So you think you are a real mud-in-the-eye offroader? I assume you think that since you are visiting our site and reading this, but do you measure up to the following criteria? If you don't nod your head, albeit reluctantly, to at least 15 of them I have serious doubts as to your credibility!
1. You have been completely covered in mud on more than one occasion and was happy about it.
2. You have more than
one set of tyres for your 4wd.
3. You carry more tools
than camping gear. (Applies especially to landrover owners.)
4. You wonder where that
track goes.
5. You consider drinking
beer at the 4wd shop a night on the town.
6. You constantly scan
the roads for other 4wds of your make and model, and when one is spotted wave furiously and try to establish radio contact.
7. You can tell the brand
of mud tyre by its sound.
8. You remember part
numbers more easily than your wife's or girlfriend's birthday.
9. Your credit card has never had less than
six 4wd-related items on it.
10 You stop and look at
any old rusty heap thinking, "Parts Truck."
11. The weather man says it's dangerous
outside and you think, "time to go offroading!"
12. You are happy that
you can't use first gear on the road.
13. A military convoy
passes and you only look at the axles, tyres and antennae.
14. You wash the family car once for every 15
times you clean the 4wd.
15. You park the 4wd in the garage and leave
the family car outside.
16. Your garden has at least eight different
types of mud scattered in it, and several varieties of
gorse.
17. Your garage contains an assortment of spare CVs, gearboxes, axles, hubs, driveshafts, crown wheels and pinions of various ratios, clutch plates and brake pads.
18. Behind your garden shed is another collection of broken CVs, cast-off springs, shock absorbers, axle tubes and bent rims.
19. Your truck has at least one snorkel, two batteries, a winch and a variety of radio antennae not all of which work