A New Idea March 30, 2008
Posted by tony in : Pointless, Hobbies, Recreation , trackbackSo, we traveled up to our cabin this weekend and encountered a little snow. Unfortunately, the only real snow was around the gate and the first 75′ or so of driveway which happens to be a bit of an incline. Needless to say, the 2wd Ram couldn’t make it 10 feet through the snow. The heavy front end just buried itself in the snow. I spent about 2 hours digging out a path in the snow, moving the truck forward, getting it stuck and digging it out again. The Range Rover would have been fun but it has no load capacity. We are hauling up more furniture and stuff so it just isn’t practical for anything more than the drive to the train station.
So, I’ve been looking around at a diesel van. Really, only the Ford E-350 because it has a good engine (the Powerstroke) and it can be found with four wheel drive or it can be converted with some work. And I’m all about doing some work… I’ve been wanting to learn about fabrication for quite a while and I think this may be a very interesting project. It’ll give me some time through the summer to collect the parts and then I can work on it maybe this fall. That’s my goal anyways. My wife scoffs but I like a challenge where I have to learn on the fly. I’ve become more interested in working on cars as I’ve gotten older. I enjoy figuring out the mechanicals, I guess. I wish I would have gotten over my high-school idiocy and taken a shop class back in the day.
So, I’m probably going to sell my current two trucks and start working on a new one. Fortunately, my commute is short to the train station and I’m probably going to start riding my bike when it gets a tad warmer. At any rate, it sounds fun. Right?
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