So long, Farewell
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:31 pm
Good to see you guys still here,
I have always loved the scoobies but recently I had to part with my much beloved 84 my wagon (3" lift, genuine 14" rims w correct offset) for two reasons.
One thing, we tried, we gave it our best shot but Weipa and the Far north is just not as suby friendly as we had hoped.
Before anyone gets their undies in a bunch let me explain,
Last year during the wet, we got about 900mm of rain.
Weipa is flat as a tack which just means lots of big puddles and creek crossings. A puddle can be as long as 200m and be 700 - 800 mm deep. Regularly. Now I lashed out and prepared the scoob as best as possible. A genuine $4.00 set of rubber gloves with the fingers cut off to fit over the disty and some top shelf zip ties that had been lovingly trimmed to fit. What more could I do? Last year I took the scoob to the limits I was most comfortable with and it went everywhere. We just kept getting wet.
Water up the bonnet and onto the windscreen does funny things. Mostly to the wife's temperament. Water surging up through the rust holes in the floor also causing undue stress. Water everywhere. No air con. Car beginning to smell like the north end of a south bound vulture due to various leaks. Both CV joints beginning to sound ominous and the mechanic up here quoting more than the car is worth to source the parts for me (I was going to fit them).
What do you do?
In weipa you don't need a safety cert to sell a vehicle and the local kids have no second hand options except for hand me downs.
I sold the car within 20 minutes of parking it in the local sale yard (the carpark at Woolies) for $300 more than I bought it for after five years of none too gentle use.
I still hear it bustling around town (as both exhaust gaskets have let fly on the EA81) I think the young bloke who bought it is doing some 4wd of his own now. He looks happy.
For those interested, I now own a T____ta 80 series fully loaded. It is safe, competent, frostily air conned but it still feels like I'm cheating whem I drive it up on the beach. The suby used to turn heads - now I'm just one of the pack.
Subies introduced me to the world of 4wd when I was none too flash with the cash and they will always have a special place in my heart.
I will come back to Bris one day and I will drive subaru's again.
Good luck all of you.
I have always loved the scoobies but recently I had to part with my much beloved 84 my wagon (3" lift, genuine 14" rims w correct offset) for two reasons.
One thing, we tried, we gave it our best shot but Weipa and the Far north is just not as suby friendly as we had hoped.
Before anyone gets their undies in a bunch let me explain,
Last year during the wet, we got about 900mm of rain.
Weipa is flat as a tack which just means lots of big puddles and creek crossings. A puddle can be as long as 200m and be 700 - 800 mm deep. Regularly. Now I lashed out and prepared the scoob as best as possible. A genuine $4.00 set of rubber gloves with the fingers cut off to fit over the disty and some top shelf zip ties that had been lovingly trimmed to fit. What more could I do? Last year I took the scoob to the limits I was most comfortable with and it went everywhere. We just kept getting wet.
Water up the bonnet and onto the windscreen does funny things. Mostly to the wife's temperament. Water surging up through the rust holes in the floor also causing undue stress. Water everywhere. No air con. Car beginning to smell like the north end of a south bound vulture due to various leaks. Both CV joints beginning to sound ominous and the mechanic up here quoting more than the car is worth to source the parts for me (I was going to fit them).
What do you do?
In weipa you don't need a safety cert to sell a vehicle and the local kids have no second hand options except for hand me downs.
I sold the car within 20 minutes of parking it in the local sale yard (the carpark at Woolies) for $300 more than I bought it for after five years of none too gentle use.
I still hear it bustling around town (as both exhaust gaskets have let fly on the EA81) I think the young bloke who bought it is doing some 4wd of his own now. He looks happy.
For those interested, I now own a T____ta 80 series fully loaded. It is safe, competent, frostily air conned but it still feels like I'm cheating whem I drive it up on the beach. The suby used to turn heads - now I'm just one of the pack.
Subies introduced me to the world of 4wd when I was none too flash with the cash and they will always have a special place in my heart.
I will come back to Bris one day and I will drive subaru's again.
Good luck all of you.
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