RE: [ihc] new travelall

["Ed Sohm" <idaemes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been the opposite this year.  I'm so far behind the wagon that I
may never catch up to get back on.  It all started with that auction in
Nebraska a year ago last weekend. I filled up my trailer and Suburban
for $141. Then I drug home a '74 200 pickup in april and a '72 1210
pickup right after.  They were only $100 each.  Then in July, another
1210 ('72) for another $100, runs like a top after putting a new
condensor on the points.  Now the new travelette.  People are starting
to call me when they have a junker IH to get rid of. 

It all ads up to parts nirvana though.  I will get this 'ette on the
road in 4wd form by only buying a master cylinder and shortening a
driveshaft or two.  I drove it around the acreage yesterday.  Needed a
hood, went to the shed and picked one out.  Do I want drum brakes on
front or disc?  3.73s or 4.10s, LS rear or not, auto or manual?  Well, I
might be stretching if I wanted 4.10s/drums/LS rear.  Oh, and the hood
isn't quite the right shade.  Waaah!

Ed Sohm
Battle Creek, IA 

'71 800 B
'74 200 4X4 Travelette Camper Special
'71 1210 short bed Travelette
+ a bunch more


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ihc@domain.elided [mailto:owner-ihc@domain.elided] On Behalf Of
Jim Grammer
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 12:50 PM
To: Ed Sohm; 'ihc-digest'
Subject: RE: [ihc] new travelall


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed Sohm
>Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 11:39 AM
>To: 'ken.dunnington'; 'ihc-digest'
>Subject: RE: [ihc] new travelall

>Then I drag home a dirty nasty one out of a
>junkyard a couple weeks later.  Fell off the wagon, I guess.

Bwahaha. Fell off the wagon is right ;)

I was doing pretty good for the first 7 months or so of this year. Just
drug
home a derelict SII chassis 'cause I couldn't bear to see it junked. Not
sure if there's much left useable on it. The rear axle has a 'splint'
welded
on the bottom of one axle tube, the diff's are s'posedly trashed, and
the
258 block has holes in it from 12ga slug target practice :(

Yikes...

Jim