on the road 3 years later - thanks Mud!

[boysrus]

After 3 years of building, a few $$$, and countless hours reading and getting ideas on mud, my project is finally on the road. Notice I didn't say "done"....

It's a 1978 that I had to do a lot of cancer removal on. It now sports a 5.3L Vortec, NV4500 5 spd, Orion 4:1, FJ60 power steering, 35 inch old school MTR's and on and on.

I haven't posted on here a lot or asked a lot of questions, but the information I got from reading the posts here was invaluable - and some of the people on here do work that is truly inspirational! Thanks to all you mud folks!

No plans to do a build thread, but do have plenty of pictures and would be happy to offer advice to anyone tackling a similar project.

I guess the next project will be to update my sig line...

 

[boysrus]

couple more pic's

A few more.

I'll apologize up front if I don't respond right away... don't get too much time on here right now - which is good actually!;p

Jeff

 

[Eshu Elegua]

nice color combo..enjoy that toy..like the breakers on the engine comparment....

 

[bikersmurf]

Dang... That's one nice looking 40. I'm dreaming of the day mine looks that nice and I've had mine 20 years.

 

[edwjmcgrath]

sweet rig.

 

[nspctr1]

Nicely done

Congrats...

 

[Michael Hanson]

Well worth the wait, very nice cruiser. MIke

 

[BOSOXFJ40]

That looks great, enjoy driving it while mine sits in the garage!!! It looks terrific, drive the piss out of it

 

[nick]

That color looks very familiar.

 

[Josie'sLandCruiser]

Hi All:

Nicely done Boysrus!

Regards,

Alan

 

[Fossil]

Beautiful!
Great inspiration for me to get back out to the shop!

 

[krzyabncanuck]

Nice clean install.

 

[mydogpea]

Must be nice to have lots of $$$. Great looking build.

 

[40zen]

You clearly put a ton of work into it. Very clean, well done!

 

[centerlineseal]

Way to go! I can relate, as our '72 took over three years as well. And I bet I got a good idea how much $$ you got in her. Don't tell the !

 

[75/76FJ40]

Awesome work and great color! I actually have been sitting on a few gallons of a similar color for the past year from Ace. For what I am going to be using my 76 for I thought it best to do the Ace paint job. Again nice work and it is great to see what mine would look like all painted (sort of).

 

[boysrus]

[Don't tell the ! ]

Somehow, she knows. So anytime new furniture, or shoes, or.... comes up, all I can do is bite my tongue! You probably know that...

But, she's been very supportive and now takes it out to drive it on her own - which is fine with me!

 

[boysrus]

Nick - it should! I think it was your build that I first saw the color, and knew from then what color mine would be! I get lots of compliments on it - I'm sure you do too.

So thanks for the inspiration!

 

[MOTOV8R]

nice 40! post up a before pic

 

[boysrus]

mydogpea, I'm lucky in a number of respectsm actually: not a lot of money, but enough to do this, my wife who supported me in doing (as in, she let me spend the money....), and some time to do it. I dreamed of doing a build like this for 30 years before I got to tackle it!

Thanks for all the compliments. It's not as nice as a lot of the work I've seen on Mud and Pirate, but I'm happy with it and I learned a LOT!