Favorite old school rock crawler

[simmons3067]

Post a pick of your favorite old school Jeep or buggy

 

[KacksterK5]

Pinky or Chris Durham's Aluminum CJ10A

 

[simmons3067]

Chris’s Jeep truck was bad.

 

[white-rhino]

Pinky or Chris Durham's Aluminum CJ10A

Pinky is alive and kickin but looks quite a bit different now.

 

[simmons3067]

To think this was a comp rig. The sport has come a long way in the last 20 years.

 

[Bebop]

Any Campbell Moonbuggy.

But I'm partial to Roxanne cause I owned it for a bit.

 

[NDCjeepsmith]

There's quite a few classics I remember

Pat Gremillion's EB

Curries Fire Ant

Ned Bacon's Killer Bee

OG Scorpion

OG Sniper

 

[simmons3067]

The scorpion and sniper were cutting edge at that time.

 

[jawzjeep]

Scorpion was one of my most favorites. Got a big ass RC car that's a licensed version, of course that's been modified further...

 

[Sandy Johnson]

Sam Patton's old CJ was one of my favorites.

There was another one when I was a high schooler reading Peterson's that would always show up and was cool as hell. It was an all tube chassis "jeep" with the tubing painted yellow, the skins were orange or red or somewhere in there, it had an integrated cooler rack built into the back of the cage and it hauled ass. Can't remember what it was called or what pictures they had of it, but it was the first vehicle that made me realize you could build something that can go fast in the desert and still crawl well.

I wish i could find a pic somewhere.

 

[simmons3067]

I remember watching Sam’s CJ7 in top truck challenge. Very cool Jeep. It was the rock bouncer of the 90’s haha

 

[Sandy Johnson]

I remember watching Sam’s CJ7 in top truck challenge. Very cool Jeep. It was the rock bouncer of the 90’s haha

it had... dramatic pause 400 horse power! which seemed insane to me at the time.

 

[woods]

I got the privilege to wheel with TJ Hooker on my friend's private land with is CJ on 44s. The same rig that won TTC 2002(?)

I had a picture of his rig on the inside of my locker in high school. twenty years later, by chance, I end up spending the day wheeling with him.

 

[simmons3067]

On the Top Truck Topic. I got to wheel with Bob and his old M-37 years back at the hammers. Not a Jeep and not much of a rock crawler but a cool truck. I want to say he was in TTC 2001?

 

[Ghetto Fab.]

Sam Patton's old CJ was one of my favorites.

There was another one when I was a high schooler reading Peterson's that would always show up and was cool as hell. It was an all tube chassis "jeep" with the tubing painted yellow, the skins were orange or red or somewhere in there, it had an integrated cooler rack built into the back of the cage and it hauled ass. Can't remember what it was called or what pictures they had of it, but it was the first vehicle that made me realize you could build something that can go fast in the desert and still crawl well.

I wish i could find a pic somewhere.

You thinking of this one? Randy Ellis.
https://www.pirate4x4.com/attachments/scott5-jpg.289496/

 

[Sandy Johnson]

You thinking of this one? Randy Ellis.
https://www.pirate4x4.com/attachments/scott5-jpg.289496/

Yesss! I freakin loved that thing when I first saw it.

edit funny how the brain works. I definitely remembered the chassis as being yellow instead of orange and I thought the body was orange until I saw that pic.

now I'm stoked because I found this now that I know whose name to search: An Old Classis Gets Upgrade- Triple Bypass Install

 

[NDCjeepsmith]

I was thinking of the red and yellow tubed jeeps from some company I can't remember...

Thompson Machine?
Something machine and gear?
Tri-state gear maybe

Too much mix of red and yellow but I dug those rigs

 

[YotaAtieToo]

Sam Patton's old CJ was one of my favorites.

There was another one when I was a high schooler reading Peterson's that would always show up and was cool as hell. It was an all tube chassis "jeep" with the tubing painted yellow, the skins were orange or red or somewhere in there, it had an integrated cooler rack built into the back of the cage and it hauled ass. Can't remember what it was called or what pictures they had of it, but it was the first vehicle that made me realize you could build something that can go fast in the desert and still crawl well.

I wish i could find a pic somewhere.

We must have been buying the same magazines.

I think the first 2 I bought were the ttc where Sam Patton won and the petersons with the jeep I think you're talking about on the cover. I remember a bright orange tube chassis, red body with flames and big coil overs. I dug a Pic of that jeep up a little while ago, but I don't feel like doing it again

Edit: nevermind, I guess I saved it to my phone.

 

[white-rhino]

Pinky or Chris Durham's Aluminum CJ10A

A recent pic of Pinky

 

[simmons3067]

I never noticed the drag link on this Jeep. It looks to be push pull with the box way back towards the firewall.

 

[Ghetto Fab.]

I never noticed the drag link on this Jeep. It looks to be push pull with the box way back towards the firewall.

Yes, I believe he was probably the first crawler person to try that. I don't know how successfull it was. I want to say that Jessie Haines attempted it on a KOH build much later and had some packaging problems with it.

It is funny how the Randy Ellis jeep and the Drews ultimate jeep were both state of the art at one point, and both ran D44s it looks like. Its crazy how things have changed!

 

[simmons3067]

In my head it’s a good idea. If it follows the same arc as the axle during movement would it eliminate bump steer?

 

[89Breaker]

Sam’s CJ was a huge inspiration for my own build. The scorpion opened my eyes to non-traditional builds along with Bill Vista’s tech articles.

Who owned that green willies in California that was famous for always wearing tevas? It was always in Petersens 4wd, big ass tires, simple clean cage, and low to ground.

Dude had long grey hair, glasses, and eventually bought a cherokee to tow it if I remember right?

I spent way too many hours of my younger life reading about it also.

 

[LUVMYTJ]

Slinky?

 

[89Breaker]

Slinky?

Apparently there are a couple I was merging together. First was Rick Pewe’s which I guess inspired another one by Sebastian Varas in Chile.

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[shortbus4x4]

Soni's Flatty, he always built the coolest stuff.

 

[rfr002]

Sam's CJ and his performance in TTC were badass. The Scorpion got a lot of gears turning thinking outside the box.

My favoritest is Dan Dibble's buggy, though. He was the OG southern rock bouncer. Also had good build threads.

Tim C's Fat Girl is an aesthetic favorite of mine also.

 

[Brad]

I was thinking of the red and yellow tubed jeeps from some company I can't remember...

Thompson Machine?
Something machine and gear?
Tri-state gear maybe

Too much mix of red and yellow but I dug those rigs

Tri county gears little YJ was yellow body and blue cage.

 

[NDCjeepsmith]

Yeah probably it... I was thinking a red body with yellow tube work and wheels or vice versa for some reason.

 

[TreeClimber]

Yes, I believe he was probably the first crawler person to try that. I don't know how successfull it was. I want to say that Jessie Haines attempted it on a KOH build much later and had some packaging problems with it.

It is funny how the Randy Ellis jeep and the Drews ultimate jeep were both state of the art at one point, and both ran D44s it looks like. Its crazy how things have changed!

Pretty sure Randy or Shannon ran GM axles back in the day. I helped with TTC back eons ago, and I remember one of them had a 10 bolt (or maybe a 12 bolt, don't really remember, but it wasnt a D44)