thanks for all the info our spring is coming here soon and that is my project to get ready for summer
Post expedition report and pics
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My mates that had the accident drove their truck to the event from QLD and used their truck as their DD back home, shopping and dropping the kids off to school, etc. They were devastated when they had the accident but true to the comraderie of the event a couple of the local competitors chipped and donated labour and parts from their spares cars to get them mobile again.
Unfortunately the comp had been cancelled by then and they couldn't continue on competing.
The rain hadn't let up any and the organisers of the OBC were starting to get concerned that there were a couple of hundred people stranded on stations that were all cut off from civilization and were fast running out of food and water (and alcohol). The SES declared it a state emergency and overrode the RTA road closure to allow us all to transport back to town. We all could've driven out earlier, we were all driving modded 4wds after all, but the police were waiting in town and fining anybody coming into town $1000 dollars a tyre (including your spare) for travelling along the closed roads. Those of us with two spares would've been slapped with a $6000 fine, no thanks
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Anyway with the SES overriding the RTA we all had to get out along the one road. As you could see in the above photos with the tyres all clogged up it was going to be an interesting trip out, especially after a hundred or so 4wds had chopped it up even more and a couple of extra days rain had fallen on them. The organisers split us up into four separate convoys, all with competitors in each group to help in case recoveries were needed. All the standard 4wds and those towing camper trailers and the less experienced drivers went in the first convoys. The guys that were making the decision who were going in which convoy took one look at our rigs and rolled their eyes
Even though we were taking our time filming and had left a couple of hours after the previous convoys we soon caught them up. The less modified rigs were having a heap of trouble just staying on the road. Once they had slid off the crown of the road they got bogged in the spoon drain.
A pic of our convoy (except for our Competitor trip leader who had the lime green Hilux in the earlier pics). The white 100 is the photographers truck.
My wife bought me the DVD of the 07 OBC for Valentines Day
. We did end up on there
OK....so we are just blurs in the crowd on a couple of the competitive sections but we are there. The 80 also is in a couple of scenes, when we are in convoy on the way off the station.
We got the DVD off an ebay store but Through The Gears are the ones the do the DVD and they might send to US if any of you are interested in getting a copy.
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My wife bought me the DVD of the 07 OBC for Valentines Day
OK....so we are just blurs in the crowd on a couple of the competitive sections but we are there. The 80 also is in a couple of scenes, when we are in convoy on the way off the station.
We got the DVD off an ebay store but Through The Gears are the ones the do the DVD and they might send to US if any of you are interested in getting a copy.
The footage of my mates crash is also on there...........OUCH
They were screaming in when the other one stopped. Nasty.
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Thanks for sharing and the kind words for the Thai team. Awesome report is understatement. 
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Thanks for sharing and the kind words for the Thai team. Awesome report is understatement.
No problem.
There was a bit of talk about that the Thai team shouldn't have won because they weren't as good with the Nav stages, etc but I reckon they deserved the win. They worked hard to get where they ended up and from watching them compete first hand all I can say is they just dominated the stages they competed in. They have definitely shaken up how a challenge truck is built. I have grown sick of the "it's gotta be a Nissan to win" mentality with most of the competitors and here they were with the complete opposite of that style of vehicle. I was there barracking them on at every stage, it was awesome stuff.
Very cool coverage of the event. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
