An Attitude Adjustment – Installing A Lift Kit and Wind Deflectors: The Outback has been a fun, great, and affordable platform to build out. However, these attributes also make the vehicle very popular, and we don’t want our ride to look like everyone else’s. Our plans for this ride don’t include rock climbing or traversing […]
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Installing the Missing Fog Lamps: Since this project has been a budget-driven build (can you relate?), we started with a base model Subaru Outback. A lot of the features included on the higher end models were missing. One of the features that Subaru deleted from our model were the fog lights. How sad does this
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Configuring the Second Floor: The Roof Rack: Creating a space to mount and store gear was an important part of our Subaru build plan. Because we don’t like sleeping in tents, we like to be comfortable, and we don’t have a travel trailer, we knew that hauling our stuff inside the vehicle was not an
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Getting New Shoes Step One, Part A: Wheels When you are on a budget, you learn to develop patience which leads to working hard to find acceptable compromises. Don’t get us wrong, if we had unlimited resources (or sponsors – hint, hint), this build would be very different. But on a budget, time becomes a
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Why we chose this particular car to build out for adventure. Background: We are self-employed farmers who love being in nature and living by the seasons of life. We enjoy being connected to our world at a primitive level, take the stewardship of our small part of the planet seriously, and love to explore other
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