Four Wheeler Projects Worth Remembering - Five Of Note - Four Wheeler Magazine
All of the following Four Wheeler builds almost made our list of the top five best project vehicles. But no matter where they fall in the annals of project vehicle rankdom, here are several Four Wheeler projects that are still really cool. Willie Worthy’s Project Tonto combined a rust-bucket 1977 driver and a clean 1973 half-cab, as well as a 392 engine and other assorted parts from a Travelall, to make one clean and compete IH. Project Tonto covered the rebuild and upgrading of... The project featured a Tri-County Gear-built Dana 44 front with 4. 10 gears and a Truetrac diff and a semi-float Dana 60 rear with 4. 10s and a Detroit Locker. The interior was completely revamped and treated to deep brown carpet and seat covers, while trail-oriented niceties like a Premier Power welder, Delta interior storage boxes, custom front and rear bumpers with a 9,000-pound Superwinch receiver... Never one to eschew the weird and wacky, staffer Jimmy Nylund purchased a government-surplus 1975 DJ-5D, and then proceeded to make a full-blown magazine project vehicle out of it. Nyland kept the project realistic, using mostly factory parts... Although a regular Jeep Dana 30 front axle would’ve bolted in, one of the only deviations from the “Cheap” in Project Jeep for Cheap was a Tri-County Gear-built Dana 44 front. Source: www.fourwheeler.com
