1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I hope you've gone through your catalog and picked other cropped ear/nose focused photos to post

 

I can find some tree bark focused pictures too

 

in my NY/NJ days, I spent a fair amount of time in an IBM disaster recovery testing center in Gaithersburg off Frederick Rd. It was a huge place that was mostly underground. It didn't look like much from the surface. I guess that was intentional. It's now closed. It was the building on the right in this picture.

Also, spent a lot of time passing through MD on the way from Jersey to Annandale VA to visit my wife's cousins and on I95 heading south to FL.

A not-so-well-known detail about John Denver's first mega-hit is that it was originally written about "Clopper Rd." in Gaithersburg MD.

In late 1970, local singer and songwriters Bill Danoff and his girlfriend at the time, Taffy Nivert — who performed as Fat City — were driving to a family reunion.

As they drove through winding roads, the couple batted about lyrics, to pass the time — they envisioned a song Johnny Cash might record. .

“The road they were actually on was Clopper Road, in Gaithersburg, a little two-lane blacktop,” at the time, but now an exit off Interstate 270, said Len Jaffe, a D.C. area-based singer and songwriter, who was at the Cellar Door for the song’s debut.

“When they got to the ‘Almost heaven …’ at first it was going to be Massachusetts, because that’s where Bill was from. But they didn’t like the vibe, so they used West Virginia. They had never been to West Virginia,” said Jaffe.​

https://wtop.com/dc/2020/12/real-st...-country-roads-debut-50-years-ago-in-dc-club/

 

They hate u cuz they ain’t u

 

This airport restaurant has a quarter million dollar fake tree. What a time to be alive.

 

The birds are “real” though.

 

Youd have one too if you charged $16 for a beer.

 

My chorizo tacos were only $15, and they were actually pretty damn good. We’ll see how much the company has to pay for my coffee tho

 

Toyota 4.7 V8 regular cab 1st gen for $12k and change....I would

https://prescott.craigslist.org/cto/d/prescott-valley-toyota-tacoma-trd-4x4/7438452773.html

 

$2.99. Par for the course

 

Kudos to the builder for staying true to the brand. That little rascal could be a barrel of fun.

 

And it looks like it has the rare carpeted back wall in the cab, even.

If it's mechanically and electrically sound that's a heck of a buy.

 

Anyone remember when @what road wanted to put the 4.7 in his truck

 

Yeah that little thing could be a blast and he’s not asking a crazy a number. Always loved the little reg cab 1st gens.

 

@CS_AR So that GX is a Luxury trim which means air suspension, so I’d have to do a delete/coil conversion. Which I’m assuming isn’t too crazy but have to look into it. Guess it’s time to hop back on Mud haha.

 

Came out around the same time as Hobo with a Shotgun

 

I see a lot of conversions to Dobinsons IMS in this part of the country. Use the air suspension to take the price down as people around here do with AHC.

Point out that it was used by Lincoln.

 

@Kwikvette when he has kids

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/sf7lbl/papa_1_going_dark/

 

Oh fuck yeah! Wife already knows I'm buying a shit ton of nerf guns and giving the little shits a beat down

 

I looked into it and really it's just yanking out multiple vacuum lines.

Aside from that, a standard suspension install.