And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In high school, a buddy had one. In addition to burning out the clutch once, on another occasion the two of us were driving out of the mountains after a camping trip. It was dark, we were tired, when we heard a loud snap, and the motor dropped to idle. Turned out the cable from the accelerator pedal had rusted and broken and vanished into the firewall. In the dark and tired, the only solution we could come up with was to jam the carb in a position where the motor ran fast enough in one position to get us over hills but not send us too fast down the other side. It was silly, but it got us back home, another forty miles away. Great times.
I owned a '72 for a while and have been kicking my own ass for over 40 years for trading it off and then not replacing it before their prices got so Gawd-awful expensive.
Weren't they the first 4WD to come with a 6 cylinder while all other brands were 4? Not talking trucks here. I had CJ-5's and enveyed the guys that could put small block V-8's in those Landcruiser
Had a '67. Let it go when it suffered a burned exhaust valve. I didn't have the skills, the tools, the shop, or the time to fix it. Bought a 1980 Datsun King Cab.
It’s got another 100K miles in it yet.
ReplyDeleteHard to kill those straight six's and the sturdy drivelines.
ReplyDeleteIn high school, a buddy had one. In addition to burning out the clutch once, on another occasion the two of us were driving out of the mountains after a camping trip. It was dark, we were tired, when we heard a loud snap, and the motor dropped to idle. Turned out the cable from the accelerator pedal had rusted and broken and vanished into the firewall. In the dark and tired, the only solution we could come up with was to jam the carb in a position where the motor ran fast enough in one position to get us over hills but not send us too fast down the other side. It was silly, but it got us back home, another forty miles away. Great times.
ReplyDeleteI owned a '72 for a while and have been kicking my own ass for over 40 years for trading it off and then not replacing it before their prices got so Gawd-awful expensive.
ReplyDeleteI had a ‘74. And I’m still crying over it.
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Mine was a 76 — and yeah, I’ve wished I had it back for 30 years now.
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ReplyDeleteWeren't they the first 4WD to come with a 6 cylinder while all other brands were 4?
ReplyDeleteNot talking trucks here. I had CJ-5's and enveyed the guys that could put small block V-8's in those Landcruiser
Had a '67. Let it go when it suffered a burned exhaust valve. I didn't have the skills, the tools, the shop, or the time to fix it. Bought a 1980 Datsun King Cab.
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