Well...66stepside wrote:...a Wagoneer body style with a life span of roughly 29 years in the modern world doesn't need further definition than that. It's the second longest life span in the automotive industry ...
Thing is, the 911 changed body style numerous times over that time span. A '98 993 is NOTHING like a '68 911. The Mini changed body styles, and the bug of course changed quite a bit over its time, but the tub did stay mostly unchanged. Even for the Mexico built models many things were the same. Although having worked on some, there was a lot that did change.DarkMonohue wrote:Well...66stepside wrote:...a Wagoneer body style with a life span of roughly 29 years in the modern world doesn't need further definition than that. It's the second longest life span in the automotive industry ...
I'm not saying they didn't wear out the tooling over 29 years, but credit where credit is due - the air-cooled Porsche 911 went 36 years (from '63 to '98), the Austin Mini went 42 years (1959 to 2000), the air-cooled Beetle went 59 years (1945 to 2003), and the Land Rover went 67 years (1948 to 2015).
All the who-owned-what-when stuff is really kind of a tangled web after all these decades of buyouts, selloffs, fire sales, and parts bin shuffling. It's kind of amazing anyone can keep it straight enough the keep the vehicles on the road at all!
Dang... where is that herd hiding??66stepside wrote:
I didn't snap a pic of the jeep prior to taking the aftermarket roof rack off, but here's his herd- he's selling everything off, he wants everything to go so he can clean up his 30 acres.
Weirdly enough, almost every jeep he has- has a 327 in it, from the white wag, red truck and that white truck, too. I'll PM you his number and email address, as he told me he will ship them out individually.44bz wrote:I'm interested in some of that 327 gear!
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True! The white one is a small window cab with the custom can script. I thought small windowed cabs only went on larger windowed cabs, but I guess not.Renodemona wrote:Dang that's a good collection. Great look gladiator. Hopefully some/all of those get to someone who can get them back on the road.
Very cool. I'm actually headed thru your area this weekend, coming back thru again next weekend. Is he very far out of the Spokane -coer da lene area? I wouldn't mind getting a 4bbl intake.66stepside wrote:Weirdly enough, almost every jeep he has- has a 327 in it, from the white wag, red truck and that white truck, too. I'll PM you his number and email address, as he told me he will ship them out individually.44bz wrote:I'm interested in some of that 327 gear!
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