Travis Raville's Excursion means adventure for the whole family OFF-ROAD ADVENTURES ARE OFTEN A FAMILY AFFAIR, THOUGH MANY OF THE VEHICLES ON THE market just aren't big enough for the whole family, plus their friends and all the mandatory gear. To solve that issue, Travis Raville of Thousand Oaks, California, decided to break away from his GM love and seek out a Ford. The Ford Excursion was exactly what Travis wanted. A straight-axle up front, third-row seating with plenty of room for gear, and it could be optioned with a reliable turbodiesel powerplant. Previously, he had a seriously built Pontiac GTO. The 1,000hp car was fun, "but it was a one-way car," Travis explains. "We'd get somewhere and it would break; it would go home on a tow truck." He needed something bulletproof.
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