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The body line didn’t look near as bad as that, but I recall my old ‘88 I got years ago in a mad scramble to figure out a cheap winter beater.

 

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There was TONS of rust all covered up with bondo! I had it and then I sold it to Austin (xjrev10). He was filling it with gas, the tank got filled enough that the weight ripped the straps out of the frame, so it got a ratchet strap all the way around the bed! I think he then drove it home to empty the tank followed by driving it across the scales. I’m sure it’s pots and pans by now. 

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Just now, Pete M said:

if it's steel, it can be mended :D 

Although I think for these trucks, "mending" will look something like

 

Step 1: Remove license plates

Step 2: build new Jeep Comanche

Step 3: Installation reverse of removal

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I'll play. Just dropped it off at our welder's place on the way to work this morning, we'll be looking at putting some square tube in instead of the, um... air. 

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Don't be fooled... anywhere you see paint is the outer rocker, anywhere there's rust is the inner falling apart. 

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and that's just the rockers... The bedsides are going, I'll probably get some heavy plate welded in there. The floors are still solid enough to pass an inspection... somehow. 

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It is pretty sad. Even my ZJ, the nicest in my small fleet, is a little beyond "a touch of rust around the edges". And it got hit by a fresh splash of road salt again today. 

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To all the locals the snow today would be nothing, but the unfortunate part of being in a resort town is all the tourists who've never driven in snow in their lives, in rental cars with garbage for tires, means the plows and sanders come back out. 

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On 6/16/2019 at 6:02 PM, Pete M said:

I'm sure there are worse looking ones out there, but this one is definitely in the running. :( 

 

 

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This one was part of the collection where I bought mine.  (Jeep hoarder forced selling by County).   Its a little more ragged then it was, as the seller stripped the tail lights and looks like some trim.  It was a plow jeep, and the sub frame was reinforced with angle iron.  From the bed forward actually was in decent shape.  It ran and moved under it's own power as well.  I think it was only $150.00 or so when I looked at it.  It was more interested in mine and trying to save it from the scrap yard that I didn't think twice about it.  Now looking back I should of paid $150 taken the tail lights, dome lights and tail gate, and let it go to scrap.  I know a jeep flipper bought a couple things from this collection, and obviously hes trying to cash in now that it's stripped.

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