The Perfect Vehicle for LFers is ?????

[photomc]

Why use a Hummer when you can use one of these..the jeep is a 1942 Ford, younger brother did frame up restoration. The other, well would be nice to have during traffic.

 

[mwtroxell]

I'm actually planning on getting a new vehicle this month. My problem is that I've begun to do a few art shows/festivals and I'm looking for something to take on weekend LF photo trips but something that I can also carry framed photos, pro-panels and other equipment to shows in. Something like a cross between a Jeep Cherokee a Ford Expedition and a delivery van.

 

[Alex Hawley]

The other, well would be nice to have during traffic.

I'll take the halftrack with the Quad 50 guns. Nice in traffic as you say, excellent elevated photography platform, nice insurance against charging grizzlie bears.

 

[John McCallum]

I'll take the halftrack with the Quad 50 guns. Nice in traffic as you say, excellent elevated photography platform, nice insurance against charging grizzlie bears.

Indeed! Fortunately there are no grizzlies in New Zealand. But we do have the occasional very aggressive sheep.

 

[Jim Chinn]

76 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, preferably black with red leather interior.

 

[Jorge]

I have one of these beasts:


if it gets stuck in mud I can just pick it up and move it

Obviously that is the way you park it too........

 

[Alex Hawley]

Indeed! Fortunately there are no grizzlies in New Zealand. But we do have the occasional very aggressive sheep.

Gotta watch out for those sheep!
A couple more side benefits: 1) There are only two tires to go flat, and 2) One can always hock a couple guns to buy film and paper.

 

[bmac]

If you're going to roll a caddy, you need the Snoop Deville.

 

[John McCallum]

If you're going to roll a caddy, you need the Snoop Deville.

That is the BOMB!

Plenty of room for the sheep too.

Jorge - how's the camel?

edit sometime later: clearly the bait needs to be larger.

 

[ian_greant]

ya'll just wait. I predict Eric Rose will be here sometime soon to extoll the virtues of "Mr Happy", his VW Bus with the Westy conversion.

 

[Aggie]

Where is Mr. Happy at? Haven't seen Eric in a while?

 

[Robert Kennedy]

76 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, preferably black with red leather interior.

With a plate that says "P-I-M-P"?

 

[bjorke]

Gave up the jeeps for a Subaru Legacy GT Wagon (Outback is a joke, a little extra clearance and paint -- get the Legacy). Never looked back. Been all over the mainland US *and* Oahu, all altitudes and grades of road.

Not for LF, but I've been feeling like a Vespa-clone (maybe electric) would be a great bit of extra photo kit for street work.

 

[Ole]

"Offroad" in Norway is practically impossible, and mostly prohibited. So my SAAB 900 takes me wherever I want to go in style and comfort. From there it's all legwork anyway.

 

[Robert Kennedy]

"Offroad" in Norway is practically impossible, and mostly prohibited. So my SAAB 900 takes me wherever I want to go in style and comfort. From there it's all legwork anyway.

Notice in the American solution you get muddy and ruin your kidneys and suspension.

In Europe you get leather seats and 10 speaker stereos....

Hmmmmmmm......perhaps an Audi A6-S then....

 

[Ed Sukach]

"Offroad" in Norway is practically impossible, and mostly prohibited. So my SAAB 900 takes me wherever I want to go in style and comfort. From there it's all legwork anyway.

"Offroad" in Norway ... definitely to be avoided, unless taking a 98% chance of dropping 300 meters (or so) into a fjord, or crashing into a 300 meter high rock face sounds appealing.

One of the most beautiful - and spectacular - places I've ever visited.

 

[Poco]

Well, I can tell you what vehicle NOT to use for off-road photography -- a Dodge neon. I put 400 off-road miles on one on a trip out west a few years ago and when I got back home discovered that:

--the gas tank held 1 1/2 gallons less than when I started from bottoming out on desert rocks.

-- that I'd done the entire 6000 mile trip without a spare. If I'd hit a cactus spine out there, they'd have found a huge piece of beef jerky behind the wheel of a dusty neon a couple months later.

Funniest moment was when I was driving around the perimeter of a remote Nevada lake bed and came across a herd of cows I had to get past. As I slowly parted my way through 'em I noticed three cowboys (horses and all) sitting up on a ridge with their arms folded across their saddles, just staring at me. One of them actually left the group and got close enough to check out my license plate ...and gave his head a slow shake when he saw it was a New York idiot.

Ah, the things we do, the risks we take, for art!

 

[bobfowler]

Hey Poco, did you feel like you were on the set of "City Slickers III"?

 

[Poco]

"Dumb & Dumber" was more like it, Bob.

 

[Aggie]

What no pictures of the cowboys? Another missed opportunity.

 

[John McCallum]

... when he saw it was a New York idiot.

Ah, the things we do, the risks we take, for art!

LOL great story.

 

[Jorge]

LOL great story.

LOL...yeah it is a great story.

 

[John McCallum]

It doesn't rain here ALL the time but ...

Couple of popular His & Her options in New Zealand, depending which end of the spectrum of affordability you are situated.
These both will get you anywhere Daniel (eventually).
J.

 

[mark]

Unimogs rock!

Don't knock the VW micro bus. I Practically grew up in them. Great for carrying tripods cameras shovels rakes and other implements of destruction.

You can anything you want.......

 

[lee]

I Practically grew up in them

there are a lot of people around that were concieved in the microbus as well as raised in them.

lee\c