Walked into the office and found that I’m not sure we exist anymore.

Full disclosure: I was inspired by today’s email from Blipshift.

Looks like the U.S. Special Operations Command is considering a proposal to use a standardized platform that can be re-skinned to imitate different vehicles. This is due to the fact that their current vehicle inventory has become so widely varied that it makes operation and maintenance a much bigger problem and…

Surprise snowfall in San Antonio/New Braunfels area last night. Not a big deal to anyone living further north, but a pretty special event for those of us who spend our summers fending off water boiling temperatures. Heaviest at the 1min mark...

...you watch the new Black Panther movie trailer and realize that’s a Demello Offroad bumper on the 4Runner being eviscerated.

Even a 996 may not deserve such a fate.

Traveled in convoy with Wes (‘12 Tacoma DCLB towing his CJ-5), Colin (‘15 Sequoia Platinum 4x4), and Matt (‘97 ExPo Poster Truck).

The bags are packed (mostly)

The nose will probably settle just a little over time and no, I have no intention to mount bigger tires. Still happy with my relatively decent 17-18mpg fuel mileage driving however I want. Though I am curious to see how a little lift (2.5" Front/2.0" Rear) might affect my economy over the longer term.

The latest in Andrew St. Pierre White’s quest for Troopy perfection.

At least a sticker is shockingly easy to install. No cardboard creeper. and no suspension of disbelief in your mechanical skills is necessary...

Multidrive, makers of 6x6 conversions for the Toyota 70-Series also has another variant I had not seen before.

That may be the best ad ever for Goodyear’s Wrangler Duratrac all-terrain tire. I’m guessing they found a 10-ply E-Load that fit for this run.

No idea if this is anything more than just a one-off for testing, but if they brought this to the States alongside the Alltrack that would be pretty sweet.

Lol.

A friend who is a full-time photographer earns a good living taking pictures of aircraft for auction. He says you never know what you’ll see squirreled away in people’s hangars. I guess it could be like the filled-to-eye-level storage unit so many of us have, but maybe just a few rungs higher on the income tax scale?…

Look closely...