one colour in a paint that wont scratch off.
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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 08:33 PM |
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....are you keeping d Dog-O War d same colour Bronze...n are d kids gunna help u paint him? :thumb
.....we've missed your adventures....post lots of pics 4 us 
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| posted on October 2nd, 2004 at 12:20 PM |
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maaate!
love the stockton pics, dad and i go there heaps with our 4wd club and i know that treeline all too well (if you squint you will see our landcruiser
in there somewhere) unfortunately for us our lifted 60 series had a little too much weight too high off the ground and over we went again and
again.
cudos for getting out of that tight spot!
Daniel
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| posted on October 13th, 2006 at 05:31 PM |
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Soon to be back on the road.
Currently being Blueslipped for regostration.
I'm Excited!
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The_Bronze.
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| posted on May 15th, 2007 at 11:47 AM |
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And now has a 1500 after the 1600tp dies at Stockton over Easter. Thanks Pete. 
In the booth now for a smoother finish.
[ Edited on 16-5-2007 by The_Bronze. ]
[ Edited on 16-5-2007 by The_Bronze. ]
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