Photos Trip Report : Truck Haven 2005

[Rick]

Excellent video!

 

[dreamr]

Great Vid!!!!!! Y'all make me jealous with all that flex!!!!!!!

 

[GJarrett]

Stic-o that is a great video! The night cruise through the arroyo was a surreal scene

 

[Rick]

Is this the buggy you guys saw during the night run??

 

[RangerX]

No, it had a blue frame. And the driver cage was slanted, like //.

 

[Felix]

it was a chassis like this but it had a chevy 350 LS-1 in it. And it was blue with some crazy stuff writen on the sides. More on what RangerX said. The passenger side of the cage was almost non-existant. It was seriously only enough cage to protect the driver then kicked out at the bottom to cover the Tcase and stuff. I will try to find a picture of the one we actually saw.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=308894&highlight=rock+buggy

These pictures are high jacked from the pirate board.

edit cant steal pics from Pirate4x4.com ....

 

[Stic-o]

That looks pretty close Marc. I rember It had a big 350 in it and the axles had there diffs all the way to each side. I think it had coil overs though. It was a monster! I should Have got some pics. It was driving around with a YJ and it had some offroad shops name on the side, from I wanna say Riverside....not sure.

Edit: i also remember it had 4 wheel steering!

 

[Felix]

it was air shocks on all corners and a bad arse LS-1 with headers that came up over the valve covers with some little polished race mufflers. I just wanted to ask the guy if I could drive it. Then my sences came back and kept my mouth shut.

I could just see me totaling a $45K rock crawler in truck haven going 2 feet.

 

[BKennedy]

I also remember the guy was starved for attention, cause he drove around us three or four times. It was a mid or rear engine LS1 motor.

Great video Stic!

My favorite picture, a bunch of guys standing around looking at a hole in the ground.......

 

[BKennedy]

Another, thanks to Jeff helping me figure out how to post pics.

Rick in the hole

Freefall

Lunchtime lineup

Rick and my friend Dan

 

[goliath]

Great Pics

Had a blast!!
I cant wait to go again.

-joshua

 

[GJarrett]

My favorite picture, a bunch of guys standing around looking at a hole in the ground.......

LOL

 

[410Fortune]

You have any more video guys?

I would drive out to Thaven just to do night runs...I assume nobody does nigth runs in say Moab? Or have I just never been invited?

haha

Too easy to get lost and then your screwed truckhaven = just walk back to top of hill, get your bearing, walk to camp.

 

[FROADER]

That buggy was the same as the AllPro competition buggy. This one has a 3.0 VW motor but the frame is the same. Here are a couple pictures.

 

[410Fortune]

its more like a rock crawling suit then a vehicle Is it an optical illusion or is the cab frame skewed?

 

[FROADER]

No, like Bill said the frame was tilted away from the passenger side. Well there really is no passenger side since it is a single seater, but you know what I mean.

 

[RockRanger]

The buggy we saw was one of the ones built by shannon campbell. The guy driving owns a couple of off roads shops in the orange county/ LA area. Think the name is extreme image or something like that. I have seen him at a few different comps. It was blue with fabtech stickers on it.

 

[RockRanger]

similar to this one http://www.campbellent.com/spanky

 

[BKennedy]

Yep, that was just like it.

Isn't that the guy that couldn't build a winner himself so he had Campbell build him one and put his name on the side?

 

[Jefe]

I would drive out to Thaven just to do night runs...I assume nobody does nigth runs in say Moab? Or have I just never been invited?

John and I have done a night run up to Top of the World. The problem is on the official runs we always meet so early every morning that a night run is out of the question (especailly for us that drive 12+ hrs just to get there).