Might have to part with my '76...
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One of the reason this little pig of mine needs a new sty, is the other FJ55 I'm currently building... there will be a P.O.T.M. on that one when it's done, and maybe a build thread soon...
The other reason is the Blazer I just Bought... (go easy on me...) It's an '88 with fuel injected 350/sm465/np208... pretty damn good gearing for a stock setup... just have to dump the rear ten bolt before it strands me somewhere...
The other reason is the Blazer I just Bought... (go easy on me...) It's an '88 with fuel injected 350/sm465/np208... pretty damn good gearing for a stock setup... just have to dump the rear ten bolt before it strands me somewhere...
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yep, pretty much the boom schizzle deal
if I didn't have to add $1K to get it to the other coast I'd make a presentation to the purse holder. You just can't get this stuff on the east coast. Really have studied the pics for some time now it seems like a really, really fair deal.
Sincerley,
Pig Tire Kicker Extraordinaire
if I didn't have to add $1K to get it to the other coast I'd make a presentation to the purse holder. You just can't get this stuff on the east coast. Really have studied the pics for some time now it seems like a really, really fair deal.
Sincerley,
Pig Tire Kicker Extraordinaire
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Yeah shipping sucks, but there has to be a reasonable way to ship a vehicle... $1000.00?
A plane ticket, several tanks of rediculously priced gasoline, a lot of driving, ear plugs, a bunch of fun, some yearning for more modern seating after the first four hours or so, and some ear plugs... yeah $1000.00 sounds about right!
Very few Blazers would have been available like mine. I have never even seen a straight axle bazer from the early fuel injection years that had a stick shift. Almost all of them have an auto (700r4), and it always seems like the ones for sale are only being sold because they are having tranny problems. I have always liked the blazers, but not enough to buy one as a project. My friend's Grandpappy has an '83 with an inline six and sm465/205. I have seen other older trucks like that with the sm465, but no F.I. and a lot of smog crap. The only reason I bought this one was becuse of the tranny. It was a base model, and has no power windows, or tilt column, or cruise control(does have A.C. and P.S. though
), and the interior pretty much consists of only the rubber floor mats. It never came with a headliner or side panels (metal ash trays are welded straight to the bottom of the bedrails), and it used to have a C.B. where the radio usually would be. I kind of think this truck was a work truck, or farm, or maybe a government vehicle... park ranger kind of thing?... probably not though, as it was, and is, metalic blue inside and out. I thought it was strange seeing the NP208 chaindrive (that is usually parked behind the 700r4) hanging off my sm465. I have only ever seen 205s and 203s? behind the 465s as a factory setup. The gearing is much better, at 2.60, but a friend of mine went through three 208s in a year in his old '85 blazer (but they were, and it was, basically held together with crap and stink...)
I had the same dilemna - shipping a Pig from the UP of Michigan to SC. Cost would have been about $1,200 or maybe a little more. I saved a few dollars by taking two days off, buying two cheap tickets (one for me and a co-pilot) and we drove the Piggie back over 1,100 miles in a day and a half. I wish we would have taken more time but the co-pilot had to get home. The trip was great and I would do it again in a hearbeat, especially now that the floors aren't swiss cheese anymore. A friend is currently driving a 62 3,300 miles from California to SC. If you have the time and the seller thinks the Pig is up to it I recommend a road trip. You'll have something to remember - whether or not the Piggie breaks down or makes it the entire way!
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The A.C. works very nicely. As A matter of fact I just spent money on the system. One of the hoses was cracked (because a mouse had used it for a chew toy, and kind of skimmed half the rubber off the top of part of the hose. It never bothered me, but I was always very careful not to bend that hose much. Didn't want the new owner to do something and get a freon leak (and then get pissed at me), so I had the hose replaced with a brand new one, the system pressure tested, and refilled with R-12. Should be good for quite a while now... Also had some freak flat tire a couple of weeks ago. REally pissed me off becauses the BFGs that are on it had less than 5k miles on them (still have the injection molding tabs on most of the tire) the spare didn't match-old armstrong norseman) so I sprung for another BFG $$. Didn't know if someone would buy it and drive it home 2000 miles or something, so wanted it complete again (and don't want to see my baby drive away limping)
Oh yeah... the picture of the front tire; that's one of the "old ones"
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I had the same dilemna - shipping a Pig from the UP of Michigan to SC. Cost would have been about $1,200 or maybe a little more. I saved a few dollars by taking two days off, buying two cheap tickets (one for me and a co-pilot) and we drove the Piggie back over 1,100 miles in a day and a half. I wish we would have taken more time but the co-pilot had to get home. The trip was great and I would do it again in a hearbeat, especially now that the floors aren't swiss cheese anymore. A friend is currently driving a 62 3,300 miles from California to SC. If you have the time and the seller thinks the Pig is up to it I recommend a road trip. You'll have something to remember - whether or not the Piggie breaks down or makes it the entire way!
Tell you the truth I would rather see it drive off then go onto the back of a trailer. I know I can't garauntee anything because someone might loose a belt or coil or something, but I have full faith in this truck, and personally wouldn't hesitate to take it on a raod trip if I could afford it and I had some friends who would go along. Sounds like fun. One of my buddies sold his old rickety 40 to a kid who flew out from Indiana, I think, and drove it all the way back with a couple of friends. Couldn't believe that they didn't have any problems.
Who's driving a '62 from Ca to SC? That's not Mark A. is it? I get the impression he takes the rig for some long drives sometimes.
What is the latest on this?
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My piggy is gone. Sold to to someone in L.A. who saw it here (had been waiting on E-bay customer support to fix my account, that now only pops up various error messages). Can't remember what his screen name is here, but it starts with something Hawaiian. He may be selling his '71 FJ55 now... sounds like a lot of bottom side cancer, but I have not seen it.
There had been someone else interested in the truck first, that I WAS going to sell it to... but when we started to talk about deposits, he decided he was paying less than what had been previously discussed, and told me, "not to cry about it" because he had to pay for shipping... I kind of changed my mind at that point. I might still have sold it to him, but he got impatient with my inability to get to a computer (2 jobs, and both picked up at the same time... so now 12-15 hour days at least 6 days a week...), and sent an email notifying me he was no longer interested.
Anyways, the guy that bought it contacted me the next day,came and left a deposit, and came a week later and drove it away... kind of sad, but it will be good motivation to get moving on my '73 again (if i ever have time again), and it seems to have gone to a good home. He was talking about restoring it to give to his son (who is only a couple years old now), but I hope it doesn't get stripped apart and left to sit... it was too solid and much too nice to drive. At least he has a few years to decide what to do with it before junior takes over.
There had been someone else interested in the truck first, that I WAS going to sell it to... but when we started to talk about deposits, he decided he was paying less than what had been previously discussed, and told me, "not to cry about it" because he had to pay for shipping... I kind of changed my mind at that point. I might still have sold it to him, but he got impatient with my inability to get to a computer (2 jobs, and both picked up at the same time... so now 12-15 hour days at least 6 days a week...), and sent an email notifying me he was no longer interested.
Anyways, the guy that bought it contacted me the next day,came and left a deposit, and came a week later and drove it away... kind of sad, but it will be good motivation to get moving on my '73 again (if i ever have time again), and it seems to have gone to a good home. He was talking about restoring it to give to his son (who is only a couple years old now), but I hope it doesn't get stripped apart and left to sit... it was too solid and much too nice to drive. At least he has a few years to decide what to do with it before junior takes over.
I liked that Pig.
I hope you got a good price for her.
Sounds like it was time for it to find a new home, so congrats!
Smart, good job. Now post lots more pics of anything cruiser...
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