Up On The Ski Hill

"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass) 01/22/2020 at 23:20 • Filed to: Dots, Ford E350, conversions

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 C ame back to my car to find this beast parked next to me. Lifted E350... but wait that’s not just a lift is it...?

Yep that’s a differential on a big fat solid axle up front. Ford never sold these with 4x4 from the factory so this is an aftermarket conversion. Seeing these lifted and on knobby tires is around here is pretty common but I’ve only ever seen RWD ones. And speaking of the lift and conversion...

t is riding on Fox shocks, Warn manual front lockers, and K02s. Decent kit there. Pretty awesome adventure rig overall. If I had a place to park a something this big I’d be thinking of getting something like this myself.

facw > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/22/2020 at 23:25

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This would be much cooler in an actual color. Work van spec just doesn’t work here.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/22/2020 at 23:26

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Likely a Quigley conversion, they’ re the biggest of the compani es that do those.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/22/2020 at 23:41

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I’m not sure which conversion this is, but Rich Ford (now called Power Ford) in Albuquerque used to always stock a couple of S portsman 4wd conversions on the lot back in the era of this van.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > facw 01/22/2020 at 23:47

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Snow camo. 

atfsgeoff > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/23/2020 at 00:07

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4x4 Van is Best Van

HammerheadFistpunch > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/23/2020 at 00:22

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man Utah is lousy with these vans.

RangerSmith > facw 01/23/2020 at 01:13

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Many of these are old work vans that get converted. Thus the white color scheme.

shop-teacher > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/23/2020 at 06:58

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Sweet rig!

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > facw 01/23/2020 at 08:36

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If something isn’t going to be a colour, imo it should be white. Lets the lines of the design speak for themselves. I agree something cool should be a colour, but thank the lawd it’s not black 

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/23/2020 at 08:36

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Refrigerator camo 

functionoverfashion > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/23/2020 at 09:10

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I’ve seen a fair number of these, believe it or not - and always at ski areas, used as company rep vans. Like, they drive them up for a demo day or whatever. Usually fully wrapped in company logos. Maybe that explains the white, if this used to be one of those? 

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > functionoverfashion 01/23/2020 at 19:02

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Maybe but one of the stickers on the back is local to our small town... I wouldn’t be surprised if it started life a rep van and maybe got sold on.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch 01/23/2020 at 19:08

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Around here it seems like most of them (along with lots of lifted Sprinters and NVs) aren’t actually 4x4.  I see more pickups with fancy camper backs when it comes to that.

Tohru > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 01/23/2020 at 21:37

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One of the old timers that used to come here had an aftermarket 4x4 Econoline with a 4BT in it. I don’t have a picture of it anymore - it was burgundy.