My Ridiculous Vehicular A.D.D. Thread... With Pics!

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And then we were down to the faithful Taco... Wifes ride since day one. We put a Revtek kit and 285 BFG MTs on this one to go with the full load of options including e-locker. Put 200,000 on the clock, and sold it when we left for a year long road trip. Kinda wish we kept it, but we got the best years out of it...


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In the dark days after the Tundra went away, I had a short spell of lunacy, and built an autocross / sleeper car. Living on an incredibly windy highway I thought it would be fun to have a fast car. After buying the "teacher mobile", a 1990 Volvo 745 TI, I took a trip to IPD/Rallytech in Portland, got some lowering springs, Billsteins and went to town on the little wagon. Turn up the boost, add nice rubber and rims and voila! Instant fun that no self respecting cop would bat an eye at. Too bad it wasn't a truck


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Enter the big trip rig! A 1992 F350 with rebuilt E4OD and a ton of go fast (er) parts. I put in a Sky Offroad shackle reversal, some new 315 Extreme ATs and shocks. I flew to Oakland and bought this beauty based on a few pics and a phone call or two. What an awesome rig! We pulled our toy hauler pop-up around the southwest and Mexico for just shy of a year with this. I didn't have to replace any thing during the whole trip! After pouring about 1/3 of OPECs production for 2009 into its 460 during that trip, I set my sights on a 12 valve Cummins truck, soooo, adios amigo!

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F350 gone, I started looking around for a 12v. After missing a couple of good ones, and a few weeks of driving my neighbors 1969 Chevy orchard truck with ear plugs and a respirator on, I bought this 94 Dodge with 318 and NV4500 as a temporary measure while shopping for the diesel.


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Here is the 12 valve I ended up with! A 1994 2500 SLT with built auto, transfer case and Dana 70. It was a friends truck, but he was having his first kid, so needed to find a clubcab 12v. This thing has almost 300,000 on it and still runs like a dream. Fuel plate mod, BHAF and some pump and tranny tuning now have been done. Pulls like a locomotive!


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[02TahoeMD]

Wow, you were NOT kidding when you said that you had vehicular A.D.D.

Nice rigs all...including the Volvo.

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And now, the final chapter to-date. I just had to buy this 2000 Dodge 2500 Quadcab. It has a freshly rebuilt trans with shift kit, fresh Dana 60s front and rear, Revtek kit, new shocks, new 285 75 16 BFG ATs and airbags in the rear. Perfect for a daily driver/work truck. I live in a very tight community on the ocean now, and don't want to piss everyone off driving up the long hill off the beach on my way to work at 6 am with a straight piped 12valve. The new truck was a steal, and although it has the "wrong" 5.9 in it right now, I plan to try and put a 12 valve and NV 4500 in it at some point in the future. All I have done to it so far is add the PIAA fogs that I kept from the Hilux waaaay back up the list of trucks...

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For those of you who care, I did MAKE money on most of the vehicles bought and sold in this thread. The one glaring exception being the Rubicon... Bought it about 3 months before Chrysler started their "Employee Pricing" program. I don't care to think about how much that little marketing ploy cost me.

Overall, a fun bunch of rigs. I wish I had the cash to have kept them all. What's next? Who knows... but I bet it will be something cool too!

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Thanks again to ISTZYPHER and 02TahoeMD for the p-bucket info!

[poriggity]

Very nice.. Fear not brother, you are not the only one with vehicular ADD.. I have probably owned 10-12 rigs since I turned 16, which was only 14 years ago... I still have 4 of them too!
Scott

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Yep, I fall into that category as well....

Chase