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March 2007 4x4 Readers' RidesPosted in Features on March 1, 2007
Send us a picture of your ride if you've never done so. We keep a surplus of Readers' Rides submissions, but only one submission per person, and we love all off-road vehicles so send in your entries whether your rig is stock or not. Please use the new e-mail address shown below. Make sure each digital image is at least 1600 x 1200 pixels (or two megapixels) and saved as a TIFF, EPS, or maximum-quality JPEG file.
Vehicle (year, make, model)
Owner (name, city, state)
Tires & wheels (size, make, model)
Suspension (lift, springs, shocks)
Drivetrain (tranny, t-case, axles)
Performance (engine)
Other mods
Does it work the way you want?
Anything you would change?
Funniest Wheeling Incident
Anything to add?
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Readers' Rides
4-Wheel & Off-Road
6420 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048-5515
fax 323.782.2704
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Vehicle: '87 Suzuki Samurai
Owner: De Wayne Willhoite, Bloomington, IL
Tires: 38x14.50-15
Suspension: 12-inch homemade lift
Drivetrain: Ford 302ci V-8, Samurai transfer case, Toyota axles with lockers
Performance Mods: The engine
Other Doodads: Suicide doors, full rollcage
Funniest wheeling incident: Going through a mudhole on the Orange Trail in Badlands and covering everyone with mud
Does everything work the way you want?: Everything works fine
Anything you would change: I'd swap a stick shift for my auto tranny
Anything to add?: It took six years to build and it runs great
Vehicle: Nissan Winner (Israeli version of the Frontier)
Owner: Yuval Peled, Israel
Tires & wheels: 31x10.50R15 Goodyear MTRs on Brazilian wheels
Suspension: Tough Dog Australian shocks, torsion bars cranked
Drivetrain: 2.5L turbodiesel engine
Funniest wheeling incident: Crossing the same killer creek in one day, looking for the cell phone I was sitting on
Anything you would change: Maybe the scenery. Wish I could join your Ultimate Adventure someday
Vehicle: '67 Jeep CJ-5
Owner: Mike Knepp, Broomfield, CO
Tires & wheels: 35x12.50R15 Pro Comp Xterrains on 15x10
Suspension: 4-inch-lift leaves, front shackle reversal, Rancho RS 5000 shocks
Drivetrain: 350ci V-8, TH350 tranny, NP205 transfer case, Dana 30 front, Dana 44 rear, 3.73 gears
Performance Mods: Mild camshaft, 0.040 bore, K&N air filter, 3-inch exhaust, Edelbrock carb and intake manifold
Other Doodads: Frame stretched 8 inches, 3-inch body lift, 10-point rollcage, custom dash
Does everything work the way you want?: So far everything is great
Anything to add?: My dad and I built this together
Vehicle: Ford F-150
Owner: Sam Jones, Burnsville, MN
Tires & wheels: 235/75R15 stock tires
Suspension: Bouncy
Drivetrain: Five-speed tranny with an 8-ball shifter
Performance Mods: Some new headlights
Other Doodads: Midland CB, hula girl air freshener
Funniest wheeling incident: When I first got the truck and didn't know I had to lock the hubs for 4WD
Does everything work the way you want?: I wish the fan wasn't so loud
Anything you would change: Lift, tires, bumper, winch, the list goes on....
Vehicle: '01 Jeep Wrangler Sport
Owner: Chris Moore, Centralia, WA
Tires & wheels: 35x12.50R15 Goodyear MTRs on 15x8 Rock Crawlers with Staun inner bead locks
Suspension: 4-inch S4T springs, Superflex2 control arms
Drivetrain: 4.0L inline-six, NV3550 five-speed tranny, NP231 transfer case, High Angle Drivelines driveshafts, high-pinion front Dana 30 with Warn 5x5.5 premium hub conversion and 30-spline alloy axles, rear Dana 44 with alloy axles and ARB Air Locker
Performance Mods: K&N FIPK
Other Doodads: Teraflex rear disc-brake conversion, Currie adjustable track bar and steering arm, Poison Spyder tube fenders, crusher corners, and rockers
Does everything work the way you want?: Most of the time
Vehicle: '94 Nissan D21 pickup
Owner: Dan "Danimal" Fryman, Kerens, TX
Tires & wheels: 36-inch Iroks on Rock Crawler wheels
Suspension: Solid-axle swap using Nissan, Toyota, and Jeep Wagoneer leaves, Edelbrock IAS shocks
Drivetrain: V-6 engine, Calmini 3.92 low-range transfer case, Dana 44 front with Detroit Locker, Nissan H233 rear with ARB Air Locker, 5.14 gears
Other Doodads: Custom adjustable shock mounts, custom sliders, bobbed bed
Funniest wheeling incident: Beating out some V-8 Jeeps and trucks at the local mud races
Does everything work the way you want?: Springs are too soft (I need to add some more leaves), would love hydraulic-assist steering
Vehicle: '78 Ford F-150
Owner: Darron Baker, Marble Hill, MS
Tires & wheels: 36x13.50-15 Swamper Iroks on 15x10 Dick Cepek DC1s
Suspension: Superlift 6-inch, Pro Comp shocks
Drivetrain: 400ci V-8, C6 tranny, NP203 transfer case, Dana 44 front, Ford 9-inch rear, 4.56 gears
Performance Mods: Edelbrock intake manifold, Cater 625-cfm carb, ceramic-coated headers
Other Doodads: Homemade ladder bars
Does everything work the way you want?: Pretty much. I want to add a dump bed this winter
Anything you would change: No


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Though the relationship between Julius and Michelangelo was a stormy one at best, with Julius at times withholding payment for work done and tossing the Florentine sculptor out on his ear when he came to His Holiness in protest, there was, nonetheless, a rapport between the two fiery personalities that resulted in the on-again-off-again planning and sculpting of a gigantic, 40-sculpture, free-standing tomb for the middle-aged pontiff which the pope, in all due modesty, planned to install directly over the tomb of St. Peter, centred under the massive dome of the cathedral Bramante was designing and had in the early stages of construction at the time.
Though outwardly acquiescent, Bramante seethed at the idea that his greatest edifice in all Christendom should be merely a shelter for this grandiloquent, wedding cake of a tomb. So, as a trusted papal advisor, he planted in the fruitful mind of the Pope the idea of correcting the clumsy proportions of Julius's uncle's Sistine architects by painting a ceiling fresco in the only Vatican chapel in operation at the time. Being "merely" a sculpture, he reasoned that Michelangelo would either flee the task of fail miserably. And both predictions proved true, initially. But the moody genius was nothing if not persistent. Inspired by the challenge, he rose to the occasion magnificently. During nearly four years of brutal effort, this "mere" sculptor lifted the art of fresco painting to a realm unmatched before or since.
Incidentally, Charleton Heston, who played Michelangelo in the film The Agony and the Ecstasy, painted the ceiling in just under an hour and a half. Of course he was paid more for his high-speed rendering.
Contributed by Lane, Jim4 December 1997

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Q. I know ALA has reading lists in different age groups. But what about lists for other materials? Does ALA make a list of recommended videos or DVDs? And are there lists for different age groups?
A. Similar to the ALA Recommended Reading page, there is an ALA Recommended Viewing page, which links to the longtime Notable Children's Videos list and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video list of winners as well as the Fabulous Films for Young Adults, along with the annual Notable Videos for Adults list prepared by ALA's Video Round Table.