Off Road Adventures Magazine

August 2007
Buyers' Guides
August 2007 | By Off-Road Adventures Staff
ARB SIMPSON II ROOFTOP TENT There is no need fill your limited cargo space with tents, air mattresses and sleeping bags when you can carry an ARB Simpson II tent on the roof of your vehicle. You can have your bed already made, and with the simple clamshell style design, your accommodations can be flipped open and ready for sleeping in minutes. The ARB Simpson II easily mounts on your roof rack and provides a hint of luxury on the trail...


August 2007 | By Off-Road Adventures Staff
GOLD EAGLE CO. ’S STA-BIL HELPS MAINTAIN ENGINES POWER Your machinery’s greatest enemy this winter may be the fuel inside it. Fortunately, Gold Eagle® Co...
Events
August 2007 | By Ned Bacon
The pilot set his plane down atop Auyan-tepui in 1937, he was looking to find gold, not to have his name immortalized forever by a waterfall. Angel, a former WW1 fighter pilot turned Barnstormer, with Charles Lindbergh’s Flying Circus, turned hard-drinking adventurer, had found gold 13 years before atop a tepui somewhere in the jungles of southeastern Venezuela. The problem was, he could never find the mountain again, though he spent the rest of his life trying...


August 2007 | By Kelly Young
In the past, we have featured a couple of stories on Greg Adler, CEO and President of 4 Wheel Parts (TransAmerican Auto Parts) and his CORR and SCORE racing efforts. Here's another member of the "TAP family" and her first person account of her off-roading passion, rock crawling. Showing again we don't just "talk the talk," we "walk the walk" too...
Feature Vehicles
August 2007 | By Jim Allen
Ford broke new ground in 1980 by offering a revolutionary four-wheel drive front suspension and axle design underneath their newly designed line of trucks. They called the new front end design Twin Traction Beam (TTB) and it defined the Ford trucks so equipped right to the last year of its use in 1996 . In this three-part installment of Finesse 1-2-3, we’ll talk about the ’80-86 Ford "Bullnose" F-250 and F-350 trucks...
News
August 2007 | By Trent Riddle
In the California desert, about half way between L. A. and Las Vegas lies the Ghost Town of Calico...
Product Reviews
August 2007 | By Steve Temple
The Detroit Locker was initially developed during World War II by Thorson. After the War, the company changed its name to Detroit Engineering and began marketing its locker to the aftermarket. Detroit Engineering became Tractech, Inc...
Vehicle Reviews
August 2007 | By Larry Walton
I GET A LOT OF SEAT TIME IN A FORD SUPER DUTY. My personal truck and daily driver is a modified four-wheel-drive F-250 with a 7. 3 liter Power Stroke...