A couple of months back, this sexy beast was delivered to me. I purchased it sight unseen and spent a good week just looking it over. She was a working girl all her life, and mostly was ridden hard and put away wet. We are still counting the layers of orange paint that was slathered all over her body.
There was a throng of extra equipment that had been installed so she could perform her servitude. That all got ripped out. Then came the time to give her a bath, and so I took a power-washer to the entire interior and some of the exterior…and so this is the way she sits today.
I am not sure exactly how many months/years she sat, but we did change out the fluids, installed new plugs, chased down a bad ground or two, and she started right up. She is actually in great mechanical condition. Her 2.5 Liter Petrol just powered us through a 300 mile road trip that included a day of trails through the Ozark Nation Forest. Transfer case and 5 speed were flawless. But let me tell you what did not perform flawlessly, the alternator/water pump belt…sometime after we left the trail that sucker snapped.
Current plan is to give her a complete Resto-Mod makeover. I am going to try to make her into a daily driver. Here is the problem; I’ve never rebuilt a car or truck…hell I don’t even change my own oil. This place is going to serve as a documentary journal, so that some lost soul can one day dodge the mistakes that I make.