BACK HILLS V8 THUNDER - Roothy and Big Red

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BACK HILLS V8 THUNDER - Roothy and Big Red

Originally I had this video down as being shot out the back of Coffs Harbor. I was wrong, as plenty of people pointed out, it was a few hours south in the hills behind Port Macquarie.

We'd kicked off in Coffs Harbor, and soon met another ‘slap in the face’ situation on this trip, one I’d been seeing more and more often around the tougher four wheel driving corners of our country. Yep, that’s the tyre size line. One particular hill was an incredible gauge for this as you’ll see on the show. Although not incredibly steep or even that difficult, the ground had been softened and because there wasn’t any room on either side of it, the first few vehicles up there pushing bigger tyres had shaped the track to suit.
So Red, with her 31” Mickey Thompsons, bagged out on the diffs about thirty metres into it. A Prado, with 33” tyres but a lower belly pan, went a bit further before sitting on a lump with tyres spinning. Along come two trucks with 35” tyres and romper stomper, they drove that hill as easily as the driveway at Government House.
Yep, anyone who says ‘size doesn’t matter’ must be talking about beer bellies and not tyre size! Around the hinterland it’s often the maker or breaker.
Why is that? It seems to me it’s the areas where there’s plenty of active and motivated four wheelers that seem to suffer from the tyre size line first. I guess that’s because as one bloke goes up a size, his mates see the advantage and go up a size or two too. Pretty soon if you want to go driving with the pack you’ve got to have 35” tyres or bigger to have a chance of following anywhere except at the end of a snatch strap. And once a track’s copped a few 35”s, you need that or bigger to make traction.
Because you ain't gonna understand the signs around the back hills you might as well drive out! It’s a little known fact that even Coffs Harbour is the result of a spelling mistake in a government bulletin.
Back in 1847 Captain John Korff put his ship ‘Brothers’ in to shelter off the southern headland of Coffs for four days as storms ripped across the ocean. He was pretty impressed by the safe harbour he’d found and the area soon became known as ‘Korff’s Harbour’.
Then, in 1861, a spello in a gazettal notice saw the area christened Coffs Harbour once and for all.
That’s not that exciting but it gives a glimpse into this region’s history that’s essential for understanding the four wheel driving around there. Storms, Mother Nature at her rawest and a sense of confused identity for the few pioneers in the area for the first hundred or so years of white history. Welcome to some of the wildest country on earth, just up the back of beach holiday central and the rest of Australia's population. You got 4wd, or you've missed out.

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