Tacos in St. Louis area

@mcharfauros was the first TW bro I met and invited me to mod day. Good man, changed my life

 

My memory is going bad because I don't remember when you and @mcharfauros started showing up. I do remember meeting Mike and his wife at my first Stocker No Locker. That islander vibe made me go talk to them. Of course I was probably awkward as shit to them.

 

You were not there when I came

I was under the impression yall knew each other for a long time

 

The first ones were Chris, Chandler, and I just fucking about in the shop having some laughs while fiddling with each other’s Tacoma's. It wasn’t much longer till @HIYota rucked up to make it four.

My favorite memory is being in the shop myself having just torn the interior out of mine and @HIYota rings up and asks if anything is going on and once answered says “I’m on the way over”. We start putting the vinyl floor in, bolt the interior back in and when I fired it up the engine banged off of the rev limiter for just a couple of seconds. Neither of us had thought to check and see if the pedals were clear and the accelerator pedal ended up under the new floor. Two pair of eyes bugging out of our heads followed by laughter when we’d both realized what had happened.

I do miss the shop days and would love to host them again, my problem was at the time tools would get broken and instead of letting me know the user would just put them back without saying a word or worse, hide them. Tools break, we all know that and I’d have replaced them. But treating me like a punk pissed me off. Now I’m just terribly sick all the time as the kidney disease progresses.

I’ve got some projects of my own taking up space in the shop that require some parts to finish. Once that’s sorted we can think about hosting them again.

 

Btw @Sasquatch3153 broke a half inch swivle extension.

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I'll be replacing it

 

You two would be swiveling your half inch extensions around

 

I recall Andy's first mod day, I think we did lighting on @Taco16Jessy 's truck, lighting on @VangaSTL 's truck, suspension on 4 or 5 4 Runners, and God only knows what else... Think David did his driveway alignment that day too (it didn't go well)

Then the was the time when..... Nebraska showed up

 

I kept telling people that you can’t sight align anything in my driveway as it’s graded to drain. Do they listen? Of course not.

 

Most of the fun I had was shop related when I was out there. I remember Chandler asking for help to unload his bed/camper stuff. Was cool getting to look at it before everyone. That old guy coming by in a Tacoma, us thinking he wanted to hang out. Then turned out he was the solution to removing that downed tree. My ass freezing and practically hugging the heater. Only regret was not going to ATR with you guys.

 

Wouldn't you want an extra half inch

 

I'll gladly replace it

I wish I had a half inch

 

We're a bunch of weirdos and idiots but Nebraska..........he gave off some creepy ass vibes

 

Me: “This is a very high torque drill, these things break wrists, you good with that”?

Mental midget: “Yeah, no problem. I use them all the time.”

Me: watches mental midget nearly break himself, my drill, and my vise when he shows that he can’t use power tools.

Me to @HIYota : “Whatever you do, don’t let that fucking retard near anymore power tools”.

 

And don't forget the cord was wrapping around him as well

 

Damnit I remember this happening but I can't for the life of me remember the details. Was said person drilling a bumpstop or something?

 

Tie down hooks in the bed

 

Battery tie down. Drove 9 hours to drill one hole.

 

@HIYota this was it. Bought a black J hook that turned out to be a little too large in diameter and too short to replace the regular unfinished one.

 

Just sucks because his 97 5 speed was fucking mint