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It's the busy season, so I've been slammed with work the last few weeks, no time to write up much here... I got a new company car yesterday... a Land Cruiser. I dug the Nissan Patrol, but this is more my style.

Toyota Chinooks are nice small vehicles. I had one for a couple of years and got out to CA and UT with it. I had planned to covert it to 4WD (like this guy), but instead I sold it to fund a trip. 1) Does anyone know if the frames under these things are just regular Toyota frames or are they...

From what I've seen from Taco owners on the Toyota boards, the engine is rivaling the 20R/22R/22RE for longevity and reliability... and beating it in power and complexity of water pump change. Edit: thus waterpump should be changed as part of preventative maintenance... no biggie.

The 12th of Dec is the day of "La Virgen de Guadalupe"... she's known as "La Patrona de las Americas". It's a pretty big deal in all the Latin American countries, but especially in MX where the 'apparition' occurred. http://www.inside-mexico.com/guadalupe.htm Have fun in Antigua... I spent a...

I'm looking forward to your photos!

Fireworks in Leon's central park for the Purisima on Wed night. More videos to come... the tubes aren't so fast down here. BTW, a few things I learned in a conversation with a good Nica friend about driving in Nicaragua : Reflector tape is required by law in all vehicles... if you are...

That's a beaut!

La Purisima y La Griteria I made it over to Leon to be present for one of the biggest celebrations in Central America - La Griteria and La Purisima. National law states that yesterday after 1pm and all day today are holidays, so I bounced out early and caught the last bus out of town and...

I mourned the loss of flat fenders! That 4 door 75 is fricking sweet... lack of option for 4 doors and a bed is a reason I'm leaning towards Hilux over LC for my next auto purchase... that LC is spot on.... much better than this 100 conversion =-o That is weird.... I believe they are too...

I posted this in the trip thread, but it might be more appropriate here: Could someone convert the interview to an MP4 or WMV file (There is the option in the webex software; file, convert format) and host it somewhere? Vimeo perhaps? I'm having an impossible time downloading the presentation...

Thanks a lot to F&J for posting the trip report. I started reading it two days ago and spent about 8 hours downloading/reading it over a terrible internet connection (occasional 4000ms PING times to google!), and it was totally worth it :-) I must say that I was surprised when I read that you...

That's probably your best best for getting the cheapest insurance... any shack that'll give you a form legitimate enough to get the temp import sticker will do. It's not like if you were to get into an accident that you're going to try to make a claim to it anyhow. :sombrero:

I've not shopped for MX insurance for awhile, but I noticed that Sanborn's Mexico Insurance (advertised greatly on the TX-MX border) sells the insurance on their website www.sanbornsinsurance.com Now if I could just get some real Mexican tacos over the internet...

I hit my 25 photo limit (so there's a photo whore alarm, eh? :-P ) On a non-automobile note, I caught another cute animal in the house recently. The locals call the lizard a Perro Sompopo. They are humorous, not just because of their big eyes and smirky mouth, but because they bark. At...

The ole fire extinguisher and road triangle Gringo trap... Bummer about the late moth man, I could have run a side business here supplying him with specimens... Who knows, I might even have gotten a sub-species named after myself if I sent him an undiscovered one, eh? :-D One thing I've...

I'm very interested to see how you built it. The end product looks great!

I wish they would build a CJ10 again, for civilian sale...

Moving down here was pretty easy, but what do you mean by "legal relocation"? Right now I'm here on a 90 day tourist visa, which I applied for a renewal yesterday ($10 when I entered the country, 680 Cordoba renewal ~ $32). I'm going to apply for a 2 year residency next year ($60 + US police...

Ditto on Yotatech and MarlinCrawler. Pirate4x4 is entertaining if you like soap operas.

Previous owner modifications can sometimes be a source of frustration for the new owner... considering who owned this one and what's evident in the images, it looks like the mods were all well in line with what I'd expect your goal to be. Congrats on the purchase! I look forward to seeing the...