The taller truck tires, not the crevasse
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I loved that little truck.
I drove the living snot out of my Tracker and got stuck over 100 times.
I kept a come-along in the vehicle for self rescue.
I'd tie off to a tree to pull myself out and I had a metal spike to pound in the ground to tie off to if there was nothing to tie off to.
tons of torque, plus it was right in its power band at highways speeds
My Tracker was gutless with a 1.6 liter 90 horse engine.
It actually got better MPG city driving than on the highway.
so I could floor it and blow the doors off of anyone who was pissing me off.
Not much would happen when I'd floor it and I'd have to hold on when a truck would pass me or I'd get blown off the road.
The predecessor to the Tracker was the Suzuki Samaria, and that vehicle invented the roll over.
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The Tracker had a little longer and wider wheelbase.
With the taller tires on, full time awd and the kind of traction control software the Benz had, it seemed like I could get thru anything, including mud right up to my axles.
I didn't want any software or sensors.
Too much crap to break or fail.
I had to get out to lock my front hubs.
It was fully manually operated except for power steering which was helpful.
I could spin the steering wheel with one hand and shift gears with the other.
,.. its particulate filter started acting up,
The filter started going bad when I had 50 miles of warranty left so I fixed the filter, smogged the car and traded it in.
I kept bottoming out and breaking my exhaust just before the catalytic converter then it would get pushed forward and plug up with mud.
Then the mud got baked like pottery into the cat and plugged it, so I just poked a few holes through it with a big screwdriver so it could breathe.
I had forgotten about doing that and failed my next smog test, so I just swapped out the exhaust from the catalytic back from my parts "truck"
Thats it on the right, at a competition I was in back in 2017. See if you can guess what I was doing based on what you can see
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I'm guessing some kind of off-road racing?
I usually rode alone because I did a lot of trespassing.
I could fit through the gates at snowmobile trails and community trails.
I would give my Parking Brake one click and that would turn off my daytime running lights so I could be all incognito.
I'd put it in 4-Low 4WD and do donuts in reverse to spray mud up and over my hood and windshield and onto the roof.
I had TONS Of Fun in that "truck"
It may have used by 18 year old girls to drive to the beach, but I drove it how it how it was built to be used.
I remember being in the toy section at Walmart and found a foot long white plastic toy Tracker.
It came complete with a Barbie doll behind the wheel.
Too funny.
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I should have bought it, it was only twenty bucks.