Decade Of Tamor Party/Wheeling Trip - 3/1/08

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Originally Posted by Graystroke

it was my idea for a club anyways!

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Oh boy, here we go. :)


That would have been Spring '98 Andy. I didn't track Burbach down until the beginning of that semester. We had eyed eachother in the parking lot before. I was in Moore, he was in Crocker. I can't find the writeup, but he was in some pictures of Ft. Hood. I saw his Jeep in the picture on this page:

http://www.rockcrawler.com/readersri...lay.asp?ID=155

He had hooked up with some Hummer guys and was there checking it out that weekend. It was muddy. But Rockcrawler.com had the writeup with his name on it so I looked him up on the TAMU phonebook. We hooked up. Troy had left a note on his Jeep so we called him. Ryan Vance from our dorm helped also. He went to Hood with us that first time out. We met up out there with Brooks Harkey (Black CJ7), the Broone Family (Bobbed Yellow CJ8), and Scott Havis (FJ40). But backtrack a little...

Troy met us in the dorm parking lot. Cells weren't as rampant then, but I think we all had one. We didn't yet have his number so we waited. We planned on 6:00AM and I remember we had to wait a while. When he got there and we all wanted to go eat, it made sense to just meet at McDonald's from there on out.

In the "old days", we met at McDonald's and left at 6:30. If you weren't there and fueled up, you got left. We were pretty militant about it. It was funny because it didn't matter how late you stayed up drinking the night before, everyone was ready to go the next day. Reminiscent of cut.

[uphill in the snow, story]We were poor college kids beating the hell out of their daily drivers. There was no hotels. Hell, not even camping at Hood. No tow rigs. No trail rigs for that matter, just DDs. We drove 2 hours there, wheeled, ate at Fuddruckers, and drove home. Hopefully nobody broke so bad that we couldn't limp them home. Many drove home with broken axles and/or spider gears. We wheeled 1 or 2 times a month for a couple years straight.[/uphill in the snow, story]

It was good times, much like today. Here are some old pics and trip reports:
http://highlift.com/trips/index.html

Ah yes, let's not forget the weekend ths Scotti's met: http://highlift.com/trips/041099/index.html

Mark did have Bluto and Norm setup early with the flat tow, so he probably had the first tow rig/trail rig setup. I guess Greg had the first tow rig/trailer rig setup.

when was it that everybody almost got plowed on the side of the road on the way back...I can't remember who broke down. I can't remember who told me the story of the guy going off the road and into the grass on the shoulder almost hitting everyone.
Off-road rigs were funny back then compared to today. We all thought 33" tires were huge! Trucks were the norm and you have better had ordered the Z-71 pkg! I seem to remember a lot of dodge trucks wheeling. Vans, Andy's and the dood w/ the V-10 that ended sinking it in a stock tank later.
Others:
Adam Lopez lifted 3/4 burb 35's and a 454.
K collins wheeling the **** out of a brand new 1998 tahoe. ripped the torsion bar off the front! nice! ratchet straps to the rescue. scotti sinking his 4runner in the creek. pics of scott and mark falling in the crack... nose bleed and chicken foot...remember those trails?...remember crazy ray!? When he flooged the **** out of his chevy stepside up chicken foot and left pcs of his drive shaft all down the trail...that was awesome!

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Originally Posted by Graystroke

when was it that everybody almost got plowed on the side of the road on the way back...I can't remember who broke down. I can't remember who told me the story of the guy going off the road and into the grass on the shoulder almost hitting everyone.

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That was Clark Findley. This trip: http://highlift.com/trips/102598/index.html
I still talk to him also. He lives in Houston. He's a Realtor & Reserve Sheriff. Has a big Harley F-250.


Ben was the V10 one that sank in the pond. C'mon Andy, got a little story for us Ags?

tell the strap story!

some things just never change! ha ha :flipoff2:

from your trip report on highlift.com
"Chris Scotti has a near roll at Kyle's Step after taking a dangerous line."

Does anyone else find it ironic that the only people on the boards at 10:30 on a friday night are me and the old people?


(I'm in Kingsville, thats my excuse :flipoff2: )

we're saving up for Monday night!

David - what about our first wheeling trip behind Sam's Club? :)

so - I just missed this whole thread. Ahh the good'ol times!

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Originally Posted by 8Runner

David - what about our first wheeling trip behind Sam's Club? :)

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Oh yes. The first day I met Chris. He rolls by the dorm in his lifted 4Runner. 33s. ProComp 4"? No lockers (before we really knew much about them). He says he knows about this place behind the Movie theater. OK, let's go check it out. It's daylight when we leave. Everything is going well until while turning around, we get hung on something. We're hung bad. He has a chrome brush guard, but no winch. We're digging and trying to get out. We were travelling in the power line right of way back there. By the time we get stuck we're less than 100 yards from Harvey Rd.

At one point a cop stops just to make sure we're alright. By that point we're knee deep in mud and digging by head/moon light. We told him we were stuck but trying to get it out. He laughs and says good luck. Watches us for a while and heads out. I'm not sure who we got out there that night to help. Somewhere around 1AM we give up and leave it there. I know at some point Mike from is wailing on it with his truck, just launching it into the strap. No dice. I think we had multiple trucks/winches on it at one point. No dice. I'm not even sure how you finally got it out because I think I had returned to my daily life by then.

It was the perfect disaster to start the memories. I think we later found that it was a tree/stump that had lodged itself between lift parts and the lift got a little tweaked with all of the yanking.

Good times. :gigem:

found these. The pic of Wyatt was at a party in Houston - on the roof of an office building...

anyone remember this party?

Mud wrestling anyone :gigem:

Great truck show. I think the Coca-Cola people were a little distraught after Wolverton and RJ almost tore the bungee pull thing in half. Did they end up running off the end of it?

I see (from top, clockwise):
Brandee Elieff's TJ
? YJ
Tyler Herring's Danger Ranger
Kevin's DP Edition D90
Justin Thaxton's exhaust-tip-less F-150
Jason Hensel's unmolested Ranger
Chadnutz's unmolested Mazda
NORM!
Chris Kawasaki's Wagoneer
The Late, Great Busa/Landon Toyota
Zach Farrington's(?) TJ
Matt ?'s TJ
David Oliver's Suburban
Austin Roberts' F-150
Scott's exo-cage Toyota (first TAMOR vehicle I ever saw in person, I think it was on Texas, he big leagued me when I tried to ask where the meetings were)
Krebs' Blazer

i tried to name them all too, i got all that you did except thaxton's. :gigem:

The craigslist ad for the cherokee that john brown posted reminded me of that kid with the white xj jacked up with lockers but still street tires. That kid kicked ass at one trip and then faded into oblivion. He lived over there off rio grande somewhere. I dont remember his name.

My first memories: My first meeting I brought my broken locker and asked if someone knew how to fix it. I remember laughing at the guy who had an eyeball drawn on the eyepatch he wore (Troy). I remember the meetings at Koppe Bridge, Tamor Angels, Thursday nights at the Hall, flirting with Scott and Ryan (when I didn't like either one of them at the time), Football games with a half naked Garner, and picking up guys in front of the Dexter house when I changed my oil. I also remember driving home at midnight completely brown with mud from an evening of mudding.

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Originally Posted by Lynda

Football games with a half naked Garner

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Can anyone really know Garner without seeing him sans shirt and shoes?

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Originally Posted by bburris

Can anyone really know Garner without seeing him sans shirt and shoes?

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I think Garner's own wedding was the first time I'd seen him with shoes on. :laughing:

and probably the first time you saw the bride do a keg stand :)

so are we planning a celebration or what?

I think we decided this weekend while sitting around the fire in gilmer that the wheeling/bar hopping in college station in march sounded good. I guess we just need to get the logistics worked out.

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Originally Posted by Snatch Adams

i tried to name them all too, i got all that you did except thaxton's. :gigem:

The craigslist ad for the cherokee that john brown posted reminded me of that kid with the white xj jacked up with lockers but still street tires. That kid kicked ass at one trip and then faded into oblivion. He lived over there off rio grande somewhere. I dont remember his name.

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He was weird. Wasn't he our webmaster for a year?

I have posted these before I think. From a 2001 Shiloh run.

more..

One from Llano...

I guess I need to dust off the collection in the filing cabinet at home...

Sleeping accomodations at The Dexter House are available.

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Originally Posted by bburris

Great truck show. I think the Coca-Cola people were a little distraught after Wolverton and RJ almost tore the bungee pull thing in half. Did they end up running off the end of it?

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yes we both made it to the end. however, since we had multiple bungees attached to us( i think they had three depending on your size) the ass end of it went into the air and then proceeded to drag my ass along the pavement instead of the chute when it finaly returned to earth.

I'm in since I live here.

Maybe this should be the last trip of the blazer?

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Originally Posted by Doug Krebs

Maybe this should be the last trip of the blazer?

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what are you going to go all Clarke on it?

what the hell does that mean? Lets not feck up this thread either...

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Originally Posted by uglyota

what are you going to go all Clarke on it?

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It's "Flem it out" get it right. :gigem:

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Originally Posted by Doug Krebs

what the hell does that mean? Lets not feck up this thread either...

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this thread is already forked from all the wolverton-style remeniscing (sp?)

What you going to do with the blazer?

Sell me the drivetrain :gigem:

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Originally Posted by Snatch Adams

this thread is already forked from all the wolverton-style remeniscing (sp?)

What you going to do with the blazer?

Sell me the drivetrain :gigem:

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Well the drivetrain was going to eventually find it's way under something else. The rest of the blazer was going to go to bryan iron and metal.

Doesn't your jimmy already have a 14 bolt under the rear? I'll probably wind up using that dana 60 hi pinion for the next rig anyways, which would make the one under the blazer available.

On that not I wouldn't go dana 60 unless you plan on wheeling it...

i just want the motor and trans ;)

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Originally Posted by Doug Krebs

Well the drivetrain was going to eventually find it's way under something else. The rest of the blazer was going to go to bryan iron and metal.

Doesn't your jimmy already have a 14 bolt under the rear? I'll probably wind up using that dana 60 hi pinion for the next rig anyways, which would make the one under the blazer available.

On that not I wouldn't go dana 60 unless you plan on wheeling it...

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see Jimmy? Not getting Flemmed. Sanford and Sonned maybe :flipoff2:

bump

bump... This really going to happen?

yes. we need to get some details hammered out.

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Originally Posted by Fredo

yes. we need to get some details hammered out.

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You mean like a fix for the tranny mount on my blazer?

is the club going to supply bbq like the club picnic? If so we will need a headcount.

Someone should also make sure 47 will be open, and make burbach go to the chicken and reserve our table.