There And Back Again: A Pig Runners Odyssey (1 Viewer)

[wngrog]

Do you know what size or how to identify those ammo boxes that are on the front of his rig? They are bigger than the normal ones you see out there. Super cool

No they are just regular 7.62 M19A1 cans

 

[Gordobe]

I no nothing, I just do what happens.

Picture=1000 words

Remove lock, can slides off.

 

[RUSH55]

I didn’t notice them. I wasn’t able to really get into a thorough, drooling inspection of his rig.

 

[RUSH55]

So a little bit of heartbreak encountered at the Pig Party....

Jim ( @riderjgs ) informed me that the pig that started it all for me, no longer exists.
A guy some of you may know, Dave Gore, had a 68 that was the inspiration for my Cruiser for years. I first saw his pig when I was around 21 or 22 in the late 90’s. I had the nerve to knock on his door and ask permission to take some pictures, which he gladly oblidged.
It at the time had a 2F mated to an SM 420, SUA on 33’s, with lots of sweet armor.
At some point in the last 20 years he parted out/scrapped that unbelievably awesome machine *sniff* *sniffle*.
Don’t worry baby, you still live on in my dreams...

As these pics will attest, my early Cruiser Photo Album has the pics of his pig in the very front.

 

[wngrog]

Awesome

 

[riderjgs]

If that's the one Dave scrapped, it was repainted solid maroon before it was crushed (or at least the doors I got were solid maroon unless my aging memory is failing me.) Believe the one that was crushed was a '69.

 

[PabloCruise]

So a little bit of heartbreak encountered at the Pig Party....

Jim ( @riderjgs ) informed me that the pig that started it all for me, no longer exists.
A guy some of you may know, Dave Gore, had a 68 that was the inspiration for my Cruiser for years. I first saw his pig when I was around 21 or 22 in the late 90’s. I had the nerve to knock on his door and ask permission to take some pictures, which he gladly oblidged.
It at the time had a 2F mated to an SM 420, SUA on 33’s, with lots of sweet armor.
At some point in the last 20 years he parted out/scrapped that unbelievably awesome machine *sniff* *sniffle*.
Don’t worry baby, you still live on in my dreams...

As these pics will attest, my early Cruiser Photo Album has the pics of his pig in the very front.

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Looks like the old MAF rear bumper.

 

[RUSH55]

It could have been a 69 Jim. He mentioned it, but I always just remembered it was an early one.

 

[RUSH55]

Looks like the old MAF rear bumper.

Dave was the one building them for MAF

 

[RUSH55]

In the late 90’s early 2000’s editions of the Man-A-Fre catalog, this rig was the one pictured with the rear bumper with the description of their extreme duty rear bumper (or whatever they were calling it).

 

[PabloCruise]

Dave was the one building them for MAF

In the late 90’s early 2000’s editions of the Man-A-Fre catalog, this rig was the one pictured with the rear bumper with the description of their extreme duty rear bumper (or whatever they were calling it).

I really liked that bumper. I still have my MAF catalog with pictures of that bumper and my notes scribbled in the margins...

 

[RUSH55]

I was wondering earlier if I still had any of mine. I know one of them I wore the covers off of, not sure if I kept any others. Funny, at one point in time I used to buy pretty much everything through them, now I hardly even look at them for parts.

 

[PabloCruise]

I really liked that bumper. I still have my MAF catalog with pictures of that bumper and my notes scribbled in the margins...

From here: POTM - March, 2014 - Javelina By Pablo Cruise

 

[RUSH55]

YES! That’s it! Same 55

I always liked that description - “...will easily support the weight of your Cruiser, like when sliding off a boulder...”

 

[RUSH55]

Here’s another blast from the past -
Todd Kaederabek’s (or however you spell it) SOA 55.

Never met the guy, but knew him through the chatboard “Birfield.com”, as well as Morgan (the founder) and several other characters.

Anyways, this Pig was a major rust bucket. Todd sold it to a guy who ended up doing major sheet metal surgery, which consequently is one of the earliest sheet metal restoration threads here on Mud.

My favorite thing about it though is what Todd would always say about it -
“It wheels like the devil!”

 

[RUSH55]

Since I’m sharing some old pics, here’s some from my magazine stash of 55 eye candy. Coming across pigs in national publications is rare, so I’ve held on to every one I’ve found (which isn’t much).

The reader’s rides pic is from a Petersen’s 4Wheel and Off Road
Oct. 1995

The captioned pic is from a 4Wheel Drive & Sport Utility
March 1999

The B&W is from a 1994 edition of Toyota Trails

 

[RUSH55]

Came across a trove of pics, some of the first digital ones I think, that aren’t screenshots of old 3x5’s.

This first block is from me and Clay’s run out to Sheep’s Bridge and then out to Red Creek and down to its confluence with the Verde River. Fun trail!

 

[RUSH55]

More at Red Creek

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[RUSH55]

This was out at a great spot called Devil’s Chasm

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[scrapdaddy]

Great pictures!