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Brutalis
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Greetings from Reykjavík

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Hi there.
Regards from Iceland.
Well I am not English or American so you have to forgive me that my English is rather poor. Anyway I was sending a mail to Overland regarding a lifting kit and .Dan told me about this forum. I have 98 Astro LT AWD that “need” to be lifted some day. I am thinking of 4-5“ when I have the $ available.
I will follow up later with some pictures of lifted Icelandic Astro‘s
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Hi welcome to the board. I don't think we have anyone else from Iceland on here yet. If your thinking of lifting your van that will just be the start of the mods. Its kind of like a sickness. But a good sickness.
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Welcome to ASV Brutalis, your English is more than fine.We're looking forward to those pics :cheers:
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Post by Mongke Khan »

Brutalis wrote:I was sending a mail to Overland regarding a lifting kit and .Dan told me about this forum.
If he isn't already, Dan should be getting a commission for all the traffic he sends this way.

That is how it happened for me too, Brutalis, and I am very happy with the (2-inch)lift kit I got from Overland Vans.

Looking forward to photos from Iceland.
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You will need WIDE tires along with a lift ,if you are going to be going out on the glaciers........ :supz:
I've seen what you crazy Icelanders do...... :rock: driving around in no man's land..... :yikes:

Oh, I'm sorry.....welcome to the machine!!!
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Welcome !
Look forward to learing more about your country- I hope to take my family to Iceland next summer. Can't wait to check it out.

:cheers:
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Welcome to ASV's. Some great folks here and all willing to help.
You think your English is bad,,you gotta be kidding me. :muhaha:
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Welcome. It will be great to see pics of your astro.
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Rebel wrote:Welcome to ASV's. Some great folks here and all willing to help.
You think your English is bad,,you gotta be kidding me. :muhaha:
english? what's that? I speak spanglish and fluent redneck
welcome to the site!
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WELCOME to the most technical Astro Safari Vans site here on the www, we have ALL your lifted answers here from diehard enthusiasts....
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dunedog wrote:I've seen what you crazy Icelanders do...... :rock: driving around in no man's land..... :yikes:
weren't the guys that destroyed this cherokee icelandic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do0cbG-5jYk

anyhooo.. welcome to the site!
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Welcome to the site. We're all glad you found us. \:D/
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Re: Greetings from Reykjavík

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Thanks for warm welcome.
It is true what we do with the cars so we can drive off-road here in the winter time. The ground is then frozen and deep snow over the highland so we can drive off road without damaging everything.
Here you can see typical trip to the highlands and few Americans cars. (This side have nothing to do with me)
http://www.pbase.com/skjoldur/2004_11_25&page=1
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