Your 1st 4WD vehicle

[nuclearbeef]

Post up your 1st 4WD vehicle and any relevant info.
Extra points for original pics.

Dad bought a 1979 International Scout SSii new from the tractor dealership.
I learned to drive it when I turned 15 in 1983 and drove it until sophomore year in college.
My brother learned to drive it a year later and we shared it through high school.

1979 Scout SSii
345 v8
4 speed manual
soft top only

We drove it like we were stunt drivers trying to impress the ladies at the Baja races. Despite our best efforts, we could not kill it.
Rust is trying to, though. We still have it and will restore it someday.

Not mine, but just like this one, only we had a tan denim top on it. Came with a sweet white top. Still my favorite color of all time. Kinda brown, kinda olive; with a gold metal flake.

 

[cyberfalco]

1999 Jeep Wrangler and here it is and me. The first time I went off road at Land Between the Lakes in KY. It was the cheapest Wrangler they had on the lot. 4 cyl, 5 speed, no AC. Was perfect for Chicago weather. 4x4 for the winter. Convertible for the summer. Short wheelbase and tight turning radius for easy parallel parking. Metal bumpers for making room to parallel park. I bought it new with 5 miles on it. Sold it when it had 115k to buy a CJ7.

 

[wngrog]

1984 22r Xtracab SR5...pictured it had P Buckshots......

Pearl River Swamp Superbowl Sunday 1986

 

[Bossman]

No pics but mine was a 1972 FJ40. Red hard top with the ever popular 4" pipe front push bumper.

 

[wngrog]

Sucks to have no pictures of that......

 

[wngrog]

https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/your-vehicles-b-c.549918/

 

[MScruiser]

A Ford Escape

 

[fountainhead]

'02 F-250. Bought it new and loved it like no human should love a f'ing inanimate object. Sold it in '05 while hemorrhaging cash building our house; it was the only thing I owned that was worth a dime. Replaced it with a beat up Honda Civic.

 

[wngrog]

That's kind of sad. Loving a Ford.

 

[MScruiser]

Truth!

My Escape made me hemorrhage money too! Taurus needed a new tranny. MIL's Explorer blew a tranny (sounds funny doesn't it). FIL's Expedition blew out the air suspension. My work F150 has had a bullet proof drivetrain, but the interior sucks ass; everything is breaking!!!

No more Fords, EVER.

 

[wngrog]

My uncle had a 800 series Scout that he hunted our inside the levee deer camp for 20 years. With some 700-15 Grip Spurs it was a mud machine.

My dad decided to one-up him with a Scout 2 which turned out to be the worlds worst vehicle for delta mud on the planet.

Heavy. Low. Underpowered. The distributor was low and it drowned out all the time.

Ours was an auto....powder blue.

 

[wct49]

'02 F-250. Bought it new and loved it like no human should love a f'ing inanimate object. Sold it in '05 while hemorrhaging cash building our house; it was the only thing I owned that was worth a dime. Replaced it with a beat up Honda Civic.

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That Ford was bought by a customer who beat the ever living s*** out of it. It eats at the Mex rest. next door every other day. #badassford

 

[wct49]

77 K5 Full Time 4wd 350. It lived to be at a gas station. Fun truck. Started out Baby Blue and white. My dad painted it denim and tan. Looked like a pair of Levi's going down the road. I will look for a pic...

 

[nuclearbeef]

My uncle had a 800 series Scout that he hunted our inside the levee deer camp for 20 years. With some 700-15 Grip Spurs it was a mud machine.

My dad decided to one-up him with a Scout 2 which turned out to be the worlds worst vehicle for delta mud on the planet.

Heavy. Low. Underpowered. The distributor was low and it drowned out all the time.

Ours was an auto....powder blue.

I agree with you on the mud performance. My 40 would drive circles around my Scout in the mud. Just too heavy on the front end.
Probably a little better in the mud that that diesel f-250 though. Thats one heavy sumbitch.

 

[fountainhead]

Truth!

My Escape made me hemorrhage money too! Taurus needed a new tranny. MIL's Explorer blew a tranny (sounds funny doesn't it). FIL's Expedition blew out the air suspension. My work F150 has had a bullet proof drivetrain, but the interior sucks ass; everything is breaking!!!

No more Fords, EVER.

I was going broke trying to build a house not trying to keep the truck running. That truck was solid.

77 K5 Full Time 4wd 350. It lived to be at a gas station. Fun truck. Started out Baby Blue and white. My dad painted it denim and tan. Looked like a pair of Levi's going down the road. I will look for a pic...

I drove that blazer to Starkville once. Back then there almost wasn't enough gas stations along the way to make it.

 

[pmccraney]

First vehicle and first 4x4: 1987 Jeep Wrangler; manual 5 speed; worst color scheme ever for an Ole Miss fan: We'll call it "burgundy," with silver accents/seats and soft top. Mostly stock, but had a 2 inch lift and tire upgrade, and speaker box upgrade next to the back seat. 2 KC lights on the front bumper. One "period-specific" modification: Swapped out the shift nob for a Budweiser tap handle that I think I nicked from some place like Inez's or WC Dons (you know, back when 15 year olds could drive and hang out in bars in the good parts of town). I shared it with my brother (one year ahead of me in school). We loved it like a "Ford," but also tried our best to kill it. Will look around for a pic, but it's not like it was all that unique. Cool thread idea, BTW.

 

[Bodean]

1974 FJ40 (Pic is not mine and I didn't own it when the pic was taken). Paid $2500 in Raymond, MS. F 1/2 motor and a 4 speed/3 speed T-er. Great ole rig! The guy that bought it took the 33 swampers off and put 31's on it.

 

[wngrog]

I had a tap handle shifter

 

[CandyPants]

1991 4runner on 33's. I bought it when I got my first "real job" (which means not hourly labor). I traded in my Chevy Cavalier for it. It was awesome, white outside, blue inside. Sunroof. Then it died a painful death when the boneheads at the one hour oil change place didn't put the oil filter on and I didn't know it and drove it until it was dry.

 

[Bomar]

88 Range rover County Classic. It was an intoxicated eBay purchase...it had 9k worth of receipts in glove box in last 18 months. My old college roommate wanted it so sold it too him after a few months. The possible repairs scared me.
Paid less than 3k for it in 2001.