boxster and gravel roads

[litteng]

actually mech eng, but spent my career r in projects, site eng and const mgr to build Mxxxxxn for Cogema/Areva, and spend time U/G in cigar lake too. enjoy the U/G more then the open pit, also split another 25 yr between engineering and operation & construction in potash, zinc, gold, tarsand

the roads are not impassable ,but speed (higher) and impact with oversized rocks etc will do exactly as you described.

i worked with manager who's motto was "build it as tough as a brick ****************house"

in the north the vehicles need to be that tough. when i was younger, one summer job was with Ford leasing, and we found that the inline 6 cyl trucks stood up way better than the v8, (give me a 300ci ford 6 inline over any v8)

that was then don't know if it would still apply today...

So looking at the map, theres no road direct to Ft smith via ft Mcmurray, so you must be going up through hay river?

[The Radium King]

too funny. i was senior services engineer at diavik, bringing the open pit underground. one of our engineers was a guy called curtis dunford who we stole from cigar lake; i don't envy you that job.

yeah, exit from smith is north to hay river for 300 kms then south again. the only part that is still gravel is the hay river/fort smith section, but that is slowly getting chip-sealed. in the winter they punch a winter road straight south through fort chip to fort mac, and i always thought that is would make a great winter rally route.

fort mac has become a hellhole; when you drive the winter road south, you can tell that you're getting close by the green haze hanging on the horizon.

[grantsfo]

You mean your looking for something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3U_NNnNAJ4

[The Radium King]

heck yeah! problem is, i think that the car in the vid is this one:

linky

it just looks stock; whole different deal under the body panels.