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Posted by kutenay on April 8, 2008 at 5:06:38 pm EDT
In reply to Customer Service posted by hahayourdead941 on April 6, 2008 at 10:01:42 pm EDT

If, you know how to drive them, a good 4x4 is lightyears beyond ANY other vehicle in snow, ice, mud and bad roads-steep country. Those who "roll" them are usually suburbanites who would get their "Beemer" stuck at a mall lot.

In 43 years of driving 4x4s all over western Canada, much of that to make my living fighting wildfires, I only rolled ONE and that was my buddie's Land Rover 109 pickup. He was passed out in the front seat after he and I had consumed a dozen beer and and 1 and a 1/2 qts. of "Black Label" Johnny Walker and I was driving home from up a very narrow, abandoned mining road in a driving rain at about 02:00, just about 40 years ago to the day.

Things were fine, then, the lousy electrical system packed it in and the headlights quit, so, I drove over a 200+ ft. bank near Giveout Creek in the West Kootenays of B.C. Fortunately, we flipped twice and then hung on a huge boulder about 60 ft. down and we crawled out, up and hiked to a nearby friend's house and re-joined the party.

Next morning, we skidded the truck up the bank with a D-6, put some more oil in it and drove it to town, replaced the side window broken in the accident and pounded out a couple of dents with my old man's plumbing ballpeen hammers.

He drove that truck for another year and then traded it for a Fender Stratocaster and Marshall amp. as he was a musician. So, rolling 4x4s is usually done when things are less than "normal".

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