My last name is Martini, and this is my Olive. I keep threatening to make shirts.
I'll thank you all for making this happen. I've bought tons of parts from many of you. Thanks. I may hate mud, but ih8mud rocks!
These two pictures, including the PO are from the day I picked it up. This was April 13th, last year, so I've had it exactly 10 months. I'm happy with the progress, but I wish I'd done more wheeling.
He charged me an arm and a leg, and wasn't completely honest, especially about the brakes. OTOH, I've sold a couple $thousand worth of the parts he saved, and used many more myself.
When I got it there was a residual valve in the front disc circuit of the master cylinder and one of the pads was metal-on-metal, tearing up the rotor. I still haven't replaced the rotor. I put in some Kragen pads shortly after which will get me to a future front end rebuild.
My goals have been to continue to make it better for a fairly low budget while keeping it running as much as possible so I can enjoy it. I've gone on two wheeling trips and 3000 miles on it in a year. The longest it was down was from Thanksgiving until New Year's getting a new carb and exhaust.
It's a survivor. The paint is all original with four major areas of rust. It's not getting worse, really, despite living in the driveway. It's only rained 5" here since I got it.
The only thing that was not original is the engine. The PO hot-rodded the original engine and told me that over 6000rpm wasn't a problem. He cracked the crank. I've got it on a stand, covered up in my back yard awaiting a future rebuild. He also included a nice spare crank which is safely stored away in the garage.