Greetings,
For the last 15 years I watched my friend's 40 parked in the Santa Cruz mountains slowly return to the earth.
Late last year I suggested I take it off his hands for some restoration efforts. At the time I was anticipating losing
my job soon so I thought it would be good for me to have a project to work on during my free time. Sadly, I did lose
my job of 12 plus years. Fortunately, I lost my job recently and now have plenty of "therapy" time in the garage.
My rig is a 75 with a 350 SBC conversion with 4speed and lots O'rust.
When I get her road worthy I plan on doing some light off roading and camping outings.
I live in the San Jose area of California and I'm thinking of trips to Hollister Hills,
Pismo and perhaps Frank Raines.
I am currently working on the following:
Electrical rewire. (The PPO really butchered this up).
New tires and shocks.
Front disc brake conversion.
Rust removal wherever I can.
On my project wishlist
when the cash flow is restored)
Ramjet or LS motor
5 speed
4wdb
Full off frame restore.
I really enjoy this site as I have found invaluable information already. I also
enjoy noting some of the creativity and problem solving skills lot of you possess.
I look forward to sharing my exploits with my new toy. I'm sure I'll have plenty
of questions only after thorough research of the forums of course.
I also look forward to developing new skills. I've had some arc welder time years ago
but think its time to relearn and upgrade to some mig skills. I have plenty of mechanical
capability, just none in body restoration. So we'll see how it goes. Hopefully the wife
will stick around and find out with me.
Greg
For the last 15 years I watched my friend's 40 parked in the Santa Cruz mountains slowly return to the earth.
Late last year I suggested I take it off his hands for some restoration efforts. At the time I was anticipating losing
my job soon so I thought it would be good for me to have a project to work on during my free time. Sadly, I did lose
my job of 12 plus years. Fortunately, I lost my job recently and now have plenty of "therapy" time in the garage.
My rig is a 75 with a 350 SBC conversion with 4speed and lots O'rust.
When I get her road worthy I plan on doing some light off roading and camping outings.
I live in the San Jose area of California and I'm thinking of trips to Hollister Hills,
Pismo and perhaps Frank Raines.
I am currently working on the following:
Electrical rewire. (The PPO really butchered this up).
New tires and shocks.
Front disc brake conversion.
Rust removal wherever I can.
On my project wishlist
when the cash flow is restored)Ramjet or LS motor
5 speed
4wdb
Full off frame restore.
I really enjoy this site as I have found invaluable information already. I also
enjoy noting some of the creativity and problem solving skills lot of you possess.
I look forward to sharing my exploits with my new toy. I'm sure I'll have plenty
of questions only after thorough research of the forums of course.
I also look forward to developing new skills. I've had some arc welder time years ago
but think its time to relearn and upgrade to some mig skills. I have plenty of mechanical
capability, just none in body restoration. So we'll see how it goes. Hopefully the wife
will stick around and find out with me.
Greg
I agree with the above...that looks like a very solid rig from here. You are starting way ahead of where many others have. I too am learning body restoration thanks to IH8MUD! Check out the Paint and Body forum, there's some really useful stuff over there in addition to the many fantastic builds here in the 40-55 section.
