I have been busy with trying to get some things done on several projects. Got the wife a new ride as she needed something. That was a lot of missteps but in the end we did good. She has a 1989 3/4 ton 4x4 suburban and she loves it. My wheels is a different story.
We decided we were going backwards. due to issues involving sensors, computers, new fangled additions vehicles for the past few decades we wanted to find clean well maintained/restored older rides. We also wanted something fun and something that had what we call "The Glee Factor". We wanted something with smiles per mile vrs miles per gallon. The is why we ended up with the Ural Gearup sidecar rig. Down now but it gave us many smiles to the mile for years. So anyways we had planned to have his n hers rigs this year. We need 4 wheel drive due to the place we live. This limited us with old school rigs out there. Enter Jeep of course but jeeps are everywhere but one model fit the bill. The Jeepster Commando. We didn't find a jeepster but we did find two commandos ( AMC dropped the jeepster name but retained the commando name for the 72 and 73 model years. They are credited with killing that model with the changes but today it is a sought after rig). Both would require close to a 1500 mile round trip each to acquire. Things crept up in the negotiations that determined the "His" rig would be gone after first. Hindsight is 2020 and looking back I should have come home with an empty trailer but we were looking at going to small car shows and jeep gatherings and enjoying a pair of rare 73 bullnose Jeep Commandos. We came home with a commando. it wasnt quite what we had anticipated it would be but we bought it anyways after 700 plus miles to see it.
Trip #2 found us yet again trying to evade large cities as we did on the first trip due to covid restrictions. The convoluted trips also involved staying away from areas people seemed to be standing in the highways blocking traffic all over in some larger cities. Extreme heat combined with no working AC in the truck meant more days, and more hotels to recover and cool down. We made it to the 2nd commando that was supposed to be the better one and found a leaking rear main and several issues that made it one more project so as hard as it was we left it and came home empty. One small ray of sunshine was coming home through Dyersburg TN and picking up a set of rear tires for the 140 minus the shipping costs! The day after we returned from eastern TN we found the suburban in Arkansas, a day trip and it was home, and we drove it home, no trailer!
The saga continues in my next post a little later today, and YES! there is a tractor in there someplace
