Here a friend of Toby's wraps himself up in a tree. He came out for the day and really thrashed on this stock vehicle. Good thing the box is long gone.
Here Scott Archibald climbs one of the many trails out of the gravel pit. Scott's Bronco II is well built with a 302 ford, Explorer front axle with ARB, stock rear end with limited slip, and a body that just gets in the way. You would be amazed at the abuse this little rig takes.
Scott Miller rockets up the ice hill. Me and Toby had earlier made it up the hill but only after a few tries and some fast decents back down the hill. Scott decided momentum was his friend and backed up halfway acrossed the pit and just bonzied the hill. I was standing at the top ready to get the picture when he went back down instead I was diving for cover as he came up. Scott's rig started life as a Scout II now it sports a Ford fuel injected V-6 connected to a 2 wheel drive C-5 tranny, a divorced Dana 20, Dana 44's front and rear with 5.88 gears. It also supports a unique rear suspension that uses one coil with a three link set up that uses a trailer ball as the upper link attachment on top of the pumpkin.
Here russ tries one of the more challenging hill climbs. The hill wanted to slam you real hard on the drivers slide and you had to make the climb practically on the sidewalls of your drivers side tires. As the day went on this obstacle became increasingly muddier and required more and more right foot to get up. To bad Russ was not one of the few that made it up this hill.
The best oops of the day goes to Loren from the Trailriders 4x4 Club when he flopped his 1999 Dodge Dakota on its side. The story goes that Loren was trying to climb the hill like 20 feet to the side of were he flopped. He ended up getting pulled sideways and decided to try and drive it out. But along the way he hooked the rut he rolled into and the rest the say is photographic history.
We wound up dizzy but we had a blast paying on the frozen pond. We found that you could get the Jeep spinning in a pefect circle at about 6,000 RPM's by keeping the wheels straght and taching the motor.
Russ demonstrates his style of spinning in his tube frame creation. Russ built his tube frame creation after he grew tired of his smashed up ramcharger. He then stripped it to the frame and started adding tubing. Then for some unknown reason he painted it purple, so now he drives BARNEY.
Here Toby struts his stuff in his S-10 creation. What once was a fullsize now sports an S-10 cab, 454 big block, Turbo 350 tranny, or at least it did till Saturday when he blew it apart, full width axles, and 36 inch tires. Toby has this real conservative driving style that involves putting his foot through the floor. Hence the big block.