Info 'Bout Me:

For the last several years, I lived in the Dallas, Texas area (most of the pictures on this site were taken there). Home turf to me is Puyallup, Washington (just east of Tacoma, and about 40 miles south of Seattle). After living in other parts of the country for the last 11 years, I moved back home six years ago. My adult life has been spent as a computer guy from a professional standpoint and a car-and-truck guy from a hobby standpoint. I'm in the process of changing those around. Since getting home, I completed yet another college degree, this time in Auto Mechanics, and have earned an ASE Master Technician certification.

I know I've let this page slip some, and I'm in the process of getting things updated. I've sold the F-250 (it was a manual, and after repeated knee injuries, driving a clutch just hurts too much), and I've recently purchased another old full-sized Bronco.

As a kid, I enjoyed building model cars and trucks. It was especially fun to take parts from several different kits and put them together into one new vehicle. That's kind of what I'm doing now with my project CJ. (Mom calls it "the big model kit.") Guess that phrase about "the difference between men and boys is the size and price of their toys" is pretty accurate.

I currently have two 4x4's (or, maybe saying one-and-a-half 4x4's is more accurate). I'm now on my second Bronco, (check out the First Bronco page to see what happened to the first one). I purchased the F-250 to replace that first Bronco, and it served its purpose well, hauling some really heavy loads. However, as I mentioned earlier, I can't really drive a clutch for any real length of time anymore, and the pickup got pretty lousy mileage.

At the time of this writing, my CJ has parts from two different CJ-7's, a CJ-5, two different Broncos, an F-100, an F-150, at least three F-250's, two different Mustangs, a couple of Dodge trucks, a Firebird, a Buick, a few aftermarket pieces, and a few that I have no idea what they're off of. And mind you, I don't even have a complete interior, roof, or wheels yet.

That brings us to the last vehicle in my "stable". It's a 1996 Thunderbird that I purchased brand-new. It's the one I use when I have to fit into a tight parking garage, stay clean, or when I take someone female somewhere nice.

Sometimes my name throws people. When I first started playing on the InterNet, I caught a lot of heat using my real name (old part of my life, now gone). Folks around me were naming their projects, and the name of CJ-Ford was almost too obvious for mine. Well, that kind of ended up being my 'net name. While I'll go by my initials around here, they're not C.J. And no, my last name isn't Ford; it's something Norwegian that, for some reason, only Texans seem to pronounce right.

The Second Bronco:

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