What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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!

 

I got the same ones! So far so good!

 

Dang that switch is slick

 

Switching from mobile to amsoil. Definitely expensive oil but only the best will do lol!

 

• I finally installed the MESO switch for the puddle pods. Everything works as expected.
• Installed some LED headlight trim plates by CW Customs. I removed my raptor lights finally, and took the connectors from some burnt out lights and used them to wire up these trim plates. Made the wiring portion a breeze.

 

Interesting, I never saw or heard of these stores, during this time I was too busy in the MidWest worried about other things.

 

What was the mod?

NICE TRUCK by the way !!

 

What a nice MIL!

 

Never seen those trim plates. Super cool!