Greetings from the Houston area! Long-time lurker here, I've been a Macho Power Wagon fan since the beginning of Simon & Simon. I'm currently doing without a 4x4 (for now) but I've been dreaming of building both versions of Rick Simon's truck (manual and auto) for well over 20 years now.
I've been a commercial driver running day routes for 16 plus years, including a 7 year stint in Chicago hauling US Mail, 6 years in Houston hauling Budweiser beer, and now 3 years for CVS Pharmacy Distribution. I grew up in a small farm town and was driving trucks to the grain elevator when I was 14.
My 4wd history (most recent first)
'85 Jeep Grand Wagoneer (traded 2 r/c cars for it)
'98 Jeep Grand Cherokee
'95 Ford F-250 (Plow truck)
'86 Chevy K-10
'83 Dodge Ramcharger
I've had several 2wd trucks along the way and currently own an '05 GMC 1500 (wife's DD) and a '98 Dodge Neon that has seen more offroad time than most Jeeps you see on the roads today. I bought the Neon new in December '07 and it currently has 252+K on the odometer.
I'm really into old-school offroad racing and was a big fan of Walker Evans and Rod Hall during their Dodge days. I have a lot of offroad racing photos on my Myspace page
www.myspace.com/petefromhoustonThanks for creating this site and to those who have provided me so much info on my favorite Dodges of all!