Yahoo Autos Junkyard Gem: 1997 Chevrolet Tahoe, Rocky Mountain Rambler 500 Edition
My home state of Colorado is host to multiple wild road-and/or-off-road rallies featuring amusingly modified hoopties doing things they were never designed for. There's the Lemons Rally, the Gambler 500 and the Rocky Mountain Rambler 500, to name a few, and — as you'd expect — many of the participating vehicles wind up in the Front Range boneyards that I frequent. Today, we'll be looking at a Rocky Mountain Rambler 500 veteran that looks like it just rumbled off the set of a Mad Max movie.
The way you identify one of these rally machines is to look for the event stencil sprayed somewhere on the body. I like to think that I've had an influence on this stencil trend.
So far in this series, I've documented a Pirates of the Caribbean-themed 1996 Acura RL from the Rambler, an Astroturf-covered 2008 Volkswagen R32 from the Rambler and a "Good Vibes" 2005 Pontiac Vibe from the Gambler.
The chains-and-electrical-cords decor is top-notch.
The functional glasspack-topped dual stack exhaust must have sounded mean. It certainly looks right.
