Not really a Land Rover although it uses a large amount of Land Rover bits...
Thought some of you might be interested in a couple of video clips I've just put up following an event we were marshalling at a couple of weeks ago... 3 of the 4 winch/recovery vehicles were Land Rovers :-)
Dave W.
I've always quite liked the Ibex. Nice to see it used properly :-)
Did you and Paul compete for 'best piccie'? ;-)
Martyn
Very interesting - I guess a longer wheelbase vehicle with more overhangs and no very heavy spare on the roof might not have gone end over end as easily - hope the people were unhurt.
Excellent cheers Dave we missed all that just saw the battered Ibex in the car park area. We were too busy trundling round stamping the ticket, it was a good day not easy but fun haven't done anything like that before.
There was a lot of scraping round trees(good job it had protection bars) diff lock not wired up:O( but managed without:O) Only got a couple of pics, didn't seem to be that many Ibex there this time.
-- Jon I was driving 4f001on arrival with Paul the owner in the passenger seat
Yeah, both driver and passenger were fine (albeit a bit shaken up).
*grin* I think Dave won with the mid-roll picture. My camera is too slow to take pics on impulse like that (one disadvantage of digicams over normal ones).
The short wheelbase was definitely a contributor to it, as was that heavy spare wheel on the roof. The problem was that although the "correct" way to drive it would have been to give it some gas to try and prevent the back end catching up with the front, there was also a fairly sturdy tree right in front of him, which means you need a lot of courage to stamp on the throttle...
Absolutely - no criticism intended, it's much easier when you're not actually in the vehicle! I remember seeing a mint condition 101 about 10 years ago at an ARC trial go end over just like that Ibex. It was at the old Skilts farm site near Redditch and he wasn't a competitor, but just before everyone went home he decided to 'try' a nasty slope into the little quarry and went arse over nose quite slowly but hard enough to turn his full ragtop into a coupe! Ouch.
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