Team Willys
www.rocksolidfab.com
- Location
- Chattanooga, TN
So, first of all, I would like to officially apologize for not being able to make updates before now. Unfortunately, we didn't have any internet access at out campsite while on the lake bed, so we could only communicate through texts and a few phone calls here and there. Anyway, I will be working on uploading all of the pictures and videos of all of the action onto my website, but I have a few highlights and pictures to hold you over until then.
Saturday evening:
Tim and Latney arrive at RSOR headquarters at roughly 9:45 PM eastern time. We began the trailer shuffling and got Bombshell Betty and Floyd the struggle wagon loaded onto the 31' Gooseneck. After a few high clearance mods to the Ram (the step fell broke off while Tim and my father were trying to get in) we were on our way to pick up Mark. Once we arrived in Murfreesburo, we met up with him and got his belongings loaded up; then we were finally officially on the way.
One of many fuel stops:
On the way, we tried to keep in our minds that fuel can be scarce once you cross Ole Miss and get into the western side of the country. Right outside of Amarillo, Texas, we realized that we might have made a mistake. We had seen signs while going through town advertising a big truck stop with diesel, but after drinving all the way through town, we never found it. Out of worry, we decided to break into our backup plan:
After dumping in 10 gallons of reserve fuel, we quickly discovered that the brand new nice travel center was only a few more miles, and we would've made it... oh well.
Well, after 42 hours of driving (from Atlanta to Johnson Valley) we finally arrived on Monday afternoon and started setting up camp. It was a gorgeous day, 70 degrees out, sun shining, slightly breezy, but very comfortable.
Then, after a good dinner and some good ole genuine campfire BS, we decided to settle in for a much needed night of sleep. Latney, Mark, Tim, and myself all piled into Tim's larger tent, and my dad pied into a smaller one since we couldn't all fit in one. Slowly but surely the wind began to pick up. Around 12:00 AM, it got absolutely crazy and the tent started giving up at holding off the wind. The poles began collapsing and falling down, and the ez-up had already lost one side to a wind gust. Tim and Latney braved the sand storm like conditions and went outside to batten down the hatches. After about 15 minutes of tying things down, the tent finally started acting like it was going to be ok. At roughly 3:00 AM the wind changed directions and a 75 MPH wind gust ripped one whole side out of the tent. There was a loud boom, and we all awoke to sandy sleeping quarters immediately.
At that point, we had pretty much given up. Tim drug his air mattress under the trailer and staked some things down to build an air dam for protection.
Our new sleeping quarters; Casa De La Goose:
On Tuesday morning we had a few repairs to make, Floyd needed new lower control arm bushings, and Betty's power steering pump died on her late Monday while playing around at camp. PSC got her hooked up though, and a new pump and high volume reservoir were installed.
After all repairs were made, we decided to go watch a few of the final LCQ races going on that day, and then went on a short ride through Chocolate Thunder, and Betty made the trip DOWN trap door (same directon as the real race), pretty crazy stuff! Then back to Camp for dinner and bed.
Wednesday:
We didn't ride any, instead we spent the day watching the 2nd half of the LCQ. Wow, backdoor takes A LOT of HP to make it up! After the LCQ, we were headed back to camp when Betty spotted her secret love, and since she thinks the's the bees knees, it only seemed fair for her to take a picture with him.
Ned Bacon in his Killer Bee showing Betty a little love:
Thursday:
Time for some riding! We decided to go hit some hammer trails; we started out with Jackhammer, and then ran Sledgehammer shortly after.
Top of jackhammer trail overlooking Hammertown:
Then time for Sledge:
And at the end of the Jackhammer trail, where it meets up with sledge, is the infamous mail box; thank God the mail forgot to deliver our bills:
Please wait until after my next post to make any comments!!!
Saturday evening:
Tim and Latney arrive at RSOR headquarters at roughly 9:45 PM eastern time. We began the trailer shuffling and got Bombshell Betty and Floyd the struggle wagon loaded onto the 31' Gooseneck. After a few high clearance mods to the Ram (the step fell broke off while Tim and my father were trying to get in) we were on our way to pick up Mark. Once we arrived in Murfreesburo, we met up with him and got his belongings loaded up; then we were finally officially on the way.
One of many fuel stops:
On the way, we tried to keep in our minds that fuel can be scarce once you cross Ole Miss and get into the western side of the country. Right outside of Amarillo, Texas, we realized that we might have made a mistake. We had seen signs while going through town advertising a big truck stop with diesel, but after drinving all the way through town, we never found it. Out of worry, we decided to break into our backup plan:
After dumping in 10 gallons of reserve fuel, we quickly discovered that the brand new nice travel center was only a few more miles, and we would've made it... oh well.
Well, after 42 hours of driving (from Atlanta to Johnson Valley) we finally arrived on Monday afternoon and started setting up camp. It was a gorgeous day, 70 degrees out, sun shining, slightly breezy, but very comfortable.
Then, after a good dinner and some good ole genuine campfire BS, we decided to settle in for a much needed night of sleep. Latney, Mark, Tim, and myself all piled into Tim's larger tent, and my dad pied into a smaller one since we couldn't all fit in one. Slowly but surely the wind began to pick up. Around 12:00 AM, it got absolutely crazy and the tent started giving up at holding off the wind. The poles began collapsing and falling down, and the ez-up had already lost one side to a wind gust. Tim and Latney braved the sand storm like conditions and went outside to batten down the hatches. After about 15 minutes of tying things down, the tent finally started acting like it was going to be ok. At roughly 3:00 AM the wind changed directions and a 75 MPH wind gust ripped one whole side out of the tent. There was a loud boom, and we all awoke to sandy sleeping quarters immediately.
At that point, we had pretty much given up. Tim drug his air mattress under the trailer and staked some things down to build an air dam for protection.
Our new sleeping quarters; Casa De La Goose:
On Tuesday morning we had a few repairs to make, Floyd needed new lower control arm bushings, and Betty's power steering pump died on her late Monday while playing around at camp. PSC got her hooked up though, and a new pump and high volume reservoir were installed.
After all repairs were made, we decided to go watch a few of the final LCQ races going on that day, and then went on a short ride through Chocolate Thunder, and Betty made the trip DOWN trap door (same directon as the real race), pretty crazy stuff! Then back to Camp for dinner and bed.
Wednesday:
We didn't ride any, instead we spent the day watching the 2nd half of the LCQ. Wow, backdoor takes A LOT of HP to make it up! After the LCQ, we were headed back to camp when Betty spotted her secret love, and since she thinks the's the bees knees, it only seemed fair for her to take a picture with him.
Ned Bacon in his Killer Bee showing Betty a little love:
Thursday:
Time for some riding! We decided to go hit some hammer trails; we started out with Jackhammer, and then ran Sledgehammer shortly after.
Top of jackhammer trail overlooking Hammertown:
Then time for Sledge:
And at the end of the Jackhammer trail, where it meets up with sledge, is the infamous mail box; thank God the mail forgot to deliver our bills:
Please wait until after my next post to make any comments!!!
