I'm probably doing this more as a personal resource thread instead of a full build but we know how that usually turns out so maybe, or maybe not, I can add something new at some point.
My path to this point began back in mid 2016 looking for an 80, living in the midwest left a lot to be desired as most were so rusted it wasn't worth the hassle. I probably looked at nearly a dozen, all were not what I wanted to deal with and I was actually in Madison Wi when my phone pinged a new listing on autotrader for a 2001 in Cincinnati. A 100? Why not. Drove there that day and bought it. Started refreshing and baselining and realized that the "grey" exterior was actually green and yeah not for me. I did a bit more research, sold that one, bought a mint 07 with 105k miles in Florida and drove it home. Still have it. The stock vehicle is now heavily modified for adventure travel in my pursuit of ghost towns out west, and the occasional BDR as we did the Idaho BDR in 2020 and will do the Wyoming next August. I've driven it out to CA to get my Trekboxx full system installed, Colorado to Slee, and down to Kentucky for the DT headers to get installed. Most everything else I did myself. It currently is sitting at 144k miles.
August of 2021 I picked up a nice 2017 200 with 32k miles, it has remained stock for now as it is my wife's Daily driver.
The 80 bug never went away especially since a lot of the guys in the KYTLCA have 80's and I have gone down there for a few events around the DBBB. It somewhat made sense that my 100 wasn't exactly made for some of that plus since that was really almost done I needed something new to go after. My one sticking point was finding one with gray interior, not tan. I also wanted either a black or gray exterior. Randomly I found one on here, flew to Oregon to check it out, and had it shipped back.
Here is the 80 and then the other two...I still own all three.
My path to this point began back in mid 2016 looking for an 80, living in the midwest left a lot to be desired as most were so rusted it wasn't worth the hassle. I probably looked at nearly a dozen, all were not what I wanted to deal with and I was actually in Madison Wi when my phone pinged a new listing on autotrader for a 2001 in Cincinnati. A 100? Why not. Drove there that day and bought it. Started refreshing and baselining and realized that the "grey" exterior was actually green and yeah not for me. I did a bit more research, sold that one, bought a mint 07 with 105k miles in Florida and drove it home. Still have it. The stock vehicle is now heavily modified for adventure travel in my pursuit of ghost towns out west, and the occasional BDR as we did the Idaho BDR in 2020 and will do the Wyoming next August. I've driven it out to CA to get my Trekboxx full system installed, Colorado to Slee, and down to Kentucky for the DT headers to get installed. Most everything else I did myself. It currently is sitting at 144k miles.
August of 2021 I picked up a nice 2017 200 with 32k miles, it has remained stock for now as it is my wife's Daily driver.
The 80 bug never went away especially since a lot of the guys in the KYTLCA have 80's and I have gone down there for a few events around the DBBB. It somewhat made sense that my 100 wasn't exactly made for some of that plus since that was really almost done I needed something new to go after. My one sticking point was finding one with gray interior, not tan. I also wanted either a black or gray exterior. Randomly I found one on here, flew to Oregon to check it out, and had it shipped back.
Here is the 80 and then the other two...I still own all three.