Ray Haller and crew in some vintage Baja footage.
Fun to ID spots you know.
Some decent beach fishing in the SOC in the day.
Must have been something when fresh water still poured in.
Man I love that stuff. The truck though looks like the rig Mike McMahon (possibly second man shown at beginning of clip) used to drive in Baja with
the Burro painted on the back.
That footage was a great find Slomad, thanks for sharing!
Originally posted by Paulina
That was FANTASTIC! The sizes of those fish - caught right off the shore, unbelievable. How did you come across this footage?
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Skills.
The only requirement for love or chorizo is confidence.
Yup, Mike McMahan (with glasses) along with Ray Haller, Frank Alvarado and Ralph Hanc-ck are the guys doing the hunting and fishing... The book they
wrote ('Baja California' c1953) is shown at the beginning of that movie made while researching the book.
The truck was a Willys-Overland 'Jeep' pickup and had been named 'La Burrita'.
I paused the movie in spots in the beginning scenes with the trucks going by, and I have found that there is a Jeep and a Dodge pickup with a bobtail
on back. The Dodge is like the old military style. Great movie!
Baja before being paved, great fishing few people, great home movies
and those old military dodge trucks were almost un stopable; looks like that one was a old radio truckk ,Jim
Yeah, that's a Dodge Power Wagon, not a Willys-Overland Jeep.
La Burrita was the name given to the camping body, not a truck.
Was on a Jeep initially, then towed on a trailer, then chassis-mounted on the Power Wagon shown throughout the movie.
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