Kansas City Tacoma Crew - 816/913

Ah, not the guy I'm thinking of then.

Still "worthless without pics" lol

 

edit not tuttle disney my bad

 

haha yup!

 

Yeah, I got a 2tb SSD and its mostly Steam games, that I can install/uninstall as I need to. I usually have about 5-10 games on it at one time, but my internet is fast enough to be able to hot swap in around 30 minutes or less depending on file size so it's not that limiting. I've considered grabbing an extra SSD but I don't really need to at this point. I have a Samsung 860 EVO 2tb. Runs plenty fast.

 

Alrighty! I grabbed a handful of interesting screenshots from Saturday's footage at Kansas Rocks. The event is called Frostbite. I was told that the turnout was at least 300 people.
I tagged along with a friend of mine who has a Wrangler with some nice mods and 37" tires. His is the black Wrangler with the bronze Method wheels.


The trails were very crowded in some areas where groups were moving together. I didn't mind it so much, since I was filming anyway.

This Gladiator was pretty cool. But you could tell that its longer wheel base was a challenge.


Got a few people going down a rocky drop. The trails were muddy so everything seemed twice as difficult. We kind of had to persuade the driver to go down. I don't think he initially realized the capabilities of his Rubicon.



Another Jeep down the same hill.



Finally my friend's turn. Cake...





We then found a hill climb that no one has done yet, so it was fairly fresh.



It was still challenging because of the muddy and wet rocks. Also, no lockers on the Jeep.



Camera angles can be manipulated. I was using a gimbal that always kept the camera leveled. What you see is what it was. Minus the real life drama..



This was a pretty gnarly rock climb. We got down in some black diamond territory. I think psi was still around 20lbs.



It doesn't seem as intense on video/photo, but this hill was a butt clincher!



Just adults making adult decisions... We made it up eventually and it was pretty fun! But that wasn't going to be the toughest rock climb.



One of the few Toyota's that came out that day. This is the famous hill climb. (I don't recall the name, but it sounds Native American)







This Wrangler had an LS swap in it and was absolutely nuts. He literally flew up the hill with zero hesitation. Im still not sure whether he saw me or not lol.





37" tires can make things look pretty easy...



Better yet with 40's





This was the final rock hill that we tried.Going down wasn't too horrible. Just had to take it slow.







Decided that if we made it down, we should try to go back up. This ended up taking a long time and some careful spotting. But it was totally worth it!







I really enjoyed Frostbite. It was muddy and I probably would have not had a good time if I would have taken my Tacoma. But it really motivated me to keep trying to save to mod my Tacoma some day.

 

takanoah, its a fun hill to go on the left hand side since its the harder side and yup the ls jeep is tony super nice guy

 

Thanks for posting the pics! Looks like a good time, if just a bit crowded for my taste. Also nice to see people wheeling trucks older than my crap

 

its always a large crowd they normally have food and a raffle so its a good time but its a mess normally lol. this year didnt look to bad thou

 

Yeah, it's probably a lot of fun for many people. I feel crowded with a group of around ten

 

ya its something you go do once and then you are good lol

and i can tell its not super mucky out because tonys jeep is still black haha last time i was out there with him you couldnt see a spec of paint on his jeep

 

also your yj would be older then that pickup wouldnt it?

 

Possibly. That gen ran from '88 - '94. I think that's the '92 facelift. My YJ is a '93, so we're really at a toss up.

I could also be completely wrong. Not the most well-versed on Toyota design history

 

89-94 with a few 95s (more of left over models sold late) but that one is 92 or newer since the grill is different unless he swapped it out which idk why the older ones looked better in my opinion but im prob biased since i had a 91 lol

 

Thanks for the insight

But yeah, it's still up in the air. Could be newer, also possibly older

 

yup who knows lol grills get swapped out a lot since they break easily ask me how i know...... i had 4 different grills for my truck and finally found the right year one that was perfect and ordered it then repainted it

 

Nice. Of all the options, I'm still rather partial to my stock '11 grille. Considering a paint matched surround to get rid of the chrome, though.

Pickup aside, that CJ7...

 

it was a pain man lol i got the correct year one (was chrome with the toyota letters on the grill) but it was chrome and only two clips worked so it rattled all the time had another chrome with a massive crack in it and hated it with a passion, then found the grey one like the early years with the letters toyota on the grill ordered it and it came broke so i ordered another and it was perfect and i ran that grill from then on

the cj is in pretty good shape ive seen it before when i use to go out all the time (if its the same one who knows lol)

 

That almost sounds as though it wasn't worth the effort, but glad it paid off eventually.

You keep talking about when you used to go out. Sounds like we need to drag you back into the dirt...

Also, just bought more Lego parts for a project. My wallet aches. Heaven forbid the day I also start throwing money at the truck

 

Welcome to the party @Slashaar

 

back then it was i wanted my truck to be in good shape i had plans to fix it up fully and make it a prerunner but the trans went so i gave up on that dream and sold it.

and ya i use to go a lot it was either wheeling or camping almost every weekend it was great fun but i broke lots of things and im paying for it now and slowly getting parts and repairing things. once my friend is available ill be getting the front end finally fixed so that will be nice then next is new tires and fenders and to fix my door

and ouch what you buy this time lol