My old Suburban.

[msmrx57]

:no: Had to haul the old Suburban to the scrap yard yesterday. :no:
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Sure gonna miss the beast. The body was just to far gone to try and fix. Still ran great just when you hit a bump it flexed enough the dome light came on. Got 4 years of plowing and lots of hauling out of it. And to think I bought the plow and got the truck free.

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Stripped the useable parts of her for my other truck project first. I'll get some pics of that later. It's being dropped of back at my shop tonight.

[Airbozo]

You should have taken that thing out and rolled it before scrapping it! Nothing like a vehicle self destructing around you...

[msmrx57]

Oh, we've done that before. A friend has a farm with a nice big pasture.:D We go play when we get enough beaters laying around. Mainly I didn't want to hurt the front axle as it was just rebuilt last fall. That and I REALLY wouldn't have wanted that to be upside down on top of me. It looks a lot better in the pic than it really was. The whole body shifted around on the frame, gravity was all that held it together.

[Airbozo]

Oh, we've done that before. A friend has a farm with a nice big pasture.:D We go play when we get enough beaters laying around. Mainly I didn't want to hurt the front axle as it was just rebuilt last fall. That and I REALLY wouldn't have wanted that to be upside down on top of me. It looks a lot better in the pic than it really was. The whole body shifted around on the frame, gravity was all that held it together.

I had an old Cutlass that was in the same shape. We were out in the desert in SoCal racing around and my friend ( who sold me the car), was trying to do s turn slides, when the whole body just came right off the frame. The only thing keeping it together was the transmission and motor mounts.

[Oneslowz28]

Terry you need to write a book about these crazy fun times in your life. I would buy a copy!!

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

if its all as entertainingas that... i'll be takin 6 hour dumps...
Nothing like a lil reading on the throne :) lol

[BuzzKillington]

That thing was a monster. It would have been pure eye candy with a 6" lift and some 35-38's

[altec]

Always a shame to see a good rig die. :(

Was the frame gone too? If it was in decent shape I might have tried to find a crew-cab to stick on the frame, and build a flatbed. But I can talk all day long, I still have a '81 shortbed calling me...

[Airbozo]

Terry you need to write a book about these crazy fun times in your life. I would buy a copy!!

lol
I think part of it is I pay attention to what is happening around me and I have rarely been afraid to take chances. My friends who knew me when I was younger used to joke that all the crazy **** happened to me (I could scare the bejeebies out of you with some of my stories). Part of it is also the telling of the story. Imagine if I would have said: " yes i had a car in that shape". I would wager that stories of things that have happened in your life would sound the same. It just happened to you so it seems so last century.

Some pretty interesting things have happened to me, but remember I have the years to go with that. If you knew me 20+ years ago you would not believe I was the same person. I swear I never said more than a dozen words for a decade. Then one day all this just started flowing out. It was like a switch flipped. It has been very therapeutic.

BTW: I already have a name for my book: Potato Chips on Hold

[msmrx57]

Was the frame gone too? If it was in decent shape I might have tried to find a crew-cab to stick on the frame, and build a flatbed. But I can talk all day long, I still have a '81 shortbed calling me...

It was a thought, but I've got too #&% many projects already. Besides I pulled the whole drivetrain and front end out for my '80 project.


BTW: I already have a name for my book: Potato Chips on Hold

It'd sell on that title alone.