FJ40 I call Shipwreck

[Loren]

Pretty sweet project. I have a decent CJ-5 (insert raspberry here) body/frame/axles available to me for $250 and a my own pile of engines/parts...it's been very tempting...

But, I'd have to call it project 51 'cause of the other 50 in front of it. I think I'll just watch yours come along instead.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Pretty sweet project. I have a decent CJ-5 (insert raspberry here) body/frame/axles available to me for $250 and a my own pile of engines/parts...it's been very tempting...

But, I'd have to call it project 51 'cause of the other 50 in front of it. I think I'll just watch yours come along instead.

honestly, if I were to do a CJ, that's all I'd want to start (minus the axles, whoever came up with the idea of pressed on flanges?)... and I do like the short wheelbase of the '5 - but, with my screwy knee, I don't fit in it.

you know, if you got that CJ, that would make Stiney - the guy who started all these thoughts - as the only guy without a Heep.

[STINEY]

Hey....I do so to have a Heep! I'm just jonesen for a much older one. Take two, they're small right?

[SuperBuickGuy]

Hey....I do so to have a Heep! I'm just jonesen for a much older one. Take two, they're small right?

I've considered smaller, but the former head of the SAR 4x4 group had a willys, and while we are the same dimension vertically, he is a tad wider. When it was just him in his willys, it looked like there were two people inside.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Jeep, Toyota, Hummer, Ford... whatever your flavor, I still live and breath 4x4 and if the moment came where all my cars went away because they couldn't make it up to my cabin... that would be the best day of my life.

I think Loren's problem will be Gail. She likes micro cars - and she gets one gander at that Heep, and the gander will tell the goose to go puff off

Even worse, the goose will gladly do so cause he likes the gander... silly geese.

[Deaf Bob]

Loren likes men?... Goose is female, gander is male... Gail is a goose, Loren is a gander, if he likes gander....

[SuperBuickGuy]

Loren likes men?... Goose is female, gander is male... Gail is a goose, Loren is a gander, if he likes gander....

Oops, I must have breathed too much bondo last night, I'd ninja edit it, but since I got dissed about building a car with bondo - I'll leave it.

[STINEY]

That's just ducky.

[SuperBuickGuy]

and it comes home
Regis, watching carefully


warn winch... overheated...


note the brake lights are on? that's Buick sleeping on the brake pedals... both lights work, this is good


sad former owner


on the trailer, ready to go

[Sneke_Eyez]

Man, he was a real Land Cruiser guy, eh?

One in the garage, one in the driveway, and one J60 parked on the street out front!

I have several memories of beating on a roommate's parents' J80, but never really offroading it - by that time Toyota had turned them into luxury beasts and he was too afraid to wreck it.

Looks like a fun project!

[SuperBuickGuy]

The 60 in the street runs, but leaks a lot. The FJ40, it's a 78 that someone put a toyota diesel into (from a FJ62 IIRC) along with the transmission and the transfer case. It's basically just sitting in the FJ, and it's not straight to the frame rails. Whether that was because there's some major problem, or the builder was a hack - I dunno. But I wouldn't have made the same deal for that one as I did for this one.

[SuperBuickGuy]

oh so tempting

[AFFORDILLAC]

I'd put a Caddy in anything once...probably twice.

[SuperBuickGuy]

I'd put a Caddy in anything once...probably twice.

I've already had that Cadillac in a Studebaker, so for me it'd be twice.... three times if you consider the Studebaker went from 4x4 to 2wd...

[SuperBuickGuy]

you know, I do have a spare 455