Road Testing my Spud (prototype II)

[PapaYolk]

Jayson is looking to be production ready by January. The new and improved Spud will have an aluminum frame.
I'm first on the "to get" list. I will be contacting all who have PMed and emailed me and be collecting contact info from those who want to be on "The List". I will update Spud 3's progress here and on Facebook (Tim Mazac) and give a unit price as soon as we figure it out. Jayson's full sized teardrops are SWEET, so I'm confident the new and improved Spud will shine.

[Dan Alexander]

[slyeager]

Sweet, I see a trip out west in my near future next summer/fall............

[PapaYolk]

Seems my patent lawyer has immortalized me as the faceless gimp in my NPU patent application.

[RedRockRider]

Faceless Gimp . . .

Glad it seems to be going well!

[willys]

Damn that is one great trailer....you now have me rethinking my next two wheeled trailer designs.....thanks.....

[DCrider]

Sweet trailer but ya forgot something...a wet bar
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but dont worry, for a mere $150k you can get one, too much $$ you say but it does come fully stocked

[PapaYolk]

Cool wet bar. I don't entertain much, so a burger and brew will do.

[Mr. Fisherman]

Love me some Mississippi Mud ... and I still dig the trailer.

[actionshooter10]

AWESOME idea and congrats on you following through and not giving up on your dream.

Put me on the interested list. I look forward to hearing more around January.

[blacktruck]

Mark me down as interested. I'm still away for a bit longer but this is just what I was looking for.
Great report and idea.
Thanks for sharing it with us..
Stay safe man...

[scottyj1]

Originally Posted by PapaYolk

When I was a lad there were service stations where men in hats and ties would scurry around dad's car, spraying and wiping glass, popping the hood, wiping the dip stick, and pumping gas. If it was a fill-up we would often be offered a free drinking glass or dinner plate to add to a set. Those long ago memories came flooding back when I stopped for gas in Bend, Or.



Sometimes things "retro" can be improved upon.



I remember this place, over fifty years back. Dad bought a cut and polished thunder-egg here and proudly shared it with Uncle Loyd, chief of police in Burns. Loyd laughed at dad's paying five bucks for a rock and said he could take us to where they could be dug up like spuds. The next day we spent a couple hours bouncing along and eating dust in a Willys Overland. We brought back a half filled ash can of golf to soft ball sized geodes. When we got home to Cal., dad bought a rock saw and started cutting. When he found some with agate or amethyst inside he was hooked, became a rock-hound. It was great. He bought a jeep. Every other weekend we would grind out onto the Mojave following a hand drawn map picked up at a rock-swap-meet or printed in a rock-hound publication and hunt treasure. As he wasted away in bed out at the VA hospital years later, he was still working stone, chipping bits of the fire from precious opals and dropping them into little glass bulbs filled with glycerin, making earrings.

Mom married a jerk afterwards. We moved to Florida, but before we left I had all dads rocks, that were to be left behind, hauled over to my best friend's house; 1/4 ton of childhood treasures. We spread them through his pop's well manicured flowerbeds and around his fish pond. I kept all the petrified sharks's teeth and arrowheads.

dude,I was reading about your rock quest with your dad,man I love hearin them old stories from back then.I wish I was not born so late as I feel i really missed out on what America once was.

[trailrider383]

Originally Posted by PapaYolk

Jayson is looking to be production ready by January. The new and improved Spud will have an aluminum frame.
I'm first on the "to get" list. I will be contacting all who have PMed and emailed me and be collecting contact info from those who want to be on "The List". I will update Spud 3's progress here and on Facebook (Tim Mazac) and give a unit price as soon as we figure it out. Jayson's full sized teardrops are SWEET, so I'm confident the new and improved Spud will shine.

Any updates?

[trailrider383]

Is this thing on?