2012 at the Hammond Barn

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

The conversation about storage for CMPs got me thinking about how my HUP live for the first 5 years I owned and drove it. Under a tarp, not how I would do it today but what worked at the time. Continued carry the tarp to this day on rally trips as a way of protecting inside of the HUP in very heavy rain. (Hopefully after the overhaul the roof won't leak) The canvas is a heavy cotton canvas that after all these years is still waterproof. Though it has many stitched up tears. The canvas sitting on the body does tend to wear the paint though.

But though people would get a kick out of the pictures, the Halloween photos of the kids is kind of an indication of how much part of the family Beast is.

For a good many years we went camping in BEAST like this with plywood section cut to create a bed area in the back and foam mattress. This was before we up graded our camping to the back of Beauty.