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d spike wrote:
When loggers destroyed the road home, I had to get a way to get home. I also needed to transport materials through one and a half miles of axle-deep mud and clay.
I got a Datsun 720 pick-up, stripped it down to chassis, drivetrain and suspension. The tray (for want of a more accurate word which might border on the obscene - but then, so did the tray) was lightened, and a frame was mounted forward (glibly referred to as a roll-cage). This frame provided a work platform on which were mounted a seat, toolbox, a tiny instrument panel, and protected the engine from 'bush-lash'.
I abandoned the steering column shifter and instead ran two gear levers through the floor attached directly to the two shift-arms on the gearbox. An open-minded person, aware of how a 720 gearbox works, would understand how easily this system could operate. One stick was low/high gear and the other was low/high range. 1st and 2nd were in the low range, 3rd and 4th were in the high range. However, most people who saw this vehicle, were either not acquainted with 720 gearboxes, or not open-minded, and viewed the contraption with alarm. The "forest-used" was the most favourable name - I won't print the others.
Apart from windshield wipers (duh) everything else worked : lights, front and rear (front lights were fogs, rear lights mounted on the 'roll bar'), horn. She had a seatbelt and a fire extinguisher (mounted forward), radio and a CB set.
The additional power gained from no longer having to drag around excess weight, and the 720's fantastic low 1st gear enabled me to use her like a tractor, dragging logs (and Betsy, my 120y, who got stuck or slid off the road with alarming frequency).
MG Man wrote:is de dog u talkin abuot, right?
NOMOSS wrote:Allyuh notice it have license plate .It have insurance too
wagonrunner wrote:spike, one day it should be returned to it's former "glory" eh.
d spike wrote:Found old pics, faded, yellowed... .
This is the original "Old Car Posse" (or "OCP" as the group was called).
NOMOSS wrote:
NOMOSS wrote:
foreign ,but I know where One will look really coolnigie wrote:NOMOSS wrote:
You did this ...or is this a foreign pic?
some british car cant say for sured spike wrote:NOMOSS wrote:
What happened to this condenser? It looks like something hit it from above... or was something heavy resting on it with the cap off?
Those points real small... what engine is this off of?
jnqaz wrote:
kurpal_v2 wrote:d spike I hope you dont mind but the yellow pic was urking me so I tried this:
Hope its no problem.
NOMOSS wrote:jnqaz wrote:[img]http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2011/05/topshot.jpg[img]
SLOW?? what the car or the project.
Paullct wrote:his signature is "slow." NOMOSS.
Good stuff guys, keep it coming.
d spike wrote:kurpal_v2 wrote:d spike I hope you dont mind but the yellow pic was urking me so I tried this:
Hope its no problem.
Not at all! The black & white looks great.
That roll of shots was lost to me for about ten years... bagged with garbage and left to weather the elements... found it and had it transferred to a CD... this was the best they could do.
(I had given the original members of "the OCP" larger "picture-frame" sized copies of this same shot for Christmas that very year... I guess if I could prise one of those copies from a member's grasp, I could get another copy made for myself... HINT, HINT, HINT, NOMOSS... HINT, HINT, HINT... )
d spike wrote:kurpal_v2 wrote:d spike I hope you dont mind but the yellow pic was urking me so I tried this:
Hope its no problem.
Not at all! The black & white looks great.
That roll of shots was lost to me for about ten years... bagged with garbage and left to weather the elements... found it and had it transferred to a CD... this was the best they could do.
(I had given the original members of "the OCP" larger "picture-frame" sized copies of this same shot for Christmas that very year... I guess if I could prise one of those copies from a member's grasp, I could get another copy made for myself... HINT, HINT, HINT, NOMOSS... HINT, HINT, HINT... )
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