b'Our explorations continued and we built up some very As a testament to the reliability of modern vehicles, mygood knowledge of the tracks in the area. We visited old original Whitworth (BSW) spanners and sockets are quitegold mining sites, pushed through overgrown logging worn and my metric ones are hardly used. The good oldtracks and camped at places like Talbotville with no other days? Perhaps not!people about for days at a time. Our vehicles, miraculously, Greg Rose.started to give less trouble. Perhaps we had replaced FWDV Regional Representative, Southern Alpine Nationaleverything that could fail. Park.And now to the present day. Someone asked me at the Land Rover Owners Club of Gippsland.last Land Rover Owners Club of Gippsland meeting if I Land Rover Owners Club of Victoria.missed the old Land Rovers and the days before seasonalclosures and tighter land management. They even sug-gested that, those old Land Rovers were great machines.Well, the truth is that they were not. No vehicle of that eracan match the on road manners and off road capability ofalmost any modern four wheel drive. With open differen-tials, no power steering, temperamental gearboxes andfairly stiff suspension, they were quite difficult to drive.Perhaps all four wheel drivers should have experience inthe old school vehicles as it did teach us to think moreabout taking the correct line on tracks. As for the seasonalclosures. With the number of four wheel drive vehicles thatare on the road now, the pressure and damage on fragiletracks would be enormous if there were not closures toprotect them. TRACKWATCH SEPTEMBER 2021 17'