Re: Project Tyclone SS: 85 Jimmy, LT1, AWD, etc
I have been thinking about how far this project has really come. It made me dig up the old pictures of the truck. So here is some interesting background info and pictures.
in July of 2006 my, then girlfriend/now wife, and her two kids (now stepkiddos) set out on a 2400 mile trip to buy a truck. A stripped and unfinished project truck in North Carolina. It just so happened that my sister lives about an hour away from the truck, so we used that as an excuse to visit her. It was the only time in my life that I visited my sister, independent of a family trip with my parents, before she died at age 35 in 2008. I have since adopted her son and we had a baby of our own, who will both grow up with a hot rod Jimmy in the garage. heh
On the way to NC to buy the Tyclone we stopped by Bowling Green KY (2 hours out of the way) to visit the Corvette museum. Here is a picture my wife snapped of me drooling over my dream vette. The 1996 Grand Sport. I bought one thing there that day. A original 96 Grand Sport brochure, which I used as reference to mask the stripes. heh
We stopped by Hotwire's house visit the truck and drop off my trailer for the weekend.
Then visited my sister for the weekend. Now that she is gone, it means alot to me that we made this trip. Thanks Tyclone.
We drove back to Hotwire's place where he is helping me load parts while his wife and little one say good riddance to the Jimmy! Little did she know that there were three more S10s in their future!
It was a fun and memorable bonding experience with the soon to be step children.
Seeing us at gas stations was a common sight on that trip.
And it made it safely back home!
Doesnt even look like the same truck.
Fast forward 3 1/2 years. ALOT has happened, ALOT of changed, but Im still working away at the Tyclone which I plan to have in my household for decades.
