BAJA rigs & Names

While going through The Squarecircle,La Turquesa trip I notice that Dk mention that He (squarecircle) name his New Land Rover "WINSTON"so one question comes to mind.What's your Baja rig's name if it has one and if you are kind enough to post a picture of it..Thanks Nomads.



Here is mine
It's a 2004 DODGE RAM 1500 4WD(with a HEMI)..
I CALL IT "BIG RED"

[Edited on 7-10-2007 by BAJACAT]


[Edited on 12-5-2008 by BAJACAT]

[Edited on 12-5-2008 by BAJACAT]

Mary Ann

911

Mine is called "9-11", as in call EMERGENCY every 100 meters with every hole in the road.

Here's my daughter near El Chinero. She refers to my Dodge Ram simply as "Trucky".

Ours is known as Big Dog, we've had sveral pickup-shell combos and traveled Baja one end to the other and east-west for 35 years in assorted dune buggy offroad cars too, but Big Dog is the most comfy.

The first Baja rig was a crewcab VW pickup I called "Hammerhead". When I started going back with my new wife in 1993 we took the Ford E-150 we had driven to Central America on our honeymoon. Before that trip the guys at Dick Cepek in Pasadena recommended a suspension shop in Huntington Beach which heated and bent the twin I-Beams and put in big coils in front. They did an aweful job, and by the time these pictures were taken, the front end was so unfixably out of whack that "she" was like herding pigs with a stick. When she made it back, I got her the license plate you see which was her name and has been on every Baja vehicle since.

We started out with Lucita, burrita an 86 Jeep Wagoneer. I still prefer the way this car handles, seems to hug the off road. And we have put in some memorable miles in her.

Next came "The Beast" 86 Ford with camper and very high clearance. Love this one too but I cant drive it because I cannot depress the clutch in far enough to change gears...si soy chapara! This baby will go anywhere anytime.

Then we got Lucille, the red haired woman. A 96 Red Jeep Cherokee, which I cannot stand. It feels like it is going to fall apart at any moment.

We still have all of the above plus a 91 GMC crew cab, long bed that we brought down when we moved which we always called jimmy. Not much on the off road but I prefer to drive it around town even though it is just over 19' long.

[Edited on 7-19-2007 by bajajudy]

--------??????? "OJ white"------?????????

like, "Orange juice white" ???????

My imagination is going wild-----------

Rig name...

The camper is "Fat Bastard"
The truck is "Kodiak" not very original...kinda like my screen name

Better pic of the truck

I was at Mt Rainer, WA in this pic.

No name

My 1st baja rig was called the Bomb! No photo cuz it is long gone. It ran on Propane and gas. GMC Jimmy 4X4 with 75 gal propane and 30 gal of gas. At the time I paid only about 35 cents for a gal of propane. It was a fun rig.

My current rig has no name although some people call it the stinky diesel.

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[Edited on 7-12-2007 by pangamadness]

Pangamadness nowdays if you say BOMByou can end up in jail
Jjust kidding,thanks for the photo and 4 partisipating too..

off road machine.

here's a couple of shots of my baja "rig"

She's holding the name "chunga's revenge" until i get a boat one day....


one here is on the ramp at our clinic at Lopez Mateos, shootin the bull while the docs are hard at work.
other one is parked at work, all in a day's commute.

[Edited on 7-19-2007 by capt. mike]

Oldie

oops

Gladiator

This is my beast ..... named " Gladiator " ....... Took the sysbol off an old carbon-arc spotlight ........ Over the years I nursed many of these through a performance ! Gladiator is a 1990 Ford Bronco .......
Early morning of One October I will be crossing the San Yesidro border on a " Great Journey of One Thousand Miles ... Thru the Wilds of Baja Norte ... and On To Baja California Sur !!




[Edited on 7-26-2007 by CaboRon]

My, then, 3 y/o daughter named this rig "Sparkle" when I got it cause it was so clean..She later changed it to "Sparkle B. Climbin'" in the middle of a 3000' ascent in 4by low.

Sparkle got a new backpack!!

[Edited on 7-19-2007 by Tomas Tierra]

[Edited on 7-19-2007 by Tomas Tierra]

BajaCat

El Burro and the War Horse

My Baja trailer is a 70's heavy half ton truck bed with a 3500 lb. axle, electric brakes, four shocks (two air) and a torsion bar.

Right after 9-11 , northbound at the Tecate kiosk, when the female guard commented that it looked like a tough trailer, I made the mistake of referring to it as "bombproof". INSTANT extra hour in secondary.

The War Horse, when the 6.6 gallon tank is full is a 400 lb. beastie, but I love the 300 mile range.

The camel

I call mine "the camel" cause it likes the desert so much. It may be related to "Sparkle" as they both have the same backpack now.

"La Cucharacha" -
kind of ugly but you can't kill it.
vgbndo, we'll have to race sometime.

Paula is famous for naming her cars and has named our ford pickup and lance camper........Mack y Lance

Found a pic of my BEAST

But I forgot to attach it...duh

[Edited on 7-19-2007 by bajajudy]

And here is the Red Haired woman
I am doing this in hopes someone will recognize us on the road some day.

Names? We don't need no stinking names!

"PW" aka "PeeWee" a while back

[Edited on 7-21-2007 by Sharksbaja]

and "Blue"

Hey Sharks

Still love the looks of those old rigs,sold mine after 20 years for 1500$ and miss it to this day
BAITCAST

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Originally posted by Sharksbaja "PW" aka "PeeWee" a while back [Edited on 7-21-2007 by Sharksbaja]

Yah, it's my baby

It'll be a neverending upgrade I hope. I am planning on a complete restoration and ??? for my old 68' Power Wagon.
This newer Dodge has been sweet. A couple of probs but that's expected. Especially the way I drive.
Cudos to you! That 1500 must boogie pretty good w/hemi. I have a few tricks aboard my ride that separates it from the pack. I want to keep working on the suspension tho. I'm thinkin' bout switchin' out the frt coils for the newer PW stouter version and putting in a quality body-lift.
Poor ol' Blue goes form "Teflon Blue" to "Baja Dust Blue" regularly. I can say that that photo is pre-scratch days. Although I regularly wash and treat the finish it's still beat-up w/scratches from all the old narrow tracks lined with brillo pads. I hope you abuse yours regularly. Off-road adventures are fodder for Dodge trucks!

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Originally posted by Sharksbaja It'll be a neverending upgrade I hope. I am planning on a complete restoration and ??? for my old 68' Power Wagon. This newer Dodge has been sweet. A couple of probs but that's expected. Especially the way I drive. Cudos to you! That 1500 must boogie pretty good w/hemi. I have a few tricks aboard my ride that separates it from the pack. I want to keep working on the suspension tho. I'm thinkin' bout switchin' out the frt coils for the newer PW stouter version and putting in a quality body-lift. Poor ol' Blue goes form "Teflon Blue" to "Baja Dust Blue" regularly. I can say that that photo is pre-scratch days. Although I regularly wash and treat the finish it's still beat-up w/scratches from all the old narrow tracks lined with brillo pads. I hope you abuse yours regularly. Off-road adventures are fodder for Dodge trucks!

No problem with that I abuse mine quite alot,it sports battle scars from varoius Baja locations.Here are a few places.
Montevideo,San Fernando mission&rock art,Santa Ana visita for the San Borja mission,Laguna Hanson,Palomar canyon,Guadalupe canyon just to mention a few.
Here is a picture where i got the biggest scar of all,(Palomar canyon).

My "RED" only has a few upgrades,otherwise is pretty muck stock.It has a cold air intake by AIRRAID,Series 40 FLOWMASTER muffler,Jet stream air dam.RANCHO 9000 RS XLand a Ready lift leveling kit.just enoghf things to 'GRAB LIFE BY THE HORNS', DON'T STROKE IT ,RAM IT,UUU YEAAAAA..





PS On the FANTASTIC 4 SECOND MOVIE, their space ship is base on a Dodge product and off course it has a HEMI under the hood,sweeeett.

My baby is named, "Lara" after "Lara Croft" from the Tomb Raider film. The Jeep is #815 from the Tomb Raider Rubicon series.

Haulin' in Laguna Salada


Crawlin' on the Mission Impossible Road


Campin' in Gonzaga Bay

Hey Bajacat -- mine is BIG RED tambien. Note license plate "HUMBAJA":

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Originally posted by Ken Bondy Hey Bajacat -- mine is BIG RED tambien. Note license plate "HUMBAJA":

Note my Baja plates Ken.
Thats a cold right you have, call me when you get stuck.Just kidding...

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Quote: Originally posted by BAJACAT Note my Baja plates Ken. Thats a cold right you have, call me when you get stuck.Just kidding...

You better be kidding. The last time I got stuck, I called David K who called Desert Bull, and the Observatory Road nearly destroyed Desert Bull's flatbed trailer!

Yea I know, last time I got stuck (not on this truck)in Ensenada the tow truck charge me 110 dollars for draging my 4runner 10' lol..




Ps the 4runner wasn't 4wd.

This is GSB ( Gadget, Strokey ie, long travel suspension, Bronco )

[Edited on 7-26-2007 by Gadget]

Baja rigs and names

thats funny

92 dodge cummings

here it is pulling down the the old restrooms at the jungle. the truck is known as "the buckboard" and anyone who has rode in it knows why !

Red

I just call the buggy 'Red'. I have since sold the trailer but it was fun camping with it and not sleeping on the ground.

[Edited on 9-25-2007 by wornout]

Here's my ride, "Luna", running a little late after stopping to help a lone motorcyclist fix a blowout, north of Gonzaga on Mex 5.

Baja Cat,

Why don't you come down to the Off Road event happening in Rosarito on the 13th/14th??? Its real fun, and you'll see tons of built 4WD Baja vehicles on the obstacle course that's being constructed.


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Last year, a Danish-born Tijuana resident by the name of "Tom" was the winner. Here, he's competing for the prize...

My two Baja rigs:

Baron 30SD at San Francisquito:


Big Red:

Blue Ghost

Road to Malarrimo

Las Pila Summit, Silver Fox

Up up and away

[Edited on 5-26-2008 by TW]

White Lightning

Renamed to Smash

I'm open to a more imaginative name but today it's "Bubba"

Somehow I missed this thread last year.

Here's the old Triple R or RRR (for Redneck Rolls Royce) on Thaaat road headed South for the 04 B1K. Still got it, still for sale.

My license plate says
GT2WORK

You guys with all your shiny rigs make me sick,old Mary Ann took us south for better than 20 years,no AC,radio,14 gallon tank,when you went south in that thing you lit a candle,had to replace a few things from time to time lucky for us it was never down there

After one trip down you knew how Louis and Clark must have felt and always very happy you made it back
Rob

heres a shot of my truck getting a nice suntan down at secrets..lovin life

El General with Triple and Yota

Note El General's license plate: SAN FLPA

Go anywhere Tacoma at the oasis near Mision Santa Maria, last year... Photo by 'The squarecircle'...

Another photo from Roy's camera... May, 2007... Mision Santa Maria trip http://vivabaja.com/msm

BIGRED, IN GDLP CANYON

Affectionately known as "Senior Hanky" (The Spanglish version of Mr. Hanky from the cartoon South Park.) Why? Because it's big, and brown, and... well, you can fill in the rest.
(And yes, I got it out of the cobbles.)

The Beast
86 Ford
High clearance, go anywhere machine.

I like that rear speaker designed to be a spare tire.
Here's Bubba.
Edit; The UTV not my dog Mason.

[Edited on 7-28-2008 by Russ]

Bump,I need it to update my truck picture



[Edited on 12-23-2008 by BAJACAT]

Sorry no Photos-
1980-1998 Silver Chevrolet 4x4 Camper special
1998-2001 White Nissan 4x4 Frontier
2001-2005 Silver Chevrolet 4x4 Silverado
2005-Current Silver Dodge 2500 4x4 CUMMINS Turbo

They were all called BAJALOU

No TW Im towing him in to the canyon

Here is the Tiltin' Hilton.
2003 Tacoma
Equipped with:
King coil-overs front
Three extra leaves each side rear
Marlin Crawler 4.7:1 box
LightRacing bump stops
33x12:50x15 BFG All Terrains
One current wife who was driving her CJ-5 when I met her 20 years ago.

Sweet set up Neal looks ready for The Matomi 2009 nomad trail ride.


2008 Matomi Nomad Ride

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Originally posted by Neal Johns Here is the Tiltin' Hilton. 2003 Tacoma Equipped with: King coil-overs front Three extra leaves each side rear Marlin Crawler 4.7:1 box LightRacing bump stops 33x12:50x15 BFG All Terrains One current wife who was driving her CJ-5 when I met her 20 years ago.

Neal, I saw your nice setup in front of your house yesterday when I traveled up to Lytle Creek with some friends. We actually got my Rubicon stuck 3X and decided we had enough. I also saw a blue Tacoma parked in front of your house as well.

Yep, Ken, We have His and Her Tacomas. The old one is just used mostly as a grocery getter. Can you believe some people have cars instead of trucks or Jeeps?

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Originally posted by Neal Johns Yep, Ken, We have His and Her Tacomas. The old one is just used mostly as a grocery getter. Can you believe some people have cars instead of trucks or Jeeps?

Handy when the old aridologist breaks a leg!



Marian points him out...



But Neal came away from the party with a cool door prize, a Mike McMahan Baja Wall map...



Viva Baja III

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Originally posted by Neal Johns Yep, Ken, We have His and Her Tacomas. The old one is just used mostly as a grocery getter. Can you believe some people have cars instead of trucks or Jeeps?

When I see news feeds from the Northwest and Northeast, it boggles the mind. Here is a photo taken on Sunday up the street from Neals house. This is the same group that run the Baja Pole Line Road last December, but my Jeep had too many broken parts after Baja Grande to make the Pole Line.

I'm glad to see Marian has her Tacoma as well. Both vehicles look like they are ready for action.

Me, Mike, Victor and Jerry

El-Mobile on way to Mina La Olvidada!

Only Modified Toyotas do the job