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freemodelt • March 24, 2013

With a baby on the way I have only neglected this blog because I have strayed from its contents; fixing cars. Lately my time has been consumed with fixing house which is actually the subject of patient wife’s blog. As part of the repairs, my house got a very special new feature… A driveway!!!!!!! Oh to work on concrete instead of gravel! The ability to ROLL my floor jack! This is going to be awesome.

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So, what better to Christen my new concrete with than the oil of a new project! What? A driveway and a new car on the same day? Oh, yes. So today I picked up a 1996 jeep grand Cherokee loredo 4×4 from a friend. I got it on the cheap because it had been read ended at a stop by a car doing 65 miles per hour. The back end crushed pretty sweetly; frame bent, bumper destroyed, back doors splayed open. But none of that matters to me, I’m going to cut it to pieces. Think open topped and caged. Jeep. Day 1.

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