Post up your first hooptie!

Rokcrler · Apr 3, 2009

As to not hijack other threads, how bout we show where we started...
Here is my first hooptie..

Cant imagine why Dan wouldn't let me park it infront of BTF :dunno:

Before going to the scrap yard :'(

Plenty of scabbed "one more ride" fixes.... and definatly some booty fab :****:

All in all damn thing worked awesome :woot:

JFab · Apr 3, 2009

i miss that thing...was a damn good old jeep...not to mention the first set of beadlocked H2s that are still holding up... flashemifyougotem

P · Apr 3, 2009

I dont have any pics of my first ( hell first few... ) hoopties on the puter, only hard copies.

Here's the oldest hooptie pic I have, oh yea I did all that labor swapping Stock but locked D30/D35 out of a YJ ninja's were broke and axles were cheap ( Yep, I even had to pay for them back then.. :wtflol:

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Then it got 3/4 F250 axles ( HP44 and D60 rear ) 5.13s and those super badass Hummer tires

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JFab · Apr 3, 2009

here's how my first one went...

flame all you want...gotta start somewhere...

first axle swap back in like freshman year of hs...

then went to this

ended up like this...

J.A.B · Apr 3, 2009

Not my first mud whompin junker but first jeep - no pics of allot of my past shitters.

Started out as a stock yj ended up with 9" Dana HP 44 and 38.5 TSL - notice the super bling dana 44 stub welded to the drag link for superior strength :wtflol:

B Gillespie · Apr 3, 2009

Dont have any pics, but my first motored transportation was a barn find '71 GMC Jimmy sport-custom, all options, numbers matching 350 4 barrell/TH 350/NP 205, 58,000 original miles. Put a new set of tires on it and some minor tune up stuff. Started to get into off roading and decided to sell it so I wouldnt destroy a rare cherry ride. Should have kept it, fixed it up, and NOT wheeled it. While still in HS, I traded some dozer work for a absket case Sami; a GOOD plan would have been to keep one of the K5s for a nice cruiser and wheeling the Sami. Ah well, didnt happen like that...

Next ride was an '87 K5 I bought from my uncle. It was TRASHED when I got it, and I completely restored/modified/fixed it up. In its prime, it rocked tons, and atlas, crate 350 HO, built 700, 42 TSL's on one of the first sets of H1 steel beadlocks around, custom bumpers, and a baller leaf spring long travel suspension. I wheeled and DD it for years until a group of Lubbock, TX Pirate 4x4 locals stole it and chopped it up in a chop shop while I was one vacation. I had planned to four link it front and back, had a set og MOG 404's for it, and a nice TJ body. Part of the frame and K5 body are hanging out on the farm, sold most of the parts I got back from the raid on the chop shop, and got out of wheeling for a while. I plan to rebuild the truck eventually, maybe for a cruiser or kiddo if I ever have one. I still have an affinity for old Chevies.

Ill have to dig for some pics, google didnt turn up anything.

muddyblzr · Apr 3, 2009

my first actual hooptie and hooptie it was

600$ and my bad narrowing job and it was ready to romp!

74_Chevota · Apr 5, 2009

After some work..

draggbody · Apr 5, 2009

i have still got the original truck that i started w/... sortof... '84 K5, cold a/c power everything, NO RUST.... i mean this bitch was perfect... day i bought it...

about a year later....

about 6 months later...

i just took the body off and made it a buggy... this was the shakedown run.... no fenders and stuff yet, but it wasnt long before it was a "tractor"

rare shot of undamaged sheetmetal

current....

wontwork · Apr 6, 2009

Still got my first one, but this is what it used to look like.

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Rescue1 · Apr 8, 2009

Haven't got a pic of it while in stock condition, but took one during the first build up. I bought the springs from Rusty's Offroad and submitted a pic of it on there customers rigs page. I guess they thought i was good enough to use in there advertisement. (2nd pic from left to right)

http://rustysoffroad.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=rustys&Category_Code=sus_fs_kit

benfowler87 · Apr 8, 2009

Dang Haley she was a beauty! How long ago was that?

wontwork · Apr 9, 2009

benfowler87 said:
Dang Haley she was a beauty! How long ago was that?

Bout 4-5 years ago.

J.A.B · Apr 9, 2009

Here's another one of my favorites from the past - I had to dig for a long time to find a photo of this one. The brown Chevy pulling my buddy of the log. Pretty strong 350 4-speed and 36" TSL :driving:

I broke 2 drive shafts and bent the rear housing on both sides later that night trying to pull the same truck out of a mud hole I just went trough - I loved that POS and my wife - girlfriend at the time bought me those tires for my Bday