Recent content by Junglebiker

Must be that global warming kickin' in.

My daily driver '68 Land Rover Series IIA. Not nearly as cool as a lot of the rat rods in this thread, but very good for where I currently live. I just made the grill a couple of weeks ago from some flat iron and a piece of huge steel mesh I found laying around the shop. There was a flimsy...

How about these? The flamed bobber is a '78 Yamaha XT 500 engine in a home-grown hard-tail frame with a '68 Honda CL250 steering head and front end. It had a suicide clutch and jockey shift, and me and a friend built the whole thing in 6 nights, including a couple of all-nighters. The...

Yeah, I've been to Australia--they do have a pretty sizable hot rod movement there, it's true--I'll be spending about 6 weeks in Melbourne later this year, so I hope to see a little more of that when I am there, maybe get some pics for everybody. So far, I've not had too much opportunity to...

Hot rod scene here is pretty much nil where I live. Mostly diesel Toyotas around here. As for old US stuff, there still a few WWII trucks floating around. I have a flathead V8 out of a cab over Ford Canada truck and a few bits and pieces of a CCKW, also bits and pieces of other cool things...

What to say? I'm a motorcycle mechanic from the US living and working in Papua New Guinea, (eastern half of the big island north of Australia), as a motorcycle and small engine mechanic/welder/machinist/fabricator for a group of people who are translating the Bible into the 800 languages of...