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Congrats! Wow, what fantastic news! All the best to you and your family, including, of course, the new arrival! (I've never seen an SR-71 with a booster seat.)

The stock M416 bed floor drains are pretty clever, and useful. Perhaps consider salvaging them from the old bed floor and adding them to the new.

Yes, there are two extremes if you go plywood. You can butter the entire back of the plywood with tar and set it onto the steel bed. That will keep the moisture away from the metal for sure, but it is not very reversible. I tend to leave the plywood in loose for situations like this, and I...

Here is a way to (reversibly) reinforce the floor enough for your own hard use and eventual resale: Get a piece of 3/4" exterior plywood, and cut to fit. Clean the bed of loose rust and paint with Rustoleum rusty metal primer. Spray on a coat of undercoating over that. Lay down roofing felt...

Some day when one of the world's billionaires comes to his or her senses and adopts me, the first thing I'll do is commission a six-speed Deuce transmission. The stock ratios are fine. All we need is one more gear after fifth.

have you considered the possibility that you are bending and breaking parts because you have a healthy dose of interference motion? Of course the weak link in the chain is going to break. Streghtn those components, and something else will break: maybe something a lot more expensive (or...

Really nice. What software are you using and where did you get the stencils?

I would say 300 max. Start at 2 and maybe end at 250. The floor you can address expediently. Use POR right over the rust - this is what it is for - and throw a lose piece of plywood over the floor when you load anything nasty. Grab a lunette for 50 and the rest you can handle for pocket change.

I certainly understand your point of view, and maybe some day we will all bemoan the dearth of original MVs. That said, the military specified many different variations to meet specific needs. Who's to say a bobber is not an MV that might have been? Add to that the fact that everyone is free...

I really like the way yours looks, and the formula you described is easily repeatable by anyone else. That said, your truck looks more like a truck while some other bobbers that I have seen have more of that Tonka Toy look. (Not criticizing either yours or theirs.) I guess it depends on what...

I would imagine that the only illegality would be if the operator does not pay the road taxes due. Of course, this is a fine point undoubtedly lost on those staffing the gas station.

I like the idea of using diesel or kero to cut WMO. Completely eliminates any ethanol problem.

Very cool, but what exactly is it? Newly manufactured from NOS or repro parts? It looks great in black, BTW.

If it was the guy just driving by and deciding to write a letter, rest assured he did not do any due diligence in terms of reviewing the T's and C's of the HOA bible, state definition of a commercial vehicle or anything else. So a good first step is a polite chat with him, followed by...

Explain, please, this washing you speak of......

Your response gets to the heart of my question and hopefully, you can elaborate further. First of all, I do not run gasoline in my multifuel. I guess I might once in an emergency if I were stranded, but other than that I do not ever see myself doing that. That said, I know that many folks cut...

I counted at least 17 of them. :)

Darn! We've been dying to find out what happens after you talk to him!

All of the gasoline I come across includes 10% ethanol. Ethanol absorbs water quite well and water is not so good for a multifuel engine. Does the ethanol in gas help, hurt or does it not matter? - On the 'hurt' side, perhaps it can absorb enough water to make a multifuel not quite as...

Not a camping only tip, but I always carry basic tire repair stuff: patches, plugs, valve stems and inserts, good pair of dykes, insertion tool, valve stem tool - takes vary little space and can save a lot of time.