CSN&Y - 1974 with a Pig

[greentruck]

OK, this may end up being just chat, but just was picking my way through the book that comes with the newly released Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - 1974 box set. A black & white pic on page 27 shows a tasty line-up of very nice guitars set up for rehearsals by the group at Neil Young's Broken Arrow Ranch in northern California.

Good taste in guitars was not the only thing on display. Prominent in the background is a shiny FJ-55. I'm guessing green and white, but hard to tell with B&W. Does anyone in our crowd know any more about whose 'Pig that was? If it's Neil's, it's likely still there on the ranch.

 

[Peters Moose]

Yeah interesting... Supposedly he keeps (or kept) old cars and 4x4's on his property for spare parts.
Cool in GT thanks

 

[greentruck]

Neil or one of his bandmates could've chosen to drive any vehicle they wanted. Someone chose a FJ-55, which is saying a lot. My '76 was just a couple of years younger than that one and only slightly more luxurious, in that I think the AC wasn't quite as slick as in my truck. Other than that, rubber mats and bring your own stereo, which I can imagine was not an issue for Neil if it was his truck. Mine was stickered at $6,200, so not an expensive or up=market vehicle then, which many of my colleagues driving 80s probably haven't a clue about. This was a truck that someone wanted for what it did, rather than fanciful immediate impressions.

Anyway, made my day and the music was worth the price of admission. I was cooling my heels in Germany working in an AF commissary after graduating from US high school. So missed the tour myself by 3,000 miles or so, but don't regret my time there either. Came back, went to college dropped out, got a decent job (whatever happened to those???) and bought the truck of my dreams -- a FJ-55 -- within a couple of years of that pic. At least I could enjoy that small part of the same lifestyle, come to find out 4 decades later. The yachts and Lear Jets were a bit outta my price range.

With a little luck and a lotta love, a California Pig might be running today, as this crowd is well aware of. My Midwest Piggy was probably melted into new razor blades -- if the junkers got to it before the salt did after I sold it 8 years later.

 

[PabloCruise]

Will you scan a copy of the pic from the CSNY booklet?

 

[greentruck]

Let's do an excerpt for historical research purposes.

 

[Peters Moose]

Thanks for posting the image. Obviously he or one of his band mates had good taste in rigs.

 

[greentruck]

Thanks for posting the image. Obviously he or one of his band mates had good taste in rigs.

No problem. One thing we can be pretty sure of, it wasn't a rental car.