Scoutin the Pinelands '98 part 1

[cookiedan@domain.elided (Daniel Nees)]

O.K. I just walked in the door from the First Annual Scoutin' the
Pinelands. It was a blast! Dennis Petterson- 75 Scout II stock with 3.07
open diffs and heavy duty rear springs and 345 4bl edelbrock, Roger
Jones- gorgeous 68 800 SportTop with 196, Sele Scull- 79 SII with 345
4bl, Joe Costanzo- SII with 4" Softride 345 3.07 open diffs soft top,
Myself- SII stock 345 carter AFB 3.07 Trak-lok rear were the ones who
attended.
  We had our first casualty before we even started the trail rides.
Roger was coming down 206 behind a stone truck and the truck spit out a
rock and it just about went all the way through the windshield of his
800.   
   On friday afternoon everyone but Joe were there and we went for a few
short trails and then played in some open sand pits. This is where
Dennis and I got the first mud on our trucks. Just a few splaters off
the tires from a deep but small mud puddle. We then left there and
headed back to camp. 
   On the way, with me leading, I stot passed the road headed back to
the camp, so; I made a left into a store lot to turn around. Well, Sele
was behind me and he had an old lady in some jap toy following real
close behind him. He had his turn signal on and took plenty of time to
stop, but; as he was making his left hand turn she runs right into the
back of his drivers side bumper! I hear the skreach of tires and look
around to see what happened, there is some glass in the street and
Roger, who was driving with me, asked what happend. I said I think that
lady hit Sele. He said is he alright? I said He's in a Scout what's
going to happen to him! So, the lady trashed the front grill and head
light assemble on her car and didn't even scratch the paint on Sele's
bumper.
   So, that was friday. On saturday Joe rolled in about 8ish and we got
everything together and headed back out to the trails. Roger wanted to
bring his 800 with the most increadible paint job. So, that prompted us
to decided to stay on wider trails to take it easy on the paint. (On
friday I took Dennis down a couple of ATV trails and really scuffed up
the beautiful paint on my truck) We head into the woods and head through
what would have been some really cool puddles had it rained enough this
year. Then as I rounded the bend I see this reallly cool looking mud
puddle. It is about 10-15' long and the width of the trail with a
by-pass around it for Roger and Sele to take their trucks around. So,
since I'm leading I head in first. 4 low, hammer down, all 4bl
screaming, I crash into the puddle sending streams of mud and water all
over the truck, then; boom! I'm dead in the water. I'm at a complete
stop. I back up a little and floor it again, nothing. So, out comes my
strap and we hook up to Dennis's truck and he pulls me out. So I said,
alright, I'll try the other side of the puddle. Back it up, hammer down,
4 bls screamming, water flying every where, and boom! dead stop again!
This time I can't even back up any. So we hook the strap again to Dennis
and out I come.
(To be continued in the next post part 2)  

Dan Nees
cookiedan@domain.elided

   1979 Scout II 345, Auto, 3.07's, Lexan window's in TravelTop. One
Ugly and Trusty Truck!

1971 Scout II 304, D30/44, D20, power steering.

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