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Old Dec 15, 2022 | 02:16 PM
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You should find out who has it now and tell them about the "Offroad Wrecker Olympics." Although, I'm not sure how that tire combo would work in the SW Utah sand.
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I'm not sure where this thing went but it used to be at a used car lot in Dryden On.

 
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Old Dec 15, 2022 | 02:39 PM
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Wow that looks like what Minneapolis-Moline did with the UDLXComfortractor 50 years earlier.
 
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Old Dec 15, 2022 | 03:51 PM
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Old Dec 15, 2022 | 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by wpnaes

Ian Russell from TV show Full Custom Garage built one almost exactly like that a few years ago for one of his clients Victor, who owns a landscaping business to use as a rolling billboard.
only difference was flip up sides
 
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Old Dec 15, 2022 | 07:56 PM
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Yea, I think they were called "Boonie Bugs" or something like that. I remember back in the day Dad getting catalogs in the mail; JC Whitney, etc. There were also several Dune Buggy catalogs and I remember seeing ads for these kit as well as the standard dune buggy type body's form Manx, etc

cool stuff
 
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Old Dec 16, 2022 | 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by 5851a
I think that one looks kind of cool.

I've always thought "Transamvan" would have looked better if they'd also chopped it's top.




Well, maybe not this much. But you get the idea.
 
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Those are cool, someone's clever mind at work!
 
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Originally Posted by 5851a

IMHO that one looks kind of like a 1977 prototype AM Van. https://silodrome.com/1977-amc-am-van/



 
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Originally Posted by petemcl
IMHO that one looks kind of like a 1977 prototype AM Van. https://silodrome.com/1977-amc-am-van/


It's a shame it didn't make it to production. Done right, after the bean counters got done with it, it could have been the savior for AMC before Iacocca came to market with the Mopar Mini-vans. The front styling looks to have been copied by both Ford and Chrysler a few years later; the Escort EXP used those bugeyed headlights, and the Dodge Omni copied the grille.
 
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Old Dec 19, 2022 | 03:39 PM
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I'll take the AMC. Thank-you. Who ever thought red and brown and black with a little hint of amber was a winning color scheme?

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Old Dec 19, 2022 | 03:44 PM
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Who ever thought red and brown and black with a little hint of amber was a winning color scheme?

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Aw, c'mon, Jim, are telling me you never had a plaid leisure suit in the 70's? LOL


 
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I was there, but never was even close to buying a leisure suit. Not any big turtle necks either-- bell-bottom pants were likewise avoided as were shorts. The only exception was our Sea Scout uniforms which were done in old school Navy style. Actually I dressed not so differently then I do today--jeans and a long sleeve button down dress shirt was my usual. As a teacher though, I always dressed up--dress pants and shirt and a tie--often paired with a sports jacket or suit coat--never ever in a get-up like your picture. As you know Wayne, I am in all things--very conservative. Now taking my old (sometimes unreliable) truck out alone on 1,000 mile adventures might be a possible exception though. LOL.

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