The Corvair is DONE!

[Jesse J]

It has had it's maiden voyage down at EJS. 

 

[Muncher]

Really cool rig. I've been following along from the first video of it

[Eagle]

Does this mean Matt is going to retire the yellow Cherokee?

 

[Muncher]

Does this mean Matt is going to retire the yellow Cherokee?
 

Hopefully not

[Pete M]

I don't really see a lot of... windows in that thing, so I doubt it's going to be the main tow rig just yet. 

 

 

Moab is awesome.  

[Dzimm]

45 minutes ago, Eagle said:

Does this mean Matt is going to retire the yellow Cherokee?

 

I vaguely remember him addressing that question in one of the videos.  I believe he said that the two would be used for specific jobs.

[MiNi Beast]

i love his build. love the front grill. guys and gals did great on it.  

[oldmanche]

I wonder if he has shown all his "shakedown" runs - I only noticed one prior run and they did not have any problems.  That thing is a beast.

[Jesse J]

8 hours ago, Eagle said:

Does this mean Matt is going to retire the yellow Cherokee?

 

he built this for his "1 ton" recovery rigs. for offroad recoverys that need a little more oomf than the banana can provide. 

[Jesse J]

wow I'm suprised a libby got that far. I bet @Pete Misnt

[Pete M]

I'm surprised that anything gets anywhere on street tires. 

[Jesse J]

yeah same not to mention get rolled over jeez

[Pete M]

it would seem there's a decent chance they just weren't looking and caught the edge with a tire.  bummer.

 

but in other cases, the chances of rolling over due to uneven terrain (or hitting a tree, or nailing your rockers on a berm, etc) increase substantially as speed increases.  and speeds need to increase to bandaid the traction limitations of street tires.   

[Jesse J]

Yeah that's likely what happened. still a bummer