Ginger the 83 wagon

[doneagle]

       
    HI   Shane I know how you fell ............Don

[shanebo]

Well heres the first tidbit of progress on Ginger for some time. Today I purchaced a Jeep cherokee from a fella in new Mexico. Its a 93' with just under 20,000 miles. The only down fall is it was involved in a rail road crossing incident in 95', in which the passanger died and the driver was critically injured. The guy has held on to it all these years cuz it was his last "memory" of the person who perished....I really didnt ask too many more details. Anyway the guy has finally decided its time to let it go. He texted me some pics and it is pretty smashed. It should render the cylinder head, computer, wireing harness, and EFI components I desperately need to finish my 4.0 EFI head swap.

My wife is really not too impresed with this purchace. Shes mad Im buying a wrecked car, and furious im buying one with such a tragic past, but I work part time as a mortician/funeral director at the local funeral home in our town so Im not getting my feathers ruffled about its past.

[vangremlin]

THe jeep is a true donor for your Eagle, if you think about it.

[shanebo]

In every sense of the word....Now I just gotta figure out how the heck Im goning to get it back...I may end up pulling what I need there and then hauling it to a crusher in that area vs. hauling it all the way back here at 10 MPG with my truck....The guy is real cool though hes not in any rush to get it out of there....cuz with my schedule it may take months before I can get down to new mexico.

[maddog]

now if only you knew somebody with a 16 foot trailer.

[shanebo]

Ya know what Maddog you just made me think of somthing. I dont know how Id even get it on a trailer cuz the thing is in a taco shape and from what Ive been told the wheels are pretty much folded underneath it. It was brought back to his house on a flat bed wrecker and when it arrived it had to be dragged off the wrecker bed with another truck....Hmmmm  Chock it up to being tired and overworked but I somehow overlooked that tiny detail of how im gonna get the dumb thing loaded....Thanx Maddog....you saved me from having to add an embarassing post in the "dont do this" thread. 

[maddog]

no problem dude. the fact that it don't roll makes me wonder how bad it would tear up my trailers wooden flooring.

[shanebo]

I may just take the parts i need and contact one of the local scrap guys....let him mess with it. if a guy had alot of time on his hands and a demolition saw it could be made to fit in the back of a pick up truck

[maddog]

not sure that i would want to be the guy that has to do that.