What's your going-to-the-woods ride?

Oh yeah! my kind of thread.....BEHOLD THE BEAST!

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Myal said:
Sasha
VW campers are pretty good , I do not laugh at them , they go places where I really never expected anything 2 wheel drive to turn up at .
Raindog
I have a corona , but used to have a corolla , they are seriously hard to kill , but with a set of grippy tyres , they go most places you need them to .

A bit of thinking instead of just driving , and most tracks become navigable in my experience ... I do carry a shovel and fill in some of the nastier gullies to get thru tho at times .. and a tarp for covering the front when we play submarines at the river crossings , but its all good fun .
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Haha! A Corona! My first college roommate had a Corona. Man, what a blast from the past. Damn thing's probably still running. My wife had an old Saturn SL1 when we first met. Took that thing on some crazy rides. It was a seriously rock-solid vehicle.
 
1975 Ford Bronco on 35's with an NP435 4-speed behind a 351. Get's me anywhere I might want to be, 365 days a year.
 
I didn't identify my camping rig earlier but it is a 2002 Pleasure-Way Traverse built on a Ford E-250. It's a rip-off of the VW campers but it's easier to get a Ford serviced in the US than a VW. A bit more room too. Don't get me wrong, I love the original, I just felt better buying this version. If I had the money, I'd get a Sportsmobile 4x4 conversion with the same floorplan.
 
I had bought a myriad of cars over the years - from Alfa Romeos to Corvairs. My '90 Dodge Shadow ES Turbo 5sp was 14.5yr old - still original clutch (~180k mi!); my '93 Dakota pu was 12 yr old - I wanted something new. I selected a new '05 Jeep KJ - a Liberty! I loved it at first sight - inside & out. Drove great - tremendously short turning radius. The first thing another range officer at the shooting range said to me when he saw it was "You bought a soccer mom's ride!". I don't care. It's just 2WD - but as short, stocky, and heavy as it is, and with decent tires, it'll traverse fields I never could before. I love it - best trip taker I've ever had. Fortunately, all the way back, and the seat is just perfect. It'll look fine in the parking lots the next time I go to the Smokies, too!

Did I mention the neat hooks on the back of the rear seats - great to hold my grocery bags when I return from shopping... Okay, at least I finally found a range bag for my revolvers that matches the interior! Well, I like it... and it's been paid for since fall.

Stainz

PS Parked in my driveway, the woods came to my new '05 Liberty as Katrina remnants passed through. My wife's new Dodge SRT4 was spared. Yeah, she has the pocket rocket - I have the 'soccer mom's ride'. I love it!

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I live in the woods...but when I travel, it's a toyota tacoma 4x4 with cap. It's fully stocked. I could survive weeks with whats in it.
 
CSG said:
I didn't identify my camping rig earlier but it is a 2002 Pleasure-Way Traverse built on a Ford E-250. It's a rip-off of the VW campers but it's easier to get a Ford serviced in the US than a VW. A bit more room too. Don't get me wrong, I love the original, I just felt better buying this version. If I had the money, I'd get a Sportsmobile 4x4 conversion with the same floorplan.
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Nice...I'm planning to get a sportsmobile in the next few years. I'm going to spend a year on the road then.:D
 
If I absolutely had to be able to get ANYWHERE I needed to get, then this:
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Otherwise my Cherokee would do. More comfy, but less capable in it's current form (2" lift and 30" Muds).
 
This is the vehicle we use to cruise the trails of the Sierra and N. Ca. Once the wife gets a new car, I've got plans for this thing.
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The biggest ugliest 1990 Suburban 4x4. It's an old surveyor's rig and has lost of dents and the roof is an antenna farm. It's mostly white, so I call it El Gordo Blanco. Load it up a git 'er done! It sucks so much gas the Saudis give me a dividend :)
 
For real off roading, I will take a 4X4.
Most of my trips to the State Game Lands or the State Forests here in PA seem to be in a Honda Civic. It goes a long ways on a Tank of Gas(38MPG) and a large percentage of these roads are passable in this car.
The only place I get any Real Off Roading in anymore is all on Private Ground.(with so much of the land closed off anymore)
 
I drive a plane-jane '86 F150 4x4 on 33"s. It's rough and ugly and effective! So no real difference between truck and driver.
 
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