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  1. surewriting

    interesting russian amphibious vehicle

    wow, thanks CARNAC! i love learning about these kinds of things! thanks for the cool links
  2. surewriting

    interesting russian amphibious vehicle

    SpikedHumor.com » Strange Russian Off Road Vehicle » SpikedHumor.com this might be a re-post, but this vid shows some of the capability of the russian Zil-29061 (or at least that what they call it in the vid) its that one with the big horizontal screws on both sides, rather than tires. pretty...
  3. surewriting

    Volvo Bv202

    just slap some brown paper and twine on it and mail that puppy over here! im sure i can find a use for it :razz:. pretty nifty looking
  4. surewriting

    Need some creative thoughts...

    heres an interesting thing: back in ww2 a japanese soldier by the name of Hiroo Onoda and his group of guerrilla soldiers were stationed in the phillipines, and didnt get the message that the war was over, and he and his men (i think all of them died except him in the end, but im not sure) kept...
  5. surewriting

    Spare tire on front

    well, like i had said earlier, ive got a 33-incher hanging off the rear end of my sheet-metal with no problems yet. we had a big steel plate welded to where it was going to mount, and then bolted it on that, for both top and bottom hinges. ive yet to have a problem. all in all it was about $20...
  6. surewriting

    Spare tire on front

    oh, lol i forgot my avatar is from the front. ill try to find a picture from the rear if you want it.
  7. surewriting

    Spare tire on front

    well, if you see in my avatar, ive got an old beater grand cherokee, and what my father and i did was pull the spare out of the back for more room, head on down to the junkyard, and pulled of an old bronco swing-away tire carrier for about $10 and welded/bolted it on. the jeep's a unibody, so...
  8. surewriting

    Roll over protection?

    just curious if anyone had thought perhaps of taking out the supports for the soft-top, and replaced it with said tubing+over constructedness, or replaced the canopy bows in the rear with tubing to keep the stock look, but provide a decent and solid ROPS? would it even be possible? im not sure...
  9. surewriting

    Free labor! sort of

    id love to! only thing is i cant afford gas/repair for the old beater i call my daily driver and school, among other things planned for this weekend :(. i have $10 in my bank, so perhaps next year, but my offer for free wrenching service still stands
  10. surewriting

    Free labor! sort of

    hello all! i am offering myself to any local or sort of local ss members who need help or want some free unexperienced labor to wrench on anything. id love to learn how to work on the duece, weld, and make a billion dollars, in that order. i live in buford, ga, and im free pretty much until i...
  11. surewriting

    Pinzgauer in buford?

    Hello! Ive seen a rather nice-looking 6x6 (i think) pinzgauer tooling about buford, ga, 30519 twice now. of course the only time ive seen it was being passed by it while riding my bicycle to school early in the morning once, and on the way to work at the mall of ga once- so not much chance of...
  12. surewriting

    Roll over protection?

    Howdy all! I've seen a lot of nice deuces here, but one thing ive not seen a lot of are roll-bars or roll cages or really any sort of roll over protection other than 'oh god oh god dont tip' and the windshield frame. Anybody have any sort of thing like that? or ideas? post pics if you do, or...
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