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Vic41


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Couldn't believe this bloke made it!  Watch to end !! (Note:  Some swearing, can watch without sound though).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPg5DHeyNU&feature=player_embedded 



-- Edited by Vic41 on Sunday 20th of July 2014 04:00:21 PM

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Vic41 wrote:

Couldn't believe this bloke made it!  Watch to end !! (Note:  Some swearing, can watch without sound though).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPg5DHeyNU&feature=player_embedded 



-- Edited by Vic41 on Sunday 20th of July 2014 04:00:21 PM

 And they call it fun, I think not.



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good bit of driving. love it

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Ballsy stuff eyepopping.gifeyepopping.gif



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Amazing

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Gday...

I'm just a damned party pooper cry

It just shows me an in-experienced driver who had not learned that a Landcruiser with no weight in the rear will float and lose traction if the river is too deep for the vehicle.

Did you also notice he changed from forward gears to reverse gears and back again while buried in the water ? ..... that's taken years off that clutch's life. 

My candidate for the Darwin Award.

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This Guy doesn't have money to burn,

He drowns it,

K.J.    disbelief.gif



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I think it is amazing from the aspect of him not becoming a fatality, lucky to get out of the situation I reckon hmm no no no



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~~~ lucky to get out of the situation I reckon hmm no no no

Gday...

Ya right there Vic ... but if he had any nouse and experience he would never have entered the stream and called on that luck.

He obviously was unaware of what to do or simply disregarded the "rules".

They're born every day and walk amongst us  cry  no

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That's for sure John......good advert for Toyota though! smile



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr8eEWyKQHM 

Suzuki River Dip.   (Says Copyright but on public Utube, so I suppose if you open it on this link it is ok.)

Here one on rough tracks with a Kedron caravan, The Gall Boys adventure;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6KJXeOM0k

 

 



-- Edited by Vic41 on Monday 21st of July 2014 01:09:45 PM

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Didn't we have this clip a couple of years ago, or one very similar?

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Don't know Troopy, I can't remember what I did five minutes ago let alone a couple of years ago!  confuse

 

 



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