Built in the Early 90's - I have a feature article on it from a 4WD&Sport Utility Magazine of 1993(?) This car, for me, totally redefined what a cool 4WD could be - A car didn't have to have shiny bolt ons to be cool. At this stage, Petersen's were still putting chromed-out show trucks on the cover, and Four Wheeler's top truck challenge had a hilux with pink paint and a 26 speaker stereo and a crew cab dually competing... That gives you some idea how this car was just in a league of its own.
It's still deadly cool - 18 years later - perhaps even more so because it has such a lovely patina.
As you can see it's coil converted but it also runs Carbon Fibre Marsh Racing Wheels beadlocks, a 4.3 litre Chev V6, and a hydraulic converted warn high mount - but everything (except the drilled, ventilated disks) looks like it's straight from 1943.
Someone recently spotted it in New Mexico (I think) and posted the photos on the Willys page of Pirate4X4
In case you were wondering, this guy does military cool like nobody else. The Scorpion Mk1, his tube chassis car, designed in 1995, looks like this:
Which is the most influential 4WD ever.
Steve.
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