A small and rather insignificant update, for the record…
Got pulled over by the Poliție again, minding my own business, doing my daily drive to the office. The last time - about this time last year - I was warned to remove the light bars because they are not permitted. Hey-ho, I don’t do much if any night offroad, so off they came.
This time, he had a go about my ARB front winch bumper. Uff, it’s not a Toyota approved add-on. Couldn’t argue with that, so under the threat of having my registration cancelled, which is like someone tearing up your birth certificate here, I decided to tone-down the “aggressive” look of the front of the truck.
Anyone that knows it may recall it had the full kit of ARB front winch bumper (bull-bar), including the side bars going over the front over-arches and down to the front of the side-steps. The whole assembly has been on the truck since 2006, and it’s as rusty as the rustiest thing in rust land. Given that I can’t find anyone with a grit-blast booth big enough, I decided to take an angle grinder to it.
I still want it as a winch bumper, so I cut off all the uprights, the hoop, the side bars, and now I have a more 80 looking 80 than it’s looked since 2006.
It’s gone from this…
to this
So although not planned, I can live with this, in my old-age. Just need to get around to refitting the winch…
Got pulled over by the Poliție again, minding my own business, doing my daily drive to the office. The last time - about this time last year - I was warned to remove the light bars because they are not permitted. Hey-ho, I don’t do much if any night offroad, so off they came.
This time, he had a go about my ARB front winch bumper. Uff, it’s not a Toyota approved add-on. Couldn’t argue with that, so under the threat of having my registration cancelled, which is like someone tearing up your birth certificate here, I decided to tone-down the “aggressive” look of the front of the truck.
Anyone that knows it may recall it had the full kit of ARB front winch bumper (bull-bar), including the side bars going over the front over-arches and down to the front of the side-steps. The whole assembly has been on the truck since 2006, and it’s as rusty as the rustiest thing in rust land. Given that I can’t find anyone with a grit-blast booth big enough, I decided to take an angle grinder to it.
I still want it as a winch bumper, so I cut off all the uprights, the hoop, the side bars, and now I have a more 80 looking 80 than it’s looked since 2006.
It’s gone from this…
to this
So although not planned, I can live with this, in my old-age. Just need to get around to refitting the winch…
