Currently covering Moscone Center in graphics... This show always sucks but there are big checks... bonus Sylvie having fun with my wife today.

I've been here since 7am yesterday. Yes that is a functioning waterfall. I've been doing graphics for a week.

He compulsively camps out for the day at driving hot spots.

Sylvie just turned three, here is her cake face.

Okutama/Track Bonus Round

This is stuff that people gave me, I saw and liked etc... Oh I built a tree on the second to last show, it's a blur, I can't remember if I showed that so I'll throw it in. The base is fake and the rest is real and we screwed it together.

I didn't know there were some good dive spots right here. We were thinking about the river. If we come back I plan to dive, the seals are funny, lots of pups. I wouldn't mind owning this place, it has a smaller place and a garage shed. One beach must have been the dump a hundred years ago, its mostly glass.

Well my friend's shop has agreed to do the engine swap, that is the main news and it is a relief since there are no shops very close to here that would do anything like that. I am sort of leaning towards the 318 or 360, it remains a Dodge powered vehicle and Vintage Power Wagons makes mounts for that swap. I can stop stressing about where it will be done and resume stressing about the details, my friend will figure it out, he has built some crazy Jeeps including one that went to SEMA. If the Dodge tranny options aren't great we could mate a Chevy to it I suppose.

I don't want to sell the Z but we will see how this all goes, my friend has to fix a couple spots on the Z's paint that didn't adhere very well I guess, he said no big deal. But he will do that after the truck for free since it's a warranty thing. Someone bumped the back of my Z a few years ago and dented a structural part so I got half the car painted on insurance, they did me a favor haha.

I have some other ideas for the truck, possibly a roll bar that doubles as the soft top bow, it would be cool to have the extra safety and also have it work for the soft top so there are no extra parts to store. I want to weld a universal winch plate on the front bumper since I am not using an old PTO winch, plus originals are $$$$.

Sylvie is having a couple teeth she cracked taken out right now so I'm waiting to pick her up... Anyway here are some pics of it in it's current state and what it was like before I got it:

Combat rims I'm going to try and restore, they are in decent shape:

Korean War jerry can that was used in a medical battalion, when I saw the lettering I grabbed it:

Gears have been swapped:

This is how it looked when the Army, Army Corps of Engineers and MA Federal Fire got done with it:

The fire fighter I bought it from got it to this stage:

The dash center there is shared with Jeeps so the military could obviously have less parts to deal with:

And I have real gauges to replace those cheap chrome ones, the others look like the top right real one.

This is a neighbor of mine, I showed his garage a long time ago but I thought some new people might like it. He is an Italian artist who became American and he painted for the Air Force, all those painting you see in bases are painted by people like him. They paid him to travel all over the world to paint jets or whatever for the base walls. The garage was never open when I passed by for months and then one day it was open, I had to go talk to him.

@Fish-McSticks

@Powered_By_Howard Yeah I have an M37 and I think I recall seeing one of those on the G741 site.

@Sam-Blockhan I think the orange truck is a Power Wagon with a fiberglass body. I think I've seen that mentioned on sites I go to for my M-37.

Zero chance my wife would buy that stuff for me

@sampsonite24 Hmm not quite an East Oakland joyride, they would have ruined every side of it there and stripped it of anything usable. I had my Accord stolen in Honolulu three times, got it back mostly unharmed each time. Well this is good

@amoore100 Definitely not, it's much better without it, I'd order it deleted if you can.

@Just-Jeepin Sugga! I'd take a 303 though.

@HoustonRunner Yeah it doesn't seem to do anything, I think I'd pay to have the mounts covered up and painted if I bought one. I only see one red one around here in a sea of German tourers, and I only see one new NSX that is red as well.

@HFV It would be fun to find one of those. I always liked the Cannondale Cyclops. I had a Specialized Hard Rock I think..