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Whoops!, 4-Wheel & Off-Road
6420 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048-5515
fax 323.782.2704
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Mess of the month
Moab Mishap
Easter weekend of 2005 in Moab we were waiting to run Rim Rock Trail when a Toyota coming down rolled on top of us.
Ryan Venzke, Hayden, CO
Work Whoops
This is what happens when you back your 12,000-pound bucket truck into a 3-foot-deep ditch that was deceptively solid looking. It was, in fact, filled with storm debris in Slidell, Louisiana (just the other side of Lake Ponchatrain from New Orleans), putting lines back up. Four brand-new mudders, 4.10 gears, a Detroit Locker, and a granny gear were no help so my buddy with a heavier bucket, a big-block, and a stick did tractor duty.
J. Modeas, Slidell, LA
Scuttled
After a fun day at Turkey Flats ORV Park in Kentucky, I found myself in a hole everyone said I couldn't make it through. They were wrong, except for my power-steering box breaking off in the process.
Mudlover4212, via 4wheeloffroad.com