[tirod]

Long time messer upper and rat rodder of street cars, started with a 66 Mustang back in the day, and built it from a 6/3spd to a 302 with top loader, discs, tri ys, etc. Had it for 18 years and gave it up when I couldn't stack three child seats in the back - like a lot of others.

Been driving a '90 Cherokee for a while, same motif - if it's broke, fix it better, and fortunately, it doesn't break much for the little money to be spent. It gets up and down the back yard ok (20 foot drop to the dry creek,) and handled 19" of snow last year, with nothing much special about it.

But, the potential of a retirement check brightens the automotive horizon, along with some of the kids moving out, etc. So, I've been looking at what to build, with a background that I can, given time.