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I'd first like to thank this site and everyone who's been so generous with sharing their experiences. You've ALL made my decision to do this project much easier. While I've restored many muscle cars in my day, I've ALWAYS wanted an EB ever since I saw one in the Clint Eastwood movie "The Eiger Sanction" Now that I'm older and my boys are offroaders I decided to finally take the plunge. I initially looked for a good shape rig that I could drive right away while slowly modifying it to my likes, but after months of looking and test driving many, many Broncos which were in rough shape but demanding top dollar I decided to look in the lower price ranges for a rig that needed work but priced where I could reasonably put the money into it. I was fortunate enough to find one locally that came with a twin, both being barn finds from Flagstaff. A local EB lover found a 73 and a 77 parked outside next to a building on a large property rotting away. He offered to buy the 77, but the owner said he had to take both. He loaded them up on a buddy's car hauler and dragged them down to Scottsdale where he pulled the spark plugs, squirted in some marvel mystery oil into the cylinders, put in some new spark plugs, changed the oil, put in a cheap battery, got some used tires, hooked up a new rubber gas line from the side tank and started it up for the first time since 1989. It ran great. He then put it up for sale as-is, and after some negotiation I brought it home. That's where this restomod story begins........
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