WIP - Explorer #94
Posted: December 29th, 2019, 6:51 pm
It is now time for me to officially post and start my own little thread tracking the progress of Explorer #94 and the different things I'm doing. Updates will probably start out slow and distanced in-between, but I can only hope to change that sooner rather than later.
To start off and christen this journey, I'm excited to say that, with the help of a very kind and generous MrDNA, I was able to obtain a brush guard AND tail light guard combo for my future Explorer!
The brush guard is not screen accurate but, with some slight modifications maybe, can be as close to screen accurate as one may be able to get, at least these days.
The tail lights, after my own research, do appear to be Maniks, but possibly a slightly different style. Either way, I can't believe I've got all of this in my possession now! The pictures attached are from before they were pulled off of a junkyard Ford Explorer, so obviously it can be seen that they are covered in a little bit of a rusty patina. I'm sure it wont be so hard to refinish them back to a good or decent condition. Nothing a little bit of elbow grease can't solve.
Either way, any sort of brush or light guard sets are just beyond extremely rare to find for a first-gen Explorer at this point, so I'll take whatever I can get my hands on!
As always, I'm still searching for a viable Ford Explorer as my base build. I've found many recently posted in my area but it seems to be that the users always disappear after 1 or 2 messages. Either way, the hunt continues forward. It is my personal pledge to myself to get this done within in the next few years.
For now, these guards will be worked on and then kept in my garage while I collect more for the build, and until I finally snag an Explorer.
I can't wait to join you guys with a finished build! So excited!!
To start off and christen this journey, I'm excited to say that, with the help of a very kind and generous MrDNA, I was able to obtain a brush guard AND tail light guard combo for my future Explorer!
The brush guard is not screen accurate but, with some slight modifications maybe, can be as close to screen accurate as one may be able to get, at least these days.
The tail lights, after my own research, do appear to be Maniks, but possibly a slightly different style. Either way, I can't believe I've got all of this in my possession now! The pictures attached are from before they were pulled off of a junkyard Ford Explorer, so obviously it can be seen that they are covered in a little bit of a rusty patina. I'm sure it wont be so hard to refinish them back to a good or decent condition. Nothing a little bit of elbow grease can't solve.
Either way, any sort of brush or light guard sets are just beyond extremely rare to find for a first-gen Explorer at this point, so I'll take whatever I can get my hands on!
As always, I'm still searching for a viable Ford Explorer as my base build. I've found many recently posted in my area but it seems to be that the users always disappear after 1 or 2 messages. Either way, the hunt continues forward. It is my personal pledge to myself to get this done within in the next few years.
For now, these guards will be worked on and then kept in my garage while I collect more for the build, and until I finally snag an Explorer.
I can't wait to join you guys with a finished build! So excited!!