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- From: "Brien Tourville" <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:05:13 -0400
See Mark ?@ ~!
All that sitting around has made you SMART ! ;]
you could also use a pair of JEEPSTER front
fenders & s-t-r-e-t-c-h the nose...........long
nose / short deck.......
Bt
What about a Willys pickup cab? roof hacked of to roadster.
fenderless, channelled, HHHmmmm?????????
--
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV
---- Brien Tourville <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [AMC-List] Jeep? Ford? same difference (hot rod chassis!)
>
> Still cogitating over a Rambler hot rod. Pretty much settled
> on a Rambler six, 3-speed/OD, rambler rear. Probably a stock
> motor or minor performance hacks.
>
>
> But then I stumbled upon photos of a 1984 Jeep CJ chassis --
> it's of course just a pair of rails that suuuure looks a lot
> like a 32 Ford! (If you take off your glasses and squint.)
>
> Close enough to make an all-AMC hotrod!
>
> So there's two ways to go with this:
>
> 1) strip a Jeep literally down to the rails, lower suspension to
> street-car height (swap out springs etc), and find/modify/make
> a rod style body to go on it. I'm not sure how low it could go,
> the rear fram arch isn't very deep (but I wanted a "tall boy",
> hotrod-wise). This would then be a 4wd hotrod?
>
> Eh, it's too much of a jeep to be a hotrod.
>
>
> It would be a real Rambler Mentality hot rod, in the good sense
> -- fun, old style, cheap and all Rambler!
>
>
> ================
>
>
> I'd seen the coolest JEEP custom -
> they'd taken out the center section
> of the JEEP - narrowed the body -
> to be a single seater - damnd cool - .
>
> find a CJ-8 frame if possible - much
> longer - better ride.
>
> front suspension off most anything
> can be fitted to the rails.
>
>
>
> =Bt=
> milnersXcoupe
>
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