Welcome to LRO.
I wonder if your two trucks didn't start out in the BVI. My friends Theo, and his father, Neville Burke run Burkes Garage, founded by Neville's father, on Tortola. It was the first Land Rover shop in The Carribean.
If it wasn't such a PITA, we should have some inter-island events. There is some VG offroading on Tortola, especially out on the east end, by the prison, and on Beef Island. My wife and I don't live there full time, just spending a few weeks each spring and fall, but always have something interesting in the Landy dept to drive when there (including a 110HiCap). We are on the west end, and half our roads out there are as rough a our offroad stuff up here in New England. If you know where Smugglers Cove is, then you'll know what I mean.
The locals would love a legal drag strip. They drag between every speed bump on the south shore "highway", but most of their rockets can't even get over the hill to the north side of the island.
I haven't been to STX since I can't remember, but know just where you speak of.
There are loads of series trucks on Tortola, and if I didn't already have one, the Defenders there are enough to make most stateside landy lovers cry.
We now have 2 ex Camel Trophy 110s on the island, and the Tdi is the rule, not the exception. My neighbor just bought a TD5 110 in Zambesi silver.
If you need a bukhead, this one's in the brush, just below our house. I have thus far resisted the urge to tackle it. The frame is, uh, well, beyond it's sell-by date.
Last edited by TerryS : 02-25-2008 at 04:59 AM.
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) is actually the old entrance road to the dump. This is convenient if the brakes fail as it saves on cleanup. It is the perfect location for a dragstrip as to the South is the dump and then the Caribbean, to the East is an abandoned bauxite processing plant, to the West is the east end of the airport runway and to the north the nearest neighbor is the prison on the other side of a ridge and the only stretch of divided highway in the US VI. In otherwords, there will never be high end condos here with owners winging about the noise.
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