4x4 Interview: Simon Buck "I started driving off road at an early age, as I spent most of my youth on a neighbors farm and from there I went on to grass track racing and stock cars. It wasn't until the early nineties that I started off roading competitively as there was very little 4x4 competitions. I suppose you would have to say that events like the Camel Trophy inspired me." | |
Mercedes Benz Sprinter On 44 Inch Tires Taking brand new stock Mercedes Benz Sprinter and adding four wheel drive with all the modifications needed for 44 inch tires - well - here is the first! Pall Halldorsson is an ex rally driver and off-roading enthusiast. Working for the Icelandic Mercedes shop he got the crazy idea to see if this was possible. | |
An Overlander's Dream Without doubt, everybody who has an off road car, or at least had the occasion to participate in an off road gathering knows there's something more to the bunch than just the cars and the mud. It's an attitude that brings everyone together, whether it's a Toyota owner, a Suzuki lover or a Land Rover racer. | |
One of a kind driveway build!� I started my driveway build with a stock 1993 Chevy K1500 plow truck. The only working space I had was a single wide driveway as I don't have a garage to work in. My intensions were to build a 4X4 that would turn heads as well as perform. | |
Willys in Pakistan In Pakistan Willys are really popular specially in Rawalpindi, a city of Pakistan. In Rawalpindi there's an area where all the Jeeps specially 1942 Willys and 1952 M3bs are restored. Here it's easy because we can find their original bodies and parts from auction. | |
Turbo Charged Down Range When most soldiers are deployed over seas, also known as being down range, they try and find anything to help occupy their time. The guys from the 7th Engineer Dive Team take a completely wrecked vehicle and turn it into a turbo charged work truck, or more importantly, a stress reliever. | |
The Iguana Off Road Vehicle Custom built for the local trails and tough enough for the tourism trade The IGUANA runs ahead of the field. �They�re designed to do things other trucks can not do.� Not only to travel off road but to rumble through the jungle, climb over fallen trees and scurry through up to three feet of water. Steve Long Senior News Anchor, KPTH Fox 44 News. | |
6.4L HEMI on Jeep JK Wrangler Jeep aftermarket supplier American Expedition Vehicles (AEV), in conjunction with the Chrysler Corporation, will debut a monster 6.4L 392 HEMI engine in a Jeep Four Door show vehicle for the 2007 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show. Does this mean a similar HEMI conversion is coming for the new Wrangler JK model? | |
This is a tale of three 1973 Scouts Recently I was skittering through the Internet looking for some off-road activities when I blundererd into: 4x4OffRoads.com. -�This is the start of an article that I just received from a friend in Canada. It was published in Old Autos - a Canadian newspaper. | |
BIG Suburban -49 Inch Tires & Atlas Gears Go Big - Go Suburban - Go Suburban AND fit 49 inch tires! -�That's BIG!�Kristjan Kristjansson - Stjani - has done just that. After spending countless hours and days in his garage his 49 inch modified Chevrolet Suburban is now street legal. | |
Team Mud in Mac4x4 Team Mud consists of two brothers from Northern Ireland - Graeme and Chris Elliott - taking part in the Mac4x4 Challenge in March 2007. | |
Land Rover TomCat Auction Marc Ward, a Land Rover enthusiast from Barbados is having an auction this month destined to make eBay history - again. This is the second auction featuring one of the most unusual high-value items ever offered on the world's most popular auction site. | |
Toyota 4Runner on 44 Inch Tires | |
4x4 Vehicles in High Altitude A SUV seems the most popular vehicle. Some are more a car like than others, others are more tougher, more brutish with glamorous advertising and claims of various makers of these trucks. | |
4x4 Pics Interesting and fun 4x4 pics shot by 4 wheeling enthusiast from all over the world. | |
Mahindra Scorpio SUV From India Kishan Lohiya from India sent me some interesting pictures from his buildup of an Indian SUV named Mahindra Scorpia. | |
Pinzgauer VS Suburban Clay started off last Summer season just busting buttons, after close to twenty years of giving 4X4 tours in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, he was finally getting a chance to drive a vehicle that was truly different. | |
Nissan Patrol 1993 - 44 Inch Modification �skar Erlingsson in Iceland has made all the necessary changes to fit 44 inch Fun Country tires under his monster. Serious work has been done on the drive train and engine with more to come. | |
49 Inch Modified Patrol/Chevy Time has come to take away manufacturing faults of this otherwise fine automobile. Common 44 inch modification was not quite up to par. Engine and driveline (mostly front wheel bearings) proved to small and to weak. | |
Dodge W200 1977 Project Back in 1995, I bought this M880 truck from a merchant. The trucks this man sold, were all former U.S. army material. �M880� is the military designation of a 1977 Dodge W200. | |
Rick's CJ-3B Jeep Home made 100% Fiberglass body 5'' longer 4'' wider the a stock 3B, 2''x4'' box frame, 302ci, C-6, NP-205, ford 9'' front and back with locker's and disc brakes, 5.43's, 35 spline axles, 4 link with coil's up front, 3 link with coil's in the rear, 2'' six point roll bar, 9000i winch, 35'' BFG's. |
Saturday, March 14, 2009
4x4 Truck Articles
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