A real Texas Truck

@drew-r?ÿ

The CJ-2A had 60 horsepower.

@ric-moore?ÿ

Totally different beast.?ÿ I got the privilege to navigated a supped up Ford Transit with a Guy Martin a couple of years ago.?ÿ 170 mph before we slowed down as to not be disqualified for breaking our tech speed.?ÿ We had 750+ British bhp.?ÿ The same basic engine is in the Raptor F150.?ÿ It should only be $10K or $30K for a good race shop to upgrade it.

@mathteacher?ÿ

My 1970 Series IIa Landrover has around that and will go anywhere.?ÿ Just not fast.

Posted by: @john-putnam

Guy Martin

This fellow?

Here's the course in a chariot:

@john-putnam?ÿ

That's a valuable machine aside from its utility for you. A real Land Rover, not one of those yuppie show-off machines that they sell today.

@ric-moore?ÿ

I probably shouldn't test drive the diesel, it might be too tempting. ?????ÿ

@richard-imrie?ÿ

Yes

@mightymoe it was definitely my downfall 🙂

@mathteacher?ÿ

That's not so surprising then. I heard a rumour (don't know if it's true) but when they redesigned the gm trucks in 2007, the engineers were told to "dial it back a bit" as the 99-2006 trucks were lasting too long. My experience with them make me think that's definitely possible.?ÿ

@drew-r

agreed, I had a 2000 tundra pickup with 285hp. I could still easily accelerate up to 80 mph with 40 sheets of drywall in the back. Never understood why anyone would need more power than that out of a daily driver.