so I am getting gas

[fulsizjeep]

this morning in one of the white Waggys and a fella came up and started talking Jeep stuff. OK, I like those kind of talks. He tells me a story about his old M38 something er other (sorry, I just have not followed the small Jeep history) he had had since he was 12 with a 260 Ford Cobra engine and all kinds of crazy stuff like late 60's Waggy axles and 36s - - the story went on like Alice's Restaurant Massacre or something. :DThen... then.. he asks about the Waggy I am driving and I tell him we have a few. ;) Then he says there is a new Gladiator showed up at the salvage steel lot and had a good chrome rhino grill on it. He wanted to try and fit it on his hot rod rock.mud crawler. OGM! 11:05 AM and there is a Rhino alert in SW Colorado!

I finish my business and he takes off. I give ole Phoebe a good bath. She is now running 32s again with new ES9000 shocks. Rides better. Then I beat feet home.

On the way home I stop by an old timer for consultation. Vibes are telling me I must head west.
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0688_JPG.jpg

I get home and have to consult Galdiator Man. Now the Jeep Gods send vibes that tell me I should check on the rest of the wayward FSJ souls nearby.
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0758_JPG.jpg

I grab the J20, tools, camera and head to Cortez. Oh, gotta get a master cylinder for the 76 Waggy so stop at NAPA. Oh Man, new ones are only $31!!! Then off to scrap yard.

This one sat in Cortez for years before it bounced around on price starting at $800 back in 2001. It still has teeth! :thumbsup:
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0697_JPG.jpg
Poor old girl. Has a Tornado in it. Where are the pie plates?

Then I see an old J300 stake bed. The bed is long gone and has a 327 in it.
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0698_JPG.jpg

Even the old 69 I took over there a couple years ago is still there. Someone got the timing chain cover off it.
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0703_JPG.jpg

Then I find a 64 Waggy that has been scalped! Rhino Alert! Ding-Ding-Ding!
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0706_JPG.jpg

I go up front and the guy that is saving them won't be back until...

Hmmmm... Here is where I decide to check on the rest of the hidden gold...
RHINO ALERT!!! WHOOP! WHOOP!
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0709_JPG.jpg

Wow... another stakebed. CO-INKADINK? Then a brow! With running lights! Old School! I must come here with some cash some day.
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0711_JPG.jpg

Then I wander around and check on a variety of old Heeps, covering about 45 miles all together. It was too cold outside to be wrenching today. Windy and blowing flakes every 30 minutes or so. It was a nice ride to get out and cruise the 401 and run the heater with the back window cracked open. Even got her on the rocks over by Lake Summit near where we started our crazy Jeep farm.
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0749_JPG.jpg

Maybe before long I'll have the rhino for someone special in my life. :D

I did look at some other old steel while I was at it. The whole fandangled album is over here:
http://s232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/
:fsj: :cool:

[jaber]

Cool, thanks for the pics....
I wish I could find a nice Rhino for the wrecker, Its just begin for one.....

[Chris P.]

Great pics!

I find the lack of rust on these rigs disturbing.....

Hope no one was in this one when it met its end.
Looks like it went boom?
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0699_JPG.jpg

[iluvnos]

you have found the holy grail of jeep yards. Ughh If I found that place I would have bumpers!!! and maybe just maybe a rhino, but more important bumpers. Nice camera work too by the way.

[JeepBountyHunter]

Every since Ralph moved down there, I've been saying I ought to do the same thing...:thumbsup:

[fulsizjeep]

This was as many FSJs as I could see in a loop drive to Cortez and back home. There are so many others along county roads, etc that I did not show you. Ryan has seen a few of them. Might get to those another time. :)

[Dirtball]

When I saw the title to this post I thought... "must have been too many chili dogs"... sorry, my mind works like that...

[mjp75jazz]

wow...that's super cool!! i would love to check out all those old rigs in person...prob won't happen here in florida ..lol...:cool:

[chuckchili]

That is a pretty great yard. Great pics. I am willing to bet by the looks of all the broken headlights and bent grills, the owner of that yard has a pack of angry little kids all armed with baseball bats that get released into that yard without supervision.

[Gambler68]

crap, I need a beater rhino and a pair of the outer beauty rings, shoulda sent my list with ya.

Looks like a nice day of fsj peepage :thumbsup:

[Casey]

Maybe before long I'll have the rhino for someone special in my life. :D




Aw man are you a pal!? I have one already, but I would love another! Thanks!


:D

[710 Burner]

Yes Flint, you need another Rhino to replace one of those egg-crate grills you have. Then you could send me the egg-crate. ;)

[Knuck]

Would love to have a set of those pie plates.

[NVJEEPER]

< heavy sigh> . . . nice relaxing ride...Thankyou.
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0732_JPG.jpg

Nice Fishn' hole

[waynestiles]

"Hope no one was in this one when it met its end.
Looks like it went boom?"


looks too old to have been a rolling meth lab that cooked off

[FSJ Guy]

Was I the only one thinking this thread had something to do with Flint's taco and burrito dinner last night? :p

[duncanstives]

Whoa... You should save some of those jeeps.... They don't make any new ones ya know!

[fulsizjeep]

Yes Flint, you need another Rhino to replace one of those egg-crate grills you have. Then you could send me the egg-crate. ;)We are dumping all the Egg Crates because our Egg Crate stock went in the tank along with my IRA held with AIG. :D

The "new" Rhino is the Cheesgrater! :thumbsup:
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee184/jubileejeeps/090330%20Old%20Steel%20Ride/IMG_0749_JPG.jpg



Whoa... You should save some of those jeeps.... They don't make any new ones ya know!I think once they get to this scraper, they are not leaving unless in the shape of a cube. I hope some parts can be gleened before then though.

[fulsizjeep]

Aw man are you a pal!? I have one already, but I would love another! Thanks!


:DI have tried to come up with a witty reply Rick and I just can't... You win a broken QT shift fork! :huh:

[leehi417]

Beautiful! i love junkyards

[Long&Low]

Them cab lights took the pleat out of my pants...:eek:

[jpcoutts]

I don't suppose any of those flatbeds was a dually? Me an' Elliott get a little excited about those, they did come with rhinos ya know!

[The PIG Smith]

Every since Ralph moved down there, I've been saying I ought to do the same thing...:thumbsup:
Aaron, you and I need to make a trip up to Bryan, Ohio to the "Field of Dreams"
I wonder if they have crushed any of those jems?