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Coyote
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2010
- Messages
- 48
- Vehicle Year
- 1997
- Transmission
- Manual
Hi! Don't be fooled by the avatar pict. She represents the spirit of Coyote as goddess and trickster from shamanic influences. Coyote is a real shape-shifting physical god that walks among us meddling in human affairs. Before you dismiss me as a quack, realize that Coyote mythology is as American as is Mom and Apple Pie, Chevys and Fords. The problem is that some folks live such narrow lives that trucks, guns, wrenches, beer, and blind patriotism are the seeming sum total of their experience.
I understand that gear-heads are probably focused more on materialism and that my spiritual interjection here may be unwelcome among what I sense here as Gung-ho patriotism among the excessively materialistic warmongers gunlovers and small-minded republicans that seem to inhabit this site. Is that what it takes to love a truck? It is enough to make me sell my Ranger, take a long bath and buy a Honda instead.
I found this site after becoming interested in a Ranger project. I have the opportunity to buy a rolled reg cab Ranger and get a free extended cab. Note the picture: I am interested in placing the ext.cab on the shortbox frame and cutting the box shorter. I wanted to see if anyone had done this.
I have experience from my youth of working on salvaged vehicles and I did a full restore of a 1970 Ford XL convertible that was everything but a frame-off. That was back in the days when parts were still plentiful and a 1969 - 429 Ford with 10.5-1 and low low mileage was found at the salvage auction yard, and I won the auction at $375!!! From a hack-job 351M to that 429, that XL was transformed from a beater into a bear! Took it on a cross-country trip pulling a house trailer and passing semi-trucks like they were standing still.
It was the girl-friend's car and with her went my interest in gearhead material things....
Anyways, my Ranger got whacked in the pass door and the insurance co screwed me, so I got motivated to do some body work. I bought a used door and need to replace the sill. It is the welding of the sill that may open the doors for my materialistic dreams. I always wanted to do some serious customizing involving body cutting and welding. Should I get a bodyshop to replace the sill for me, or should I make a materialistic turn in my life and BUY a mig and learn how to drill out spotwelds and weld properly?
First project would be replacing the sill. Next would be the cutting and fitting of the extended cab onto the shortbox frame....And lookie here: a genuine barn find of a 64 Galaxie sedan that is looking for a Crown Vicky frame, floor and firewall conversion.....the idea is taking all newer technology and wrapping an old body around it. And here also is a wrecked Taurus with low miles for $400; let's put a Ranger body on that (weld the cab and box into one).
So I started looking on the Net and what did I find but a top notch project of a 65 mustang fastback placed on a 2003 SVT Cobra chassis!!!! Holy Cow man! That is exactly what I have always dreamed of! Go here:
http://www.sn65.com/SN65 presentaion.htm
Scroll to bottom of page and click on
THE SN65 PROJECT.pps
Then I found this site, looked around and read all of doorgunner's 36 fiberglass truck on a Ranger frame with small block Chevy....AWESOME work doorgunner!
http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30561&page=127
(May god and your projects give you some comfort, doorgunner!) Doorgunner spills his guts and Vietnam experiences as well as his mechanical logic, but he is surrounded by hyenas (his word not mine) that fail to comprehend his pain as he struggles with the spiritual issues of the loss of his son to a drunk foreigner while questioning the karmic debt of his killing of 118 foreigners for the sake of false patriotism, false freedoms, and false political masters.
Hyenas whose tags and monikers are cringingly misogynistic (BDAB uses a moniker saying: "Smack you bitch I will") and, if one is not a Republican, frankly embarrassing ("Gun control is hitting what you're aiming at. Good gun control is a tight grouping"). And this in the midst of doorgunner's search for truth!
The problem is that the gearheads here seem to exhibit so much of that gungho gun-hugging plastic patriotism that only happens in America, particularly mid and southern America (okay, maybe Russia also), and as a citizen of another country, I, like many others who do not live in the USA, feel out of place. Like, maybe adults do NOT BELONG HERE.......?
I understand that gear-heads are probably focused more on materialism and that my spiritual interjection here may be unwelcome among what I sense here as Gung-ho patriotism among the excessively materialistic warmongers gunlovers and small-minded republicans that seem to inhabit this site. Is that what it takes to love a truck? It is enough to make me sell my Ranger, take a long bath and buy a Honda instead.
I found this site after becoming interested in a Ranger project. I have the opportunity to buy a rolled reg cab Ranger and get a free extended cab. Note the picture: I am interested in placing the ext.cab on the shortbox frame and cutting the box shorter. I wanted to see if anyone had done this.
I have experience from my youth of working on salvaged vehicles and I did a full restore of a 1970 Ford XL convertible that was everything but a frame-off. That was back in the days when parts were still plentiful and a 1969 - 429 Ford with 10.5-1 and low low mileage was found at the salvage auction yard, and I won the auction at $375!!! From a hack-job 351M to that 429, that XL was transformed from a beater into a bear! Took it on a cross-country trip pulling a house trailer and passing semi-trucks like they were standing still.
It was the girl-friend's car and with her went my interest in gearhead material things....
Anyways, my Ranger got whacked in the pass door and the insurance co screwed me, so I got motivated to do some body work. I bought a used door and need to replace the sill. It is the welding of the sill that may open the doors for my materialistic dreams. I always wanted to do some serious customizing involving body cutting and welding. Should I get a bodyshop to replace the sill for me, or should I make a materialistic turn in my life and BUY a mig and learn how to drill out spotwelds and weld properly?
First project would be replacing the sill. Next would be the cutting and fitting of the extended cab onto the shortbox frame....And lookie here: a genuine barn find of a 64 Galaxie sedan that is looking for a Crown Vicky frame, floor and firewall conversion.....the idea is taking all newer technology and wrapping an old body around it. And here also is a wrecked Taurus with low miles for $400; let's put a Ranger body on that (weld the cab and box into one).
So I started looking on the Net and what did I find but a top notch project of a 65 mustang fastback placed on a 2003 SVT Cobra chassis!!!! Holy Cow man! That is exactly what I have always dreamed of! Go here:
http://www.sn65.com/SN65 presentaion.htm
Scroll to bottom of page and click on
THE SN65 PROJECT.pps
Then I found this site, looked around and read all of doorgunner's 36 fiberglass truck on a Ranger frame with small block Chevy....AWESOME work doorgunner!
http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30561&page=127
(May god and your projects give you some comfort, doorgunner!) Doorgunner spills his guts and Vietnam experiences as well as his mechanical logic, but he is surrounded by hyenas (his word not mine) that fail to comprehend his pain as he struggles with the spiritual issues of the loss of his son to a drunk foreigner while questioning the karmic debt of his killing of 118 foreigners for the sake of false patriotism, false freedoms, and false political masters.
Hyenas whose tags and monikers are cringingly misogynistic (BDAB uses a moniker saying: "Smack you bitch I will") and, if one is not a Republican, frankly embarrassing ("Gun control is hitting what you're aiming at. Good gun control is a tight grouping"). And this in the midst of doorgunner's search for truth!
The problem is that the gearheads here seem to exhibit so much of that gungho gun-hugging plastic patriotism that only happens in America, particularly mid and southern America (okay, maybe Russia also), and as a citizen of another country, I, like many others who do not live in the USA, feel out of place. Like, maybe adults do NOT BELONG HERE.......?
