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Title: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: cru9 on March 13, 2019, 07:00:36 PM
Ok let’s dig way back in everybody’s memory. Post a picture of your rig when you went on the very first GATR club ride.  The picture doesn’t have to be from the ride but the picture does have to be what the rig looked like. 

Mine was a 2003 TJ with 33” tires and I think 4” lift
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Anvilsam on March 13, 2019, 07:24:34 PM
Back when I thought booby could drive


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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Scott F. on March 13, 2019, 07:55:42 PM
First official ride was the pre-opening at AOP , March 2013. Same Toyota truck of course.
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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Scott F. on March 13, 2019, 07:56:15 PM
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Big Dave on March 13, 2019, 07:57:29 PM
I had some red POS Cherokee with a exo cage.
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: cru9 on March 13, 2019, 08:02:29 PM
Back when I thought booby could drive


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Hahaha!
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: patman on March 13, 2019, 08:07:29 PM
Back when I thought booby could drive


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Hahaha!


Hale? If so, I'll never forget what you asked me
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Anvilsam on March 13, 2019, 08:17:06 PM
Back when I thought booby could drive


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Hahaha!


Hale? If so, I'll never forget what you asked me

No my first ride was gatrclaus 2014. But yes i remember asking if i could get in front of you so i could watch booby's line. In all honesty the real reason was so we could get away from the cloud of smoke you call an exhaust.
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: patman on March 13, 2019, 08:24:32 PM
Took me a while to find a pic of how my jeep looked then (last pic, before lift and tires), but I found some pics from my first trip with the group at AOP (2012 or 2013?) with Wes, Jared, Steve, Mark (I think) and a few more. A few months later is the parking lot shot at gulches and what i think was John's first trip with his silver JKU?(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/5c8787d805958a23738031e62d5f9fba.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/8465d57c5e0f76f25f4f8478864e65a5.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/6cfd1d4e22d4317c93e53de918212f23.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/c4e83006dc48d0974dc630d7d87cb33f.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/cb24bc5946d045b41e649cb428329f99.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/1d1c662e4dbeab42b6b7f83b10cdb8fd.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/e43510da3dabd92f8a591c91dc3552e8.jpg)

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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Jeepster1407 on March 13, 2019, 08:26:41 PM
I can’t find pictures of my “first” official GATR ride but I do recall it was At Tellico with Matt, Daniel, Brad, and Adam in a cabin infested with fleas. It was before this photo. I do know that. But here’s a photo of “one” of my first rides also at Tellico in my old YJ.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/a6436e65e7b651108520b1ce0e059080.jpg)


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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Michigunman on March 13, 2019, 08:28:40 PM

Pre-opening was my second GATR ride and my Jeep was the same.  These are from that same trail I think.

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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: jd30005 on March 13, 2019, 08:42:12 PM
A few months later is the parking lot shot at gulches and what i think was John's first trip with his silver JKU?(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/e43510da3dabd92f8a591c91dc3552e8.jpg)

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Great find Pat. That indeed was my first ride with GATR. It was GATRFEST at Gulches in 2012 with my JKU mall crawler.  That’s when I caught the bug. 
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Michigunman on March 13, 2019, 08:52:16 PM
Ok found this one from my first ride.  Morris Mtn Feb 2013.  I remember meeting  Blue Wes and White Wes, Tony, Bobby, Jared, Todd, Marc (?), Alex, Danny, Adam, AJ, YJ Steve and not sure who else.  It was freaking cold in the morning.  Had a blast that weekend.

I think in the picture is Tony, Wes, me, Wes (or Alex).
(http://i.imgur.com/wIOksd6l.jpg)
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Cannonballkev on March 13, 2019, 09:02:07 PM
Long bed Chevy truck, open/open IFS.  Wrong everything, but I took that thing places it shouldn’t have gone.
Morris mountain was my first trip ever to a park .  I aired down  way to far and spun the tire right off the rim,and it rolled down the hill,  and still drove another 100 yards up the hill across from the steel bridge without knowing it was gone.
  Picture is from Gulches, fuel pump went out right there!
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Big Dave on March 13, 2019, 09:04:51 PM
I can’t find pictures of my “first” official GATR ride but I do recall it was At Tellico with Matt, Daniel, Brad, and Adam in a cabin infested with fleas. It was before this photo. I do know that. But here’s a photo of “one” of my first rides also at Tellico in my old YJ.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/a6436e65e7b651108520b1ce0e059080.jpg)


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Slickrock!!!
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: ranier1315 on March 13, 2019, 09:50:29 PM
Took me a while to find a pic of how my jeep looked then (last pic, before lift and tires), but I found some pics from my first trip with the group at AOP (2012 or 2013?) with Wes, Jared, Steve, Mark (I think) and a few more. A few months later is the parking lot shot at gulches and what i think was John's first trip with his silver JKU?(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/5c8787d805958a23738031e62d5f9fba.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/8465d57c5e0f76f25f4f8478864e65a5.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/6cfd1d4e22d4317c93e53de918212f23.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/c4e83006dc48d0974dc630d7d87cb33f.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/cb24bc5946d045b41e649cb428329f99.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/1d1c662e4dbeab42b6b7f83b10cdb8fd.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/e43510da3dabd92f8a591c91dc3552e8.jpg)

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Yup. That's my green JKU with factory wheels, fenders and a monster bumper before I even got a lift. Good times! lol
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Jeepster1407 on March 13, 2019, 09:52:41 PM
I can’t find pictures of my “first” official GATR ride but I do recall it was At Tellico with Matt, Daniel, Brad, and Adam in a cabin infested with fleas. It was before this photo. I do know that. But here’s a photo of “one” of my first rides also at Tellico in my old YJ.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/a6436e65e7b651108520b1ce0e059080.jpg)


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Slickrock!!!


Yessir! I loved that damn place. RIP!


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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Will on March 13, 2019, 09:57:42 PM
I can’t find pictures of my “first” official GATR ride but I do recall it was At Tellico with Matt, Daniel, Brad, and Adam in a cabin infested with fleas. It was before this photo. I do know that. But here’s a photo of “one” of my first rides also at Tellico in my old YJ.
Slickrock!!!


Yessir! I loved that damn place. RIP!


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Has anyone been up that way in the past couple of years? I heard they paved trail 1 and you can still drive through there between Murphy and Tellico Plains. I almost detoured over there the last time I was passing through Murphy but didn’t have time. I’m just interested to see what it looks like now.
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Will on March 13, 2019, 10:29:23 PM
River Rock 2007 was my first ride. Took a perfectly good TJ and beat the crap out of it. Broke a gas gauge/float in the tank and TKO’d one of the side steps. That may have been the last time anything on 33s went through the rat hole. Good times.

Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: tjsahara00 on March 14, 2019, 03:55:12 AM
June 2010 was my first ride with GATR
4'' lift on 35's with 3.07 gears
Dana 30 and Dana 35 > open/open

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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Big Dave on March 14, 2019, 05:16:46 AM
I can’t find pictures of my “first” official GATR ride but I do recall it was At Tellico with Matt, Daniel, Brad, and Adam in a cabin infested with fleas. It was before this photo. I do know that. But here’s a photo of “one” of my first rides also at Tellico in my old YJ.
Slickrock!!!


Yessir! I loved that damn place. RIP!


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Has anyone been up that way in the past couple of years? I heard they paved trail 1 and you can still drive through there between Murphy and Tellico Plains. I almost detoured over there the last time I was passing through Murphy but didn’t have time. I’m just interested to see what it looks like now.
A few years back I went by after riding Tellico Durhamtown. It was a sad sight. Trail 1 was paved & all the trails off of it were graded smooth & gated off. I walked to cement bridge that was built a year or two before the closure & all of the silt fences were falling over or totally buried under silt.
I still want to go back & walk to Fains Ford & slickrock.
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: thetastelingers on March 14, 2019, 07:22:36 AM
Long armed TJ on 35s locked with 4:88
First trail ride was AOP a few years ago.  CFR 2017

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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: lt99ls1 on March 14, 2019, 09:04:34 AM
I think River Rock 2007 was my first ride with the group.  This was when the white jeep was still orange.
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: gint2 on March 14, 2019, 09:31:38 AM
Not a first ride pic but a fun one... Jay presenting Bobby with a PBJ snack sandwich.  Harlan 8/16/2014
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: tcdawg on March 14, 2019, 10:09:39 AM
Mid 2010 or 2011, not exactly sure.

Gulches

2003 TJ

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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: cru9 on March 14, 2019, 10:14:27 AM
Not a first ride pic but a fun one... Jay presenting Bobby with a PBJ snack sandwich.  Harlan 8/16/2014
I am still hungry from missing that lunch.
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: tcdawg on March 14, 2019, 10:20:36 AM
Ok found this one from my first ride.  Morris Mtn Feb 2013.  I remember meeting  Blue Wes and White Wes, Tony, Bobby, Jared, Todd, Marc (?), Alex, Danny, Adam, AJ, YJ Steve and not sure who else.  It was freaking cold in the morning.  Had a blast that weekend.

I think in the picture is Tony, Wes, me, Wes (or Alex).
(http://i.imgur.com/wIOksd6l.jpg)

Pretty sure that is White Wes, not Alex.

That was the freezing cold night that Alex had a broken arm in a cast and had too sleep with it outside of the sleeping bag.  He said it was the worst night of his life.
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: msnajkowski on March 14, 2019, 11:43:22 AM
I guess my first GATR Ride will be Crawling for Reid. I'll be in a bone stock 2018 JKU Rubicon.

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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Danny Kinder on March 14, 2019, 12:54:06 PM
I guess my first GATR Ride will be Crawling for Reid. I'll be in a bone stock 2018 JKU Rubicon. (https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipOHFJSZOaGodw85ju-CBwRdr0bmdFZb5Ug-PMdr)

Let's do it!!
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: tcdawg on March 14, 2019, 01:28:59 PM
I guess my first GATR Ride will be Crawling for Reid. I'll be in a bone stock 2018 JKU Rubicon. (https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipOHFJSZOaGodw85ju-CBwRdr0bmdFZb5Ug-PMdr)

Heck yes!!!!!
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Chris36l on March 14, 2019, 01:38:26 PM
Pretty sure it was gulches October/November of 2016. Great time! 2010 JKU Sahara. Bone stock. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/365200a42a97677f4a8ffc5f2a39dff0.jpg)then Morris Mountain a month or two later with much needed upgrades........Fenders and the quintessential light bar. Must have added at least 15HP. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/ab9568b7cd69b24da2f887500c15e1a8.jpg)

Not to mention witnessing someone flop for the first time.

You’ll never guess who.......(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190314/b615b919205228fb95b0465cfa4f3436.jpg)


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Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: patman on March 14, 2019, 02:04:56 PM
My first flop!
Lol at John's and the guy above him hand gestures. And biscuit trying his hardest to pull me back up!
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Danny Kinder on March 14, 2019, 02:45:12 PM
My first flop!
Lol at John's and the guy above him hand gestures. And biscuit trying his hardest to pull me back up!

Your on #4 since then huh? [cheers]
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: patman on March 14, 2019, 02:56:28 PM
My first flop!
Lol at John's and the guy above him hand gestures. And biscuit trying his hardest to pull me back up!

Your on #4 since then huh? [cheers]

Lost count after # 1
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Danny Kinder on March 14, 2019, 03:00:37 PM
lmao
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: kvom on March 14, 2019, 03:10:34 PM
River Rock was first GATR ride,  but I don't know what year (2007?).  Had 1999 black TJ with 2.5 engine, D44s locked on 37s.
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: clark123456 on March 14, 2019, 03:48:06 PM


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Old man Rob has his grand-niece along on that trip.  @outlawoffroad
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: gint2 on March 14, 2019, 04:18:24 PM
I know my ride, but Dropbox will not allow me to access my account...
It was the FS ride in 2010 or early 2011 and it rained the entire time. I was bone stock at the time.
Title: Re: What were you driving for your first GATR Club ride
Post by: Big Dave on March 14, 2019, 04:32:29 PM
My first flop!
Lol at John's and the guy above him hand gestures. And biscuit trying his hardest to pull me back up!

Your on #4 since then huh? [cheers]

Lost count after # 1
Drain bamage will do that.