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Land Speeder

Land Speeder

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I have a 77 FJ40 in my possession to either poop or get off the pot... I don't have room in the stable for it and Lorena.... Lorena is such a dirty girl. But the more i go out and look at that 40 the more crazy potential I see. it's been in WEC for years but none of us never spent time around it or could get past the paint job... so we dubbed it "Mona" for Mona Lisa... looks good from afar...

Any event. Always wanted a 40 for tooling around town in... and i got the tow rig to brang it to events... but i ain't got space for both right now... so I'm either helping Chase sell it or buying it and selling Lorena.... what to do...
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I like the 40. More versatile since you can drive it on the road.

Making a 40 a hardcore wheeler takes big bucks as you know. If you plan on doing a bunch to it, you are going to get in deep.

Lastly, the 80 won't bring much as you know. It is cool as s***, but I can't see too many folks paying much for it.
 
I honestly wouldn't wheel the 40 hard, just bring it places and do easy hard 2's and watch.
I doubt i'd want much for that filthy girl. I'll never get my time back out of it... and it was fun to do... when I say she dirty.... she dirty.
Also... a year or so down the road... i think I'm building a buggy, buggy... i had a whole lot of fun this past year with Lorena in my driveway... imagine if i had a garage... with real tools!
So a 40 would compliment the buggy more than Lorena would. Right now in a single car parking spot.... i have 2 40's, Lorena and a Tundra... good Lawd!
 
other than being biased towards 40s, knowing nothing bout 80s, and being a newbie......BUY it!!! esp. if you are only wanting to do 2s with it and you have the tundra to haul it. I will probably never have a "trail truck" I think part of the challenge is seeing how far a road worthy truck can go.......AND if you are doing a buggy later might as well get rid of Lorena now....you asked....my .02 cents

by the way your naming conventions are the most creative I have seen.....heheheh Mona...Lorena
 
wngrog said:
I say get the 40 for sure. I love it.
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it ain't no CottonLand 40... that's for sure...

jsosh26 said:
by the way your naming conventions are the most creative I have seen.....heheheh Mona...Lorena
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Who could ever forget Scallywag...... and..... "forever in our hearts" (and now other peoples rigs), Cattywampus

Reasons
mona - looks good from far away
lorena - bobit like, well, you know...
scallywag - that southern truck that was very unreliable
cattywampus - can't get right
 
E, I don't see you getting out of wheeling hard, and Lorena is perfect for that. I say finish the build (gears, fenders ect) and then start saving for a 40 later on down the road. Make an honest girl out of loreana.... well never mind
 
euclid said:
Make an honest girl out of loreana.... well never mind
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LMAO!


the next steps to lorena is a fuel cell, rework entire exhaust tucked outta the way, then some exo/ino tubing... then somehow figure out a crawl box..... BUT them axles just ain't beefy enough for my "southern style rock bouncing"... aka popabirf


Having two projects would make me broke and no sushi for me... I literally could stop eating out every meal and fund another project... but do i really want to do that?
 
Bomar said:
I guess the real question is do you ever want to wheel lorena outside of Auburn?

If not move Catfish and DD the 40.

You could find another tow rig when you get to that point cheap.
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silly talk. the above pic is at MM...
i don't wanna be stuck without reliable transportation to travel in...
 
I'll give you $50 and a quart of gumbo for that thing that used to be an 80.
 
I agree with Greg and Bomar. I thought hard about buying it when I talked with Chase, but, like you, couldn't justify it. It's not going to be a good DD or wheeler without a metric s***-ton of work.

Run what you got for the time being. If you REALLY want a project 40 I will sell you mine for next to nothing and finance it as well as store it indefinitely. Granted, mine needs seven metric s***-tons worth of work done to it.
 
Yep.
If you know about wiring as well as carb'd engines... this is it... but not for me...
It has one section of rust underneath... but oddly not under the gas tank (which I took out this afternoon and put back in...)

This thing has all the right pieces to get you started... not like the other 40's being sold by bubba.
Hell Creek 4" lift
37" MTRs
17" Allied Beadlocks
Warren 8274
custom rear bumper.

Needs love.
 
OK, $50 and 2 quarts of gumbo.
 
euclid said:
E, I don't see you getting out of wheeling hard, and Lorena is perfect for that. I say finish the build (gears, fenders ect) and then start saving for a 40 later on down the road. Make an honest girl out of loreana.... well never mind
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euclid said:
You may want to, but can you? I've seen that look in your eye that made me think you were about to put a piece of tuna in a spoon with a lighter under it.

Longs solve the popabirf, no?
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WISDOM!
 
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euclid said:
E, I don't see you getting out of wheeling hard, and Lorena is perfect for that. I say finish the build (gears, fenders ect) and then start saving for a 40 later on down the road. Make an honest girl out of loreana.... well never mind
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euclid said:
You may want to, but can you? I've seen that look in your eye that made me think you were about to put a piece of tuna in a spoon with a lighter under it.

Longs solve the popabirf, no?
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and the wisdom of Buddah goes to Euclid....
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