My new 71

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Woodman

Woodman

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I went "wee wee wee all the way home"!!!!!!!!
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Thanks, I'm excited to have my new rig. It's the warehouse behind my office, where I keep and work on all things old, smelly and leaking fluids. When I moved my office I wanted to find a place with some "fun space" as the wife was growing tired of my antics in the home garage. Problem solved!
 
Nice rig... She looks really clean too.
Can I move into your garage with my 55??? :D
 
Thanks Fellahs! Plenty of room for cruisers in the garage, bring your rig and your know how! The body is dare I say fantastic!! I've spent the majority of the day looking for issues in all the common places and the PO's comments as to how things were fixed/addressed pan out. I can't find a weak spot, paint is 10 years old so I have found 4 tiny bubbles in the rear gutters (2 per side). To PO credit he did some great metal work and has lovingly and smartly preserved this old girl so I think I'm getting off lucky from body/paint perspective. Interior is also good to go. So that leaves me with the drivetrain, past winter cracked the block so I'm shopping motors and trying to figure out the best combo to use. Going back with a 350 seems easiest but certainly open to ideas and advice. I'm a purest at heart and want to go 2F but I think it will have a hard time keeping out of its in way if I go that route. I bought my first pig about 2 months ago and admittedly it was more than I could handle so I'm very thankful this one fell in my lap. Kind of feel like I hit the Pig Lotto!!
 
Yes IPOR bumper, a nice bonus to have it on the pig already. I've had ARB, Slee on other cruisers but thus far I'm very impressed with the latch system on this one, no latches to line up, just shut it and press the handle and their mechanism figures out the lining up part. Would be nice if the jerry can holder was a little deeper for carrying other things, but well built and good looking. Dang
I love my new pig.
 
Woodman said:
So that leaves me with the drivetrain, past winter cracked the block so I'm shopping motors and trying to figure out the best combo to use. Going back with a 350 seems easiest but certainly open to ideas and advice. I'm a purest at heart and want to go 2F but I think it will have a hard time keeping out of its in way if I go that route. I bought my first pig about 2 months ago and admittedly it was more than I could handle so I'm very thankful this one fell in my lap. Kind of feel like I hit the Pig Lotto!!
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You certainly found a nice 55,we just dont get them like that in oz. Just about all of them run into the ground and scrapped.
A diesel swap would be sweet and a Toyota diesel would be even sweeter.
 
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