By Eric N (Grnrvr) on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 06:59 pm: Edit

Should be a good one. Three teams and it looks like they are making off-road vehicles. I think one is a hacked up Defender or Series couldn't tell which as I only got a quick look.

By KJ on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 08:29 pm: Edit

What? No new "Love Cruise"? Dang.....

Karen ;)

By Brett Gottdener on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 11:14 pm: Edit

The show just started. Does tv get any better.

I really miss the british version of the show- seeing all the LR's sitting around in the british junk yard.

Brett Gottdener

By Brett on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 11:28 pm: Edit

ohhh damn. They just threw out the series LR. I almost cried when the guy took a sledge hammer to the front fender. The series had no engine/tranny/xsfer as justification. They went with a V6 Cherokee instead. I don't think the series had the best diff gears or axles for the job though. The Russians are still searching... The US has a big V8 truck. commercial over gotta go.

Brett

By Brett on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 11:45 pm: Edit

Ok, the Russians are looking absolutely pathetic. It's a rowboat sitting atop a Series LR axle at one end and a motorcycle front end. That took them ten hours. The British guys have their cherokee and are having a wheel problem (big-little). If I were them, I'd throw some big meets and move on. They do have good bouyancy though- a bunch of big drums. commercial break over

Brett

By KJ on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 10:15 am: Edit

I watched most of it, and it was a fun show. Hooray for the USA, we hung on for the win. All the vehicles had their charm and you have to admire the ingenuity that goes into thinking up all that crazy stuff.

Karen

By Axel Haakonsen (Axel) on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 11:23 am: Edit

Yeah, great show. I found myself secretly rooting for the russians, though..... I mean, anyone who tries to climb rocks in a boat with a Rover rear and motorcycle front end deserves to win.....

By Ron on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 11:39 am: Edit

That will teach the brits to use a jeep.

Ron

By Bill Bettridge (Billb) on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 12:01 pm: Edit

I was disappointed by the Russians also - somewhow I thought they were more hands on guys and could make anything out of anything (well, they did - sort of). I think they were lead astray by their "expert" - I bet without him, they'd have had it wrapped up.

Course it did look like the only ones to make there own spool were the Americans - when in doubt, weld it up!

By Steve (Steve2) on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 12:01 pm: Edit

i thought the british amphibian looked the best - with the side pontoons - i looked just like the military land rovers made for floating.

being an american, but having being raised by the limeysm and some russian heritage - i had a tie to each team - but my heart went to the brits.

too bad their out board sucked so bad.

you could really see the differences in engineering vs. country of origin.

i am now very worried for the international space station with russian parts!! (but hey they did build mir...) lotsa fun and laughs for sure.

must do some wheeling shortly though!

steve

By Eric N (Grnrvr) on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 12:13 pm: Edit

It wasn't that the outboard was bad. They just didn't mount it low enough in the water for it to do any good.. Same with the Americans prop. I don't get why the Russians built their boat backwards though. Also, don't get why they didn't row their boat facing the correct way as they would have finished faster.. Who knows. They all did a hell of a lot better then I could have.

By Slider on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 01:45 pm: Edit

I'm upset...
They should have to keep all the neccessary equipment on the vehicle the whole time...
none of this remove this, add that between the events...

sorry to be harsh

By Brett Gottdener on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 12:38 am: Edit

I agree Slider, I was quite dissapointed as well. Throughout the build-up phase I was having visions of bashed up flotation drums. I think that would have been the real deal.

I was trying to give a commercial by commercial comentary above. Like most things, I started - became distracted - realized this to late - finally blew it off. Reminds me of some projects on the rover.

Brett Gottdener

By chris sharpe (C_M_Sharpe) on Thursday, November 29, 2001 - 05:02 pm: Edit

I would have thought the brits could have perhaps punctured the back pontons so that the outboard would have been deeper...just a thought...they all did much better than I could have in 10 days (let alone hours)...well, hopefully I could have designed a better bathtub than the russians...

By David on Friday, November 30, 2001 - 09:35 am: Edit

I liked the brushgard/front skidplate combo the Brits had...interesting design.

By Timmy Blutarski on Friday, November 30, 2001 - 04:40 pm: Edit

Dumb Americans.

Where the hell did their fan go? If they hadn't overheated the engine, they would have won the last heat as well. Thos huge tires were acting as great paddle wheels . . .

Why the fuck did they take the fan off?

By stecz on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 12:35 pm: Edit

I didn't quite get that either. At one point, they installed a fan somewhere to be used as a propeller. Was that their cooling fan?

By Eric N (Grnrvr) on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 03:02 pm: Edit

Fan would have thrown water all over the engine and may have caused it to die. Would be better to over heat then to kill it. That's pobably why they took the fan off for the water event.