Here's the latest project I finished with my Dodge Dakota. It was an old Datsun pickup that a friend of the family had left sitting for as long as I can remember (which means at least 26 years), and he wanted it gone. The problem is that he lives up in the mountains, and there's no public road to his house, so you have to drive across my property, my uncle's property, then through the creek for about a mile before his driveway comes up out of the water. I usually load everything onto my 15 foot flatbed and then haul it off when it's all ready to go to the scrap yard, and use the pickup to shuttle in and out of places like this hauling a truck load at a time out to the trailer. However, there were places that were so narrow and muddy or steep that my trailer wouldn't have fit without busting out the brake lights and such. The engine bay of the Datsun is sideways because I got tired of rusty bolts snapping off so I just knocked out two windows, wrapped a chain through, hooked it up to my pickup and yanked the cab off the frame and the engine bay twisted sideways when I did it.
Here's the trailer loaded down the body of the pickup. This is not including the frame, engine or transmission.
As always I cleaned the place up as good as I could. The only signs that I had been there was the fact that I took all of the 40 pound blocks he'd had the thing sitting on and put them in 2 or 3 stacks, and left the back windshield propped up against a tree because his wife likes to do little projects with things like that. For some odd reason when I ripped the cab off, the back windshield remained intact and just popped out.
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