You actually hitch-hiked across Canada!!!??? Holy Fk!
I rode my pedal bike to the 6th concession once......
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If you could own just one special vehicle what would it look like?
- Thread starter Elektrishun
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You actually hitch-hiked across Canada!!!??? Holy Fk!
I rode my pedal bike to the 6th concession once......
Hey I'm a Lethbridge boy!
Finished at Scout Camp Gardner at the end of July in Calgary. Stuck my thumb out to go visit a pen pal in Ottawa. She was a Ranger when I was a Venturer attending the 1st National Venturer Conference and we met at a Saturday night thing put on as part of the conference.
We became penpals. Wrote her all through high school. Visited her. Took the bus to Montreal from Ottawa to see Man and His World exhibition.
And coincidentally she now also lives here in Victoria. We've stayed in touch.
The way back was interesting too. Picked up between Regina and Moosejaw and take north into central Sask to help assemble those large long metal farm buildings. Bolts, rubber washers, nuts. On the weekend paid and driven to Saskatoon.
Two British Guys returning a rental to Vancouver drove me from there to my parents house in Edmonton.
Very memorable trip.
At the time we were renting a small 1 bedroom house, I worked as an OPCE for IBM and was putting my girlfriend through university. So the money wasn't there for engine modifications. But flaired fenders, roll bar, fat tires, dropped suspension with stiffer springs, front and rear sway bars, slotted pivots on the suspension to compensate for the changed camber and a corvair muffler on 2" exhaust pipe.
So much fun.
slow-poke
Ultra Member
I like your idea.
First thoughts are find a nice totally rust free truck from Arizona etc. The hassle of driving it back will be well worth the effort to have a perfect foundation for your build. I have seen some amazing original paint vintage 60's cars out of Arizona, no salt, no humidity, no rust. Might need to change some of the rubber moulding though.
Honestly, no.
Sorta like a Hollywood bimbo, taking it for a ride, does not get the same respect as "owning it". Credit for the experience, but it feels too much like all the guys posing beside someone else's car at a show, to have their picture taken. Or bike. If you ever want to see a truly PO'd face on a chick in a Bikini, ask her to step out of the frame, so you can get a picture of the actual bike, at a bike show!
We had a function at Cold Lake called "Race The Base", where we had dozens of very expensive sports cars came and tried, among other things, to outrun a CF-18 on it's take-off roll. The number of numpties crowding around cars faster than they could ever afford, for Hero Pictures, was laughable, really
<A Joke Starts Here> Y'know yer in a classy family when Mom walks by, and Dad takes a sip of his drink, nod's in her direction, nudges you with his elbow, and says "I hit that!"
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
A couple years back when I was getting serious about finding a squarebody crewcab I came to that decision. Everything up here was completely gone underneath, and you were better off lighting $100 bills on fire than to put any serious money into building something from it. Found a few down in Arizon/New Mexico way that were much better starting platforms that anything I'd found up here, but still not dirt cheap. I figured around 10-15k Canadian at that time was going to get me a good running base vehicle all in and landed back up here (plus an adventure flying down/driving it back). But work slowed to a crawl that summer into winter, and $$ evaporated.....Then covid hit....It's been a roller coaster the past few years, but I'm back thinking about a project truck again. Still no money though lol. My build ideas, and needs/wants have changed a bit too. I need something a bit more utilitarian now, and not just for fun/weekends (what is fun, and what are weekends....?). Ultimate goal would be to get rid of the SxS and the ute would fill that void around here (much better too). Forgot snow plow, and gin pole on the list too. I haven't looked at prices in the states again since then, but I imagine they've gone stupid like up here too. Zero interest in heading down there right now anyway.....So I'll just keep hitting refresh on marketplace, hoping for a unicorn....
For what it's worth, I bought a 1978 F150 the other side of Dallas. Paid a car hauler $1000 to ship it to Buffalo. Went down with a tow bar, did the customs paperwork and took it home. Just like LTL, car haulers will book singles to fill out the load. And this was just a parts truck, not even a runner.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
Not a bad idea, but lacks the sense of adventure of driving some unknown shitbox on a few thousand mile adventure through a different country
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That loses some of the romanticism when it's midnight, rides broken, the town you're in doesn't have a taxi available, you call a liquor delivery agent from the local rez to pick you up in a 1993 Jimmy praying in the backseat they're actually taking you to the No Tell Motel. (nothing derogatory I was happy to find a ride)Not a bad idea, but lacks the sense of adventure of driving some unknown shitbox on a few thousand mile adventure through a different country
Or breaking down on a Saturday and living at the Moe Z on Inn for four days until parts arrive in a small town where they still advertise they offer colour TV
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
Sounds like an adventure....
First step to having an adventure is bad planning.
Kernel Sanders
Well-Known Member
THIS Would exactly what I'd want right now! Awesome!
Wow!That loses some of the romanticism when it's midnight, rides broken, the town you're in doesn't have a taxi available, you call a liquor delivery agent from the local rez to pick you up in a 1993 Jimmy praying in the backseat they're actually taking you to the No Tell Motel. (nothing derogatory I was happy to find a ride)
Or breaking down on a Saturday and living at the Moe Z on Inn for four days until parts arrive in a small town where they still advertise they offer colour TV
That brings back (bad) memories of driving a U-haul truck starting Dec 30th many years ago from Kingston to Winnipeg with 3000 lbs+ of mill and tooling in the back. It was a rushed adventure or someone else would have gotten the mill. The only enclosed truck I could rent across provincial boundaries was a U-haul, and was the third U-haul truck that I tried in Kingston. The other two had dubious spongy brakes. Did I mention the truck refused to restart after gasing up in Longlac? (Middle of nowhere on Hwy #11) Yes, there is a garage in Longlac. Yes, it took two days to fix. Etc, etc, Yes, I hot refueled till Wpg…
historicalarms
Ultra Member
I think they all had that part, and others that "also fits" in their bigger engines. That 4 banger was just a "half block" of the workhorse 304 Cornbinder put in all the one tons they built. we had both on the farm all the time I was growing up, the 1 ton was the "grain box workhorse for us ( retired from a construction site workhorse when the old man built Ab highways) and the Scout as an everyday "farm runabout & driver trainer for me....I learned to drive safely and learned to drive drunk all in that Scout....the drunk part on rural winter or rainy, muddy roads had its own adventuresome redeeming qualities.
Another quirk of the Scouts was that International, for some reason didnt fully mesh the rear & front gearing. The rear axle had a slightly faster ratio than the front and consequently that damn little short body would try to have the back end pass the front end in a heartbeat when you got up over 45 mph in 4x4 on a slick road. We had that happen a couple times, once we did a complete 360 but stayed upright, another time we were just sideways but the damn thing was on two wheels for a time with my old man, all 6 ft 200 lbs of him in the drivers seat and 3 feet above me...man I can still remember being relieved when that Scout settled back on 4 wheels.
I saw a porno once that started like that...