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Where to begin.
Thanks to 'mud, I have been able to connect with like minded enthusiasts the country and world over and learn a lot.
One thing I have not learned yet is that rust is bad.
So, this story begins with @John Young purchasing a 2000 100 series from Pennsylvania, while he was a world away- initial post here.
Two years ago, I strike up a conversation with him to see if maybe I could get crusty and id look into having it fixed. John was wary (and rightfully so) because all the estimates and insight he received indicated crusty was a lost cause, which resulted in him taking the interior for his other 100 series.
Time transpired, I purchased a different cruiser, crusty sat forlorn and neglected.
In the mean time, we've kept in touch and ive followed his cruiser chronicles and insight, while always having crusty in the back of my mind.
Time came where crusty overstayed its welcome and was given an eviction notice, which I answered.
This past Saturday I went over to John's and we loaded all the interior pieces into crusty, dropped a new battery in, and went to fire crusty up.
No luck.
No big deal, right? We can put it in neutral and roll it.
Que ruptured brake line and a rolling cruiser, which we discovered mid roll that hte parking brake really wasn't serving much purpose anymore.
Thankfully, we stuck a piece of wood underneath and crusty ceased just yards from a busy road in Arlington, VA.
AAA didn't get a truck out for about 4 hours, at which point I had already headed home.
11:15pm and crusty arrives, being towed with the front wheels on the ground (thank goodness I stuck the transfer case in neutral).
The driver executed a magnificent 17 point turn in my back work area (im a hit with the neighbors) to drop crusty in an ideal location.
My wife is over the moon that I have a non starting, non stopping, stripped interior cruiser to compliment my saggy, rusty but running and stopping beat up interior cruiser.
Now on to pictures:
Thanks to 'mud, I have been able to connect with like minded enthusiasts the country and world over and learn a lot.
One thing I have not learned yet is that rust is bad.
So, this story begins with @John Young purchasing a 2000 100 series from Pennsylvania, while he was a world away- initial post here.
Two years ago, I strike up a conversation with him to see if maybe I could get crusty and id look into having it fixed. John was wary (and rightfully so) because all the estimates and insight he received indicated crusty was a lost cause, which resulted in him taking the interior for his other 100 series.
Time transpired, I purchased a different cruiser, crusty sat forlorn and neglected.
In the mean time, we've kept in touch and ive followed his cruiser chronicles and insight, while always having crusty in the back of my mind.
Time came where crusty overstayed its welcome and was given an eviction notice, which I answered.
This past Saturday I went over to John's and we loaded all the interior pieces into crusty, dropped a new battery in, and went to fire crusty up.
No luck.
No big deal, right? We can put it in neutral and roll it.
Que ruptured brake line and a rolling cruiser, which we discovered mid roll that hte parking brake really wasn't serving much purpose anymore.
Thankfully, we stuck a piece of wood underneath and crusty ceased just yards from a busy road in Arlington, VA.
AAA didn't get a truck out for about 4 hours, at which point I had already headed home.
11:15pm and crusty arrives, being towed with the front wheels on the ground (thank goodness I stuck the transfer case in neutral).
The driver executed a magnificent 17 point turn in my back work area (im a hit with the neighbors) to drop crusty in an ideal location.
My wife is over the moon that I have a non starting, non stopping, stripped interior cruiser to compliment my saggy, rusty but running and stopping beat up interior cruiser.
Now on to pictures:
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