Realized, as I was getting ready to leave for the Pig Party, that today marked the 10th anniversary of the Frankencruiser's maiden voyage after two weekends of combining a couple of parts vehicles. Never did do a build thread but the following pictures will give you an idea.
First shot is of picking up one carcass about this time in 2008 from Dave Gore's yard in Miami AZ. Went to buy a hood for my first pig...ending up with the whole body sans engine/trans/tcase, figuring it would be a profitable parts vehicle.
A few months later, I saw a ad on Mud that Scorcher needed some door and cargo panels for the Moviestar. Offered to deliver them while over on the other side of Colorado. Ended up with another hulk, his parts vehicle, for a few bucks and a 30-pack of PBR, this one running and driving with a small block conversion.
Summer of 2010 I drafted a friend with skills, a home shop and a sense of humor to help marry the two hulks. Two long weekends and the body by Gore, chassis and drive train by Scorcher were on the road. Pic 3 is the actual marriage and pic 4 is the first time legally on the street.
Final pic is from spring 2011 after spending the winter at the body shop gettting flufffed and folded inside and out. FIrst road adventure was to Cruise Moab. In the past decade we've been all over the West and Southwest and leave Wednesday for our fourth Pig Party in ID/MT. The Frankencruiser has taken us to Death Valley, over the Old Mohave Road, to Joshua Tree, San Diego and LA, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, to the White Rim Trail and a couple of Cruise Moabs, over many of those well-known passes you've heard about in Colorado, on too many camping trips to count and most times is also my daily driver.
First shot is of picking up one carcass about this time in 2008 from Dave Gore's yard in Miami AZ. Went to buy a hood for my first pig...ending up with the whole body sans engine/trans/tcase, figuring it would be a profitable parts vehicle.
A few months later, I saw a ad on Mud that Scorcher needed some door and cargo panels for the Moviestar. Offered to deliver them while over on the other side of Colorado. Ended up with another hulk, his parts vehicle, for a few bucks and a 30-pack of PBR, this one running and driving with a small block conversion.
Summer of 2010 I drafted a friend with skills, a home shop and a sense of humor to help marry the two hulks. Two long weekends and the body by Gore, chassis and drive train by Scorcher were on the road. Pic 3 is the actual marriage and pic 4 is the first time legally on the street.
Final pic is from spring 2011 after spending the winter at the body shop gettting flufffed and folded inside and out. FIrst road adventure was to Cruise Moab. In the past decade we've been all over the West and Southwest and leave Wednesday for our fourth Pig Party in ID/MT. The Frankencruiser has taken us to Death Valley, over the Old Mohave Road, to Joshua Tree, San Diego and LA, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, to the White Rim Trail and a couple of Cruise Moabs, over many of those well-known passes you've heard about in Colorado, on too many camping trips to count and most times is also my daily driver.
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