Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Jeep had a Perkins diesel in some of the CJ's in the 70's I think. Just saw one while looking through a Jeep site the other night. If you could put a little Perkins 3 or 4 cylinder in a CJ frame with a 4 or 5 speed tranny and overdrive, that's would likely be a real nice rig. Wouldn't have to be real high on the HP, just gobs of torque. I know there's an outfit out west putting Cummins (IIRC) diesels in 1950's Dodge Power Wagons. Of course they also add disc brakes, 5 and 6 speed trannys, A/C, power steering and brakes, seating upgrades, etc. and the trucks go out the doors with a $90K price tag too!
The neighbor down the road (who never had a thing until his wife inherited the family $hipping busine$$ in Germany $$$) just bought himself another new pickup, about his 15th in 10 years. This time it's an F150 DIESEL! He stopped in to show it to me and I accidentally ruined his day by saying it had that diesel clatter. He said I was the only person to say it sounded like a diesel, and it does to me, just a real quiet diesel. Kind of the opposite of all the other diesels in the area that are made to be as loud as possible by their owners. This guy is the outlier in diesels in our area. Most of the diesel pickups are cattle haulers. The rest are kids. Where they get the money I don't know but they sure like to spend it. I'm waiting for the day one of them blows his Cummins up and goes and finds an old Screamin' Jimmy 6-71 to stick under the hood. Then we'll have a new definition of loud!
The neighbor down the road (who never had a thing until his wife inherited the family $hipping busine$$ in Germany $$$) just bought himself another new pickup, about his 15th in 10 years. This time it's an F150 DIESEL! He stopped in to show it to me and I accidentally ruined his day by saying it had that diesel clatter. He said I was the only person to say it sounded like a diesel, and it does to me, just a real quiet diesel. Kind of the opposite of all the other diesels in the area that are made to be as loud as possible by their owners. This guy is the outlier in diesels in our area. Most of the diesel pickups are cattle haulers. The rest are kids. Where they get the money I don't know but they sure like to spend it. I'm waiting for the day one of them blows his Cummins up and goes and finds an old Screamin' Jimmy 6-71 to stick under the hood. Then we'll have a new definition of loud!