https://www.storytelleroverland.com/beast-mode-4x4/
Someone in the hood has this. Bonus points for knowing exactly how much money they blew on it?
Edit to add they also own a Raptor!
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https://www.storytelleroverland.com/beast-mode-4x4/
Someone in the hood has this. Bonus points for knowing exactly how much money they blew on it?
Edit to add they also own a Raptor!
Why the fuck is he looking out the window to make sure he can clear that dirt pile?Quote:
Originally Posted by Single Track
Yeah that has got to be the lamest cover photo ever. A rental hatchback could do that.
Ha! Good catch. Hilarious.
I would love to recreate the shot with a 2013 Versa straight from Hertz
He's looking at his sweet new tires, duh.
That's fucking hilarious. Here's another pic of them charging a massive snow dump.Quote:
Originally Posted by Single Track
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdSVI6hhiF/
Based on my vanlife test, those Beastmode owners are "upper class"
Good to see sliders added to the list, gives me another point. Nothing for a lift kit? Point per inch maybe? That’d get me to a 3 and a 5/6 during camping trips. Not sure about my winter rims, they are black because I plastic dipped them since they were old with a failing finish.
Weirdly this one Home Depot near me appears to be ground zero here. I'm posting this from a "beach" on Lake Mead accessed by a kind of rough dirt road. Half the people here are in minivans, crossovers, and motorhomes. But go to the home depot parking lot and everything is sitting on 37s with shovels, hi lifts, and sand ladders bolted to the outside.Quote:
Originally Posted by concretejungle
What jerks!Quote:
Originally Posted by DSSK Jr.
Well, it was real condescending. And someone kitted out with winches and traction pads etc. etc. who doesn't know what a stuck vehicle looks like? So ya, jerks in my book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lone Star
If only everybody was as cool as we are
^Maybe he thought you were lesbians?
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...hFuAt-V-psp6VIQuote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
fair enough
Shitter's full.Quote:
Originally Posted by Single Track
And of course, unpacking the luggage to sleep in the cabin, not the van.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Should we add "parked at a hotel so they don't have to sleep in the van" to the list?
Seems like this thread is confusing Vanlife for Overlanding. While I’ll never admit to Overlanding, I’ve been wheelin and camping for many years. It is a great way to get out, see some nice scenery, and camp in a remote location away from all the #Vanlifers.
We're always confusing stuff with other stuff at Teton Depravity Research. It's never stopped us before. By the 23rd page you won't even know what the original topic was.
Overlanding and vanlifing are fancy ways to say car camping and RV'ing. Some people need to dress things up to impress their fellow class members.
Adventure touring fits in here somewhere.
I may try to corner the market on overhydro'ing and am open to recs. There has to be a way to make boating sound cooler.
At what point does overlanding become upstating?Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
You're not wrong. I used to say: I just slept in my car. But people gave me the cross glance normally reserved for a homeless methhead. Now I say: I'm car camping; people want to hug me for my conservation efforts and for protecting the environment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conundrum
As though homeless crack addicts have a huge environmental footprint.
Couldn't be bothered to read this thread. But you know, people drive around all year long with winter tires on. Just let that soak into your noodles.
I feel like there's got to be a pretty significant overlap between the GOTOS devotees and the "everyday carry" douchebags.
YesQuote:
Originally Posted by The AD
How much? Full disclosure, I've thought Sportsmobiles are kinda cool for a really long time, like forever. I wouldn't mind having one if it didn't have to be a daily driver and you had another vehicle...Quote:
Originally Posted by Single Track
...but yeah not a Raptor.Quote:
Edit to add they also own a Raptor!
Well fuck, I’m clearly at a 6 or 7 on the sprinter. In our defense we use the shit out of it the skid plates and bumper have more than paid for themselves in southern utah. I used the max trax to get out of a hub deep sand pit outside of Zion.
The snorkels aren’t really for fording streams. A buddy has one and they are for keeping the sand out of your air filter, I have had to replace my filter mid trip and John’s looked new.....
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If sliders are bad then I don't want to be right. Mine have saved me numerous times.
If they count I'm now a solid mountain town 7. Get excited.
This is more a western prepared stupid thing, in the south they have these trucks everywhere doing the Carolina Squat which is just plain stupid.
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A Salt Life sticker in the back window tops all that shit on its own.
Seen a bro-dozer (Dodge) running around with that sticker...... in Colorado.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
Well shit. The wifes mall crawler has:
-front bumper with winch
-rear bumper with full size spare, dual jerry can holder, hi-lift, and fold down table
-270 awning
-roof rack usually with shovel/chainsaw/box of extra fluids/tools
-light bar and light pods
-fridge
-sliders
-gears/lockers
-oversize tires/black rims
Better get some Fucking rod vaults and trasharoos to boost some points!
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CJ7 scores a 3 for non removable rims, lift, and bumpers.
Bronco scores a 0, but soon to be a 1
Yeah, I have always heard the snorkel is more useful in desert setting. Makes sense. Pulling air from higher up, where the dust isn't as thick.Quote:
Originally Posted by detrusor
I think most of us aren't saying that these type of vehicles aren't cool. I personally would love one. I think this is more a bingo of all the accessories that seem to be left affixed to them at all times when they aren't necessary (or from extreme newness, appear never to have been used).
Now obviously you're not switching out your rims to go to the grocery store, but certain details do complete the on brand look for the vehicle type and they seem to be included here.
There’s plenty in...wait for it...Bozeman.Quote:
Originally Posted by hawkgt
No one would ever make a snorkel for any of my vehicles, but if they did, I'd consider one. In the Northeast driving mostly on paved roads, I could go 10k miles without the oil life warning coming on (I actually wondered if it was somehow disabled, as I'd always changed it before it came on). Now I live in the desert and if I put in a lot of miles on dirt roads, I end up needing an oil change after a few thousand miles.Quote:
Originally Posted by warthog
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Instinctively took this pic a while back.
I certainly enjoyed the moment at the time, hope you do to.
Some say his quest for organic produce continues to this day.
That’s pure stuff right there.
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