Jeeps at Tuff Truck 2010 <p align="justify"><img src="http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo200/lovemewrangler/tuff%20truck%202010/tt_web16.jpg" width="220" height="160" hspace="10" border="0" align="right" /><strong>Saturday morning arrived at Tuff Truck, being my first one, was unsure what to expect. But straight away could tell it was going to be an amazing weekend, Hundreds of trucks, mostly all modded in some way, bbqs going, and even early Saturday morning, it looked like a lot of people were on there 2nd or 3rd beer or Rum.
</strong> The Tuff trucks don’t waste much time, and from around 8 o clock, they were out hitting the tracks, We made our way to heart brake hill first up. It starts easy, and slowly builds to the bonus line (which im not sure if anyone actually made up) but the 80-100 point section was getting most unstuck. The boys from Powerful 4x4 (AJOR Site Sponsor) put on a great show up top, unable to climb the hill, right foot, and plenty of it was used. After an impressive wheel stand, they flipped and rolled their rig under full noise back down the hill. http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z...3_2007/097.jpg This section continued to trouble most all day, even rigs such as Anabolic, (Willys Jeep, with Full Hydro suspension) wasn’t till Sunday we witnessed the Boys from Gympie Offroad crawl up the section with control, and just the right amount of gas. http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z...2007/062-1.jpg The trouble with Tuff Truck is that there is so much going on at once. For example, your at the All-terrain course, and you start hearing cheers coming from Heartbrake, you know you have just missed a rollover, or some great driving. Was hard to see it all (guess the dvd will be well worth the purchase). Saturday night, Mud Rats revenge. Which is now going to be known as the “Dobbin night run’. Glenn Dobbin has been a big part of the 4wd industry, with products such as the x-link, and a very successful Tuff Truck competitor. May he rest in peace. The mud runs were great overall. Each truck starts on the ramp. Powerful 4x4, now known as the “entertainers” decided to try a different tactic to scoring well on the ramp. Instead of control and flex, the boys tried speed. Launching their rig from 10 meters back with the big V8. Result, made it half way up the ramp, before launching off the side barrel rolling and landing on the roof. As the trucks made their way through the mud, most were having no problems, was very disappointed to see the first few trucks pull out at the 80 point section to avoid the deep mud. It only took one to give it a go, launching into it full throttle, and made it through no worries, after that the MOG (which did it easily) and the rest all followed with little dramas, tho the finnish section got very dug out, making it hard for the last few trucks to complete the course. With massive blow up balls, Mexican waves, “krystal talking shit” and plenty of streakers (will these make it to the DVD?), the atmosphere was amazing, and definitely a highlight of tuff truck. Ajor resident Mud Guts drove well, especially Sunday where he seemed to be getting the hang of his rear steer, and wasn’t having any driveline troubles or popping unis. Made it through to the 100 point section on a fair few courses. Top effort mate. Opw FJ40 buggy did well on devils marbles, crawling the rocks without any troubles and being driven by Taz Baggley this year round. Was also great seeing the lone pajero almost do the same! http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z...2007/025-2.jpg Mad Fab had some impressiving driving, and navi skills, proving that on Sunday after rolling his rig on the 50 point section, keep in mind they are only given 15 mins to complete a course, the navi set up the winch under a boulder, and with the winch, and snatch strap pulled the rig back onto its wheels, and continued to drive the rest of the course, making it to the 80 point section, was great to watch! http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z...3_2007/128.jpg Overall saw some of the most amazing trucks, plus plenty of ones which surprised me with their budget performance. Its great to see you don’t have to be loaded to do very well in such a hard event. The winners this year proved that. Problem is now, I have so many stupid ideas I want to do to my TJ Wrangler. But it really pumps you up to keep doing what we love, building, driving, and enjoying 4wdriving. Im definitely going to be back next year, and will be there Friday to enjoy the show and shine, I'd encourage any Ausjeeper to do the same if they haven’t been! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../TT10/opw3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...010304_1_1.jpg Aaron RESULTS FOR 2010 TTC 1 38 Pirate Dan Pitt Ben Haynes 2 31 Extreme 4wd Magazine Mal VanYsseldyk Nick Finch 3 39 Gympie Off Road Rhett Bryant Stuart Parkes 4 28 Anabolic Michael Depasquale Andrew Markezic 5 20 OPW Tazz Baguley Tristian Baguley 6 15 Advanti Racing Brett Thorpe Mitchell Thorpe 7 22 Mad Fab Wayne Murphy Shane Eslik 8 41 Run a Muck Greg Tinney Dave Andreassen 9 26 DGR David Burton-bradley Greg Heick 10 34 West End Boys Peter White Anthony Seddon 11 40 Long Shot Brett Long Buddy Dryden 12 18 Red Bitch Bob Watling Ziggy Koek 13 21 p90x Evolution Duncan Boyce Steve Morley 14 29 Unfinished Business Rob McKenzie Greg Finlay 15 16 Bright Sparks Chris Tierney Peter Sayers 16 33 Oh Deere James Gosper Glenn Gosper 17 19 Tuff Turtle Ben Henry Scott Henry 18 43 Outback Adventures Tony Richards Warren Brown 19 37 Tonka Nathan Handcock John Swab 20 9 Rush Daniel Jameson Ben Geyer 21 27 C & D Michael Rossen Ian Ross 22 30 Bundy Paul Harris Dane haigh 23 23 Overkill Shane Bakes Mick Dimunno 24 13 Newy Crew Anthony Neill Murray Hicks 25 11 Big Bangers Nick George Craig George 26 3 Bandaged Bear Mark Mitchell Anthony Haber 27 12 Salt & Pepper Robbie Cole Mick Dernedde 28 32 Macarthur 4x4 Matt Meddows Justin Dawson 29 6 Ol Skool Matt Dunphy Chris Dunphy 30 17 Rock Art Adam Williamson Peter Monk 31 4 Tractiv-Force Scott Rowan Tom Buckle 32 7 Powerful 4X4 Mark Sawyer Nathaniel Kirkman 33 35 No Navvies Sam Maugeri David White 34 5 Hazard Paul Schirripa Mark Worley 35 42 Rock Rash Racing David Camp Hayden Smith 36 14 Energized Racing Evan Staniland Dale Staniland 37 44 Mog Geoff Thompson Owen Griffis 38 8 Ice Engineering In bold indicated Jeeps that competed. Please visit www.tufftruck.com.au for more info on vehicles. http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...rch2010029.jpg http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5034929_n.jpg </p> |
What sort of Mog?
404 or other? Why only good in a straight line? Curious.... Cheers D |
yeah I went up there today, another great day full of some crazy driving and insane rigs. Got to see Mud Guts rig in action and have to say it performed really well. Anyone know what happened when that ambo was called, did that guy fall out of the tree? Heres some pics...
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/DSC_0004.jpg awesome willys http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/DSC_0058.jpg http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/DSC_0079.jpg Mud Guts http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/DSC_1005.jpg http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/DSC_1019.jpg Recovered from a rollover and continued http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/DSC_1031.jpg http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/DSC_1036.jpg http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...0/DSC_0978.jpg |
As always - Had a blast!!!!
Just wish I didn't have to leave as early as I did - but was the Bosses B/Day so had to do the right thing. Snapped a few pics over the w/e...but not many. Will sort through them tomorrow and [ost some up....right now I want to catch up on sleep....... |
So how did mudguts finish?
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Who won? Anyone know who won TT 2010?
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Nice pics so far. Will have to try and see this in the flesh next year.
JTO |
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