This morning when I got to work! Was running late and and to de-ice it at home and then hit the driveway before I headed in.

 

It snowed last night! Chitty Deuce is covered.

 

Looks like just about what we have here....not nearly enough!

 

Just noticed that your running boards aren't fully retracted. Did you want them installed that way? Mines is fully hidden under the truck.

 

Not mine, but Lloydable's snow photo below has good composition.

It would have made a nice cover photo for the Excursion brochure, because the road ahead is yet untraveled, and the road behind was conquered.

Also, with the truck heading to the horizon line toward the spine of this imaginary brochure, it inspires you to turn the page to the inside, to see what happened next.










Below is the front cover of the actual Ford brochure that announced the debut of then brand new 2000 Ford Excursion:






It's a pretty photo, because the trees and the amber morning light make it so, but compositionally, it sent the wrong message about this vehicle.

Or no message at all. All we see is a grille and a tire. (A Firestone tire at that, in a harbinger of irony.)

What does the Ford photo tell us, in an instant, about the capabilities of the Excursion? Not much, other than it had a different grille design than the Super Duty.

The Ford photo promoted a product.

Lloydable's photo promotes the possibilities...





Try doing this in a minivan.

Here we see an Excursion truly taking an excursion.

Instead of the grille, we see the far more important part of this vehicle... the part that made it new, and better than anything like it made before or since. Capacity. Space. Doors. A place. A place to bring family, friends, and fun.

The story of the Excursion is all about the back half of the vehicle, not the front half. Here was a factory built solid front axle four wheel drive SUV with a GVWR of 9,200 lbs in some configurations... with seven doors! (considering the hatch is a 3 door barn/hatch hybrid).

Lloydable's photo tells the story of the possibilities of what this vehicle could be used for, and the type of excursions this vehicle can take. We see the Excursion from the driver's side, inviting us to get in, and Go Further.

And that's what people buy a vehicle like this for. To go further than other vehicles can go, and be able to bring their family, friends, and fun stuff with them. And be able to get back.

 

You have a good eye, that was tons of ice not letting them fully retract. Mine also retract completely without the ice. Lol

 

Durn it!. I don't have any pictures of my EX in the snow. I Never had an Ex. I've been with the same woman for 30 years now and I don't even have pictures of HER in the snow.

I see a lot of pictures of SUV's, but not any of ya'lls Ex. Have you all been married since birth like me?

 

Funny man you are... I have been married for more than 16 years now, and have never had an Ex either...

But I do have a pic of my wife in the snow. That is my youngest in the foreground and my wife bringing up the rear. This was our last trip to Seward, AK, before leaving for the lower 48. It was sunny and clear in Anchorage when we left, but Seward was getting dumped on with snow!



Sorry for the Now back to the other Ex's in the snow.

 

David not an ex but a very cool pic!

 

I'm no photographer..... but damn if this thing doesn't look good.

We drove up to about 2500 foot, got nothing then back tracked 20 miles to the highway and went up to the top of Willamette National Forest. There is Waldo Lake. We didn't get to the actual lake because we were in a "Winter Snow Park" area and it's supposed to be snowmobiles only. We only went in about a half mile to set up for the day. Did some shooting and heated some great "Taco Soup" we made the night before.



















I wished we had some deeper stuff but was happy to get what we did. Overall put about 200 miles on today.

 

Looked like a fun family outing and a great excuse to spend some time together. Oh, and you have a nice looking Ex there!

 

A Rodder, nice pics!

 

I love the snow, as long as I have my Ex!

 

Jesser02EX's photo reminds me of why the front fender well inlet was a bad idea in the early 1999 model year of pickups, especially in the Northeast when the entire front of the vehicle can be covered in icicles in a much larger solid mass of stalactites that fill and cover the small triangular opening on the forward drip edge of the driver's front fender liner, where the fender well air inlet to the outside world is.

 

Now if you had a few snowmobiles,
you could have gone where no excursion Could