The Wood Shed

For the gearheads that followed the progress over the last few months, here are a few pics from the Colorado mission: (click on the thumbnails to open the images – too tired to resize)

And all cleaned up:

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Wireless internet – we’ll see how this works.
There’s something very gratifying about rebuilding/restoring an older Jeep to do what it was meant to do: take you into the remote backcountry and get you out again.
She got us there, with a hiccup, tackled some of the most challenging mountain passes that Colorado offers, camped [...]

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Things have been quiet around the Shed lately. I’ve been rather consumed (wife says obsessed) with completing the second overhaul on the old CJ. My personal time spent tinkering down in the garage combined with the roll-out of a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software program at work has severely limited all other [...]

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First coat is on and it’s in the middle of sanding. A little more finessing in spots, more primer, and hopefully base-coat tomorrow!

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Progress has been slow but luckily (for me) the body shop is only a few minutes from the house.  I figure frequent surveillance will keep the project toward the top of the list.  After a while the owner will likely make the Jeep a priority just to get rid of me! 
Body work on a Jeep [...]

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Taken a few steps back. Large ones. You may remember some posts under the travel category involving my 1986 Jeep CJ-7. Anyone who is a present or past member of the Jeep fraternity will tell you that an old Jeep is a constant work-in-progress. Over the last eight years there have [...]

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