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I just wanted to start a thread to follow the build of my 86. She was given the name Black Betty for 2 reasons #1 It is all black inside and out #2 The damn thing gone wild! (You young bucks can Google search the song Black Betty if this eludes you) Here she sits as I brought her home. Picked her up for a whopping $400. The AX 5 was shot and the seller had no time to mess with it. Too bad for him. This 2.5 is a great running truck. Got a trans for $100 and the truck passed Cali smog on the first shot. I was in shock. A 20 year old 4 popper still ran like a 5 year old import. I managed to find some 15X7 black mod wheels with some nice 31" tires for $100. Well that means you gonna need a BB to fit the 31s Just as I got the tires on I had a fender bender! :eek: NOOOOO! I rearended a 97 T-Bird doing 65 MPH. I was being tail gated and missed a shift and went from 5th to 2nd! That locked up the rear tires and bone head thought I brake checked him. He passed me in the turning lane on the left and then I was brake checked in return. As you can see in the pics I hit him as he came out of the turning lane. All the damage to his car was on the right rear corner. My truck was all from the grill left. He lost. I totaled his car. I drove the truck home with this damage. I was then deployed to Iraq as my truck sat in limbo with the insurance company. They were going to total out my truck. I did not even claim it? Had I not taken all the pictures of my truck and the scene I would have gotten screwed by Allstate. They never sent a Adjuster to look at the scene or either vehicle? Wierd huh? It took a total of 9 months for it to finally clear. All in all he was out a vehicle for 9 months and then got $1000 for his car. I smiled when I heard this. I did drop Allstate shortly after because of the way the treated me and handled the accident. I returned home from Iraq and found a 2000 XJ in the yard and stole the front clip for the truck. At the same time I added early Ranger mirrors to the doors. I am in the process now of stock piling all the parts to do a 5.5" lift to her. I have also started to make 2000 rear flares for it. It is hard and this is where it is right now. I have also just iced out my grill yo! The finished product should look like this, all in due time!