Thanks for the nice comment, Gene! The photos of this truck are still in storage some place, so you can't see all the stuff on that truck. You can see the two big KC lites on the front, but there are four more KC Daylighters mounted up on special light bars I made to fit on top of the tool box behind the cab. I just realized that you CAN see the light bars and lights in my other picture on here!
The front bumper is custom mde by me and the winch mount and brush guard are there too. and the rear bumper and skid plates are all on it as well.
I was real proud of that little Datsun. A lot of folks were amazed at all the stuff they saw me do with it. I have a picture of it up on just the two back wheels as I was trying to climb up on top of an embankment. The truck was near vertical and I was afraid a bit that she would flip over backwards, but never did.
I still have the little truck, but after twenty five years of being up here in Alaska, what with the road salt and my wife wrapping it around a tree after sliding down a road covered in silverthaw, she just ain't quite the same as she was back during the eighties. Inside the cab roll bar made by Smittybuilt saved her from getting hurt, but the truck was beyond repairs after that. I still drove it for a couple more years until a heater hose busted and the engine head cracked.
I drove her for a whole winter after the wifes little "accident" and that was when the windshield had been busted out of her (the truck). Damn, that was COLD and I wore a hood and balaclava and goggles! Heater on full blast didn't help much and I had to tarp it over so the cab wouldn't fill up with snow while she sat. Found a new windshield and mounted it as best I could and used duct tape and plexiglass to fix the drivers door.
I could tell all kinds of stories about that truck, and every word would be true! It was better than a damn Toyota and I wrote to Toyota and told them that, too! I had a BLAST with that truck. Now she is sitting down in the front lot all tore up and waiting to be stripped down a bit more and towed to the crusher. I think the squirrels are using it to store seeds and nuts for the winter.
Now I have a 2005 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab 4x4 and like it a lot, but I don't go off road like I used to.
David..Great pics. I am glad there are still folks like you that answer the "call of the wild". I had enough snow when I was a kid, in the forties and fifties, in North Texas.. Much better in the winter, for the most part, there now. I also like your additional lights...A friend I worked with in Houston, lived twenty or thirty miles nowth of Houston and had to fight the fog in the Spring and Fall there. The stuff would roll in from the coast and you had to crawl down the road.He was always at work by 6:30 or so and fought fog for several years. He finally found a pair of airplane landing lights and mounted them under his bumper. He said they really cut through the fog and he could come on in to work at a good pace. I think he got about three tickets with them (not cheap) and finally one day he got stopped and the officer took a lug wrench and broke them. Seems they blinded everyone coming at him.. He was close to retirement so he never replaced them. Worked well while he had them.
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Thanks for the nice comment, Gene! The photos of this truck are still in storage some place, so you can't see all the stuff on that truck. You can see the two big KC lites on the front, but there are four more KC Daylighters mounted up on special light bars I made to fit on top of the tool box behind the cab. I just realized that you CAN see the light bars and lights in my other picture on here!
The front bumper is custom mde by me and the winch mount and brush guard are there too. and the rear bumper and skid plates are all on it as well.
I was real proud of that little Datsun. A lot of folks were amazed at all the stuff they saw me do with it. I have a picture of it up on just the two back wheels as I was trying to climb up on top of an embankment. The truck was near vertical and I was afraid a bit that she would flip over backwards, but never did.
I still have the little truck, but after twenty five years of being up here in Alaska, what with the road salt and my wife wrapping it around a tree after sliding down a road covered in silverthaw, she just ain't quite the same as she was back during the eighties. Inside the cab roll bar made by Smittybuilt saved her from getting hurt, but the truck was beyond repairs after that. I still drove it for a couple more years until a heater hose busted and the engine head cracked.
I drove her for a whole winter after the wifes little "accident" and that was when the windshield had been busted out of her (the truck). Damn, that was COLD and I wore a hood and balaclava and goggles! Heater on full blast didn't help much and I had to tarp it over so the cab wouldn't fill up with snow while she sat. Found a new windshield and mounted it as best I could and used duct tape and plexiglass to fix the drivers door.
I could tell all kinds of stories about that truck, and every word would be true! It was better than a damn Toyota and I wrote to Toyota and told them that, too! I had a BLAST with that truck. Now she is sitting down in the front lot all tore up and waiting to be stripped down a bit more and towed to the crusher. I think the squirrels are using it to store seeds and nuts for the winter.
Now I have a 2005 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab 4x4 and like it a lot, but I don't go off road like I used to.
David..Great pics. I am glad there are still folks like you that answer the "call of the wild". I had enough snow when I was a kid, in the forties and fifties, in North Texas.. Much better in the winter, for the most part, there now. I also like your additional lights...A friend I worked with in Houston, lived twenty or thirty miles nowth of Houston and had to fight the fog in the Spring and Fall there. The stuff would roll in from the coast and you had to crawl down the road.He was always at work by 6:30 or so and fought fog for several years. He finally found a pair of airplane landing lights and mounted them under his bumper. He said they really cut through the fog and he could come on in to work at a good pace. I think he got about three tickets with them (not cheap) and finally one day he got stopped and the officer took a lug wrench and broke them. Seems they blinded everyone coming at him.. He was close to retirement so he never replaced them. Worked well while he had them.