Contributor III
Evening all. Guess I should start here.
My name's Matt, though friends and family call me Bear. I've followed the YouTube channel for a long time, and decided to join up tonight.
My rig is really simple, just a '12 Chevy Nox, mostly stock but not entirely, and definitely low key. It does have aftermarket shocks, a diff breather set-up, and a comms set-up to get any signal anywhere. I obviously don't do any travel on tracks even close to the league of Moab or the like. But looks are deceiving and the battlewagon spends more time on dirt and gravel usually than pavement. It's seen the entire Pan-American Highway, crossed the US and Canada on local and dirt roads alike. It's seen every dirt and logging road (and some things alleged to be "roads") in Labrador, Quebec, and Northern Ontario, and crossed the ice roads into Tuktoyaktuk, NWT in winter. She's been ferried across water on some of the best ferry crossings in North America, and just did the Labrador Coastal water/road route from St. John, NB to Nain, NL and back last year. Two fenders, three windshields, one rear bumper, one engine recall rebuild, 215,000mi and enough bulbs, brakes and tires to fill an AutoZone later...she's still ticking like a Swiss watch. Normally she's not this clean, and has BFG KO2's on her, but she just got washed for the first time in 8 months and COVID killed most of my plans so far.
I'm planning on using the downtime to take the back seats out again to finish the modest cabinet system/bed platform I started a little over a year ago. Good times. Looking forward to getting back out there soon when the world gets somewhat back to normal.
My name's Matt, though friends and family call me Bear. I've followed the YouTube channel for a long time, and decided to join up tonight.
My rig is really simple, just a '12 Chevy Nox, mostly stock but not entirely, and definitely low key. It does have aftermarket shocks, a diff breather set-up, and a comms set-up to get any signal anywhere. I obviously don't do any travel on tracks even close to the league of Moab or the like. But looks are deceiving and the battlewagon spends more time on dirt and gravel usually than pavement. It's seen the entire Pan-American Highway, crossed the US and Canada on local and dirt roads alike. It's seen every dirt and logging road (and some things alleged to be "roads") in Labrador, Quebec, and Northern Ontario, and crossed the ice roads into Tuktoyaktuk, NWT in winter. She's been ferried across water on some of the best ferry crossings in North America, and just did the Labrador Coastal water/road route from St. John, NB to Nain, NL and back last year. Two fenders, three windshields, one rear bumper, one engine recall rebuild, 215,000mi and enough bulbs, brakes and tires to fill an AutoZone later...she's still ticking like a Swiss watch. Normally she's not this clean, and has BFG KO2's on her, but she just got washed for the first time in 8 months and COVID killed most of my plans so far.
I'm planning on using the downtime to take the back seats out again to finish the modest cabinet system/bed platform I started a little over a year ago. Good times. Looking forward to getting back out there soon when the world gets somewhat back to normal.
