CopperBaja's Baja

Post by **Leatherneck** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:55 pm

Hopefully he will come to his senses and realize the grass is not greener in a side by side.

dustymojave · Post by **dustymojave** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:27 pm

Tech inspecting side-by-each's at desert and short course offroad races, I keep running across people bragging about how much $$$$ they have into their little buggies. I've heard over $75K!!!!! And they start out down around the same $$ as what you've already invested into The Copperbeast, and those need a lot of fixing cuz' they've been beat to death. Stick with the Bug Jeff. You can't drive a Rhino to work. I drive the ol' Baja every day and offroad it too. Part of your problem with only driving it a couple times a year is that you limit yourself to the "Glamis Season". The high dez may not be as close to you, but the Season is all year long. And there are many places to take a Baja other than OW and PC. Ask Skid...Sure there's always something to fix or upgrade. That's the nature of such things. Same with dirt bikes, 4x4s, Rhinos, quads, motorhomes, TVs, video games and Computers. R/C offroaders are the same too!!!

CopperBaja · Post by **CopperBaja** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:15 am

Lotrat wrote:Is that the same shade of copper?

No, but there's a couple pennies hidden in the car somewhere.

dezertdiablo · Post by **dezertdiablo** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:53 pm

do I smell a rebirth of copperbaja???

CopperBaja · Post by **CopperBaja** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:44 pm

Just continuing to treat it as mine...until it's not. Everything's for sale....for a price. No worries, no hurries.

Leatherneck wrote:Hopefully he will come to his senses and realize the grass is not greener in a side by side.

Good one! Hahahaha!!!

CopperBaja · Post by **CopperBaja** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:48 pm

dustymojave wrote:The Copperbeast

I like it.

dustymojave wrote:You can't drive a Rhino to work. I drive the ol' Baja every day and offroad it too. Part of your problem with only driving it a couple times a year is that you limit yourself to the "Glamis Season". The high dez may not be as close to you, but the Season is all year long. And there are many places to take a Baja other than OW and PC.

More to say that I don't want to put in the forum...
I can't drive my baja to work either. That's kind of the issue...it sits in the garage and collects dust.

Ol'fogasaurus · Post by **Ol'fogasaurus** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:56 pm

Are you saying that you do not have two coppers to rub together? How sad!

CopperBaja · Post by **CopperBaja** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:10 pm

haha! no...it's not a money issue, at all.

Post by **david58** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:15 pm

CopperBaja wrote:
dustymojave wrote:The Copperbeast
I like it.

dustymojave wrote:You can't drive a Rhino to work. I drive the ol' Baja every day and offroad it too. Part of your problem with only driving it a couple times a year is that you limit yourself to the "Glamis Season". The high dez may not be as close to you, but the Season is all year long. And there are many places to take a Baja other than OW and PC.
More to say that I don't want to put in the forum...
I can't drive my baja to work either. That's kind of the issue...it sits in the garage and collects dust.

You should move to Georgia.

CopperBaja · Post by **CopperBaja** » Tue May 03, 2011 11:37 am

Got a bit done to the baja on Sunday. Later in the afternoon, Chad came down. He gave me quite a few tips and shared a bit of his VW knowledge. Even showed me how to rebuild a wiper motor. Thanks! ...and I hope you are on my team at this years Night Run!

It was plenty hot, so I opened up the carport.

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With the hood off. You can also see, that I added the front license plate.

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After a bit of thinking, cutting and drilling, this is what I came up with to fix the sagging tank.

Tank fix (Small).jpg

Next weekend, I plan to wire up the (now working) wiper motor and pick up some wiper blades. A few other odds and ends to button up before the next trip on the 13th.

Lotrat · Post by **Lotrat** » Tue May 03, 2011 1:03 pm

Nice work on the tank. Whose baja is across the street that is running over that guy? The driver looks upset. Your pics are too big. I don't like all the extra clicking.

CopperBaja · Post by **CopperBaja** » Tue May 03, 2011 1:12 pm

Pics are too big? I resized them....so don't know.
That's my neighbor bleeding his brakes. He had a brake cylinder fail and was having problems bleeding the brakes. That baja will never see the desert...been trying to get him to go out for a year now.

Lotrat · Post by **Lotrat** » Tue May 03, 2011 1:23 pm

1296x728 = too big
800x600 = just right

Skidmark · Post by **Skidmark** » Tue May 03, 2011 2:42 pm

If everything is for sale, how about the women?! How much for the women?!

CopperBaja · Post by **CopperBaja** » Wed May 04, 2011 9:52 am

Skidmark wrote:If everything is for sale, how about the women?! How much for the women?!

There's a price, but NOONE has pockets that big.

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