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Thanks Miguel
Events/Trails Fifth Annual 70 Series Meet and Greet, September 26th - 29th, 2019 Windrock Park
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Great! I see mine on top of stack. Thanks
s***, I apparently am not getting emails on pm. I missed the boat didnt I?
As many of you know, I along with Kim Smith from Odd Iron Off Road submitted an article plus photos documenting our 5th Annual 70 Series Meet & Greet to "Toyota Trails" for publication. We had hoped it would make the current issue but it will not because more information is required on my behalf. Stan Wright (Toyota Trails editor) along with Rick Allen have been very helpful in this endeavor and I'm confident the article will be published in the near future.
Actually found a few decals from our 1st Annual 70 Series Meet & Greet at Stoney Lonesone OHV Park.
January / February "Toyota Trails" ...... Our little get-together finally made the "big times". 
toyota trails has really gone downhill... just look at the riff raff they have contributing now..... :-D
jomelo
SILVER Star
And that photo is from like 1996.
1986 .... if you're going to insult me at least get your dates correct. 
was wondering what the story was behind that sticker
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This is all really interesting to me since Windrock and nemo tunnel are my old stomping grounds. Back in those times (1973-early 80's) strip mining was still BIG business in East Tn. and there were active mines all over the area now called Windrock park. During daylight hours back then there was a steady stream of tandem and tractor trailer trucks going up the mountain empty and coming down loaded with coal. Don't know what the road is like now but back then it was a single lane with an occasional wide spot to escape the loaded rigs coming down. Not for the faint of heart I can assure you!! In "73" I went to work for the Feds as a mine reclamation inspector and although now I hate to even admit I ever worked for the pricks, at that time I felt it was important to keep the mining industry from ruining the mountains. Anyhow at that time there were only six of us to cover Ky. Tn. Va. Al. and Ga. and beleive me we were'nt very welcome when we showed up!! our vehicles were a mix of 1'st gen Broncos, Blazers and chevy pickups all fitted out with 20 " tires and winches. Yeah you read that right, "20 inch tires". If you really want to test your rig and driving skills just try to follow a dozer around the side of the mountain during a nice WET Tn. winter . I would love to see that country again to see if all our efforts were in vain or whether the mountains finally healed themselves. Back then East Tn. seemed like a paradise to me.......most of the country then was timber Co., State owned, and mineral Co.'s. There were old R.R.grades, logging roads and mining roads EVERYWHERE and it was very seldom that you saw a gate or posted sign . There was an old mining camp at a place called Zenith on the Big South Fork of the Cumberland river near Oneida, Tn. We used to go in there to smallmouth fish and hawg hunt. It was a Hell of a rough place to get into and out. You didn't even attempt it without a winch and a jar of whisky. Courage in a jar. At that time there were several local sources. Alas thats all locked up and off-limits unless you're a greeny weenie on a bycycle thanks to the Nat. Park Service. Same for all the old trails that used to go in on Daddys Creek and the Obed River. Great smallmouth fishing By the way....or at least it was back then. At that time the whole area of the Cumberland Mts. which stretch from the Ky. border in the North to the Al. border to the south was still a pretty wild and sometimes dangerous place.......and it had it's share of genuine "characters" the likes of which most folks today will never have the privlidge of meeting or knowing. Now most of those "old-timers are dead and gone and there are retirement villages and condos everywhere that used to have stills and huntin' camps.
When we left there I had a 1987 BJ70 and it was one of only two 70 series in the States. The other one, also a BJ70 was in Arizona.By the way neither one was 25 years old and furthemore we didn't give a s*** either . Back then folks applauded you for out-foxing the buerocrats........now they want to bad mouth you cause you have something they can't get!! Anyhow it makes me feel good to know there are so many 70's in the Southeast now. Hard to imagine all those rigs up on Winrock Mtn. Nemo tunnel was only a few miles from our house . At that time there was also a newer tunnel that was still in use by the R.R. and had a narrow road alongside the tracks. When on that road and a train came thru it was sure-enough pucker time. Course there was a gate on the road at each end of the tunnel but the local ner-do-wells kept the locks torn off most of the time. It was the only access to the junction of Obed River and Daddys Creek. Probably all locked up now by Nat. Park Service. All good things come to an end I reckon but at that place and time, if you had a good rig and were brave enough, "or crazy enough " a feller' could hunt, fish and explore the old trails every day and never go to the same place twice. Boys, enjoy yourselves cause before you can blink you're gonna be an old fart like me. By the way now I have three 70's all of which are legal.....I think. Now I live someplace else thats as wild as East Tn. used to be...........although a lot colder, but my heart is still in East Tn. Hope I haven't bored Ya'll to tears.
When we left there I had a 1987 BJ70 and it was one of only two 70 series in the States. The other one, also a BJ70 was in Arizona.By the way neither one was 25 years old and furthemore we didn't give a s*** either . Back then folks applauded you for out-foxing the buerocrats........now they want to bad mouth you cause you have something they can't get!! Anyhow it makes me feel good to know there are so many 70's in the Southeast now. Hard to imagine all those rigs up on Winrock Mtn. Nemo tunnel was only a few miles from our house . At that time there was also a newer tunnel that was still in use by the R.R. and had a narrow road alongside the tracks. When on that road and a train came thru it was sure-enough pucker time. Course there was a gate on the road at each end of the tunnel but the local ner-do-wells kept the locks torn off most of the time. It was the only access to the junction of Obed River and Daddys Creek. Probably all locked up now by Nat. Park Service. All good things come to an end I reckon but at that place and time, if you had a good rig and were brave enough, "or crazy enough " a feller' could hunt, fish and explore the old trails every day and never go to the same place twice. Boys, enjoy yourselves cause before you can blink you're gonna be an old fart like me. By the way now I have three 70's all of which are legal.....I think. Now I live someplace else thats as wild as East Tn. used to be...........although a lot colder, but my heart is still in East Tn. Hope I haven't bored Ya'll to tears.
Where do you live now?
Two things to consider .....
1) We are planning on a 6th annual gathering.
2) You wouldn't be the first Michigan resident to attend.
As much as I would love that I have to be a realist. About two hours behind the wheel is all I can stand anymore so I am pretty much restricted to the U.P. nowadays. Not an altogeather bad thing, but I do miss my past long distance huntin' and fishin' trips. In the late 90's my wife, son, and four bird-dogs drove from Tn. to the U.P. one october to hunt Grouse and Woodcock.........in a BJ70 pulling a 1/4 ton jeep trailer. Can't make that trip anymore but I'll be with you folks in spirit. Oh, by the way I'm really not a Mich. resident but rather a resident of the U.P............Thats my story and I'm stickin' to it!
That's obviously a boo-boo on my behalf or the magazines. (most likely my screw up)so is it a 1978 J45 or 1988 J75?
Should read 1978 HJ-45 Ute.
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