Welcome to the Official SoCal BS/ Shenanigans, Tundras and What’s Happening Thread

Infernos are rare. As are those of us who appreciate 'em. I'm grateful there was one waiting for him!

 

Yup. But I never sit in that back seat. I love having a bed I can sleep in.

 

How fast was he going? Can stand drunk drivers.

 

Around 40mph

 

Been quiet all weekend, but for good reason, I went to Mexico!
My buddy mentioned a rock crawling event outside Tecate, so we hopped in his truck and went. Pretty much packed ourselves and a ton of beer haha.

There were a TON of vehicles out there! Mostly all Jeeps, some built crawlers, and a handful of Yotas.




This is his rig.


Beginning of the night started by recovering two Jeeps. One lost a wheel (you can see the drag marks from his axle)
The second Jeep broke his steering linkage.



After that began the night run of many many many trucks (I want to say there were upwards of 70, it was wild!)



Broken trailing arm



Some rock crawling the following morning



Yotas!




This is a fraction of all the pictures, and many videos that I took, very cool and memorable trip! Some of the gnarliest obstacles I’ve seen and been passenger in! Didn’t get back to camp until 1am haha. I really need to learn Spanish since I don’t know anything past how to ask for a beer

 

So much AWESOME, Mike!

70 trucks? At night? That's some serious Entourage, huh, @Marty McFly.

 

It was a crazy number of people! With as much beer flowing as there was I’m surprised it went as well as it did.

 

Happy drunks!

 

Fact! Present company included

 

Good to see these things hold up! Glad to see you're okay Mr. Inferno!

Had the family's old 2000 Land Cruiser with me at school. In January I hit some road erosion/pothole, lost control, and flipped it on its side and took out 5-6 trees on the way. Totaled obviously, but thing held up like a tank. Thats what led me to stay in the family with the Tundra.

Thanks for all the dealer advice guys! Ill give Longo a call today. and ask to speak with Martin.

Once I figure out how to easily post pics in here Ill throw some up of the old LC and the new ride. Maybe a selfie if you guys are lucky.

Pleasure to be welcomed in here!

 

Happy to hear you were okay. That ford took a beating

 

@InfernoToyo , glad you're okay. Please tell me you didn't have a passenger.

@McFly, you're clearly the boss here. Can you get a newbie up to speed? How often do us SoCal types meet up? This seems like a super chill group.

 

Thanks for thinking that, but I’m not the boss, just a low level SoCal time traveler
@Sunnier, now she’s the SoCal boss of all bosses

As far as meet ups, we’ve only had 2. We definitely would like to do more and I know some people were hoping for at least once a month, but life tends to get in the way sometimes and schedules get busy. Plus the heat is pretty bad for some trail runs. Hopefully we can get something going soon. I’d like to meet up with the crew again and meet all the new members

 

@Marty McFly isnt the boss, hes our celebrity he brings all the girls to the yard haha

 

I use my time traveling abilities to bring hot women from the 1980s lol

 

Bunch of awesome guys and gals around here!

I know I'm a little taco in the world of big Tundras! But you're welcome to join the Thursday night brewery meets I hold on tacomaworld.com (everyone is welcome on that note)

This Thursday we're going to AleSmith. Usually meet up around 6:30-7pm and stay until 9 or 10 (but welcome to come and go as you please)

Boss lady @Sunnier


Yeah it can be hard to coordinate, but the socal group is getting bigger which will help encourage more meets! And once this heat subsides and we can be in the desert during the day

 

Thanks for the TW update. I think it’s in agreement @Sunnier is the boss lady . She’s going to kill us when she sees this thread
I agree, this heat is insane! Once it cools down I think the meets will pick up.

 

Naw. Probably I am too bossy
but I am not the boss of anyone here!

If you read through... whatever thread led to this thread..., you'll see @Marty McFly was voted inaugural year Club President fair and square. I'm just the woman behind the man behind the woman @Marty is married to (Hi, "Jen"! ).

WHAT I REALLY am is the only owner of a brand new inferno 2WD willing to hang out with a bunch of yahoos I'd never met before, and get stuck while off-roading.




















But now we're all good friends so no one talks about that away from the trail.

 

@sdde4n feel free to set something up. We would have more meet ups but no one except boss lady @Sunnier is willing to step up...... Me included

 

We are a bunch of yahoos that don’t want to scratch our trucks up lol

I guess we could try and throw out some trail ideas (keep in mind the heat) and we can collectively try to put a meet together

Any summer friendly trails?

 

Heat? You’re in your air conditioned truck 90% of the time! Stop making excuses and get a run together!!!!

 

A lot of the members like to bring the family and kids Joon. Can’t be running around in Death Valley with children

Come On Joon, get it together

 

Plus I’m way too Hollywood for that shit lol

 

Just don’t go to Death Valley for 3 days in the middle of July. We learned that lesson.

 

Big Bear maybe. But there's probably "pinstripes" gathered on the shady side of the mountain. If one of you up that way find a trail, I probably would join the conga up from San Diego....

I did an exploratory run on an "intermediate" trail out near Campo (figured you Riverside guys might travel down here if I could guarantee it met standards) but I found that rains have transformed one stretch into difficult. I was lucky to back out my locked 4x4 4Runner with MaxTrax. So... the heart is willing, but the flesh....

 

I will gladly take your sound advice lol

 

I have no problem shooting down to SD for the day! I’m even good with going back to anza to explore a little more.

Even though I’m probably the closest member to big bear, I have zero knowledge of the trails up there. I’d be good with a meet in Big Bear.

 

Just keep ur truck away from @Sunnier she will clean ur truck with her salaiva to show u its not scratched lol

 

I am dedicated to keeping you guys out on the trails!

 

Haha! I guess that was a bit weird.

But @InfernoToyo was really bummed. It made me worried. I also bleed inferno.