We know the last thing on your mind when you get stuck is, "How can I take the best possible shot for the magazine?" Hey, we appreciate the fact that you get anything at all to send us. So, we've dedicated these pages of your Whoops! to you, the stuck wheeler.
Check out Video Whoops here!
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HELPFUL FRIENDS After a day of lacrosse practice, I decided to take my truck muddin'. Once
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IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS Everything was going good until an exhaust hanger broke. No big dea
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FORD FRIER I was in Jefferson, Ohio, when I fried my starter while trying to get unstuck f
If by some chance you do remember, a hint or two next time you're stuck: Don't shoot too far away if it's dark out, don't shoot into the light if it's sunny out, try not to shoot a flash directly at a mirror, and please stand out of the way of working people while taking the shot!
When you get home, send your shots to:
4 Wheel & Off-Road
6420 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
or by e-mail to whoops@4wheeloffroad.com.
Try to make them at least 1600x1200 pixels, and in a TIFF or maximum-quality (or largest file size) JPEG format, and remember to include the image and the text.
VIDEO Whoops
Guidelines for Video Whoops!
Send us all relevant footage, but please keep total footage to no more than 20-30 minutes, or at least organized into sub-folders. Final featured video clips will be edited to between 1.5 to 2 minutes in length. Getting stuck is cool, but recovering is even cooler! We want to see you being winched out, pulled out, or just powering out with plenty of spinning and splatter!
Technical Requirements
Video Whoops! footage is accepted on Mini-DV tape (preferred), or burned on Mac-formatted CD-R / DVD-R's as a .mov, .avi, or .mpg file. The size of the clip should be 320 x 240. Since submitted media cannot be returned, if you want to keep a copy, we recommend getting the footage duplicated, or save it on your computer and burn a DVD before sending us the tape or disc. Videos will be posted at the editor's discretion. Please send your Video Whoops! to:
4 Wheel & Off-Road, Video Whoops!
c/o Trevor Reed
6420 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
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TOY BOAT, TOY BOAT, TOY BOAT A couple of my friends and I were out playing in Berwick, Min
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TOPAZ OR NOT TO PASS I got a little bored one day and drove my '89 Mercury Topaz through t
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BIGGEST STUCK EVER? During my deployment to Iraq, I got caught in one of the worst sandsto
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OLD HAND AT IT Some friends and I were on a trail that I'd been down a dozen times when I
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LOCALS ONLY One day I went to our local holes where the big boys go with 44-inch tires. I
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DO IT YOURSELFER I drove over this small hill and found this gullywash. I'm proud to say t
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FROM THE MEDINA MUD MAFIA Some friends and I were in Yellow Creek on our third trip to the
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WATER HURTS A buddy of mine and I were wheelin' near the Washita River when we found this
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WHAT ARE BROTHERS FOR? My brother let me drive his Jeep while he rode with a friend. Littl
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EAGER STUCK WHEELER This happened the day after I received the Apr. '03 Whoops! issue of y
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DON'T PICK ON THE SMALL AND WEAK I'm sending this to you to show what happens when Hondas
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H2 OFF-ROAD SIGHTING Thought you might like this. So much for unstoppable. John Williams
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DUNER D'OH! I had been tooling around Silver Lake, Michigan, for a while and was familiar
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FIRST FOR EVERYTHING This was the first time I had been able to talk my mother-in-law into
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GOOD TRY It seemed like a good idea at the time.... Rick Orleans via 4wheeloffroad.com
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SWAMP HAWG It was a good idea until we tried it. Broke five trucks and one 12,000-pound wi
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LEAD WEIGHT Thirty-five-inch BFGs don't float! Imagine! Extraction involved two days, a 4x