Junglebiker
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What to say? I'm a motorcycle mechanic from the US living and working in Papua New Guinea, (eastern half of the big island north of Australia), as a motorcycle and small engine mechanic/welder/machinist/fabricator for a group of people who are translating the Bible into the 800 languages of this country.
Anyway, I love rat rods, mainly because I think that they are true to the original hot rod ideal--go fast for cheap and don't do it the way anybody else did. Someday I'd really like to build something based on a 1920's or early '30's Ford or maybe something different like an Essex or a Hudson or a Hupmobile, or whatever. I can't afford to do anything now, but I can check out what else is going on and store the ideas in the back of my mind for some other day.
Here in PNG I drive a '68 (?) short wheelbase Land Rover. 40 years old and it shows. In the US I have a convertible '65 Thunderbird that is really in need of some attention and a 351W Police Interceptor that I want to put into something.
Anyway, I love rat rods, mainly because I think that they are true to the original hot rod ideal--go fast for cheap and don't do it the way anybody else did. Someday I'd really like to build something based on a 1920's or early '30's Ford or maybe something different like an Essex or a Hudson or a Hupmobile, or whatever. I can't afford to do anything now, but I can check out what else is going on and store the ideas in the back of my mind for some other day.
Here in PNG I drive a '68 (?) short wheelbase Land Rover. 40 years old and it shows. In the US I have a convertible '65 Thunderbird that is really in need of some attention and a 351W Police Interceptor that I want to put into something.