Building the parts cars???

[Flipper_1938]

I hijacked my own build thread http://ratrodsrule.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28603 with a couple posts about my daughters project car.... a Toyota FJ40.

For this build we are using a Toyota FJ60 as a donor vehicle for the 4x4 stuff, steering, and brakes.

IMG_7063 by Flipper_1938, on Flickr

It had a blown up motor and a few bumps and bruises, but in the grand scheme of things, it is still a solid body and could still be a fun, cheap, odd project car.

big wheels by Flipper_1938, on Flickr

Anybody else have trouble scrapping a "parts car"?

 

[MercuryMac]

Yes, Flipper, I have accumulated enough extra pieces from my '36 PU that I can make a '36 or '37 two ton now to pull my trailer.
Also, I have been collecting shoebox Fords for a while and each of the coupes[rough as they are] have a pretty good sedan to go with them. The sedans would be the better build, but the four-doors are as pretty as the south end of a northbound cow.
I may end up building some of the parts cars.

 

[AZRodDave]

Parts is parts, until you need them.

Seems all my current junkers (aka projects) are in limbo right now, waiting for the owner to make a decision and actually BUILD one! Maybe related, maybe not, but I'd hate to throw any of it away!

Decisions, decisions ... [S

 

[Flipper_1938]

HAHAHA. Dad saw the photochop and wants me to build it for HIM. My 76 year old man wants to roll a lowered landcruiser on 20's!!!!!! NOW!!!! [S[cl[

He eyeballed the jag stuff and the cruiser and looks like they should work.

 

[timbo]

Mine was a parts car that no one wanted.
Tim

 

[AZRodDave]

Roll Daddy Roll !!!

HAHAHA. Dad saw the photochop and wants me to build it for HIM. My 76 year old man wants to roll a lowered landcruiser on 20's!!!!!! NOW!!!! [S[cl[

He eyeballed the jag stuff and the cruiser and looks like they should work.

That's too cool! You have a whole family of rodders! 3 generations.

 

[Flipper_1938]

The people on the Landcruiser Forum love the idea of ripping the 4x4 stuff out ....NOT!

 

[CORPO]

Do It!!!!

 

[Skip]

The people on the Landcruiser Forum love the idea of ripping the 4x4 stuff out ....NOT!

It's all going to a good home. Not to mention a better looking home.

One of my projects of old was a slammed '56 Chev panel rolling on grafted/z-ed '77 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4 frame ends. It sat much lower than the stock '56. It found a new home before it ever hit the road. It was not the norm in Eastern Oregon, where 4x4s are required to stand tall.

 

[Tripper]

but I'd hate to throw any of it away!
[S

Throw something away?! Have you gone mad? [S

Flipper... Keep us posted on the lodown Yota!

BoB

 

[AZRodDave]

I plead the fifth!

Throw something away?! Have you gone mad? [S

Had a friend who lost his job and was recycling metal for a while, so I gave him a lot of stuff, figuring "I'll never need this, never use that." Turns out I could have used a LOT of it!!! Ah well, kept his rent paid and kids fed, so I guess it went to a good cause. It put me on a clean-up binge, so lots of lost "inventory."

 

[billy]

The people on the Landcruiser Forum love the idea of ripping the 4x4 stuff out ....NOT!

i would not own a landcruiser that wasnt 4x4

 

[forbigpicture]

i would not own a landcruiser that wasnt 4x4

That's what I love about living in the U S of A we have that choice......[ddd

 

[Flipper_1938]

i would not own a landcruiser that wasnt 4x4

I think it will make a cool station wagon.

 

[I-R-POPS]

I think it will make a cool station wagon.

I second that emotion!!! It'll make a sweet cruiser.

 

[Willowbilly3]

like it, now photoshop in a 4" chop!!