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jonb8

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I've built alot of offroad jeeps, racecars and buggy's but this will be my first attempt at anything like this...I have a 2015 and 2011 jk's, one had a dash fire and one a frontal crash, I was gonna build another crawler out of them but a rat rod sounds like more fun. Here's the JK's

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Then I have two complete drivetrains and axles out of these J10 trucks that I can use in the JK projects. The black truck is the one I'm going to start restoring as a winter project and the white truck is a rusty parts truck.

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Since you guy's are Hot rodders I thought I'd share this with you too. Over in Europe everything is unibody so they do things a little different. I read a thread were a guy put a old bmw on a miata chassis to get fuel inj, power steering power brakes the easy way...So I had an old jeep cherokee and thought why not...a friend gave me a grand am with a blown motor and I got to work...

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It runs and drives and sitting because I don't know what direction to take it from here, I have been using it to pull stuff around in the yard....New yard car....:D My son is 15 and were talking about making it into a "End of times/zombie car...something like this

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That would be kinda cool. Just something to go thrash on. I like the jeep idea also
 
Fun is the name of the game. It looks like you are having a bunch of it! Rock on![cl

I kinda' like Mad Max style rides.
 
I love the low budget stuff, my biggest fear is building something "to nice to drive" I'm way to old to let stuff sit in the garage for fear of hurting it.... Build it, beat it, fix it .....Repeat
 
Talked to the local police yesterday about the VIN verification process on building a custom vehicle in the state of WV. I just did one on a homebuilt trailer that I built for my teardrop. Seems to be about the same process and not all that hard to get through....Moving on
 
Getting ready to pull the JK in the garage this weekend and my wife's Suburban started knocking today...I've owned alot of 5.3 motors and this is the first one I've lost....My luck
 

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