Road Trippin' - Most memorable road trip you've done with your VR-4

[mookers]

Remember that time John led you down that dead-end road into the middle of a nudist colony?

Or having to replace the rear seat after SOMEBODY tipped a container of melted butter all over it?

Or how about dealing with Kate’s endless stream of doo-wop hits after the stereo died and all you had was an old boombox and her bag of cassettes?

Road trips. What memories. Got any stories for us?

 

[lh1034]

Got to be the first trip I ever made in mine. Driving her home from Sydney back down to Melbourne!
Nothing beats buying a new car and spending a good 9 hours getting to know her

 

[Nitephyre]

Driving the Puslar down to Shitney to trade-in for Larry and the drive back via Tamworth, staying at Pu11me's house then continuing to Brisbane with him and Leebutts. Best way to learn a new car.

 

[Jakevr4]

The first drive in my current vr4 was Melbourne to home in Brisbane 1808klms.... With no cruise control.

One of the overtakes I was sitting on the speed limiter, then I moved over as I watched my mate crawl past ever so slowly whilst giving me the finger in my wrangler with a 4 inch lift and 35's (new wranglers haul ass)
Probably the funniest road trip experience I've had.

 

[Dice]

In my Legnum I've driven to QLD from Melbourne when I moved then ..and back when I moved back to Melbourne. I bought my Galant from Adelaide so that was driven to Melbourne.

The most memorable for me in the Legnum was when visiting a client in Heathcote I was driving back to Sunbury. There is a nice foresty kind of route I wasn't very familiar with but wanted to learn so left the GPS off to take it all in. I thought I had it...and turned down a dirt road thinking to myself "this doesn't look right". So I drive onward for a little more very slowly. It was only when some kangaroos started hopping around in front of the car I realised I wasn't actually on a road!

 

[mookers]

I've only ever done 2 road trips in my Legnum. The best story I have so far is when I was pulling out from a rest stop and flooring it to show off to my friend, only to have the intake elbow come off the throttle body under full boost.

"We're in the middle of nowhere and I broke the car."

 

[Pal109]

I have a few actually... I bought my Leggy sight unseen from Blake (@Yo_Mang ) meeting him at Sydney airport and buying her after a brisk drive to a shopping center nearby at night ( I know I know, sue me! ); eating a kebab just before Bankstown kebabs shut at 10pm with my best mate that flew up with me... and proceeding to share the drive home to Melbourne until 7am the next morning for work!

Or The time I got to meet @LDundon and @slickd1 after cruising up to the border of NSW, talked trash for a few hours (like 5!); raised the car from scraping on the way up, and proceeded to load up the car with interior parts and drive back down and arriving once again really late 6am (?) for work (wow, typing like this I would assume I gotta check my priorities LOL).

Or then perhaps the time I drove over to SA and had some of the local crew (@Vstar_83 , @VR4STHOZ, and Brontey... I am afraid I dont know his username) show me around the bends there around coffs harbor and between adelaide! Spectacular/dramatic weather despite raining and being freezing and seeking refuge in an underground carpark.

I have had so many good experiences with the mighty wagon in the last year and I look forward and welcome many more!

 

[NuffNuff]

Driving 8.5 hours to Steves and watching the temp gauge the whole damn way

Blasting the heater the last 100km on a 32c day was sweet too, train and flew back that day (yesterday lol)

Worst trip ever.

Thanks to the guys on whatsapp for reading my commentary through the day and night and kept me company lol

 

[brichman]

Mine was also when I got my car. I live in Adelaide, bought it in Melbourne, not knowing how to drive manual. When the previous owner asked me if I wanted to test drive, the response was 'ugh, I dunno'.. luckily I had my friend there to give me a hand. Learning manual on the way home and getting to know the car was so much fun

 

[Lasiorhinus]

The first thing I did with my car when I picked it up was to drive 300km from Perth to Merredin with the original Japanese numberplates still attached. Was expecting some attention but no one even noticed.

Then a few days later, after it was Australian-registered, I drove it from Perth to Darwin, a trip of 4317km. That was when I learned why it was called Legnum.

 

[Nitephyre]

Uh huh... why they didn't get cruise standard/optioned I dunno

 

[slickd1]

I have a few actually... I bought my Leggy sight unseen from Blake (@Yo_Mang ) meeting him at Sydney airport and buying her after a brisk drive to a shopping center nearby at night ( I know I know, sue me! ); eating a kebab just before Bankstown kebabs shut at 10pm with my best mate that flew up with me... and proceeding to share the drive home to Melbourne until 7am the next morning for work!

Or The time I got to meet @LYNDON and @slickd1 after cruising up to the border of NSW, talked trash for a few hours (like 5!); raised the car from scraping on the way up, and proceeded to load up the car with interior parts and drive back down and arriving once again really late 6am (?) for work (wow, typing like this I would assume I gotta check my priorities LOL).

Or then perhaps the time I drove over to SA and had some of the local crew (@Vstar_83 , @VR4STHOZ, and Brontey... I am afraid I dont know his username) show me around the bends there around coffs harbor and between adelaide! Spectacular/dramatic weather despite raining and being freezing and seeking refuge in an underground carpark.

I have had so many good experiences with the mighty wagon in the last year and I look forward and welcome many more!

thats @LDundon :-P was a good catchup, always so much to tell new members, blakes car is beautiful.

 

[unclepaulie]

Galant No1:

drove to melbourne (via bathurst) and back for a holiday in 2011. Missus at the time left the shopping in the car, queue butter related back seat jokes forever

in the bottom photo i had just put the passenger indicator back in too haha. damn those bumpy roads

galant number 2 went to sydney for WTAC '12 and '13

first trip to sydney, i drove the whole way myself (missus at time couldnt drive), in a fixed back seat with a fresh-out-of-surgery knee
"get plenty of rest ok"
"ill get plenty driving to sydney in a few days, cheers doc"

second trip was with MOR31 and VOLK. much more pleasurable then first WTAC trip

no roadtrip pics...but have one of the car anyway

galant number 3's life was too short but i did get to drive it home from gladstone

 

[whats_doing]

Always loved your Galant No2.

 

[Lasiorhinus]

Uh huh... why they didn't get cruise standard/optioned I dunno

Just never needed on most Japanese roads.

 

[Nitephyre]

I find that difficult to believe, they do have freeways and long-distance roads over there.