Re: Reports, pictures from the meet!
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:17 pm
More pics from Seven Mile Rim
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Linda may have a couple of short videos on her camera; I'll check with her this weekend.Ruby wrote:Anybody take any video?
I guess my LJ is kinda hard to count on this list, since it is a LJ10 with a LJ20 engine and transmission. So should it count as an 10 or a 20? It's outward appearance is that of 10, if you're looking at the obvious clues such as the grille, cowl vent and side panel stampings. Pop the hood, and it's not so easy to tell, unless you look at the VIN plate, or notice that it has two sets of motor mounts (the original LJ10 frame mounts are still there).stevec wrote:For the record, we had ten LJ's (five LJ10's and five LJ20's) and one Samurai at the meet this year:
Myself, the wife, and kids with two LJ10's
Mom and Stephen with their LJ20
Smuz and Alice, with Wasp and Michelle, and two LJ10's
Myers and Winnie with their LJ20
Tweedy Bird and Edie with their LJ20
SuzukiTom and Nancy with their LJ20
lj20colorado and his dad Phil with two LJ20's
And Phoenix and his wife with his son's Samurai
I think you just invented the lj15!SuzukiTom wrote: I guess my LJ is kinda hard to count on this list, since it is a LJ10 with a LJ20 engine and transmission. So should it count as an 10 or a 20?
First, in defense of Smuz, I am considerably larger.... As to why many LJs are driven by large folks I can only answer for myself. "It is easy to adapt to what you love". I have a friend even larger than I that rides with me pretty often and we both wear bib overalls. If we catch someone giving us the stare as we get into one of my tin tops, I let him shut his door first, then I slam mine shut as he opens his then he slams his shut as I open mine, repeat, repeat, repeat. Works best if the engine is already started and in gear so we can pull away with the doors alternately flapping open and close. A nice cloud of smoke from the two stroke adds to the effect.troy wrote:It is Friday night and the kids are going to bed. I'm sitting in the driver's seat of the LJ, and thinkingt I'm way to big of a guy to be driving this thing (6'2" approx 230). Then, I think of these pics and almost everyone that was at the meet is at least as big as me, if I'm judging it right.
I think it is hilarious that many of the people on this site are large people, owning a small vehicle. Why is that?
I must make one of these meets. They loook like a blast.
Troy
More pictures have been added, but not LJ pictures; just pictures of our days in Arches and Canyonlands.stevec wrote:Okay, here ya go. These are unedited, so I'll add labels and clean them up when I get home...
http://s296.photobucket.com/albums/mm16 ... LJ%20Meet/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Enjoy.
Myers wrote:I have a friend even larger than I that rides with me pretty often and we both wear bib overalls. If we catch someone giving us the stare as we get into one of my tin tops, I let him shut his door first, then I slam mine shut as he opens his then he slams his shut as I open mine, repeat, repeat, repeat. Works best if the engine is already started and in gear so we can pull away with the doors alternately flapping open and close. A nice cloud of smoke from the two stroke adds to the effect.
funny...whenever i drove Dad's tintop, i HAD to pop the door and stick my knee out to get my toes up over the clutch pedal. every shift went "pop, shift, SLAM"Myers wrote:First, in defense of Smuz, I am considerably larger.... As to why many LJs are driven by large folks I can only answer for myself. "It is easy to adapt to what you love". I have a friend even larger than I that rides with me pretty often and we both wear bib overalls. If we catch someone giving us the stare as we get into one of my tin tops, I let him shut his door first, then I slam mine shut as he opens his then he slams his shut as I open mine, repeat, repeat, repeat. Works best if the engine is already started and in gear so we can pull away with the doors alternately flapping open and close. A nice cloud of smoke from the two stroke adds to the effect.troy wrote:It is Friday night and the kids are going to bed. I'm sitting in the driver's seat of the LJ, and thinkingt I'm way to big of a guy to be driving this thing (6'2" approx 230). Then, I think of these pics and almost everyone that was at the meet is at least as big as me, if I'm judging it right.
I think it is hilarious that many of the people on this site are large people, owning a small vehicle. Why is that?
I must make one of these meets. They loook like a blast.
Troy