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Lol, before I spent the tons restoring my old Plymouth I'd drive it all over on errands leaving out on parking lots not worrying about door dings or worse. NOW, I'm all concerned and won't drive it nearly as much as I used to...some-ting is effed up...here.
Used to drive my 66 Belvedere everywhere including to work but it's been hibernating in the shop since 98
Oh...ya must a made it real nice didn't ya, or developed the dreaded fear of it getting skanked? Funny - the ongoing comments about how sweet my Plymouth was BEFORE all the resto...and a few guys who seemed to know their stuff saying it was a cherry looking car in like a #2 condition...ahh it wasn't...but LOOKED nicer than it was.Used to drive my 66 Belvedere everywhere including to work but it's been hibernating in the shop since 98
Sounds like a plan. Why is it people can’t keep there hands off other peoples stuff. Then when they get hurt stealing it’s the property owners fault. If you can’t jail them stone them problem solved
Mine never did look real nice. It had a 25 footer paint job when I got it but I knew that before buying it and well, then I razor bladed off the crappy paint and sanded here and there and covered that with epoxy primer and kept driving it lol
When you say "Box"...
He's talking about the actual truck bed.
Yeah - now have to come up with anti-theft devices for boxes? Would seem less hassle to steal the whole truck...crazy.
It's still in pieces.....drove it for 10 years before blowing it apart....but it never was a #2 car.....more like an 8 but with a very solid body and pretty straight. It had like 10 coats of paint on it when I bought it and it really wasn't a very good paint job and then it started to react with whatever was under it. That's when I decided to start prepping it for a repaint and found it had all those coats. Turned out that razor blading it off was easier than sanding it. The scrapings filled up two 5 gallon buckets! Put some primer on it after that and kept driving it
Kept working on it doing all kinds of crazy stuff to it to make it lighter....until the front end got bad enough to say it's time for a total rebuild and that's when life got in the way. Got it all apart and my dad passed on....and the story doesn't get any better.
It's pretty easy to take a bed off of a 95 Dakota with just 2 people but you need a good back to do it and have the tail gate off to help make bed lighter. Four screws for the gas fill at the bed and iirc, 6 screws hold the bed on and cut the wiring for the tail lights or unplug it. Been over 15 years ago since having mine off but that's how I remember it.
