crash217
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So, yesterday was the day when our little Taymoor finally took one foot out of the roaming, only having a motorcycle lifestyle and temedly planted a foot into normalcy. He actually bought a truck! Those of us close to him were so proud. I was most excited because the truck reminds me so much of my first vehicle.
And then the work started. It needed a good quart or more of oil and I don't think anything except the headlights worked when he pulled up. But after a few hours, a handful of bulbs, some duct tape, and alot of new wires/soldering; he had a vehicle with all the lights working, a drivers side door that would actually open and close(although assisted by a tie-down strap) and a spare tire in the correct location. My favorite addition was how we made the tag light work. I took a tiny headlight marker light assembly from a dirtbike light housing I had laying around my shop, put a rubber grommet on it then rubber cemeted it all into the oem tag light housing(which was missing its entire light fixture AND wires). Just had to wire up the loose ends via the running light and ground it to the frame. We even found a good 5 dollars in change in the interior along with some other awesome items left over from past owners.
Best of all, the previous owner was gracious enough to throw in the 2 new "black ice" air fresheners hanging on the rear view for no additional charges. That truck smells like it just crashed through the Coolwater Cologne factory. You'd be hard pressed to find any 8th grade boy that smelled better or an 8th grade girl that wouldn't ask for a ride. I think Tay is leaving the air fresheners in.
Taymoor plans to paint the truck with roll-on bed-liner, add a gnarly sound system and hope that it lasts at least 3 months as that is about how much, in average car payment terms, the vehicle cost him. First priorities are getting the doors working correctly and putting an AR15 sticker on the back glass. That is followed shortly by putting a Boomer Shooter logo and target on it and having Jesse put a 3 round group into said target.
He dubbed it the Tayota... My wife calls it the Crapillac. I'm not sure which would look better as a chrome sticker on the tailgate but I know that we will be rolling hard to the next match in a vehicle that is by far out matched, monetarily speaking, by the guns loaded into it.
And then the work started. It needed a good quart or more of oil and I don't think anything except the headlights worked when he pulled up. But after a few hours, a handful of bulbs, some duct tape, and alot of new wires/soldering; he had a vehicle with all the lights working, a drivers side door that would actually open and close(although assisted by a tie-down strap) and a spare tire in the correct location. My favorite addition was how we made the tag light work. I took a tiny headlight marker light assembly from a dirtbike light housing I had laying around my shop, put a rubber grommet on it then rubber cemeted it all into the oem tag light housing(which was missing its entire light fixture AND wires). Just had to wire up the loose ends via the running light and ground it to the frame. We even found a good 5 dollars in change in the interior along with some other awesome items left over from past owners.
Best of all, the previous owner was gracious enough to throw in the 2 new "black ice" air fresheners hanging on the rear view for no additional charges. That truck smells like it just crashed through the Coolwater Cologne factory. You'd be hard pressed to find any 8th grade boy that smelled better or an 8th grade girl that wouldn't ask for a ride. I think Tay is leaving the air fresheners in.
Taymoor plans to paint the truck with roll-on bed-liner, add a gnarly sound system and hope that it lasts at least 3 months as that is about how much, in average car payment terms, the vehicle cost him. First priorities are getting the doors working correctly and putting an AR15 sticker on the back glass. That is followed shortly by putting a Boomer Shooter logo and target on it and having Jesse put a 3 round group into said target.
He dubbed it the Tayota... My wife calls it the Crapillac. I'm not sure which would look better as a chrome sticker on the tailgate but I know that we will be rolling hard to the next match in a vehicle that is by far out matched, monetarily speaking, by the guns loaded into it.
