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Test Drive - 2 ...continued... (above) Tent flaps all rolled and strapped up... (above) Back in sequence...Day 2, rolling north... (above) This is one of the most beautiful drives I've done...Another one is the Sonoma Coast in California...Where driving is a pleasure of the highest...

How do you think I get as much done...???...The swell is overloaded and the wind is wrong at the closest beach...And it's dark...

Here goes... Test Drive - 1 (above) Parking lot...Getting food... (above) Freeway on-ramp...Welcome to Washington....(color picture)... The basics...I'm road testing The Jeep I've been working on for months...The road plan is to circumnavigate the Olympic Peninsula...I have no schedule...

Test Drive... First off, I want to thank Mike for giving me the opportunity to create what I did...During the build I would often wonder if this is what heaven is like...That good...Thank you, sir... Over the next few days, I'll post the 'Daily Journal' from my test drive...Photos with...

LED Light Emitter on Trunnion Wall Mount - 8, 3-Watt LEDs - 24 Watt - 1440 Lumen - 325'L X 70'W Beam The Magnalight LEDLB-8ET LED Light Bar offers high light output and extreme durability combined a versatile trunnion mounting system that allows mounting to walls and provides 270 degrees of...

Jeep 51 Jeep 51... It was a rough week...The flu bug bit last Sunday, slowed me significantly Mon. & Tues. then forced me flat on Wed...Fever broke Thurs...On top of that, the entire week was a deluge...Is it spring yet...???... (above) I had a neighbor make these drawer pulls...He used...

After the first month, I designed it to get wet...I though that the Jeep would be waterproof and all, but it leaked bad...I fixed everything I saw and a few I had to track down...I realized that it would eventually, somehow, someway get a drenching now and again...With that in mind, I built it...

Jeep 50 Jeep 50 (above) I posted this before but without an explanation...The zebrawood at the bottom was cut with a knife, by hand...two pieces of veneer were overlaid, then the pattern was drawn lightly with pencil, then cut...Next, half the pieces were set aside and the remaining ones...

Jeep Ceiling...done...

Jeep 49... Forty-Nine... (above) As I mentioned in the previous post, the new work and the plastic tray got fiberglassed to make the whole unit solid... (above) The driver side tray did too...By glassing that bottom edge, it locked the tray to the bar and removed the flex that is...

You mean something like this...???... It could be commissioned, I guess...

Next into the workshop is either a Sprinter or a Lexus SUV...Owner's choice...

Forty-Eight... Forty-Eight... (above) With hot coffee in hand, I survey the working conditions for the day... (above) Maybe not the day to work on the rack... (above) I probably won't go paddle after work today either... (above) So it's up front in the toasty warm cabin...I...

There was one of the Tigers at the Tacoma RV show last weekend...Too bad it wasn't opened up, it looked far more interesting than 99% of the RV's there...Most of those drag-along RV's are just crap...

Forty-Seven... Forty-Seven... (above) "Sand Ladders" ...There's a pair that need to come along for the ride...The options for where to store them were focused on the roof rack area...The best place for these seldom used, but nice to have when you do need them, is a place that will not limit...

Forty-Six... Forty-Six... (above) The ceiling...The existing one had bolts for the roof rack extending in, and the adhesive from the previous ceiling was dried hard and un-removable without grinding...The clearance I have with the fold-out bed is pretty tight, so to work over the existing...

Forty-Five... Forty-Five... (above) One thing that's been bugging me is that there isn't a single, simple shut-off for the rear cabin electrical...The pilot lights on the gauges and switches now stay on all the time and wear on the system (albeit a burly one) slowly...Also, I'm not of the...

Will do...

Forty-Four... Forty-Four... (above) On the priority list, getting the spare tire moved off the roof rack to just forward of the rack, was next...The picture shows the pattern / template that I took to the welder...Below it is the inside the roof part of the mount... (above) Raw steel gets...

Forty-Three... Forty-Three... (above) Mike brought up some things for the front cabin and before the changes happen, I thought I'd get some "before" pictures...The door pulls will get padded and covered over...The flat black panels might get covered over with leather...???... (above)...