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I drove from Tampa, Florida to Stillwater, Minnesota with 3 dogs and one wife in a minivan.

wow...I don`t understand how people do that. When I drive 500mls, I`m a trainwreck for the next 2 days. The roads here are really crowded ,which doesnt help...

Imagine that distance in a minivan with 1 dog and 3 wifes.... [S
 
Wow . . . I don`t understand how people do that. When I drive 500 miles, I`m a train wreck for the next 2 days. The roads here are really crowded, which doesn't help . . .

Imagine that distance in a minivan with 1 dog and 3 wives.... [S

I didn't know you live in Utah ;)
 
wow...I don`t understand how people do that. When I drive 500mls, I`m a trainwreck for the next 2 days. The roads here are really crowded ,which doesnt help...

Imagine that distance in a minivan with 1 dog and 3 wifes.... [S

Girlfriend just spent 3 weeks travelling around NZ, she commented on how narrow the roads are in many areas and how they're up and down and winding. I think 500 miles in your area and 500 miles in most areas of North America are two very different animals :)
 
Past few weeks.

Decided against this huge ford 5.4 dohc engine. Too many complications with how wide the dang thing is.

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The new choice. Toyota 2JZ. I originally had this engine on my mind but went with the ford for some reason [S

You can see how much I had had to set back the firewall for the ford in this pic

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Tacked most of the factory firewall back in minus a small hump on the drivers side for intake manifold clearance

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haha thats sick... reminds me of my old bud who had a fake eye. When we were kids he used to scare younger kids by poking in the fake eye with a key or something [ddd:D
 
Went to a garage sale that the current owners of our soon-to-be-acreage were having. Bought their Zero Turn lawnmower, got that and the other tractor that comes with the place running, and bought a rototiller and other odds and ends. Saturday I spent a good amount of time getting a door to fit properly in our current house and others on the honey project list.
 
Got a fiber optic cable run to the garage from the house with help from my cousin's step son. He did the work I helped. Mounted a pair of tires on a friends Harley that had a terrible death wobble. it fixed it. Hung the door on drivers door of the 37. to see if it fit with the parts I made so far attached with Clecos and tec screws. It's close.[;)
 
made some repair panels for an old ford tractor cab. Got some bits & pieces together for a gas forge and also did a whole bunch of gardening... Planted 3 willows,
5 pear trees , 4 walnuts and got 300m2 of flowers sown... spring is here. :cool:
 
I drug out a truck near and dear to me. Added some oil and power steering fluid. Crankit until I got oil pressure, pumped the gas 4 or 5 time and she fired right up!!!
 

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Finally got the 340 back for the Dart I started in the spring. A couple of days and it's about ready to fire.
 

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