Now this is a expedition rig!

[SOCALFJ]

I posted this over on EP too.. worth posting everywhere in my opinion.

This old man was hard core! I saw him today driving on our local freeway! Doing like 30mph! Wagon wheels wobbling all the way. Packed with sleeping bags and gear.. he was goin somewhere! It wasn't restored.. it looked as if he uses it everyday. I purposely pulled over and stood outside the rig and gave him a huge thumbsup as he passed.

I drove behind him as almost to protect him from some of the idiot drivers here. So cool. Man after my own heart.

 

[fernandol]

that's wicked, would have been great to talk to the guy.

 

[wyomingben]

Hell yeah, bet he isn't worried about how to plug his Ipod into his ampla wolfer..... or getting back home real quick to watch america's biggest fat ass.

Yeah!
-Wyo

 

[Mickldo]

And I betcha it would go more places off road than most of the pretend four wheel drives all the posers drive.

 

[hks3sgte]

That's exactly what I need... like I say, everything you need and nothing you don't!

 

[TEPUI]

And I betcha it would go more places off road than most of the pretend four wheel drives all the posers drive.

Exactly!

 

[gen2600]

Wow, that takes gutts. I'm way impressed. We should show him we can crank our old cruisers by hand too

 

[GreatLakesWaterjet]

Wow, look how much ground clearance he has! Are those Volvo portals? Needs more triangulation! He probally lives in a cabin in the mountians on 2000 acres , lives of the land and comes to town once a month for supplies. No phone, no internet, no hasles of everyday bull$h1t. He slole my life and I want it back! He's a lucky man.

 

[green40]

We were Doing the Alpine Loop near Silverton CO about 2 weeks ago. We had gone over Engineer's Pass and were down on the other side. We stopped for a break and heard someone coming, 4 or 5 old rigs like that came by going up towards the pass.
When we finished the loop and got back to Silverton they were at one of the campgrounds in town!


Lane

 

[REZARF]

Very cool. You gotta love that dude!

Rezarf <><

 

[stayalert]

sweet even has cruiser lean...

 

[TEPUI]

notice the 90 degree approach angle? sweet!

 

[spressomon]

We were Doing the Alpine Loop near Silverton CO about 2 weeks ago. We had gone over Engineer's Pass and were down on the other side. We stopped for a break and heard someone coming, 4 or 5 old rigs like that came by going up towards the pass.
When we finished the loop and got back to Silverton they were at one of the campgrounds in town!


Lane

Pics?

 

[ms018kmf]

I am amazed at all the older pictures from the last 90 years where they really took trucks like that wherever they could (sorry, I have no pics). It's awesome seeing one of those frame deep in mud and the driver is wearing a suit with a top hat. People took them through rocks too.

 

[Tools R Us]

It’s amazing what people did with cars in those days, they were a tougher breed! If you get a chance watch Horatio's Drive, America’s First Road Trip by Ken Burns, it’s on PBS maybe once a year, also can be purchased from them. It’s the story of the first crossing of the US by car in 1903, a well told story of a great adventure!

http://www.pbs.org/horatio/index.html

 

[splitshot]

It’s amazing what people did with cars in those days, they were a tougher breed! If you get a chance watch Horatio's Drive, America’s First Road Trip by Ken Burns, it’s on PBS maybe once a year, also can be purchased from them. It’s the story of the first crossing of the US by car in 1903, a well told story of a great adventure!

http://www.pbs.org/horatio/index.html

So, THATS where you got your avi idea...

 

[TemeculaTim]

My 85 year old neighbor drove his Model A ford down the Baja penninsula and back through mainland mexico in the 70's. Now thats hard core!

 

[Tools R Us]

So, THATS where you got your avi idea...

Yep, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson is my hero! After first seeing the movie years a go, I did a bunch of research on him. He set off on the ultimate wheeling adventure with zero support staff, just him, his co driver/mechanic, a dog they picked up along the way and the equipment that the car could carry. Early on a bunch of their equipment fell off and they had to soldier on without cooking implements, etc. Lost, stuck many times, blew the motor a couple of times, bunch of tires, springs, etc. Most of the towns they went through had never even seen a car, let alone have any parts, tires, etc. So when it broke they would limp, drag it to a town, telegraph the car manufacture in Cleveland, wait for the parts to come on the train or stage coach and repair the car.

He took a camera and wrote his wife often, the movie make extensive use of his pictures and a lot of the dialog is reading his letters to his wife. No matter the obstacles, totally confident he was going to make it. Now days some will tell you, your not safe to travel forest service roads unless you have a certain brand of winch, his recovery gear was a wooden block and tackle from a sailboat!

The trip was to settle a bar room argument, $50 dollar bet. His buddy argued that the car would always be a fad, toy, never be a transportation tool, so Horatio made the trip to prove him wrong. Won the bet, but never collected the money, kept the car, IIRC it’s still owned by the family, on permanent loan and display in the Smithsonian. Thinking about getting the DVD for the CSC club library.

Can’t find a good copy of the picture that I want for my avatar, have only seen it in the movie, it’s the car crossing the desert with a big umbrella planted between the seats!

 

[splitshot]

I watch alot of PBS, suprised I haven't come across it. I think it may have to be added to my library also. Thanks, my family really eats that kind of stuff up.

 

[KArmstrong]

Love the photos ... we lived in Riverside when I was a kid and drove the canyon back and forth to Long Beach / Anaheim before there was a freeway there!

As regards "Horatio", the guy who wrote the book ... Dayton Duncan(?) ... spoke at the local Library a couole of years back. He was fascinating to listen to.