Blacked out and Carbon fiber.. Ive been looking for Chrome AC ***** for mine.

Mine will look like this one day..

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thats pretty damn sweet...imagine that in one of those nite trucks haha...looks good

 

Was going down a road here, there was about two inches of snow pack on the roads, and someone in a blue previous generation Forester was coming at me, and they were going too fast for the contour of the road, which has a sort of tilted washboard shape on that stretch. I knew exactly what was going to happen, and it was going to happen where we crosses paths, so I reached down and yanked it into 4H(I keep my hubs locked when the roads are bad, but keep it in 2H unless I need the extra traction) and picked up enough speed to pass them. I ended up fishtailing a little once I was safely past him, and he was pretty much parked in the road sideways in my lane when I looked in my mirror... right where he would have intersected my path had I not sped up.

Then there was the guy in the Mercury station wagon, passing me on the main road through the unplowed shoulder, on the left hand of an intersection while I was starting a lefthand turn. I was going to be going up a hill road that hadn't been touched, so I reached down and was shifting it into 4H when I noticed this blur of white tear past me, mirror clearing my bumper by all of three inches, before losing it and almost going down over the bank. It wasn't AWD, but he had no idea what he was doing anyway. He didn't know if we could push his car out because it was automatic. Haven't figured that one out yet. And we had to wait for the customary two mile column of traffic that insisted on driving by at half a mile per hour to gawk before I had room to give him a shove.

And it isn't just bad weather, either, this happened in the broad daylight, on a sunny warm day, when the driver of a yellow Neon sedan decided that he really really wanted higher insurance premiums so he could buy me a new set of tires...




That's what happens when you pass on the right when the guy ahead of you is starting a right hand turn.

I needed tires for the alignment after new tie rods... he needed a quarter panel. And a mirror. And a wheel. And new tie rods. And a lot of dings and scrapes buffed out of his door. And probably a bumper. I don't recall, but maybe a light fixture, too... Let's just say... Nationwide wasn't on his side.

 

this is what mine looked like after my wreck

 

Yessir, it used to have an AOD trans in it, and I swapped it out for a ZF 5spd. I want to find something to do with the column shifter, but I haven't thought of any cool ideas yet. If I had them, it would be cool to make it part of the mechanical linkage to a set of OX lockers or something

 

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That has GOT to be the sweetest looking interior I have ever seen

 

The column shifter can be completely removed and a two piece collar easily made to fill it's place. If you wish, you can leave the column shifter and remove the lock-plate behind it that forces you to pull it forward into different positions to shift from gear to gear. By doing so, you can add a linkage to the mounting point at the base of the column and actuate anything you like. Air valves (air suspension?), hydraulic valves (dump bed?) or even use the shifter to control something electronic. You could use it to mechanicallly shift and external, driveshaft mounted overdrive unit, or actuate a powered hood opening mechanism and/or a powered tonneau cover rollup/foldup type thing.

You could always devise and construct a mother-in-law ejection seat.

 

Those are all just brilliant ideas!!!! I really like the last one, HAHAHA!!!. I also really liked the info on how to remove the locking plate....thanks a bunch, been wondering how to get it from having to pull forward.