Might have to part with my '76...

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scouthead

scouthead

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I may need to off my first piggy (NOOOOOO!?!) in the next couple of weeks. It has some good rust in the gutters above the rear cargo windows, and a little in one of the rear corners, and a little coming in on the lower fenders (usual crap).
This truck is damn close to being mechanically NEW. Just about 30K on the odometer (I have had to go through almost everything anyways). I have more money in this thing than I care to admit, and I don't really want to part with it anyways, but yada yada yada. I either off a couple of rifles or this pig (and I am building another), so if I can get at least 4 grand for it, it might go...

Just thought I would post it up in here first in case someone's interested. It may go up on E-Bay soon, and reserve will be at least 4. Depends on what all I do to it before it goes.
(it's got the factory nippondenso A.C. , and fj60 P.S.)

I was building this thing to keep forever... never thought I would even be thinking of giving it the boot after only a year or two...
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O.K. the good:

A.C., power steering, origional wheels and caps, front disc brakes, header, both heaters blow hot, all doors/locks/windows function perfectly, parking brake works awesome, door panels in great shape, jack/hand crank/jack rods are still under seats, $pecter carpet kit, all lights work, couple of offroad lights, tailgate and rear window work, wiper/washer work, will cruise on freeway at 75mph all day long (much quieter and better MPG at 65 though),

This all happened since November of '06 (most of it since January '07):

Original engine with 27,000 miles rebuilt anyway ( it's a long story), carb rebuilt, new Downey Offroad header, new exhaust/muffler, almost every hose and belt replaced with new, new clutch, flywheel resurfaced, new clutch master/slave/throwout/pilot bearing/throwout bearing, new $pecter brake boo$ter, new brake master, new front calipers and pads, knuckles rebuilt with bearings and wipers, hub gaskets, new tranny input shaft seal, new transfer output seals, new front/rear pinion seals, new spedo cable, new gear in rear window regulator, new 31x10.50 BFG mud terrain tires, PIA superwhite dash bulbs, passed CA smog with flying colors (air rail currently removed), new pedal pads, FJ60 power steering installed...

I know there's more, but it's late as hell, and this is off the top of my head (which now hurts).
 
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sven said:
any close pics of rust? why are you selling this one and not the other? looks really nice and sounds like a lot has been put into it.
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I will have some better pics some time this week... waiting for one of my friends to swing buy with a digital camera (most of mine still have funny things like film and light meters)

"The other one" is a '73, so I won't have to smog it, it came with a roll bar and bucket seats, and I have already put my TBI 350/700R4, and tilt column into it... planning on going spring over and making it the beater. I couldn't justify doing anyhting too radical to the blue '76 and I just have too many vehicles to deal with... can't keep everything, as much as I would like to.
 
Headliner is kind of ugly (some rips and stains... and still has acorns and bits of seat cushion around the edges that the mice who used to inhabit the car left up there for me)

and the rear cargo panels are a little beat (this is the one that looks bad... thanks to the mice again)


I should probably mention this truck was thoroughly cleaned inside and out a year or two back when I got it. The mice had packed the body full of twigs and seat foam and crap, but it's all gone now. I could not believe all the places they got into...
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the rest of the roof is great... I'ts just above the cargo windows and tailgate.
This truck actually got the roof worked over about ten years ago to stop the rust before it got bad... It's just coming back in the same place again. So I know the top cap and hood have been repainted. The bottom blue is origional I think? (not sure about the white in middle...)

This truck had been an offroad only vehicle parked under an oak tree at someones leased hunting property on the Tejon Ranch since it was only a few years old. The hood got wacked by a branch a while back, and a grape sized dent was filled with bondo... wich is now half chipped out. it's the bottom ding in the hood photo.
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I will be looking into getting it up on E-bay in the next day or two, but I wanted to post the pics up in here first... I think i said I needed to get at least 4K for this piggy... and I meant AT LEAST! I would be happier with at least 5K, but I don't know what it will bring. I don't expect to get back anything like what I have into it... It drifts to the right a little when you let go of the wheel, but you can't feel it while you are holding the wheel (maybe because of the power steering?), and it might have something to do with the rock that the previous owner's son smacked while chasing a deer on a hunt (you can see the front pass fender is a little crunched on the front and the bumper is kind of sad). It never bothered me enough to pay $60.00 to have it aligned...and it does have a couple of rough spots (it was a hunting truck) and there are a number of small dings and scratches, but it does also have A.C. AND POWER STEERING... I was using it as my daily driver for a while, and except for the roadnoise at 75MPH was always happy with it (well maybe a couple hundred extra horsepower would be fun, but that's for my next cruiser)
Some guy not far from me is selling one now for $4500.00, and the roof looks like swiss cheese from front to back, and he has no A.C., and no power steering, and god only knows how many miles are on it...

I would rate the engine/ drivetrain on mine at a solid "A"
and the interior at a solid "B"
and the body at a "C+"ish
Anyways, I'll probably list this on E-bay with a start of around $4700.00, with no reserve, and see what happens ( I have over that in receipts just in parts/machine work in the last year or so!) I think if I could hold on to this thing for a year or so and have the paint/bodywork done, I could be making money on this one and not loosing my ass... but that's not in the cards at this point. I didn't buy this one to invest in anyways...
 
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