Posted by David Sherman on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 1:45AM :
In Reply to: Power Wagon in National Geographic posted by Steven Fowler (Santa Rosa CA) on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 10:46PM :
I'll have to check it out. I have boxes full of old Geographics at my cabin (something to read when I'm stuck there in the snow) and am always looking for a PW in their old adventure stories of trips across the wilds of Africa or Asia. It seems like the adventurers were always driving Land Rovers, and the only time a PW appears is when they get one from a nearby oil company or mining company to pull the Land Rover out of whatever it got stuck in that day.
The closest thing to a PW article was the famous one with the Tucker Sno-Cats traversing Antarctica. I think National Geographic must have had a product placement deal with Land Rover. Either that or they thought it would make for a better story and pictures if they used a rig that got stuck frequently.
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