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<blockquote data-quote="Moneybox" data-source="post: 672978" data-attributes="member: 3960"><p>I bought my first Subaru 4WD 1600cc wagon in 1976. It travelled Australia with the 1968 FJ55 LandCruiser and did a magnificant job. The tyres were the only thing that let me down due to sidewall cuts in severe off-road conditions. When we came out from the single men's quarters at Shark Bay Salt, Useless Loop the Subaru would be dripping with dew when clean vehicles beside it were bone dry. Then we did a stint working in Roebourne where the Subaru used to take us across the salt flats where others feared to tread. The final result was that I left it with my mother in Brisbane when I moved to WA in 1982 and she had to retire it when the driver's seat fell through the floor from rust. Its now buried in the back gully at Upper Brookfield but it was one of the best vehicles I've owned.</p><p></p><p>I bought a 1990 2L Forester Auto and it went all over Australia as well but spent a lot of time with the race car trailer hooked to the towbar. Other times it was a trailer loaded with 4 dirt carts. It was a brilliant vehicle off-road, the auto and very flexible suspension made all the difference. Overall it did something like 450,000km before I sold it on to a friend. It was another great vehicle that I couldn't fault although they are not the cheapest vehicle on fuel consumption.</p><p></p><p>I landed my first Subaru on its nose when travelling too fast on a new sand drift between Crayfish Bay and False Entrance on the Shark Bay peninsular. The radiator was wrapped around the front of the engine and the cross-flow radiator lost its fins between the tubes where the fan blades went. We used a chain and jerked the radiator supports forward enough to run the engine and drove it back over the sand dunes back to Useless Loop where we strapped it down to a huge steel ramp and stretched it back into shape using the 8000lb winch on the LandCruiser. That repair lasted the life of the Subaru.</p><p></p><p>Those early Subarus were as unbreakable and reliable as any vehicle can be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moneybox, post: 672978, member: 3960"] I bought my first Subaru 4WD 1600cc wagon in 1976. It travelled Australia with the 1968 FJ55 LandCruiser and did a magnificant job. The tyres were the only thing that let me down due to sidewall cuts in severe off-road conditions. When we came out from the single men's quarters at Shark Bay Salt, Useless Loop the Subaru would be dripping with dew when clean vehicles beside it were bone dry. Then we did a stint working in Roebourne where the Subaru used to take us across the salt flats where others feared to tread. The final result was that I left it with my mother in Brisbane when I moved to WA in 1982 and she had to retire it when the driver's seat fell through the floor from rust. Its now buried in the back gully at Upper Brookfield but it was one of the best vehicles I've owned. I bought a 1990 2L Forester Auto and it went all over Australia as well but spent a lot of time with the race car trailer hooked to the towbar. Other times it was a trailer loaded with 4 dirt carts. It was a brilliant vehicle off-road, the auto and very flexible suspension made all the difference. Overall it did something like 450,000km before I sold it on to a friend. It was another great vehicle that I couldn't fault although they are not the cheapest vehicle on fuel consumption. I landed my first Subaru on its nose when travelling too fast on a new sand drift between Crayfish Bay and False Entrance on the Shark Bay peninsular. The radiator was wrapped around the front of the engine and the cross-flow radiator lost its fins between the tubes where the fan blades went. We used a chain and jerked the radiator supports forward enough to run the engine and drove it back over the sand dunes back to Useless Loop where we strapped it down to a huge steel ramp and stretched it back into shape using the 8000lb winch on the LandCruiser. That repair lasted the life of the Subaru. Those early Subarus were as unbreakable and reliable as any vehicle can be. [/QUOTE]
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