Southern California Club Xterra
Southern California Club Xterra => SCCX Welcome Center => Topic started by: JFanaselle on June 18, 2014, 04:58:16 PM
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Hello Everyone,
Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to everyone! My name is Joe Fanaselle and I purchased a 2010 Xterra S model 4x4 just over 3 months ago. I have been lurking around TheNewX forum for a little while now and recently stumbled upon SCCX. I couldn't be happier that there is such a tight-knit community of Xterra and Frontier people in Southern California, as I noticed there wasn't much SoCal presence on TNX.
Anyway, a bit about myself - I am 32 years old and live in Murrieta with my wife and our 2 year old son. I work full time in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo) for Sony Electronics and also moonlight as a freelance photo journalist, shooting professional quality photos and video of breaking news incidents and providing the content to local media outlets (Press Enterprise, Union Tribune, Lane Media, Los Angeles TV Stations, etc). I spent several years as a firefighter before moving into the corporate life, so the photo journalism thing is a way to keep me close to my past life. :) I am also a licensed HAM and GMRS radio operator (KF6QBY and WQII921).
As I mentioned, my rig is a 2010 S model 4x4, white in color. I purchased it used from a dealership in La Quinta with only 33,000 miles on it, and it's still in mostly-stock form. I have completed a few modifications, but nothing major in the performance category yet.
So far, I've installed a 40" Totron DC Series dual-row LED light bar, a Xoskel Bumper Mouth Bracket with four HID 4" offroad driving lights (a combination of cheap "platinum burner" walmart housings and equally-cheap DDM HID bulb/ballast kits), a dual battery set-up with isolator, a ham radio (Yaesu FT-7800 with the radio unit mounted under the passenger seat and the head mounted between the dash and shifter), in-dash Sony GPS head unit, and forward and rear facing amber colored warning/strobes.
I'm currently working on a custom roof rack addition (just using some unistrut and aluminum flat bar - I don't have the skills or equipment to weld) and adding some rear and side facing lighting (I LOVE lights, in case you can't tell!).
Anyway, I am excited to be a member of the group and look forward to meeting many of you and ending up on some runs in the near future. I'm trying to break the wife into the idea of off road expeditions, and finally convinced her to take a day-trip out into the Mojave Preserve a few weekends back. It was a blast and she had a great time, but we still have a lot of work to do.
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Welcome, I used to be in Murrieta and am still close. Let me know if you want to get your wheels dirty locally.
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Welcome from San Clemente....2010 was a good year for X's!!! Sounds like you've started feeding the modding addiction already....that's a slippery slope, my friend!!!
Post up some pix and looking forward to meeting you out on the trails!!!
-Christiaan
xxSVxx
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Hey Joe, and welcome from Fallbrook.
Thanks for the great bio, you should fit in very nicely with this loosely knitted bunch of X nuts. The Ham radio already puts you in with the cool kids 8) Look forward to meeting you and your family soon.
Randy
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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I've updated the OP with a few pics from the small amount of light wheeling I've done thus far. I'll get a build thread started in the showcase section and load some pics over there as well. :)
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Welcome from Pasadena.
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Welcome from fallbrook. Love the color choice ;) I'll keep an eye out since I'm up that way once or twice a week.
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feel free to add your HAM call name/secret code/CAPCHA to the HAM OPERATORS thread in the COMMUNICATIONS forum....
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Welcome from the high desert.
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Welcome from Northern Orange County :)
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Welcome from Running Springs! Hope to see you on some of our mountain trails soon! :)
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Welcome from Beaumont area. I also get down to Murrieta with my job with the Riv. Co. Transportation Dept. Look forward to seeing you on the trails. :)
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Welcome from North SD County!
Yup...diggin' your color choice...the Avalance guys gotta stick together, as we are the "coolest" crew in the local deserts.
Nice write up in the Display Case. 8) 8) 8)