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I’ll have to find a picture of what all the knobs are for on the dash. Most of the legends are missing.

I came home to find my other two 55’s in the driveway. It appears I bought a 1969; a 1971, and a 72. The 71 has a disc brake front under it???? One thing I was not aware of and is a little confusing, only the 72 has a transfer case lever. Are the others single speed transfer cases?

I figured I’d start a new thread from my Word of Advice thread. I’m calling it the Peer Pressure Pig because I don’t really know what I’m going to do with it or to it, but reading through the posts here and seeing he great pictures, I gave in and bought it. I got he first pig delivered, a 1972...

It was so amazing to my heart to hear it fire up. It only ran for 15 seconds before I shut it down. I did a quick check of the oil level. All was good. I’ll gas it up tomorrow and see if I cam run it long enough to check it out.

Got home with a little energy today. Put the jumper cables on this this, a little gas down the carb and it fired right up. I’m feeling better about this all the time

I’m 30 miles west of Greer’s Ferry lake

This group is a bad influence. I’ve been reading through the posts and seeing some of the work the members are capable of, it blows my mind.

That’s Arkansas humidity

This one will be delivered Monday. There is some old Bondo and rust, it was running and driving when he parked .

I got the towing quote to get all three to my house. I’ll be all in at just shy of $3000, purchase and delivery. I’ll have pics tomorrow as the guy was not available today for me to go by. One way or the other, they’re mine now......

I thought about fixing one for myself and passing on what’s left over. I have very good mechanical abilities but I am not a body guy. After I get them home, I’ll have to be honest with myself on what I can actually hope to do if I do keep one. I just knew from reading the members here, that I...

Well, the guy accepted my offer. I’ll go pay him tomorrow and maybe get some pics. I am getting some prices to get them towed so hopefully I’ll have them here this weekend.

Arkansas. I’ll let you all know if we can make a deal