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JANUARY 2026 CLUB MEETING
Hi Guest: The next RS meeting will be Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The meeting will be held at Cruisers and Company. Click here for details and directions.
⦿ If you are eligible for club membership, please fill out an application in advance of the meeting and bring it with you.
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Squishy!
Rising Sun Member
I gotta say if I were to buy a Landcruiser a 60 would be my only choice.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Saw this beauty the other day here in GJ. Super, super well done and still spotless inside and out BJ40 on OME suspension.
Maybe members should have some cards welcoming new members that they see in parking lots. Leave the card under the wiper?
DanTheMan
Rising Sun Member
Spotted on Lucent Blvd, looked like a cold ride, the driver was really bundled up! 
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White Stripe
Hard Core 4+
Looks like a really old aqualu tub. First generation aqualu tubs are very basic. The hatch is aqualu I think.Saw this beauty the other day here in GJ. Super, super well done and still spotless inside and out BJ40 on OME suspension.
DouglasVB
Rising Sun Member
No photos because I was on my motorcycle but I thought y'all would be interested...
King of the Hammers traffic!!!
I did about 2000 miles on my Honda Pacific Coast between Monterey, Torrance, Palm Springs, and back to Monterey last week as part of a work trip. On my return from Palm Springs, I took the secondary highways to avoid freeway traffic through Los Angeles. My route was more or less as follows:
I circled the red bit where Johnson Valley OHV Area is located.
I rode through Johnson Valley before sunrise when the sky to the east was on fire with dark purple, pink, red, orange, and yellow. It was a little below freezing and my hands and feet could feel it through my riding boots and gloves. There was very little traffic on Highway 247 (the one through Johnson Valley) save for a school bus and a few commuters.
A lonely mobile electric highway reader board was sitting out alongside of the road announcing "KOH TURN RIGHT" at the entrance to Johnson Valley OVH Area. Off in the distance to the north I could see a large encampment of 4x4s, trailers, and tents nestled against a low mountain range.
Heading north from Lucerne on the way to Barstow, I passed an area on the highway setup for desert 4x4 truck crossings. There were big inflatable light-up mushroom-shaped contraptions on both sides of the road that made the area bright as day so that trucks flying through the desert could see the pavement and any traffic on the lonely highway would have time to stop and wait for 4x4 trucks to cross.
Just after that 4x4 truck crossing, I saw my first built truck being hauled on a flatbed trailer by a tow big heading to KOH.
As I eased into Barstow, the sun crested over the far eastern mountains in the direction of Las Vegas. The freeway was below me in the valley formed by the dry Mojave River. Now at semi-regular intervals I started to see tow pig after tow pig hauling trailers packed with rock crawlers, desert racers, and so many spare parts. Jugs of gas were packed into the beds of the tow pigs. Every second or third trailer had bottles of welding gas strapped onto the deck or tied to the 4x4 truck that was strapped down for the long trek to Johnson Valley. I spied a few beat up but reliable welders shoved in between the gas jugs and camping supplies.
I saw Chevy trucks, Ford trucks, Toyota trucks, Dodge trucks, International Harvester trucks, one Datsun truck, one... I think VW truck? and so many tube buggies. About a third of the trucks had been truggied to some extent. Some of the buggies had the vestiges of a cab from a long forgotten beginning as a highway legal truck. Each trailer princess heading to KOH had significant body damage. I don't think I saw anything but one ton and bigger axles.
Between Johnson Valley and Coalinga, I saw at least 25 different 4x4 rigs on the backs of trailers being towed to KOH. It was one of the neatest things I've seen in awhile. I just wish I had been able to take pictures of all of these absolutely wild vehicles on their way to have an outstanding time playing together in the desert and competing to break their
.
It really makes me stoked to be involved in my own little way in this 4x4 hobby that we all love. I just love seeing other people's built rigs heading off to have fun, make friends, and explore their limits. We really live in the best of times right now.
Obligatory motorcycle photo:
King of the Hammers traffic!!!
I did about 2000 miles on my Honda Pacific Coast between Monterey, Torrance, Palm Springs, and back to Monterey last week as part of a work trip. On my return from Palm Springs, I took the secondary highways to avoid freeway traffic through Los Angeles. My route was more or less as follows:
I circled the red bit where Johnson Valley OHV Area is located.
I rode through Johnson Valley before sunrise when the sky to the east was on fire with dark purple, pink, red, orange, and yellow. It was a little below freezing and my hands and feet could feel it through my riding boots and gloves. There was very little traffic on Highway 247 (the one through Johnson Valley) save for a school bus and a few commuters.
A lonely mobile electric highway reader board was sitting out alongside of the road announcing "KOH TURN RIGHT" at the entrance to Johnson Valley OVH Area. Off in the distance to the north I could see a large encampment of 4x4s, trailers, and tents nestled against a low mountain range.
Heading north from Lucerne on the way to Barstow, I passed an area on the highway setup for desert 4x4 truck crossings. There were big inflatable light-up mushroom-shaped contraptions on both sides of the road that made the area bright as day so that trucks flying through the desert could see the pavement and any traffic on the lonely highway would have time to stop and wait for 4x4 trucks to cross.
Just after that 4x4 truck crossing, I saw my first built truck being hauled on a flatbed trailer by a tow big heading to KOH.
As I eased into Barstow, the sun crested over the far eastern mountains in the direction of Las Vegas. The freeway was below me in the valley formed by the dry Mojave River. Now at semi-regular intervals I started to see tow pig after tow pig hauling trailers packed with rock crawlers, desert racers, and so many spare parts. Jugs of gas were packed into the beds of the tow pigs. Every second or third trailer had bottles of welding gas strapped onto the deck or tied to the 4x4 truck that was strapped down for the long trek to Johnson Valley. I spied a few beat up but reliable welders shoved in between the gas jugs and camping supplies.
I saw Chevy trucks, Ford trucks, Toyota trucks, Dodge trucks, International Harvester trucks, one Datsun truck, one... I think VW truck? and so many tube buggies. About a third of the trucks had been truggied to some extent. Some of the buggies had the vestiges of a cab from a long forgotten beginning as a highway legal truck. Each trailer princess heading to KOH had significant body damage. I don't think I saw anything but one ton and bigger axles.
Between Johnson Valley and Coalinga, I saw at least 25 different 4x4 rigs on the backs of trailers being towed to KOH. It was one of the neatest things I've seen in awhile. I just wish I had been able to take pictures of all of these absolutely wild vehicles on their way to have an outstanding time playing together in the desert and competing to break their
.It really makes me stoked to be involved in my own little way in this 4x4 hobby that we all love. I just love seeing other people's built rigs heading off to have fun, make friends, and explore their limits. We really live in the best of times right now.
Obligatory motorcycle photo:
WVU fan
Rising Sun Member
Basaltfj40
Trail Ready
nuclearlemon
Hard Core 4+
while that is cool, shouldn't we have our kids poop on jeeps?
Old40Dog
Rising Sun Member
Spotted this very new HiLux from Sonora, Mexico on I-10 between Tucson & Phoenix the other day.
Stuckinthe80s
Rising Sun Member
creepin.....Off the high line canal...
dan1554
Rising Sun Member
