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RUSH55
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Pics of the ‘73 we were talking about over the weekend
Beautiful.
What do the rubber fuel lines look like coming from the fuel tank?
PabloCruise
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Some great pictures...
Here are a few of my best pics.. My camera back then was a Kodak 110, so it is what it is and may not make the grade technically speaking;
Near Danville, IL in the now-closed Illinois Power pits just north of Kickapoo State Park.
A better-lit shot with some fellow workers at the same location. We were all younger then.
An action shot in the pits near Kickapoo
Somewhere in Colorado waiting for the vapor lock to settle down.
Me and my 55 at Animas Forks, Colorado. At least the hood is in the right position now.
After some damn fool totaled his AMC POS on RG d
About 4 years after the first Kickapoo pics, she was fresh out of the shop from having the front fenders replaced. I think this is Kinney's Ford, the only part of the whole trail complex still open, mainly because it's a public road at the north end of what is now one kind or another of public parks.
I've got a few more and these probably all need some Photoshopping. For any particular pic, I can supply higher quality images. I can run them through Photoshop, but for something like a calendar, etc, it might be best that you handle the Photoshop side of things for better consistency.
This series of pics continues a few posts further down in this thread:
Pig Picture Album - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/pig-picture-album.982569/post-15796859
Near Danville, IL in the now-closed Illinois Power pits just north of Kickapoo State Park.
A better-lit shot with some fellow workers at the same location. We were all younger then.
An action shot in the pits near Kickapoo
Somewhere in Colorado waiting for the vapor lock to settle down.
Me and my 55 at Animas Forks, Colorado. At least the hood is in the right position now.
After some damn fool totaled his AMC POS on RG d
About 4 years after the first Kickapoo pics, she was fresh out of the shop from having the front fenders replaced. I think this is Kinney's Ford, the only part of the whole trail complex still open, mainly because it's a public road at the north end of what is now one kind or another of public parks.
I've got a few more and these probably all need some Photoshopping. For any particular pic, I can supply higher quality images. I can run them through Photoshop, but for something like a calendar, etc, it might be best that you handle the Photoshop side of things for better consistency.
This series of pics continues a few posts further down in this thread:
Pig Picture Album - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/pig-picture-album.982569/post-15796859
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RUSH55
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RUSH55
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‘Live Free or Die’
I'll put up the rest of my pics I have online of my old FJ55 here. There may be more, but I'll have to locagte them.
This is what happens to your FJ55 when some yahoo totals his AMC POS on your rear bumper at 30 mph when you're stopped at a stoplight.
Really just the bumper ends and the body work behind them and, as later discovered, a bent frame on the drivers side of the front bench seat. My neck, however, has never been the same. Interestingly, the friont seat had the mounts for headrest built in, but covered over by the seat material, It's like Toyota got halfway there , then decided this important safety measure could wait another year.
The next two pics are fro an excursion to Sandridge State Forest near Havana, IL. Used to have roads in the sand that were open to the public, then when the public started using them, they were closed in the late 70s. That's my brother on the left holding a PBR in the first pic, along with our roommate sitting on the front bumper and some other misc. folks that squeezed in.
Next a couple of pics from the pits over near Kickapoo.
The brown patch on the right rear is from some minor trail rash I picked up in Indiana climbing out of a rainy hole. It was the first time I ever got the 55 stuck, but we somehow managed to get out. The next pic is the site of that hole, which had since been bulldozed in something considerably less challenging, which the pics after illustrates better. That's my college dorm buddy, Dave Adam, who went to Colorado with me in the other pics in this series from that trip.
Here's a bridge towards the north end of the Kickapoo complex. I think it was replaced by a new bridge that is just south of Kinney's Ford.
Packing the truck for the Colorado trip.
Here I am in front of the cabins at the Wild Irishman Mine, located just a little south of the Silverplume/Georgetown Loop area.
No truck in the next pic, but shows Dave cleaning up after breakfast. Its just so scenic and a great example of the places your can go in your Land Cruiser.
The Pig posed at the top of Hoosier Pass. It's a paved road and not all that tall, but since we were both native Hoosiers, we had to take it.
The next year(1978?) I'd managed to save up enough to afford some improvements. Here's my 8274 and some protection on the front, being inspected by my calico cat, CaCa. Then a nice 3/4 view of the 55, showing off a set of the very first BFG Radial All-Terrains.
The side profile barely shows it, but there's the spare on my homemade rear carrier bumper, because no one made anything like that for a 55 at the time. Had to do something about the spare, because it had lost it's place when I installed a 50 gallon replacement tank under there. And somehow I'd managed to have those silly white letters turned inward on the tires, between this pic and the two previous ones.
Here we are on a visit to Phoenix, where my bro and Randy decamped to after getting fired from their jobs making Vetter motorcycle fairings by taking a too long 4th of July and deciding they'd rather collect the unemployment case they won in warmer climates than those infamous Illinois winters of the late 70s.
I spent about 10 days in Arizona, which included a big camping trip to Roosevelt Lake. This pic is from the long road around the lake.
Finally a couple of pics that popped up just because somebody thought a Pig was cool. This first one is from an early version of the PayPal website.
This next one was spotted parked at Neil Young's ranch when he and the rest of CSN&Y were working on something. Any idea who the cool person who owned a nice fresh 55 might be, just like I did, back in the day?
This is what happens to your FJ55 when some yahoo totals his AMC POS on your rear bumper at 30 mph when you're stopped at a stoplight.
Really just the bumper ends and the body work behind them and, as later discovered, a bent frame on the drivers side of the front bench seat. My neck, however, has never been the same. Interestingly, the friont seat had the mounts for headrest built in, but covered over by the seat material, It's like Toyota got halfway there , then decided this important safety measure could wait another year.
The next two pics are fro an excursion to Sandridge State Forest near Havana, IL. Used to have roads in the sand that were open to the public, then when the public started using them, they were closed in the late 70s. That's my brother on the left holding a PBR in the first pic, along with our roommate sitting on the front bumper and some other misc. folks that squeezed in.
Next a couple of pics from the pits over near Kickapoo.
The brown patch on the right rear is from some minor trail rash I picked up in Indiana climbing out of a rainy hole. It was the first time I ever got the 55 stuck, but we somehow managed to get out. The next pic is the site of that hole, which had since been bulldozed in something considerably less challenging, which the pics after illustrates better. That's my college dorm buddy, Dave Adam, who went to Colorado with me in the other pics in this series from that trip.
Here's a bridge towards the north end of the Kickapoo complex. I think it was replaced by a new bridge that is just south of Kinney's Ford.
Packing the truck for the Colorado trip.
Here I am in front of the cabins at the Wild Irishman Mine, located just a little south of the Silverplume/Georgetown Loop area.
No truck in the next pic, but shows Dave cleaning up after breakfast. Its just so scenic and a great example of the places your can go in your Land Cruiser.
The Pig posed at the top of Hoosier Pass. It's a paved road and not all that tall, but since we were both native Hoosiers, we had to take it.
The next year(1978?) I'd managed to save up enough to afford some improvements. Here's my 8274 and some protection on the front, being inspected by my calico cat, CaCa. Then a nice 3/4 view of the 55, showing off a set of the very first BFG Radial All-Terrains.
The side profile barely shows it, but there's the spare on my homemade rear carrier bumper, because no one made anything like that for a 55 at the time. Had to do something about the spare, because it had lost it's place when I installed a 50 gallon replacement tank under there. And somehow I'd managed to have those silly white letters turned inward on the tires, between this pic and the two previous ones.
Here we are on a visit to Phoenix, where my bro and Randy decamped to after getting fired from their jobs making Vetter motorcycle fairings by taking a too long 4th of July and deciding they'd rather collect the unemployment case they won in warmer climates than those infamous Illinois winters of the late 70s.
I spent about 10 days in Arizona, which included a big camping trip to Roosevelt Lake. This pic is from the long road around the lake.
Finally a couple of pics that popped up just because somebody thought a Pig was cool. This first one is from an early version of the PayPal website.
This next one was spotted parked at Neil Young's ranch when he and the rest of CSN&Y were working on something. Any idea who the cool person who owned a nice fresh 55 might be, just like I did, back in the day?
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man thats gay,,,,,,
i'm refrencing the mud only wiped off the FJ-55 plate, the dude with the axe is georgeus, love ya bruh!!!
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
Me take offense! Reason being is @RUSH55 is my Buddy and he wore that tank to represent my presents at a get together that I. couldn't make along with @hanktank . Live Free or Die is New Hampshire's motto 
. It's on all license plates and should be everyone's motto especially after the past 4 years 
. So if you think this pose is GAY! Go **** yourself Bitch 
. It's on all license plates and should be everyone's motto especially after the past 4 years . So if you think this pose is GAY! Go **** yourself Bitch
umm, wow.
RUSH55
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Simmer Bobby, simmer!Me take offense! Reason being is @RUSH55 is my Buddy and he wore that tank to represent my presents at a get together that I. couldn't make along with @hanktank . Live Free or Die is New Hampshire's motto
Remember
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
I Apologize
Besides Bob, that's my license plate from the Show Me state. 
Only went I go club'n.
