Iceland

[RizzoTheRat]

I thought a few of you might like some of holiday snaps from Iceland last week. We went on a 4x4 tour up through the Þingvellir national park to the Langjökull glacier with this chap https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fjallasport/1074926... in his slightly modified Nissan Patrol. Reynir used to modify these vehicles for a living but since the financial crash he switched to taking tourists out on trips.





This is on about 1.5 meters of snow, he's on 38" Mickey Thomson Baja Claws here, in the winter he switches to 44" tyres, and runs them as low as 3psi to drive on top of deeps snow rather than sinking in to it.




Icelands idea of a traffic jam


There's loads of these kind of vehicles around, and I reckon they look fantastic


Though some of them aren't looking so good

[Timbuk2]

Would be cool to go over there and have a play!

Good looking trucks.

[schmalex]

Stunning. I would love to do that

[furrywoolyhatuk]

Looks like some stunning scenery. That penultimate picture, is that some sort of American van given a serious lift treatment?

[budrover]

Some details of Ian Sykes B&B in Iceland ....he use to organised Scottish Hillrally ..so can talk about 4x4 for hours.

http://guesthouse-iceland.com/wp/?page_id=2

[RizzoTheRat]

furrywoolyhatuk said:

That penultimate picture, is that some sort of American van given a serious lift treatment?

Yeah, most of them are based on normal 4x4s (a lot of Landcruisers and Patrols, but quite a few American 4x4s and pickups) but we saw a few of these big vans around too, presumably to take big groups of tourists out. Reynir's websites got some interesting trucks on it, as well his photos on the facebook link above. http://www.fjallasport.is/

[E-B]

budrover said:

Some details of Ian Sykes B&B in Iceland ....he use to organised Scottish Hillrally ..so can talk about 4x4 for hours.

http://guesthouse-iceland.com/wp/?page_id=2

Ian & Francis are friends of mine and Mrs E-B and I stayed with them earlier this year. I can wholeheartedly reccommend going to Iceland for a while, I try to get back there as often as i can I'm up to my seventh visit already.

Hopefully (budget permitting) i'll get back there next year to compete in the Rally Reykjavic - a fabulous event!

[E-B]

Rizzo,

great pictures BTW.