Page 1 - All about my Eagle.
Page 2 - Updates! Snow-wheeling and other adventures.
Page 3 - Future mods.
My Eagle is my workhorse, parts hauler, mobile office, road-tripper, and unstoppable snow machine. I bought it on eBay for 500 bucks. As a 4x4, it performs great through the frozen Ithaca winters, especially since most of the town is built into the side of a hill. In the summer, the ice-cold a/c makes it comfy for long meandering trips, and its cavernous interior sleeps two, which comes in handy for camping and surfing. I've been 4-wheeling in forest, sand dune, and 2 feet of snow, and my Eagle has never once gotten stuck. I bet Subaru wishes it could say as much!
(Left: Ocean City, MD. That's my little sis riding shotgun).
(Right: My Eagle riding the Yarmouth-to-Bar Harbor ferry, during a 2500-mile trip into the Maritimes)
Under the hood is the almighty AMC 258 straight-six.
It's got a manual 4-speed, with shift-on-the-fly 4-wheel drive. Mods include an aluminum valve cover from 4wd Hardware, rear air shocks, Dodge Diplomat cop-car wheels with Cal Custom baby-moon hubcaps, a Sun Pro tach, and a cheap but pretty decent sound system: Pioneer CD deck, amp, a couple of 12" subs, more (see page 3). The car was repainted in 2004 as a gift. It's got a Catco high-flow cat and a Thrush cherrybomb muffler, the back of which blew out not too long ago when I was showing off in the mud, so now it sounds louder and meaner than ever.
(Occasionally in our travels we come across another Eagle. When that happens, we have to stop and take picutres. This one was in New Brunswick).
8/12/06: The Eagle got converted back to stock shocks with helper coils, in place of those cool but perennially leaky air-shocks, before I went on this summer's surf trip.
And once again, the Eagle makes another round-trip down the East Coast and back without letting me down.
9/02/06: Okay, so I had to sell out and put a proper exhaust on it because it was getting LOUD and the muffler was developing a nasty crack on the forward end and was about to break off. The muffler-tape-and-coat-hanger set-up I had going was so townie. Plus my dad is coming to visit for the first time in 7 years, and I don't want him to find out how deeply invested in white-trash living I have become. Check out the cherrybomb and the custom-cobbled side-dump set-up I'm running now (you can see my Escort peeping out of the background, too!):
10/9/06: The Eagle has had its yearly polish and wax, and then got taken to the park for glamor shots. (I've been trying not to neglect it on account of spending so much time on my Escort project). Look at it shine!
Thanks for stopping by, and remember: driving an Eagle means never having to care what other people think!
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2/14/07: So! You thought a foot or two of the white stuff would stop the mighty Eagle? No way, the Eagle is a true Cold War machine, built to survive the apocalypse. They were forecasting nuclear winter when these cars were built, remember?
Click on Page 2 for more 4-wheel-drive fun in the snow!
Check out Page 3 to see what I've been daydreaming about.
Also, check out my PROJECT CAR here.
