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lambert:
Hi, just been mooching round the modified section and it seems that quite a few project cars are getting re-homed. I put that down to the recession which is fair enough. However there must be some sort of market out there in order to shift these projects. So who is buying them if the people that build them can't afford to keep them.
It's the same on YouTube there seem to be less and less new 4x4 related clips out there as if people have stopped playing with their trucks?
Or am I getting the recession wrong, is there still loads of free cash out there to support playing with 4x4's. Is there a wave of new talent out there learning its craft just waiting to be discovered?

Range Rover Blues:
The price of fuel has forced a lot of our "regular crew" into Euroboxs.  Some of us now have kids too but that's just us.

It seems people with jobs are just as well off as always, but more cautious and the cost of living has outpaced pay rises regulalry.  Then there's those of us who are suffering because of the cutbacks.

Add to that it's no longer PC to be enjoying yourelf OR driving a 4x4,  I think a lot of people are keeping themselves to themselves.

Either that or they sold the camcorder to buy new tyres :wink:

But yes I agree things have gone VERy quiet, just look how slowly the new website is filling up, compare that to how quickly it got going the first time around.

LandRoger:
I did post something along these lines in the Greenlaning section , i am out on Salisbury Plain 7 days 365 and have noticed since the rise in fuel prices and the general lack of money available  there is a huge downturn in the amount of people laneing out here
we have the most lanes in Wiltshire of any county in UK so this is a good gauge as to whats going on, think people have enough of a problem just keeping the road car T/T MOTed let alone keeping maintaining a toy and it shows in the breakers/scrappies with more offroad trucks appearing than ive ever seen before, no i think people are still just as keen on our hobby but making ends meet is more important right now,  my truck is my every day ride and liveing on the Plain means i drive the lanes every day
and i know how very very lucky i am , ATB Dodger.

drfence:
i for one 3 years ago had mick at mrm services build me a defender :cool: (fantastic job) built from the chassis up and used as 3rd vehicle as a weekend toy,then daughter came along and put paid to that  :cry: as well as fuel,insurance and the closure of lanes,very few people now can afford 4x4 as toys unless there trucks pay there way :sad:

Thrasher:
Sold my pride and joy for next to nothing. Sad.

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