What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I ordered both front and rear after seeing the Facebook post about them being on sale. Placed both orders Thursday and both arrived Saturday

Likely I’ll be assembling next week and installing the front when it warms up above freezing again. Now to do some research and choose fogs to install while I have things torn apart up front along with a light bar for the bumper. The rear bumper will have to wait until summer. Right now the chrome rear caps tie the chrome badging in nicely. Don’t want to deal with debadging and applying black badges until it’s hot out again.

 

Merry Christmas Taco Family

 

That used to be the car parts Bible, before the internet hit. Had all sorts of custom stuff too.

 

Yeah, mine showed up way earlier than it first said. I think I'll wait until I get a winch and light bar to install it all at the same time, just have to figure out which ones I want!

 

The front bumper seems no longer even listed on their web site. Good catch.

 

I’m going to hold off on the winch for now, never had one on my K5 and never found myself needing it. Most of my off road driving is access roads to fishing/paddling spots and camping spots. I’m not building this truck for serious off roading yet.

Shopping for fogs and a light bar for the front and square pods for the rear now. It’s looking like I may end up spending more on lighting than I did for the bumpers

 

Added some snailarmor and the anytime camera.

 

I kept putting off buying it, trying to justify if I actually NEEDED it. Then the price dropped down to the lowest point and I couldn't resist, so glad I jumped when I did!

 

I'm not sure if I actually need a winch, but I'm sure if I had one I'd find uses for it. I know when I had my rzr I used the winch for some really random things around the yard that I didn't feel like manually moving/pulling. At one point I even used it to pull some fully loaded shelves in my garage over a few feet to make room because I didn't want to take everything off of them

 

"functionally cosmetic"

 

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/nostalgia/jc-whitney-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-automotive-icon/

they were a local chicago business, so my family just always sort of knew about it. my grand father got parts from there, my dad did, and i drooled over the catalogs from ages 8-20 until they finally collapsed. their main distribution facility was near starved rock state park in illinois, and had a storefront in the front area that one could purchase the entire catalog directly out of. always reminded me of service merchandise.. we made multiple trips there over the years, especially after my and my brothers had cars to install things on.

their catalogs were usually in the 100-200 page area, with car, truck, and jeep specific sections. quite literally everything that Amazon/ebay is for vehicle accessories before either of those ever existed.
https://archive.org/details/jc-whitney/mode/2up

 

I was going to add your handle in this post, but thought, no-not necessary.

 

Service Merchandise, another name from the past. Reminds me of Best Products: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products

 

First hardware mod

 

interesting stuff, i hadn't heard of them before
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-superstores-architecture

 

We had a Best store in the town I grew up in. It's where I bought an Armitron LCD watch that played Für Elise. My folks thought they were oveprriced. Probably were.

 

Bed hooks hood lamps and bed lamps oh my.

 

Dang that’s a steal!

 

Looks sweet!