foggyidea, post: 437819, member: 155 wrote: I'm liking the ford flex for our next vehicle.
I spent part of a day in a ford flex with a land man, as we were riding along the two track roads I kept estimating how far a walk it was cross country back to my truck....
Ford Flex looks like a stretched Range Rover, but great interior?:
I've worked out of a Dodge Dart. I sure miss click and clack, the tappet brothers...
Pricing Quigley 4WD van conversions for the next chariot. The current e350 one ton van is working well, except for getting stuck now and then.
There's that whole "professional appearance" thing when it comes to vehicles. A van or truck vs. a Mercedes sedan or a Lincoln Town Car.
A tad pricey, but made in Wyoming!
http://www.legacyclassictrucks.com/i-24496481-legacy-carryall-conversion-build-your-own.html
Richard Imrie, post: 437829, member: 11256 wrote: Ford Flex looks like a stretched Range Rover, but great interior?:
I ran solo out of a 2002 land Rover Discovery for a while...fit in great when the fox hunting set needed a survey.
A Harris, post: 437735, member: 81 wrote: My first solo work vehicle was a 1971 El Camino with 4 bolt 350 block and 327 bow tie heads, Holley 750 dual pumpin into 12:1 compression with a munci 5 speed and 373 positrac. Headers, turbo flow mufflers and 4ft fire resistors that were completely free flow and no mufflin materials inside. Big block spring in front and station wagon springs and a 3in lift in the back made it stiff enough to carry a load and still be the first to the next redlight.
She would begin floatin the valves reaching for 160mph.
20yrs ago traded down for a swb chevy PU with a straight 6 and 3 speed on the column and left my thrill seeking days behind.
My work partner is a motorhead, he was driving earlier, as we approached orbital escape velocity I read this to him, he just said that is a fast car with envy in his voice.
foggyidea, post: 437819, member: 155 wrote: I'm liking the ford flex for our next vehicle.
Our Flex is awesome, backseat is more comfortable than the front.
half bubble, post: 437835, member: 175 wrote: Pricing Quigley 4WD van conversions for the next chariot. The current e350 one ton van is working well, except for getting stuck now and then.
There's that whole "professional appearance" thing when it comes to vehicles. A van or truck vs. a Mercedes sedan or a Lincoln Town Car.
Aw yes the Quigley Queen Mary, takes three football field to turn around. Former employer had one, awful vehicle, just awful. 3/4 ton crew cab pickup with shell is much better, drives better, maneuvers better, better off-road, just better.
half bubble, post: 437835, member: 175 wrote: There's that whole "professional appearance" thing when it comes to vehicles.
So true.
Loyal, post: 437836, member: 228 wrote: A tad pricey, but made in Wyoming!
http://www.legacyclassictrucks.com/i-24496481-legacy-carryall-conversion-build-your-own.html
When I first saw their power wagon rebuild I thought I found my dream vehicle, then I found out what they ask for them 🙁
James Fleming, post: 437837, member: 136 wrote: I ran solo out of a 2002 land Rover Discovery for a while...fit in great when the fox hunting set needed a survey.
I have a 1970 Land Rover Series IIa that I used when I first started out. For several years I also had a 1990 Range Rover that worked well. They both would go anywhere. The IIa is just really slow, 60mph is pushing it. The Range Rover was cursed by Lucas. I went through an alternator every year with damn thing. Still, got some interesting looks when I drove up in a Range Rover.
MightyMoe, post: 437868, member: 700 wrote: When I first saw their power wagon rebuild I thought I found my dream vehicle, then I found out what they ask for them 🙁
No kidding, but it's on my list (AFTER I win the lottery that is).
Loyal
At the risk of breaking some USA jinx word rule that I'm not aware of, surely someone must be surveying out of a Hummer?
John Putnam, post: 437869, member: 1188 wrote: The Range Rover was cursed by Lucas.
A short behind the dash caused my '79 Spitfire to ignite on I-5 halfway between Eugene and Albany. Nothing says "Lucas" like smoke billowing out from between your legs in the passenger compartment.
That car was a sorority girl magnet though :rolleyes:
Loyal, post: 437836, member: 228 wrote: A tad pricey, but made in Wyoming!
http://www.legacyclassictrucks.com/i-24496481-legacy-carryall-conversion-build-your-own.html
I don't think I've ever wanted anything in my life as much as I now want one of those. 😉
Would halfway between Eugene and Albany be somewhere near Pierre?
The Land Rover also had a Lucas moment. One rainy night I hit the hi-beams only to be blessed with the sweet smell of electrical fire. Fused the entire harness. Go thing was that the two original equipment fuses survived the experience. Seriously how do you melt a couple of hundred feet of wire and not blow a fuse. Now it has two 10 fuse blocks.
When I said the Rover's would go anywhere, I mean anywhere. Just ask Shelby. He got out an walked a couple of places I drove the old IIa down.
paden cash, post: 437537, member: 20 wrote: My brother Holden and I actually 'surveyed' out of his 911 Porsche...once. Technically it was a "survey"...we took a pin finder over to a friend's house to scratch up some pins..and there was barely enough room for the pin finder...but we got there in record time!
i once did some moonlight/weekend work for some cat (who i can't even remember how i met/knew him). he was a weird dude. i met him on site- we were doing cut/fill work for some alley re-pavings. he rolls up in, like, an early 70s saab hatchback. proceeds to pull out a locator that looked like some kind of object you'd find in frank zappa's studio, then once we actually locate some control to use he whips out some double eyepiece old zeiss or something that he'd gotten off ebay (from germany). and he'd written some lisp routine that was supposed to spit out imperial units based upon the metric measurements the instrument was reading.
i don't think i've ever gotten less done in a 10 hour day before. or since. think we might have staked 10 points.