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camo westy
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 Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:06 pm Post subject: River Ford -at speed !! |
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hiram6
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That's cool.
Dude, your window is open!!!!
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syncrodoka
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| It really sucks when you are flying through mud with the window open and you get some in your mouth. |
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camo westy
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My dughter (12 years old) was hanging out the passenger window, urging me to go faster.
Nice clean river water, no mud, rinse all of the winter snow melt from the underside of the van.
The river crossing is concrete, smooth and flat, I was going about 20 mph.. faster would be no problem. |
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syncrodoka
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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yeah sure- it was kid telling you to go fast 
Kids always love their vans. My 10 and 12 year old are the same way. |
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Sodo
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| camo westy wrote: |
| My dughter (12 years old) was hanging out the passenger window, urging me to go faster.............. I was going about 20 mph.. faster would be no problem. |
I'm with her!!! (pretty cool picture lets see it at 30mph)
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Mr. Electric Wizard
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:20 am Post subject: |
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yeah sure- it was kid telling you to go fast
Kids always love their vans. My 10 and 12 year old are the same way. |
My kids LOVE both of my vans/buses.
I mean LOVE.
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wavanagon
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| camo westy wrote: |
| The river crossing is concrete, smooth and flat, I was going about 20 mph.. faster would be no problem. |
Every city/town needs to have a smooth, flat, concrete river crossing! Too cool.
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tencentlife
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| wavanagon wrote: |
| camo westy wrote: |
| The river crossing is concrete, smooth and flat, I was going about 20 mph.. faster would be no problem. |
Every city/town needs to have a smooth, flat, concrete river crossing! Too cool. |
Yeah, not like the rough, steep-banked, cobble-filled, two-foot-deep-in-the-spring one I have to go thru just to get to the paved road. We don't do that at 20mph, I can tell you that!
I love those spillway ones, you can blast over them and throw a ten-foot spray off both sides with only a couple inches of water! Woo hoo! Wish we had one.
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McVanagon
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| wavanagon wrote: |
| camo westy wrote: |
| The river crossing is concrete, smooth and flat, I was going about 20 mph.. faster would be no problem. |
Every city/town needs to have a smooth, flat, concrete river crossing! Too cool. |
Agreed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPHiH2m3Io
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Hallvalla
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Ah, I see their rationale...if anything bad happens from getting air (all four tires!) then the water in the roadway, after the bouncy bounce landing, should at least stop them.
Oh man, lucky lucky.
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streamr
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Ah, I see their rationale...if anything bad happens from getting air (all four tires!) then the water in the roadway, after the bouncy bounce landing, should at least stop them.
Oh man, lucky lucky. |
Remind me not to buy that bus if it comes up for sale...... |
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