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Waiting for step bars to arrive

 

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The vinyl seats got me today. Burned my biscuits

 

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Waiting for step bars to arrive

Amazon’s tracking was wrong wont arrive until tomorrow

 

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Step bars arrived but had some trouble with bolts so install is delayed

 

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This is Jenny. She's a Toyota 1965 FJ45 L. We've been together since I was 18. My wife calls her "The other woman". She's safely stored in the dry garage, waiting for disposable income to start bringing her back to life. Plans include a 2Jz swap, D60 front, 9" rear with an LSD, 5 speed with an overdive (still thinking on that one), 4 link out back, and coilovers up front. Looking to probably do 6" of lift and run her on 44's. There's some rust and body damage that needs to be addressed, but Odds are I'm going to throw aircraft stripper on her, rip off that green, and then clear over what's left of the OG baby blue underneath. She's a 5 year project once I have the time and money to start her.

This is my original numbers matching 1963 ragtop. I bought it for my wife. Plans are to pro-street it. Looks by VW, power by Subaru. EJ conversions are super easy and inexpensive these days. With very little effort it'll do 12's in the quarter and run an autocross course like it's glued to the track.

This is my '61 beetle. I picked this up because it was super cheap. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, I may just sell it on.

And this is Clyde. We've had him 20 years at this point, and he has been a combination daily driver, kid's car, show car, and all around utility vehicle the whole time. He's a '66 and when we got him he was more or less bone stock except for a respray to a Chrysler orange of some sort. Since we've had him, I've put 2 engines in him (currently a 1641 with dual 40mm kads, 110 cam, 010 dizzy, merged header into a single quiet pack) , swapped in a rebuilt rancho trans, 12v converted him, redid all the suspension and brakes, and more or less just the general upkeep. I have a 2180 sitting on a stand in the garage waiting on the last 2 kids to get a bit of driving experience under their belts before I slap it in, and then he'll shred tires.

The day he came home to us:

Now

 

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Fi tech fuel injection kit arrived today

 

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The proportioning valve and bracket arrived today for the burb

 

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The step bars are going to require body bolts to be cut out so hopefully installation next week