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81 Scrambler in NC

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BrandonV

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New to the forum but thought I'd share what' Ive been up to with some help from some local mechanics. This Jeep belonged to my grandfather and I was gifted it several years ago. It has spent 85% of its life on our farm and as you can imagine it shows. I parked it about 2 years ago hoping to one day fix (needed heat) but I keep the inspection and plates up to date... well my uncle as per my request took it to town to get inspected. He however overheated the 4 cyl on the way and instead of stopping just kept going... and going it was destroyed. He did make it to my mechanic fortuantly and it sat there for a year. And after having an average of 3 people a week trying to buy it from him we got started on fixing it... I thought I'd like a bit more power and wanted to put the 6cyl in it instead of the 4, then after some research we decided it may be eaiser it may be easier to put in the 8-cylinder Chevrolet which it so happened to be that I have one in and overworked truck that had a rebuilt Jasper. I'm not quite sure if it was easier or cheaper the birthday song around but we done it and now were in the process of getting the exhaust on and then hopefully going to bodywork.
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this is what I'm thinking of paint it to when finished... i'm wanting to drive it on a regular basis and have it match the rest of my fleet
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Welcome! I love stories of Scramblers that are being passed down in a family :thumbsup:

Good on you for getting it back up and running, looking forward to seeing you post about driving it :popcorn:
 
have a question... how much does a paint job for one of these cost? haven't got to that stage yet but hopefully soon. need to know how nice to be to the wife.
 
skiptown said:
Macco - under 500.00 I think but dont take it out in the rain LOL
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That makes me think of that old movie about the used car lot where they had to get a "mile" worth of cars on their lot in order to not get sued for an ad that was tweaked by a competitor. Bad movie but funny.
 
Here are some photos of what it looked like when I took it too the "exhaust" shop, just for fun I'll go get some photos of what they came up with to share. I've talked to a mechanic friend of mine and he wants me to take it to another shop in town and get their opinion. The place I took it to doesn't do just exhaust and I think maybe what happened is with the economy they let the exhaust guy go and someone else tried to do it. I was/am still pretty livid about the whole situation.

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One of the issues that you will have to deal with using the block hugger headers is the passenger flange dumps right down right above the front driveshaft. They generally need a pretty sharp bend out of the collector otherwise the driveshaft and/or yolk crashes into it.
 
seems like the mechanical stuff is almost done. Drove it around for 20 mins the other day after getting the exhaust redone correctly... Gentleman who did it (mike's mufflers in asheboro +++) had it parked out front of his store when he finished and had a couple of folks stop by taking photos, which I think speak a lot for the scrambler model itself because mine is still rough. The jeep is a whole different animal now though with the SBC it wants to get up and run and I'm no longer drag-limited to 60mph :-)

Ordered 1500$ in body panels from collinbros jeep yesterday and we'll be headed off to the body shop next. Good family friends doing it who are well know for quality but not neccarily know for quickness so it may be a while till I have updated photos. Hopefully I'll get to drive it a bit before they are ready for it.
 
would y'all be so kind as to help me pick a paint scheme? I'm planning on painting it like the rest of my fleet (this jeep has been a part of our family business since 81-82. Orange is a big part of our colors so I'm trying to incorporate it. I was leaning towards the white roof/orange roll bar but my body shop friend is pretty insistent that I keep the brown roof. he doesn't want it to look like a "mail jeep"
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Number 1 would be more common as original however I have also seen white hardtop on a white body just not near as often.
 
those colors look great.....and its going to be commercial use... then go all out then..i love it when things are tax deductible ...
 
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