About a year and a half ago when my dad told me he was going to give me his truck, I showed one of my friends, and he told me I should put a lift on it (at the time I knew absoluty nothing about cars and trucks) I was curious, but didnt do anything, a few weeks later, some guy at my dads work got transfered and he had his Four Wheeler subscription mailed to work, when my dad saw the Four Wheeler on his desk and knew he wasnt there anymore, he yoinked it and brought it home, I read it and knew that I had to get into trucks, then later he came home with a Hot Rod mag, I knew at this point I was going to like Hot Rods/Muscle Cars and trucks for the rest of my life, and a year and a half ago I knew zippo, but now, I know alot! I have since put a Skyjacker 2.5" Lift on, 33" SSR's and getting ready for an engine swap this summer, woohoo! /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif/wwwthreads_images/icons/cool.gif

89 K1500 Skyjacker 2.5" 33" SSR's
/wwwthreads_images/icons/laugh.gifFriends dont let friends drive Fords/wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif

 

To be totally honest I´m not all that into crawling along some trail. I´m more of a racer at heart I think. Mud racing or street racing doesn´t matter as long as it includes rumbeling V8´s. I love everything about V8´s /wwwthreads_images/icons/laugh.gif We´ll see how it turns out when the Blazer is done. The reason I even got a Blazer was I convinced myself I needed one, living out here in the middle of nowhere/wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif. Why not a Toyota then, which gets better mileage? Did I mention I love V8´s? /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif

Andreas

Yes, the chef´s got a homepage/wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif
http://hem.passagen.se/znus/

 

Andreas, you could always swap a Chevy V8 into the Toy. /wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif But then you'd have a Toylet (mix of toy and chevrolet) /wwwthreads_images/icons/laugh.gif /wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif /wwwthreads_images/icons/wink.gif /wwwthreads_images/icons/laugh.gif

I'm more into driving fast (well as fast as possible) across large expanses of sand, and through mud. Slow trails are ok for me too though. Particularly when a big engine is involved though I like speed and power. /wwwthreads_images/icons/cool.gif

Tim "Sandman"

ORC Land Use columnist:
My November article on ORC

 

For me, it was right about when I got my eighth speeding ticket. I decided I needed to get rid of the fast car and buy something I couldn't go too fast in. I ended up buying a Ramcharger (didn't go any slower, cops just didn't look my way as much) so I could have something to drive and be able to go camping, etc. Gradually developed from a love of baja style racing (not too much fun with a heavy truck and leaf springs) to mud and rock crawling. That's the nice thing about growing up in Washington, you can get both in the same trail, sometimes at the same point. After the Ramcharger got totaled (damn Chrysler and their engine fires) I bought a 4wd Toyota (too small) then the 95 Jeep (wife's toy) and the 61 Willys (never ending project). After I got rid of the toy I bought my Blazer. I'll drive that beast until the wheels fall off. If there's help for this addiction they call 4wheelin' I don't want it.

If it ain't broke, you took the easy way around.

 

since i was born, i alway went to the beach in an old '76 f-100 and always remembering my dad stopping and jumping out to lock in the hubs. thats when it all started. then one time when i was in kindergarden, my dad and uncle came and checked me out and i got my first taste(literally) of mud. my uncle ended up getting stuck in his wrangler in the middle of a corn field outside alvin, tx. i remember helping trying to push the jeep and stacking any wood we could find under the back tires. when my dad and i came home totally covered in mud, my mom flipped. i always looked back on that day as years went by. and when i got my liscense my parents gave me their '89 4x4 burb and ive been getting it stuck and ramming through things eversince.

everything's bigger in TEXAS!

 

hmmmm.... let's see... the first time I knew I HAD TO HAVE my own truck was when my first boyfriend took me out 4wheeling and wouldn't let me drive!!!/wwwthreads_images/icons/mad.gif

Cheryle

weehaa!

 

I've always wanted something cool/wwwthreads_images/icons/cool.gif And since I could never afford a Lamborghini growing up/wwwthreads_images/icons/frown.gif I really became a fan of American muscle/wwwthreads_images/icons/cool.gif You wouldn't catch me in some little rice burner/wwwthreads_images/icons/mad.gif So over the years I've driven these old American cars. I'm also a musician and one of the requirements of my vehicle was that I needed to be able to haul my gear around. When I started making better money I decided on my Yukon. My buddy who rides motorcycles said we should take my truck to Gorman. We did and I've never been the same since/wwwthreads_images/icons/cool.gif

/wwwthreads_images/icons/wink.gifSomebody once said "Go Big" . . . Well we're goin' Full Size/wwwthreads_images/icons/wink.gif

 

When i was five years old my dad sent me to go and get the truck for him so he could use some of the tools in it without stopping the work he was doing. Si i said "sure" and ran for the big red chevy1500. I got in and nothing happened. So i figured i just needed to bounce on the seet since dad was heavier than i was( this would trick the truck into thinking i was dad)...nothing happened so i decided to do like i saw dad doing one time and move the big stick thingy. Well after bouncing up and down while moving the stick for a while, I decided something wasn;t right....THE PEDALS. How could i be so stupid. So i tried it all again. So i bounced and pressed all the pedals i could reach a,d moved that big stick around and nothinghappened....i was starting to get angry so i decided to just sit there and wait.
About 30 minutes after pops sent me to gt the chevy, he came to se what the problem was so i told him that it was being mean to me and i was going to wait until it wanted to play fair.
He just chuckled and said "Son, Lets tach you how to drive this monster" I'll never forget thad day. After making some blocks for the pedals and putting some old encyclopedias on the seet, i was in business. pops showed me what to do and then i did it with him, then on my own with him just sitting there. I felt like such a big kid...i knew that some day would come when i would have my own big chevy...I've ben a truck guy ever since.
...BTW, I got my big chevy about 4 months ago and i love it. It always plays fair and is never mean to me. I love my truck and i think it loves me.
---Peacock

If it hasn't broken, you haven't had it in the dirt yet.

 

It was 3 years ago. I took my El Camino out behind my g/f's high school. When I got through the trail there was this Vast land of sand, mud, hills, and any other fun off-road obstacle (except rocks). There were 4X4's of all shapes and sizes. I was having a good time with my elky by the time I was done you couldn't see that it was metalic purple. the very next week I bought my first blazer. I want staight from the dealer to the trail.

'99 Silverado '79 Blazer

 

Here we go, I don't know that I've ever really been bitten. I'm one of those guys that likes to be prepared at all times, toilet paper in the woods kind of thing. To me, there is no other choice then driving a truck. A 4x4 truck. Any time, any where, when I need it,it is there. Hey, I'm a poet !

MIKE.S 84GMC,454

 

My oldest memory is that of my parents taking me to the Algodones Sand Dunes to run some hills when I was in a carseat. I was like two years old. I knew I had it in my blood. Then at about 5, I saw my first mud bog/truck and tractor pull and got consciously hooked. I got my subscription to Four Wheeler and knew everything about triple cromed dipped shocks and rollbars. Thought I was gonna have the tallest truck ever when I grew up. Then I slipped away from trucks to muscle cars right about the time I was getting old enough to drive. However, my buddy got a 3/4 ton '89 Chevy for his 16th birthday and back to four wheeling I went.

I am hooked. I don't even know which part of four wheeling I like the most. The man and machine part, the driving, the fixing. Hell, Its all great.

Good topic!

Nich Kenny
'89 K1500 350/700r4

 

When i was about 9 or 10 my older brother got a Z71, and from that day on I was hooked. From that day on
all i wanted was a black chevy truck. A few years back for christmas i got a brand new GMC sonoma, not 4wd but a start, did a few little mods to that, ended up selling it and getting a new s-10 blazer, this time 4x4, have done some decent mods to it too, and I am always thinking of more. My dream is no longer a black Z though, it is a black 2500 HD, It will be mine oh yes it will be mine. Oh and one other thing, you know you are hooked on this stuff when the clock says 4:10 the first thing that comes to your mind is gears.

Ryan

-I shoulda been a cowboy-

 

We moved into my house now in around '89 and I was like 7. My neighbors had a white '85 K5, and I thought it was bad @$$. I knew i wanted one, and finally found one 6 months before i turned 16, and I had enough money so I bought it. Went mudding first when I was supposed to be at Sunday school, and the parents wondered why it was so dirty...

90K5

 

I was around 10-11My father and I went 4X ing .It was the first time for me. He always had a truck as far as I remember but for hunt and fishing mainly. We started climbing some hills and took a steep narrow trail in between some boulders and tree trunks- all I could see was hood and clear blue sky with the exception of looking over to make sure we didn't sideswipe the boulders.
Btw - Desert Chevy- from your post you must be in Yuma AZ.

 

Yes, I spent the first 18 years of my life in Yuma. I now live and go to school in Tucson.

Nich Kenny
'89 K1500 350/700r4

 

I spent a year and 1/2 in Yuma living with my uncle- attended Cibola High , a little familiar with the area.

 

The moment I realized every time I looked out the car window at the scenery I thought about driving my truck over and through it.

My parents had a 76 Blazer from new until 1993 when they sold it. I grew up riding around in that big beast. So I loved Blazers from the start, but didn't know much about 4x4ing other than when dad used 4x4 to get the wood trailer out of the woods or to go down the 2 tracks to his hunting spots. My first truck was a 86 Blazer, and it was a POS. I got rid of that and bought my parent's 92, which I still have. About a year after that I started playing with it. I also can attribute some of my love for big American cars and trucks to my neighbor being a restorer/collector/hot rodder of 50-70's Chevy muscle cars and classics. Nice and slow, but I have learned a lot. Especially from this site. My knowledge of trucks, mechanical things, and 4x4ing has increased exponentially in the last year!/wwwthreads_images/icons/cool.gif

1992 Blazer Sport, 350 TBI, 3" Flowmaster 40 DF, 4L60, K&N, Rancho 3" lift, 285/75R16's on 16x8 Bajas /wwwthreads_images/icons/laugh.gif

 

for me, its all because my buddy's dad had buggies, atv's, boats and fat trucks... I only went with them once (to Glamis) and ever since..well, you know!

 

It happened twice for me, the first time I ever had a chance to ride an old Honda 80cc in the mud I was hooked I love running dirt tracks on a bike. The other time was with my brothers old CJ-7, heading up to deer camp, I was about 13 and he asked me if I wanted to drive. I had no idea what I was doing but it was the most fun I'd ever had! Its a shame my little brother think's off-roading's just for "********"

 

Not so sure I ever realized it because I was raised on a farm and 4X4's were the standard. Heck I only owned one vehicle in my life that wasnt 4X4 and I dont see that happening again. I was driving 4X4's before most of the kids in school even knew their was a difference. I cant imagine life here on the farm without one. Too many hills, mud and snow to have a 2 wheel drive and ever get anything done besides put on chains and pull your truck with the tractor or dozer.