Recent content by hodag

How about Tim?

I saw something about them in one of my four wheel drive magazines. I think they are calling them a "tweel".:rolleyes:

Sounds like you're in Nebraska, not Arizona. We went from -3 two weeks ago to 62 last Friday. Its 45 today supposed to be 58 tomorrow and snow by the end of the week. My f'n garage is never gonna get done at this pace. Fricken groundhog.:D Hodag

If you do end up needing to time travel back to 1975, could you look me up? I need you to tell me that my Big Wheel will last much longer if I dont use the spin-out lever every time I need to stop. Oh, and tell me to stay away from a girl named Andrea when I turn 20. Thanks in advance. Hodag

I had a '75 C10 that I got for free from a girlfriend's dad. I drove it through the winter to keep my '66 Impala in the garage. Once spring came, I thought that it needed to be a convertible. (And covered with mint green house paint) We stood in the open doorframes while we cut the top out...

My dad has an 89 F150. The other day he calls and says the truck wont start. The key turns to accessory just fine but when you turn to start, the key just flops over, no resistance, no start. But if I turn the key to the start position and cross the terminals on the solenoid, it starts right up...

I have a titanium and stainless steel artificial hip joint in mine. It was a pain to drill out and thread, but it gets lots of attention. Helps to work with orthopedic surgeons. Hodag

Not only pickups, there is a Corvair van also. There is one rotting away up in the hills here, used to be a TV repair van. Remember when you actually repaired a TV? They are kinda cool, but the rear engine thing makes them iffy to me. Hodag

I had a '75 Caddy hearse at one time. I measured up the wheelbase and found that it would line up perfectly on a '80s Suburban frame. I seriously contemplated making it happen. I wanted to make an adventure type vehicle for camping, not a show truck(car?). I planned on minimal lift, just enough...

-If I was not 6'6", it would be an Aston Martin DB5 with an ejector seat, smokescreen, and machine guns behind the headlights. -I have always said that if I won the lotto, I would buy the biggest V12 Mercedes touring sedan, and put a traditional flame or scallop paint job on it. Just to ****...

How about a Toyota 2F? It is the 4.2 liter inline 6 that came in the Landcruisers from '70 thru '87. 135hp and a buttload of torque. There is a ton of aftermarket support for them. I have a stock one in my '87 Landcruiser with 287,000 miles on it. Runs like a sewing machine. If I build...

When I was 17 (1987) and itching for a car, I went to a farm sale with my dad. After all of the tractors and crap had been sold, they went to the barn to pull out a car that had been in there since 1968. It was a '67 SS396 Chevelle, blue with white stripes, still on the original PolyGlas tires...

I learned to drive a stick in a '68 IH. Looked just like yours, same color and all. I remember it have a weird displacement V8 (348?), big oil-bath air filter, and a crazy low 1st gear. There is a crewcab 4WD version of yours here in Omaha, sitting in a farmer's treeline. I would love to get it...

He beat me to it!:) I would have been 10 and would have been through about the third set of those cheapo plastic wheels the Big Wheels came with. I think about that time my dad had a Torino. I remember being with him when he got pulled over for speeding and loud exhaust. Then I remember him...

Not that I dont like the previous suggestion of the "Dagmars" (I do). But to keep it a little cheaper till you find the parts, how about 3 '59 Caddy bullets in each bezel mounted in a baby moon hubcap. O OO Just an idea. Cool bed idea. Hodag