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A rock crawler
that a friend of ours owns. He's been wanting to make it look
better for a long time, but it breaks his heart when it gets
bashed against the rocks. He had the whole thing sprayed with
truck-bed liner. But even that got torn-up and fell off.
At first he
let us do some free hand flames over the top of the lined
hood. Uncleared, they held up well for about a year.
But over that
year we've been convincing him that painting it wouldn't be
that hard or expensive. What I've done is set ourselves a
budget and built him removeable panels out of sheet metal
so that each one can be removed before hitting the rocks,
or at the very least replaced individually as they are destroyed.
Only the
edges need to be painted on the tub, which went quickly. I
kinda slacked on the pictures, so you don't get to see the
panels until they are on the jeep. I was delighted that we
were able to cut and form them in about a day.
The immortal
"Jeep" emblem that goes on the side.
The contributing
sponsors' logos on the hood.
Here's the
paint room with all the panels laid out and ready to be cleared
tomorrow, I'm too tired to clear today.
As the jeep
gets put back together, I'll get more pictures of the side
panels. The whole project will have about a week involved.
We had a new grill shell and hood, it all went really slick.
We've been doing a bunch of Jeeps, and I recommend
And here we are, on
the trailer headed to Moab for a fun filled weekend. Luckily,
it came back virtually unscathed.
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