Topic: BigMike, do you recognize this place ??

[88runner]

 

[Lady Di]

cool!!     

[Rocksurfer]

I take it that this is an airal view of the amuesment park called Crawlerland.

[mudguts]

That's an old picture, it is much cleaner now. Hey 88, what web site is that from?

[Lady Di]

I've seen one of our house, I'll have to find it. You can see the old truck in the drive and trailer in the backyard.

[88runner [OP]]

It's google earth program that I downloaded you can go around the globe, zoom in and out have the street names, hotels, restaurant, ... pretty cool little program

[BigMike]

Wow, that's gotta be a very very old picture, I would say from last year, late spring time, maybe May - June '04-ish.

Check the arrows I added:

#1: That's my truck before I bought it from Marlin
#2: That's TURBO's Turbo Donor truck before he bought it from Marlin, he used the 22R-TE in his '83 1st gen
#3: I believe that's the rolled Chevy that Andy bought to put the 4.3l V6 into a friends 3rd gen truck.
#4: A Cool stipped down FJ55 Wagon that Marlin bought and still has.
#5: Possibly my MR2. Last time I rebuilt it was during a rainy season, so I had a blue tarp over the cab, so that might be it.

And the 2nd picture is what we've cleaned up so far since that picture was taken last year. We can eaisly accomadate about 20 rigs now with clear clean parking spaces if positioned correctly. Back when that picture was taken, I bet we couldn't even fit 4 trucks without blocking the entrance to our building!

[BigMike]

Hey wait a tick, just looking over that pic again, the truck at my #1 arrow is in the correct location where my truck was stored for 3 years, but it's not my truck. My truck has blue on top of the hood and cab and a white bed.

And I can not find my truck in that pic..

So that must mean that my truck is in the shop, so this had to have been sometime between July - Aug of 04, or middle summer of last year. 

[88runner [OP]]

Did'nt Gieger have his house parked at the shop then? I'm thinking the tarped MR2 is your truck     

don't think so, it's too small to be a pick-up

[88runner [OP]]

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[mudguts]

Hey wait a tick, just looking over that pic again, the truck at my #1 arrow is in the correct location where my truck was stored for 3 years, but it's not my truck. My truck has blue on top of the hood and cab and a white bed.

And I can not find my truck in that pic..

So that must mean that my truck is in the shop, so this had to have been sometime between July - Aug of 04, or middle summer of last year. 

don't think so, it's too small to be a pick-up

I thought for sure his house on wheels was there last summer. It was like a 1972 26' Pace Arrow on jack stands.

[mudguts]

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You are too fast for me 88

[BigMike]

Did'nt Gieger have his house parked at the shop then? I'm thinking the tarped MR2 is your truck

That's true, I forgot about his motorhome he used to have parked there, and it's not there. It is possible that he was out for the weekend because he would drive it out to the trails some times..
But there is a bunch of crap where he normally had it parked, so that makes me think this pic is before or after the motorhome was there, or sometime before Nov. '03 or sometime after about June of '04 ?

The tarped vehicle can't be my rig because I've got a blue hood.

[BigMike]

I used to have a black supercharged MR2 parked north-west of Andy's Chevy engine donor vehicle, and I don't see that.. I think I got rid of that one right after Geiger started working with us.

So that pic must be after Fall of 03.

[Marlin]

It is no wonder that after working in the same shop since '87, the Fire Marshall finally told me "clean this dump, or I will shut you down".

This pic must me at least 2-3 years old.

When we hauled the scrap away, we got $29.00 per ton.
Today, it is worth $80.00 per ton.

I recall hauling away 98 tires to the dump.

The old days of my Toyota wrecking yard.