Any stories about Baja off-roading in the 50's. Tire sizes, types of vehicles, airing down, cell phones
[Edited on 10-26-2021 by cactuspete1970]David K - 10-25-2021 at 02:08 PM
Not sure what is so funny? Oh, cell phones, right... LOL
But, always one wishing help others find their Baja 'special place', including the past...
Enjoy the photos from Howard Gulick, author and mapmaker of the Lower California Guidebook (c1956, 1958, and newer): https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/baja/gulick/index.html (click: On to image index, after the intro). The photos enlarge with a caption.
In 1949-1950, Marquis McDonald and a friend traveled to all the mission sites in Baja they knew of... by Jeep, by horseback, and by foot! https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/baja/mcdonald/mcdonald01.h...
(sadly, when you click to see the photo enlarged, a different image from the collection enlarges)
Mike McMahan (Baja author and wall map creator) and three other sportsmen traveled the length of Baja in 4WD camper trucks around 1952 and one of them
wrote a book (Baja California by Ralph H a n c o c k, 1953) and there was a short film made by these guys...
Vehicles used by travelers in the 50's would be pretty much limited to Willys Jeeps (Surplus Jeeps, CJs, Wagons, Trucks) and Dodge Power Wagons. Paved
and graded roads were not the most common thing back then.hombre66 - 10-25-2021 at 06:20 PM
Get into the Earle Stanley Gardner books. He and his pals created some very interesting off road toys. Early 60'sDavid K - 10-26-2021 at 08:51 AM
Get into the Earle Stanley Gardner books. He and his pals created some very interesting off road toys. Early 60's
Erle and his friends made for great stories. His first Baja adventure book was in 1948, the rest were all in the 1960s. We enjoy watching old Perry
Mason shows even more, knowing Erle was a Baja man!
AKgringo - 10-26-2021 at 09:05 AM
I never made it to Baja until 1986, but my first trip from Nogales to Manzanillo on the west coast of Mexico was in a 1953 Buick Road Master!
I let my dad do all the driving, since I was still in grade school.geoffff - 12-19-2021 at 12:56 PM
Mike McMahan (Baja author and wall map creator) and three other sportsmen traveled the length of Baja in 4WD camper trucks around 1952 and one of them
wrote a book (Baja California by Ralph H a n c o c k, 1953) and there was a short film made by these guys...
Just checking out that video... Thanks for sharing!
Harald, look at the old photo and see the Tres Virgenes volcano complex, closest to the coast. Photo is looking north-northeast.geoffff - 12-19-2021 at 10:38 PM
OK, I think I see now. I think it is a few feet north (and below) this spot on Google Street View (27.4066, -112.5509) looking NNE.
That trail below must be the old road.
Took me a while to find! thanks, David4x4abc - 12-20-2021 at 01:01 AM
