Home is where the part is!

Nice Empire of Dirt! I would be proud to call that collection of very usable vehicles, parts and components my own. May I suggest consolidation of your parts vehicles into a single area though. I recently cleaned up my shop yard and just by shoving a few broken trucks closer together, things look much neater! Also a…

I use the side burner to render bear fat. The house smells terrible if you do it inside, and I like to think the lingering aroma of the rendered fat of their brethren serves as good warning to keep the other bears away.   

Kanye is overtired? Sounds like Kanye West needs a Kanye rest in his Kanye nest so he can wake up to be his Kanye best!

I gotta suggest my personal favorite, the Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45. I like square bodies, I like OBS Fords, but the ‘45 will always be my favorite. Unique, capable, instantly recognizable, easy to work on, universally loved. For me, this is the epitome of truck.

If thats the going rate, I think I am out by an order of magnitude with the pricing of the one in my front yard.  Forget $500, I’m tacking another zero on there!

More baffling than a 1986 Hyundai Pony for 15k Canuckistanian kopeks?

Neutral: I’m a truck buyer, but I only like the old ones at the bottom of their depreciation curve. My 1995 7.3 is fully loaded, electric everything, AC, etc.  $6000.  Just wait 20 years and those 100k trucks can be yours! 

Re-reading that and I agree, I must have been sub consciously channeling him! 

Kentucky Fried Grouse is amazing, its grouse season here right now, so we had some last weekend. Step 1: Find and kill grouse, this is harder than you might imagine, however, enough hours driving around on logging roads, you are bound to find some, you’ll need 2-3 grouse for 2 people. I prefer a 20ga shotgun, but…

You call that an elk? This is an elk!

Those little cars sure can take a Lada abuse! 

Funny story, I was talking to my wife about the whole “you should smile more” thing, and how it is such a weird thing to say. I walk around scowling all the time by nature, and nobody has ever told me to smile. However, the very next day a guy at work told me to “smile, it’s not so bad” and it was all I could do to…

The 1991 Honda Civic sitting in my shop yard. My wife wanted it made into a dirt track redneck race car, and I’d be way more motivated to get it running again if it was RWD. Its a fun car, but for a redneck race car FWD is just no verky verky.

(To be read over Planet Telex instrumental) Sigh, so the old ghosts are re-appearing, thinking their time in purgatory is over. These vestigial creatures are creeping back into the light, seeking approval and rehabilitation, answering to the siren call of public redemption. They have not changed, and they never will,…

Yep, 1977 FJ45, I bought it years ago, body is an aqualu job, box is long gone, but most everything else is there. Started off just trying to reverse the spring over, now I’m fixing the rusted out frame, repairing the axles (P/O elected to not re-install axle shaft seals, leading to ...problems), installing throttle…

Thanks, I think I got it working, this is the replacement segment made from 4mm steel.

I’ll try when I get home, not working on work computer.  

Speaking as a 40 Series Land Cruiser guy, I have seen and repaired worse. Sometimes you just need to fabricate a new frame segment, sometimes you just need to patch it up, in the end, everything is fixable, it just takes time and a willingness to do the work. Not saying I would fix this frame, but if it was a…

IDK, after hearing about Robert Prongay on LPOTL I wouldn’t be calling a noise complaint in on a Mister Softee truck. Good way to get yourself whacked!