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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 1991 ranger brake problem
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"Snag"  wrote in message news:vh0ini$1q13r$1@dont-email.me...

  Dad had a '57 Jeep pickup , he swapped out the original flathead six
for a Tornado 230 overhead cam six . Weren't much for top end but it
sure could climb ! Used to really piss of the guys with their hopped up
big tire hot rod Chevy's and Fords . Dad would set the throttle at about
1500-1600 RPM and drop it in low/low/4 and just walk up the hills those
boys just spun out on . My brother "gave it away to a friend" after Dad
died .
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Snag
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When I was of that age for some reason Jeeps weren't common off-road in NH. 
VW dune buggies and older foreign cars were more popular with those who 
couldn't afford a Land Rover, pickups with many who could. Dirt bikes were 
the main choice before trikes and quads appeared, street-legal ones like 
mine could get themselves to / from distant trails, though I had to go 
around the most challenging obstacles. My buddy had a Land Rover which 
proved the adage that the better you have, the further in you get stuck. 
Usually I could get close enough to help dig out in my Beetle.

In Germany I had a bicycle and an inflatable boat, either of which could 
carry me plus the other, and fences didn't block me. I could bicycle 
upstream, float down the river, then bicycle home. The grid of fire trails 
in forests let me go anywhere cross-country. Shell road maps were almost as 
detailed as topo maps and showed various ancient ruins to explore.