Savircs' late intro,
Hey everyone some background about me, just as many of you I find peace and zen in my garage. In high school my project was a 1964 VW beetle. I wanted one since I was a little kid, I remember crawling in to the back luggage space just behind the fire wall behind the rear mounted motor and going to sleep with the humming sound while staring at the night sky out the back window of my fathers 69. This was Mexico City in the late 80's.
One of my best friends father picked up a 64 my freshman year in high school, it took 3 years of convincing before I got him to sell it to me at 3 times his purchase price, that was a lot of money for me at the time working at a gas station. The restoration took 3 years and every penny I earned, this ended up being my wedding drive away.
Still have this beetle today drive it to the beach every once in a while, its very nostalgic to drive and reminds me of my father.
Post college I received a job offer in San Francisco and at that time I was all about Jeeps even though I didn't have one. I found a lady that was selling a broken down Cherokee rust free 2wd. I was renting cars every week and had a corporate apartment so I said what the hell I'll see if I can get it running maybe save on rental cars. Two years later I took that very same jeep on a 12-day cross country trip, and took it all over Mexico. Funny I remember the lady telling me not to take long drives with the jeep because it would overheat. If she only knew that Jeep saw half the country and part of another after she sold it to me.
That jeep later became our beach truck, however 2wd would get us stuck almost every single time, so I bought a donor and converted into 4wd. The donor was a police edition Cherokee, so we benefited from the limited slip in the back and some light armor, took all that off and sold the rest for scrap. This was the biggest mechanical achievement for me and has been up until today. I did this in my garage by myself, and was surprised I was able to do it. I've since seen so many guys on here do so many more difficult things and its inspiring one such as user 40habbits.
Still have this Jeep today as well, it has been abandoned since I got the 100 but it definitively has a place in my heart and I do plan to get back to it after I finish this one.
Fast forward today, early last year I bought what my boss drove when I was 16 years old a 100 Series Land Cruiser, it was finally my time to get spoiled, having been in my profession for 10 years and making decent money. I got a 2001 100 series with 64k miles.
Seeing everyone documenting their build has motivated me to document mine even though I'm about half completed on where I'd like to be, so this is going to be sort of a "catch up" build thread but I'll start from the beginning and document as I have time. Will be posting that soon.
I have already seen the love of this community, a fellow mud member sought him self in a bind last year on a long trip he just happened to be near me when he broke down, I was overwhelmed with work but I felt obligated to help my fellow mud member so I put work aside to help. I feel the same would of been done for me.
Long winded but look forward to a long term contributor.
Hey everyone some background about me, just as many of you I find peace and zen in my garage. In high school my project was a 1964 VW beetle. I wanted one since I was a little kid, I remember crawling in to the back luggage space just behind the fire wall behind the rear mounted motor and going to sleep with the humming sound while staring at the night sky out the back window of my fathers 69. This was Mexico City in the late 80's.
One of my best friends father picked up a 64 my freshman year in high school, it took 3 years of convincing before I got him to sell it to me at 3 times his purchase price, that was a lot of money for me at the time working at a gas station. The restoration took 3 years and every penny I earned, this ended up being my wedding drive away.
Still have this beetle today drive it to the beach every once in a while, its very nostalgic to drive and reminds me of my father.
Post college I received a job offer in San Francisco and at that time I was all about Jeeps even though I didn't have one. I found a lady that was selling a broken down Cherokee rust free 2wd. I was renting cars every week and had a corporate apartment so I said what the hell I'll see if I can get it running maybe save on rental cars. Two years later I took that very same jeep on a 12-day cross country trip, and took it all over Mexico. Funny I remember the lady telling me not to take long drives with the jeep because it would overheat. If she only knew that Jeep saw half the country and part of another after she sold it to me.
That jeep later became our beach truck, however 2wd would get us stuck almost every single time, so I bought a donor and converted into 4wd. The donor was a police edition Cherokee, so we benefited from the limited slip in the back and some light armor, took all that off and sold the rest for scrap. This was the biggest mechanical achievement for me and has been up until today. I did this in my garage by myself, and was surprised I was able to do it. I've since seen so many guys on here do so many more difficult things and its inspiring one such as user 40habbits.
Still have this Jeep today as well, it has been abandoned since I got the 100 but it definitively has a place in my heart and I do plan to get back to it after I finish this one.
Fast forward today, early last year I bought what my boss drove when I was 16 years old a 100 Series Land Cruiser, it was finally my time to get spoiled, having been in my profession for 10 years and making decent money. I got a 2001 100 series with 64k miles.
Seeing everyone documenting their build has motivated me to document mine even though I'm about half completed on where I'd like to be, so this is going to be sort of a "catch up" build thread but I'll start from the beginning and document as I have time. Will be posting that soon.
I have already seen the love of this community, a fellow mud member sought him self in a bind last year on a long trip he just happened to be near me when he broke down, I was overwhelmed with work but I felt obligated to help my fellow mud member so I put work aside to help. I feel the same would of been done for me.
Long winded but look forward to a long term contributor.
