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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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My dad farmed me out to a friend who had a cattle ranch for my 15th summer. A summer that taught me a lot. Mainly how to buck alfalfa bales. Another thing was how to drive a WWII surplus Jeep. Loren, the ranch owner said he bought it in a crate...
I thought he was kidding. Learned later he wasn't. They were taken apart, placed in crates for shipment to the troops. After the war, sold as surplus, shipped in the same crates to the buyers.
Had a ball driving that thing...but on the ranch, it never saw pavement. I'd think it would have been a terrible driver for anything over say 45 mph? Very low gears, anemic flathead 4 banger.
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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