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After finding an 85 FJ60 a month or so back that had basically spent it’s entire life in the Colorado area, I towed it to my hometown in Northern Michigan and had Dave’s Garage in TVC help with a few things to get him ready for an inaugural road trip - transfer case, parking brake, head gasket, and lower gasket on the after-market carb to correct a rough idle, and front brakes. The name “Hoss” came from the CarFax which showed he had been abducted [stolen] when he was about 30K miles old out in Denver and held hostage for a bit before the original owner tracked him down. Stolen car - hostage - Hoss.
We did a quick trip up and down the peninsula and a spin through a local vineyard to make sure he was running right.
A few days later we packed him up with tents, fly rods, coolers etc and headed north over the bridge.
We headed west to Manistique to grab Cudighi Sandwiches before heading farther west to a small lake/trout stream.
We ended up catching a mess of brook and rainbow trout and camped on the side of a small lake in the middle of no-where.
Headed back home we stopped in Ishpeming which was a mining town way back in the day.
No issues what-so-ever. We put about 500 miles on the truck. He seems to run at about 64 mph when the speedometer reads 55mph on the 33 inch tires he came with.
Brook trout are definitely the prettiest fish on the whole planet.....
We did a quick trip up and down the peninsula and a spin through a local vineyard to make sure he was running right.
A few days later we packed him up with tents, fly rods, coolers etc and headed north over the bridge.
We headed west to Manistique to grab Cudighi Sandwiches before heading farther west to a small lake/trout stream.
We ended up catching a mess of brook and rainbow trout and camped on the side of a small lake in the middle of no-where.
Headed back home we stopped in Ishpeming which was a mining town way back in the day.
No issues what-so-ever. We put about 500 miles on the truck. He seems to run at about 64 mph when the speedometer reads 55mph on the 33 inch tires he came with.
Brook trout are definitely the prettiest fish on the whole planet.....