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Our Favorite Magazine Project Builds: Four Wheeler Network Staff Picks

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The 4 Wheeler Network and Truck Trend Network are composed of many, many brands that have existed in one form or some other since the early 1960s. Over all that fourth dimension, each has performed many total-blown project vehicle builds. And so what are our favorites of all fourth dimension and why? Glad you asked, because here's what the staff had to say when asked that very question.

Ken Brubaker: Project GI Gyp

There take been so many outstanding project 4x4s within our family of publications over the years, it's truly mind extraordinary. But my favorite was John Cappa's 1985 M1008 CUCV pickup he called GI Gyp. Anyone who knows John knows he thinks outside the box when it comes to building 4x4s, and GI Gyp reflected his thought procedure with a variety of unique mods. Even in stock class the truck was appealing to me for several reasons. It was a fullsize rig, ex-armed forces, and diesel-powered. Aye, the 6.2L wasn't exactly a powerhouse, just information technology did the job. I really dug how he converted an M101A2 trailer to the truck's bed. John did an exceptional job with GI Gyp, and the truck non just worked well off-road, it looked darn good on-route with its wide-shouldered, beefy stance, lack of frou-frou, and quasi-military demeanor. Yes, please.

Jeremy Cook: Project Over/Under

Since I come from the Truckin side of the group, I had to pick i that we did. I truly retrieve it was one of the all-time buildups we did in a long time. Nosotros took a 2003 Chevy 1500 standard cab longbed with the iv.8L and made information technology into something truly respectable—on road and off. What started as a beat-up work truck got a full rebuild that included all the bolt-on horsepower available for the engine, huge interior and audio upgrades, and near important, a 7-inch lift, 35s, and a 4.56:one limited-slip rearend. Exterior upgrades include a shell, bumper steps, a rack, an Hard disk drive front end and mirrors, and custom matte tan paint. Check out the total build here.

Jason Gonderman: Project Mega Titan

Seriously, why aren't these questions getting any easier? There have been so many great projects built by the editors of the Four Wheeler Network that choosing just one is a about impossible chore. Fortunately, ane project stands caput and shoulders above the residue, Projection Mega Titan. Beginning life as a 2004 Nissan Titan, Project Mega Titan led readers on a journeying that ended with a darn near legit monster truck. The Titan had 54-inch tires, massive axles, a full rollcage, rear-steer, and style as well much else to mention. This project holds a special spot for me as information technology was the get-go vehicle that I had driven with rear-steering (the manual hydraulic kind, not the GM Quadrasteer diversity). As far as I know, the truck still exists and lives forth the coast in Northern California. The projection ran from early 2005 until near 2011. Not all of the stories still live online (thank you to a few systems changes over the years), however, I've found some of the installments.

Christian Hazel: Freiburger'south 1975 Dodge Ramcharger

As the builder of over a dozen project vehicles in various publications myself, I'll ignore the overwhelming impulse to select one of my ain creations and will instead go with the i that made my head explode when I first saw it in the pages of Petersen'south iv-Wheel & Off-Route. Although as a subscriber, at the time I admittedly dug watching the transformation of Ed Fortson'south "Cheap Thrills" 1973 Chevy shortbed stepside pickup with white wagon wheels (for which I'thou a full sucker) from cypher to hero, I'm a firm role over form kind of guy. Plus, I've always been a Mopar/Dodge fanatic.

Shortly after Freiburger took over the captain of 4WOR around 1996, the gorgeous (to my eyes) blood-red-on-white Ramcharger outset appeared as fodder for a six-inch Skyjacker lift story. Using the factory semi-float Dana 44 front end and Chrysler ix.25 rear, Freiburger shoehorned some 36-inch Denman Ground Hawg tires on Eaton steel wheels nether the vintage sheetmetal. A follow-upward to that commodity was the installation of 1-ton axles sourced from Boyce Equipment. But instead of using a Contrivance beam, a CUCV Chevy Dana 60 with narrower bound perch spacing than the Dodge was used. Rather than cut ane of the perches off and move it out an inch or so, they ratchet-strapped the springs in and cinched down the U-bolts.

It was a down-n-dirty git-r-done install, but the terminate result was spring U-bolt nuts that frequently walked loose and twitchy, sketchy handling on the road. Just none of that mattered to me because somebody had finally built a Ramcharger on ane-tons. The last time I call up seeing that truck in was an epic winch comparison article in which Freiburger and his staff dragged the truck up the Panamint Springs trail. By the time I joined the 4WOR staff a few years afterwards, I found myself duplicating many of the finer points of this build with my '85 Ramcharger like the 6-inch Skyjacker break, removable roof, and 1-ton axles while learning from some of Freiburger'south mistakes. In my mind, while not the most mechanically perfect project, Freiburger'southward '75 Ramcharger broke barriers and pushed the boundaries of its time and at the finish of the day, to me that'south the nigh important role of an editorial projection vehicle.

Verne Simons: 1985 Toyota 4Runner

Of the rigs that went on the first Ultimate Chance, I remember beingness amazed by Steve Sasaki's Red 1985 Toyota 4Runner. That vehicle seemed to me at the time to exist 1 of the most capable rigs a person could get abroad with daily driving. It even inspired me to go discover my own 1985 SR5 4Runner. If course mine wasn't every bit nice equally Steve's, and the 22RE left something to be desired. From at that place I became obsessed with flatfender Jeeps. John Cappa's crush-up CJ-2A with red scallops on the hood and Rick P westward 's mussed-up Ford GPW made my enthusiast's eye become pitter patter. Once I started working at the magazine, in that location were so many absurd projects that I'thousand non sure I could narrow it downwards to merely one or ii. If I had to, I'd say I'm a pretty big fan of my own 1949 CJ-3A. Shrink Ray TJ was too a ton of fun for me. I wish I could steal Fred Williams' UA Summer Camp Jeep. John Cappa's hot dog truck on Rockwells: That truck was innovative and low despite being huge. I'1000 a huge fan of the UACJ6D and the Ultimate International for selfish reasons.