Spartruck, A Spartan Sportruck

[87sparTruck]

I bought a 1987 2.5 5 speed 2wd shortbed from a guy while in college.  He lived in a factory in Augusta, ME where he kept his 6 or so cars.  It was cool.  He even has some pierre cardin seats I scored for my AMX.  My father drove up with the trailer and I drove down from school.  We loaded it up and got it home.  It seemed like quite a deal. $500 and the underside had been ziebarted.  When I go home and started to tinker with it i bought buckets from a 4 door cherokee to drop in.  I took the bench out after fighting with one bolt and ended looking under the mat.  To my suprise  found swiss cheese.  Both fronts and some of the rear as well as the tunnel were rotted.  It leaks from somewhere in the firewall plus the taillights don't work and I have to replace the kingpins.  Since then I bought an 89 mj cab to drop the floor in. There is a liitle more rot than the PO mentioned but at this point idc I'm fixing it.

 

This brings me to this week.  I have stripped the other cab and strarted to shop it up.  I took the rear frame section off yesterday, today I will be at the pub, and tomorrow back on it.  Hopefully start cleaning out the seam sealer and spot welds.

[87sparTruck]

Scrapped the rooted back half and pulled up some of the seam sealer off,  Broke the windsheild on the way out, a surprise to no one.  Gotta take the back window out next and make some more progress with the seam sealer.  And it looks like I will need more metal than I thought to patch the donor floor as its pretty rotted in the usal spots.  Awe well maybe one of the donor xjs I look at on cr will have me some trouble there.  Ooh I'm taking the javelin 258 apart next week.  I found someone on cr looking for a crank and pistons for a 4.0 stroker build.  That should be fun.