Best 2005 Rover Pic

[GliderKing]

Ok, I was going through a bunch of rover pics and realize we've never really aggregated the *BEST* rover pics for a particular year. How about it?

Guidelines:
1. Post up to 3 of your best D-90 or 110 pics from 2005.
2. That you, your passenger or your camera took.

Feel free to ad your comments, captions, dialogue....

Bob

Follow-up Post:

Nick's 90 in Moab.... everyone helping out, except one guy.... hummm.

[Rod Hayward]

I never seem to think of my camera when I'm up to my ass in a mud hole.

[rover4x4]

this one always hits a soft spot

[UpnOver]

Phillip, who 90 is that?

[kellymoe]

this one always hits a soft spot

I get freaked out everytime I see that shot. I keep thinking about kids in car seats.

[read]

1st picture: Taken by Kevin (thanks) of my truck. 2nd picture: By me moments later.

[rover4x4]

is that a hannibal roofrack?

[KevinNY]

Dave using his special Spider Man traction technique on Black Bear Pass.

http://misheli.image.pbase.com/v3/35/542535/3/48460163.daveholdson.jpg

Not a defender but one hell of a Series.

http://mishilo.image.pbase.com/v3/35/542535/3/51501571.reavey_3651.jpg

[D110XD]

http://www.d-90.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2072&page=14&pp=15

[read]

is that a hannibal roofrack?

Yes.

[dmarchand]

Thanks KB. That is has been on both my desktops at work since we came back. :)


Not a picture, but my favorite video of '05 was from Maine and the winter romp. (http://www.salmons-leap.com/winterrompmovies/animal.wmv)

Some of you may have seen it. Mike H. was in the backseat... :eek: It was funny, and scary.

Some more of my favorites from then. Dave Souza doing his thing in the icy streams. My favorite Series with 36's and a 300 tdi, and my soon to be bride, hammering my truck up the hill with chains on (that's me in the gray jacket running for cover).

The other one is Frank in his yellow d-90 in VT in the spring. a few months before it landed on it's roof. Finally, the one of me with a few people hanging on to keep my precious body panels clean... :cool: I was too far from home.

It was a good year.

[Defender50th]

My three:

[KevinNY]

Dave,

Franks 90 in Tunbridge, foreshadowing perhaps? Every now and then I look at the album from that trip and think about how much that whole trip just kicked ass.

[Doug]

Chammy in Last Chance Canyon, Mojave; Wicks in Cottonwood Canyon, Death Valley; Chammy on the Haulapi Indian reservation, in Grand Canyon on the banks of the Colorado....

[AggieD90]

Not from 2005, but was featured in The D-90 Source 2003 Calendar (September)...and one of my favorite D90 pics...

March 2002, Moab, Utah on PSM trail (taken by a passenger),

[chrisvonc]

I should do another calendar. I can do regular flip month calendars now rather than one huge poster like the 2003 one and they sold pretty good. Plus it made a good poster even after the year was done. Funny, I myself never got to keep a final version of what sold. The only one I have is the last test print without a December truck on it. LOL

[AggieD90]

Chris,

I actually never used mine during '03. Eventually I had it framed as well as a poster I got from the dealer and some D90 ads that I collected and had them framed. They all hang in one of the guest bedrooms.

[d110pickup]

Here's a 110 game viewing truck I photographed in the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia a couple of months ago. It's a fairly new td5 built in South Africa.
Unfortunately as I took this I was sitting in a 78 series LC truck.
Mike

[jimmy salmon]

salmons-leap
http://www.d-90.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=3888

[chrisvonc]

Damn Kevin, looks pretty nice framed. I should reorder a final one and do that.

[Roadsiderob]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks traffic cone orange is a good color for inside the house.

[Glenn_Guinto]

That calendar does look pretty good framed. Chris, are you going to have 2006 made? I would love to have one if you do. Also, Kevin, that's a good idea framing the ads like that.

Here are my Defender stuff...

[AggieD90]

The orange in person looks more University of Texas burnt orange....which is kinda funny since I went to Texas A&M (my dining room is painted maroon though) :)

I can't tack credit for the D90 ads. My mother typically has one done for me for either birthday or Christmas every year. She had the idea. She collected them off of ebay for a few months and put the whole thing together - as well as the calendar and poster. I also have a cool Classic RR ad she had done for me.

For Christmas this year she did a page out of a LR Journal that was an advert for the Holland & Holland. It's matted in what is as close to Walnut as possible and the wood is very similar to the French Walnut gunstock in the truck. I'll snap a picture of it tonight sometime.

[chrisvonc]

That calendar does look pretty good framed. Chris, are you going to have 2006 made? I would love to have one if you do. Also, Kevin, that's a good idea framing the ads like that.

Here are my Defender stuff...
I might do a normal flip 12 month calendar. The poster was 4 months to do. I can do a regular calendar in 1/4th the time so I might if we get some good pictures.

I like this one from the Rpver Pictures thread:
http://www.d-90.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4283

[dave_lucas]

I took the following pictures Christmas Eve in Jamaica. If you would like to use them for a D-90 calendar I have them in high res format.

[TDI Guy]

my favorite of course. Would look great on a calender...lol :)

[Doug]

Here's my bid: "Defender 110 rally safety vehicle, on the banks of the Colorado in the Grand Canyon, on the Hualapai Indian reservation in December 2005 during the Grand Canyon Rally."

DW

[TwisteD90]

http://www.washbrook.net/images/YosefOverRockTreeSqueeze.jpg

http://www.washbrook.net/images/YosefsD90NearEnd.jpg

I also like my avatar picture.

I have a lot of pictures I just need to resize.

[jimmy salmon]

adding extra wieght to keep traction
http://www.salmons-leap.com/4040404.jpg

[chrisvonc]

I dont know who had this yummy rig done by SG but if you cruise this forum, speak up, I would love to use this truck as a possible for the calendar

[Glenn_Guinto]

Wow, is that the genuine Camel Trophy 110 they were selling a few years back?

[LRNAD90]

Since we are sharing Rover "porn" from our home walls, here are a few shots of my home office, including the Mural my wife had an artist paint for me, and some favorite framed posters/ads... Its a disease I tell ya.. (The last one is actually a shot of our wedding cake topper..

More and larger versions can be found here: http://www.putfile.com/lrnad90

[TDI Guy]

Coool. Scott I love that poster. I with you could make copys of that.. I would buy one in a heart beat

[rover4x4]

coming and going

[mikeslandrover]

I quite like these 4 I took at the War & Peace Show last year.

I do by the way have the higher res versions.

[chrisvonc]

One Tony took of "The Forgotten". I think its kind of cool, but maybe because I'm partial to the truck now. LOL

[smenzel]

This was in Moab, UT (http://www.flickr.com/photos/smenzel/sets/955265/). The fellow with the TDi D90 is Dave something-or-other who frequents this forum.

[Hillbilly Raider]

Heres a couple of me and mine.http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b189/tombraider17/IMG_6837.jpghttp://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b189/tombraider17/IMG_6837.jpg

[mikeslandrover]

Hmm West Sussex.....
You in touch with the Horsham 4x4 club?
They meet every Tuesday in a pub in Cowfold..
Offroading, taking the mickey etc etc.... :)
Where was the pic taken?

[Hillbilly Raider]

Hmm West Sussex.....
You in touch with the Horsham 4x4 club?
They meet every Tuesday in a pub in Cowfold..
Offroading, taking the mickey etc etc.... :)
Where was the pic taken?
yeah i know those guys (how do you?) the pic was taken in the Italian Alps.

[mikeslandrover]

Used to live in Horsham, regularly visit 'The Forge'. :) But not so often since the arrival of young master T.
spectated at the Winch Challenge last Sunday.... followed the progress of the overall winning team (and took a good few pics) :cool:
Links neatly to this http://www.d-90.com/forum/showthread.php?p=58046 thread.

[Hillbilly Raider]

I was there (Raider parked up!) hubbie was Tonks bitch!!

[BeachBum]

This is what happens when you let your father have the keys while at the dunes in Pismo Beach, Ca.

http://www.isea.us/Lectures/JumpinD90.MOV

Paul S.
Shell Beach, Ca
'91 RRC
'97 D 90 ST

[DJ Menasco]

Nice! Not bad for a first post. Welcome to D90 Source!

DJ

[TDI Guy]

Twisted... Heres one for the calender...lol :)

[Defender13]

I rented this 110 while traveling in Belize. When I first arrived I had booked a Trooper online prior to arrival and it lasted about 2 days. To make a long story short it had 160,000 miles on it and Belize is well known for its unmarked pedestrian speed jumps..I mean speed bumps. 55mph + a huge speed bump @ 1am with a piece of shit Trooper = a demolished front end. I called the rental agent and told him his cars steering was a little off and wanted to return the car. Suprise to me, he said OK. I returned the car and noticed this D-110 sitting at another rental agency and I have never been the same since. Credit card in hand I walked over to my new care rental agent and made the deal. With the GPS in hand I drove this beast up the mountains, down logging roads, through rivers. The cool thing was that it was a RENTAL. I really got my monies worth. The picture at night with the lights on is myself and the 110 parked on Francis Ford Copala's private airstrip up in the mountains. He owns a mountain lodge that I stumble upon while cruising through the back country. On my way out I parked on his airstrip and took this picture. I had a friend with me and he didn't drive it once..he never asked, hahah.
If anyone is ever interested in going to Belize and renting this Rover, with FULL INSURANCE, I got the card of the guys that runs this agency right at the airport.

All the best,
Mike

[JSQ]

This was in Moab, UT (http://www.flickr.com/photos/smenzel/sets/955265/). The fellow with the TDi D90 is Dave something-or-other who frequents this forum.
That guy's a big loser.

Take his pic down before it goes to his head.

I don't want to deal with him thinking he's cool.

[ini88]

Twisted... Heres one for the calender...lol :)Rausch Creek right? i know that little hill! (you know you are a loser when you can point out dirt you recognize)

here is a shot of mine from Paragon

[Defender13]

Daniel, that's a great photo.

[chrisvonc]

Is that Whomp'um trail?

[ini88]

Is that Whomp'um trail?my photo is of "pebbles" i think. or at least i think it was called that. rocks everywhere and you would bounce from one to another trying not to land on a big "pebble" and have it stick though your floor!

[Campbell]

Always been my favorite....haha

[Flagg]

Is there ever going to be another one of these great calendars I keep reading about? Put me on the list if there is another production!!!

Flagg

[cellulararrest]

I love this picture of Ron's truck.

[mdmccallum]

Here's a similiar one

[mdmccallum]

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w23/Noyac/Wheelin39%20D90/5ad9.jpg

this is a little better shot