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Thanks, they are well made, genuine leather. 👌

I got my BJ42 ~”ready” (doors, sides and roof still to do). It took 7 years.

I was far from home and alone, so figured discretion was the better part of valor!

A few quick hundy shots for the homies: As always with these cruisers, completely drama free up steep hills and through the mud pits.

Yes, just my wife and I. I was worried about mud, but it looks like it’s been dry. I avoided the Tank traps section and took some bypasses. We were there Thursday and Friday and only saw a few side by sides on the trails. I really liked the north...

Last day on Drummond Island, MI. Marble Point, Shale Beach, and the Mackinac bridge as we head south.

Drummond Island, MI

Colorado was truly a great place to be. Im jealous of you guys out there. COTR 2 was a good shakedown run for my bone stock 100 but she did well. "The Wall" was the only legit obstacle that required my winch. The entrance was pretty knarly as...

Got the 75 cruiser out of storage for rest of summer.

Found some Chevy Cobolt seats. Had them reupholstered, rails modified and installed. Wow, what a transition! I can slide back further, recline, sit higher for better visibility and they really update the interior. Next I need to get a center...

Through the course of events, the wheel lock key gets lost… I never liked having these lug nut locks but the truck had them on it when I had gotten it. While I had guarded that key like it was solid gold, it still wound up gone. I purchased and...

Cleaned and ready for paint. Reinstalled

I rebuilt a 1979 Toyota FJ40 power steering box today for a friend. It was an exercise in persistence, patience, and attention to detail. It is as good as new... at least I hope it is!! :rofl:

I got wood! Doesn't happen as often as it used to.

I know it’s been said before, but these things really do like being driven. I’ve taken it out more this past month than I think all of last summer. The carb is mostly cooperating-it’s only died a few times but hasn’t had the high idle thing...

800km round trip to the cabin

Hit a very remote area in the Sawatch Range.

Spring runoff generally cleans the rivers out each season, some of the larger fires do dump a significant amount of ash and sediment into the streams. As we all know, nature has a strange way of working itself out.

I used an AC coil cleaning kit to remove funky smells when the AC is turned off… Did a little searching and found that the $40 Toyota kit is made by ZEP for Toyota… Heads up… Turns out that the $18 Subaru kit ( made by ZEP for Subaru) is...

after a few months of waiting, my unicorn "Franz" turned 25 and finally swam across the ocean and made it to Tennessee. Sadly it arrived with the motor working but electronics... not so much. After some time with a multimeter I was able to...

Back in my thirties I made a pretty serious promise to myself that I'd never end up having a pretentiously long coffee order... I'm 55 now: 24oz, Hot, Mexican Mocha, extra shot, half sweet, whole milk, no whip, 2 cups,1 sleeve. Complete failure...

We stopped by Capitol Reef National Park on our way to Moab, Utah. This is just .1% of what this amazing place is all about. As always the newly serviced AHC in delivered as advertised in that sub 500-mile road trip from Vegas. The abs, traction...

This is in AHC mode = “Ultra High”. SPC upper control arms allow more upward adjustment than OEMs so I took advantage and fabricated a rear sensor bracket extension. I actually think it looks a little weird at this height on 35’s but it does...

On the way to work this morning a nice sized whitetail buck decided he wanted to play chicken. He nailed my drivers side rear at a good speed, I was probably only at about 55mph at the moment. Last I saw him he was tear assin' across a hay...

Wheeled the Daniel Boone National Forest in eastern Kentucky with a few friends recently.