Flying Pig!! (1 Viewer)

[riderjgs]

Safe travels...if you overnight in Santa Fe on the way home, do dinner at the Pink Adobe a few blocks off the plaza. Snooty locals pooh-pooh it but it is a historic place. Steak Dunigan is the go-to, NY strip with sauteed green chiles and mushrooms and twice backed potatoes on the side. You and Kim would enjoy their cookbook.
Onward...

 

[greenbeast]

Jim
Thanks as always. Staying at Grand Canyon hotel tonight made so famous by Clark Griswolds visit!

Due to significant potential job changes during trip (in good way) we’re only going to be able to stop and see little stuff on way home.

Just passed Mojave area. Still having a blast and Kim stoked about the new pig!

 

[riderjgs]

Jim
Thanks as always. Staying at Grand Canyon hotel tonight made so famous by Clark Griswolds visit!

Due to significant potential job changes during trip (in good way) we’re only going to be able to stop and see little stuff on way home.

Just passed Mojave area. Still having a blast and Kim stoked about the new pig!

Slap those redone F150 seats in it and she’ll be in Pork Heaven. Aren’t they even the right color?

 

[greenbeast]

The seats with this project are very nice!!!! Gonna have to crawl in sweat lodge and make some tough decisions what to do with my seat options!!

 

[bobm]

King Ranch. @smooth knows

 

[greenbeast]

Long road trip sure makes it evident to truly make our aspirations of exploring in the pig a reality we need larger fuel tank.

No skills to build on I do recall seeing some prefab tanks but can’t recall who makes them.

Can anyone share where I can find one that’s has been tried and proven?

 

[scrapdaddy]

LRA tank @orangefj45 sells them or maybe @Megadoomer can turn you on to his fab guy.

 

[Megadoomer]

I guess mine is tried and proven after changing a bit of it when parts didn't work. It would be cool to produce a tank for the pig but it is probably not a winning adventure. some pigs mount different, have different venting, Then you throw in all the many configurations we all have on our pig. Like repowers and FI. You have to make it so it could be adapted to different sending units and in-tank or out of tank pumps. All of that for like the 10 of us? Making it modular would be a fun challenge and just having the Holley Hydramat standard would be neat. Not cheap I imagine

 

[greenbeast]

Dang big hole in the ground! On list to come back and visit for a week.

 

[riderjgs]

Dang big hole in the ground! On list to come back and visit for a week.

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You’d also like the North Rim. Fewer touristas. Equally impressive views and another one of those spectacular old lodges. Picture in my mind is Scraps and Jeri cozied up on a leather couch looking through two story floor to ceiling windows into the canyon.

 

[greenbeast]

You’d also like the North Rim. Fewer touristas. Equally impressive views and another one of those spectacular old lodges. Picture in my mind is Scraps and Jeri cozied up on a leather couch looking through two story floor to ceiling windows into the canyon.

Told Kim that for next trip, looking across I couldn’t see a easy way to cross with a trailer…

 

[riderjgs]

Told Kim that for next trip, looking across I couldn’t see a easy way to cross with a trailer…

Gotta want to get there. It aint easy but it's worth it. About 30 miles one-way into the lodge once you're in the area.

 

[riderjgs]

Long road trip sure makes it evident to truly make our aspirations of exploring in the pig a reality we need larger fuel tank.

No skills to build on I do recall seeing some prefab tanks but can’t recall who makes them.

Can anyone share where I can find one that’s has been tried and proven?

Consider that stopping every 250-300 miles with a stock tank while driving a 50-year old solid axle vehicle may be worthwhile even if you ignore bladder breaks. (Or you could do as an ex-boss did and install a "pilot relief tube" in his van for long jaunts). Plus moving the spare inside cuts into space for any treasures Kim may find along the way. Or parts for your expanding fleet you may stumble across.

 

[Pigeaten]

Dang big hole in the ground! On list to come back and visit for a week.

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pretty much looks the same, even from different vantage points, holds about an hour of my attention

 

[greenbeast]

pretty much looks the same, even from different vantage points, holds about an hour of my attention

Ditto, walked around different vantage points no different

 

[greenbeast]

Well with slight mechanical delay in Flagstaff I now get to stay in the John Wayne suite at the El Rancho in Gallup. We enjoyed it so much coming down felt it was a good choice to stop again.

 

[Pigeaten]

Well with slight mechanical delay in Flagstaff I now get to stay in the John Wayne suite at the El Rancho in Gallup. We eIf

if I knew that place was there, I would have stopped, I always blow thru there. When I was young, my uncle used to take us thru the southwest every easter break-Leave Sacramento-stop in Reno to gamble-hit utah, arizona, New Mexico, Juarez Mexico, Las Vegas, LA, Home for Easter But i remember driving thru Gallup on a Friday night, drunks hanging onto trees to stand up along street, etched in my mind

 

[greenbeast]

@scrapdaddy
This one for Ron!

 

[scrapdaddy]

Awesome!

 

[greenbeast]

Although that’s a huge attraction here, we’re sitting in Brown mug cafe across from the La Pasada hotel. Harrison Ford apparently sat in same booth were currently sitting in.

It too has hosted many famous folks. John Wayne, Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Stewart, Franklin Roosevelt among many others.

This area is so cool, I’d stay in hotel tonight if we hadn’t made arrangements.

Definitely a stop for the future!!