Random and Misc Car Talk Thread

That's a nice TJ. Looks like a Sahara interior. Mine's a 2004 Rubicon with 37,000 miles. Love it!

Yep, 98 Sahara straight 6 with the 5 speed. 8.8 rear out of an explorer. HP30 front end with a locker. Lift. 35s. I was collecting parts for a 14 bolt/dana 60 swap with long arms before I got rid of it.

Kids.
 
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Once daughter #2 is finished with school and off the payroll my goal is to make my next car a 1978 Chevy Blazer K5 restoration project. Bench seats in the front and back, but modernized interior (as much as possible) to make it nice since I'm getting old. Two-tone paint scheme on the exterior, not certain of colors but maybe black matte with a gray or brown stripe. Lots to think through. Wife doesn't know any of this.
Make sure that back seat folds down so you've got yourself a shaggin wagon. ;)
 
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Also started this project but not as intense as the Austin Healy project. Something I can mess with after dinner with a few banquet beers. 1973 F100 2WD with a 390. Runs good and not much rust so I can put wheels, exhaust, intake, other easy mods without getting too much into it.
 

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Started this restoration 3 years ago. Hope to have it done by this summer. 1960 Austin Healy Bugeye Sprite. It was my grandfather’s car

As a junior high and high school boy I was in love with early Corvettes and British sports cars. Couple HS classmates had Triumph TR3's...so jealous. I did end up with an MBG as my first car but not till college.

Also, the book below I read as a little kid is partly to blame.

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Once daughter #2 is finished with school and off the payroll my goal is to make my next car a 1978 Chevy Blazer K5 restoration project. Bench seats in the front and back, but modernized interior (as much as possible) to make it nice since I'm getting old. Two-tone paint scheme on the exterior, not certain of colors but maybe black matte with a gray or brown stripe. Lots to think through. Wife doesn't know any of this.
My dad had a '75 K5. Last year of the full removable top. My sister and I would fight over swinging from the roll bar.
 
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My nephews, who own big ass pickups that you practically need ladders to climb into, like to tease me about the hybrid Maverick pickup I bought a few years ago. Well, I love my little Maverick and now that gas is nearing $4/gallon, I like to tease them back. I got these license plates to just to rub it in.

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Also started this project but not as intense as the Austin Healy project. Something I can mess with after dinner with a few banquet beers. 1973 F100 2WD with a 390. Runs good and not much rust so I can put wheels, exhaust, intake, other easy mods without getting too much into it.
I have a original 100 pound cast iron four barrel intake that I will donate to your project.
 
I like this. Does anyone have a restoration project? Old collector car?

I know it's weird, but I've been a Datsun fanatic for the last 30 years. Had a 240Z, B210, and now am fixing up an '85 720 4x4.
not really a project currently more a yard ornament in the back. '98 Isuzu Trooper. Once I get some room to actually work on it though a small lift and brake upgrade since it needs both currently. undecided on if I want to do a GM 4.8l v8 with NV3500 swap on it.
 
My nephews, who own big ass pickups that you practically need ladders to climb into, like to tease me about the hybrid Maverick pickup I bought a few years ago. Well, I love my little Maverick and now that gas is nearing $4/gallon, I like to tease them back. I got these license plates to just to rub it in.

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I loved the idea of these. looked at one when they 1st released even. for me to sit comfortably in the drivers seat, there is no legroom behind me. kind of ruins one as a run around for the family.