Marlin's Truck: Post your pics!

[Gewehr43]

Marlin's Truck is one of the coolest 1st gens I've ever seen!

[iNfErNaL]

Wow Pep, nice picture! That guy on sitting next to Marlin is my good buddy Remy (bigrems82) and I am driving! I bet that pic is from about 1999, when we switched from BFGs to TSL SX's which worked waaay better on the wet mossy rocks of Surprise Canyon.

Ha Ha,I remember seeing Marlin's truck at TDS when he first switched from BFGs but I don't remember them being SXs,I thought they were the Swamper radials but I may be wrong.I do remember he had a matching spare and it was underneath the truck(stock location)  ...Am I wrong?.

[iNfErNaL]

I also remember the "Don't gear down,double up" lettering on the side of his Toy.I've been into wheelin' a really long time    Since before I was born 

[iNfErNaL]

Way Back machine you say?.

[iNfErNaL]

Here's one that I took a couple years back in Arkansas:

[46&2]

Wow its cool to see all these pictures of his truck back in the day, good to know hes a one yota kinda guy 

Not many people can wheel a truck for decades and keep it as clean as he has...

[ajordan1975]

 

sweet flash back pics!  anymore  out there?

[*FFC*]

These are great!!!! More

[Rocksurfer]

I have a few, these are actually screen shots from videos I took. Sorry some are a little blurry.

[Rocksurfer]

 

[toyotanner]

the other day my girlfriend would not stop argueing with me saying that there is no way he wheels that truck it is way too nice looking. she's like i dont even see a dent lol. and then i showed her pics and vids and she was like well maybe there is 2 trucks hahahaha

[bigarms23]

my friend is looking for the old promo marlin crawler video

[NorCalToy]

post the vids RS!

[Marc P]

Ran into Marlin on John Bull about a year ago...he ran it with a broken front diff...he is the man

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fS3_N65xAjk

[BLACKDOG]

Hey Mike, these pics should be blown up for posters to show with the truck when the truck is on display so people not familiar with it (God knows who that is...  ) can see what this truck does and maybe appreciate it more for what it is.






Who doesn't love this truck? it's awesome! 

  Or just for people to buy!    I'd put one up in my garage!!

[fordh8r]

  Or just for people to buy!    I'd put one up in my garage!!

Damn str8! Me too! 

[THK Matt]

Damn str8! Me too! 

HELL YEAHS I WOULD TOO!!!!

DING DING DING i think we have a new product line marlin crawler

[BigMike]

Ok guys, seeing where this thread is heading, Let's see some pictures you have of Marlin's truck!

If you've been wheeling and saw Marlin's truck and were able to snag some pics, then let's see em!!

[Blingn]

this is going to be the best thread ever

[steve-o]

  Or just for people to buy!    I'd put one up in my garage!!

id put one in my shop

[Rocksurfer]

FYI in this shot Marlin is walking the crawler, this was back when he could let her off the leash and runaround by herself. With these crazy leash laws today he has to keep her on the leash.

[UKMyers]

MC6 the top of Granite Bowl

[Yoat Goat]

  Or just for people to buy!    I'd put one up in my garage!!

I'd put it up in my house!!! On the biggest wall I have! Whats his secrets to wheel for as long as he has and keep it sooo clean...?

[BLACKDOG]

I'd put it up in my house!!! On the biggest wall I have! Whats his secrets to wheel for as long as he has and keep it sooo clean...?

Ummm, don't hit rocks? 


  Just a thought

[BigMike]

Whats his secrets to wheel for as long as he has and keep it sooo clean...?

Marlin is a very technical driver. For as long as I can remember, I've never seen Marlin be a throttle jockey. I know there were some times when we were testing out our Marfields way back in the day when he was hammering the throttle, but other than that, he always tries to let the truck find traction naturally on it's own looong before he tries anything else. He even tries everything open-open until he starts to loose traction before even winking at the ARB locker buttons. When I was learning how to drive he used to always tell me, "Let the truck find it's traction"

Here he is on Jack Hammer, and I believe this is one of the very first times Jack Hammer was ever ran (or perhaps this is the virgin run of it?) and Marlin says he was the very first Toyota pickup up Jack Hammer, and this is the photo proof!

Somewhere around 1996-1998?

[iNfErNaL]

MC6 the top of Granite Bowl

This is a bad ass picture!!!!

[Wermz84]

Just dug through my MCR6 pics and these are all I could find.




In action, Helping out a fellow wheeler.

[Cheesemaker]

I wish I had pics of Marlin's truck. 

What cracks me up is seeing pics of Bigmike when he was younger.  He still has that head full of hair!  I keep waiting for Mike to pull out the pukka beads and tube socks! 

[EarlKann]

Marlin is a very technical driver. For as long as I can remember, I've never seen Marlin be a throttle jockey. I know there were some times when we were testing out our Marfields way back in the day when he was hammering the throttle, but other than that, he always tries to let the truck find traction naturally on it's own looong before he tries anything else. He even tries everything open-open until he starts to loose traction before even winking at the ARB locker buttons. When I was learning how to drive he used to always tell me, "Let the truck find it's traction"

Here he is on Jack Hammer, and I believe this is one of the very first times Jack Hammer was ever ran (or perhaps this is the virgin run of it?) and Marlin says he was the very first Toyota pickup up Jack Hammer, and this is the photo proof!

Somewhere around 1996-1998?

This is what really impressed me about wheeling with Marlin.  I was right in front of him on Jack Hammer at the 08 TinBender Jambo.  I even got to spot him a couple of times.  (that's me in the second pic!)  He was slow and steady the whole time.  Very technical, awesome driving.  Its hard to get a spectacular pic of him because he is never doing anything crazy!





No rig, but here's Marlin having lunch on the top of Jack Hammer.  I just think this pic is funnay and the view from up there is spectacular.

[crawlerdan]

i have pics somewhere of marlin at foothill off road in auburn cali. he walking next to the truck in triple low :d

it had to be 6 or 7 years ago