She's home in my driveway....

[OrangeCrush]

Well, I flew down to Tampa and met the dealer selling my H2 SUT. I picked it up and though I've had SEVERAL bad dealings from trying to buy vehicles online, I am happy to say I lucked out finally.

I picked up an '06 white SUT with 42K for 28K. I was offered a stealth blue identical except in an '05 for $22.5 but couldn't deal with the color. (no offense to those that have that color...just not for me)

Anyway, she's almost perfect. The gauge cluster "glass" has a crack in it, I'll have to see if I can find another speedometer cluster and replace the plastic "glass" cover and it didn't come with a tonneau cover so I'll need to find one of those.

I'm replacing the hood handles and hood tie down straps with black and I've got a grille in my shop that I'm painting white now. When it's done, I'll post pics.

There are two tiny scratches on the left side but other than that, she's about perfect.






I'm not sure who makes these black wheels. When I saw them when I saw the pics online, I was like "no way" but I actually kind of like them now. They have that H1 style look going on wiht them.

Having said that, I've got a set of these wheels below waiting at the shop with Mickey Thompson MTZ's with 35's on them.



I'm not much of a chrome person but these still look rugged enough.

I'm not putting a liftkit on this one. The last time I installed big tires, I installed a liftkit. Then gears, then it didn't have enough balls so supercharger, blah, blah, blah... and what did I end up with?.... block of wood cruising down the highway at 85 getting 7 mpg.

So I'm installing a levelling setup that will net me 2-3 inches and a set of 35's. That way it won't kill my gear ratio.

I just had to say that driving back 9-10 hours made me feel like I was in my old H2... that's a GREAT feeling.

Anyway, it's good to be in the fold again.

Mark