I’d appreciate it. haha.

Sounds like a good plan. Just keep weight in mind when you draw up your rig. Get a van that can handle the load. Weight adds up very quickly. In fact, I recently discovered that I exceeded GVWR by 1200 lbs. It’s difficult to urban stealth camp in my rig with 2 people. It’s tight and uncomfortable. Sometime I wish we…

Thanks! I had to custom order it that way. That was one feature I was adamant about.

My career allows me to solo for a week or more, which is what I prefer to do. My wife isn’t so lucky, so we’ll do weekend trips for her schedule and when she accrues enough vacation time, we head out for longer trips.

One of the best/worst lifestyle choices I’ve ever made. I was a huge performance car guy before I got into overlanding. I think the addiction is worse than modding cars.

Agreed. Summary of what you see from the car OK to NM:

As an automotive photographer that shoots PR and Marketing for manufacturers in SoCal. I think you’re over generalizing how PR photography works. PR gets a fraction of the budget marketing gets. Sometimes a Pre-production car is just finished and they’re launching the Press Release in a day or two.

As the owner of a stiffly sprung (Old Man Emu) FZJ80 and Tundra, it’s damn near impossible to take any supermarket type obstacle at normal speeds without knocking a filling loose.

LOL. I have bought all my cars in the exact attire: ripped jeans, sloppy sandals & scraggly hair.

Too funny. I actually shot that for them.

My buddy called me over to look at his wife's 06 Civic a few years back. The coolant smell was obvious. The leak was obvious so we checked all the usual suspects. But to my surprise, it was coming straight out the front of the block. Like it was a weeping rock. Couldn't believe it.

There’s your problem. This is where it should be sucking.

Raptor was just a clay mock-up that was going to be powered by their 302 SC. It was developed after Steve left the Irvine iteration of Saleen Inc. (2006-2008) Steve never really sold the company. Private investor Hancock Park Associates was putting the money in to Saleen, leaving Steve without much say - so he left…

My 1979 Mercury Capri RS was the most unreliable car I've ever owned.

I always admired those VQ Maximas. Such sleepers and unassuming.

Correct. A lot of us use that exact spot for commercial and/or editorial photography/videography. Nice open staging area thats been repaved in the past few years. Great capture angles, views and excellent for sunset photos.

With this bar, not very far. It was great for lighting campsites and backing into questionable scenarios at night though.

I bought the Spot version specifically and it felt like a spot/fog hybrid instead.

I'm not convinced LEDs are better. I had a $1200 Rigid LED E-series Spot bar on my rig. 40in iirc.

Damn do I miss the dark and creepy CEC "Pizza Time theater" of the 70s/80s. When the hell did they decide to clean this place up and turn on the lights? Mid 90s? The mouse didn't wear a skateboarding outfit. He dressed like a cheap pimp: complete with hat, vest and cane. You think that mouse suit is scary? Wait until…