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Old Nov 12, 2010 | 09:32 PM
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ok wanna see what people think of this:
1989 islander 4.2 103k second owner all stock
AX-15 (yes stock) they made them
flywheel has windows for crank trigger
3.73 gear lsd (factory tags on the rear)
tilt
tow hitch
all the laredo stuff
hard top with half doors
it all seems to check out
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Old Nov 12, 2010 | 09:58 PM
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sounds kool...ive never seen old islander editions but some guy by me has like an 08 wrangker with islander bages and stickers all over it.do you have pics
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Old Nov 12, 2010 | 10:05 PM
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i'll get one up tomorrow it's "cute" i painted the flares on mine because i could take the amount of blue with the original body color flares other than that its original paint...interior is grey with blue piping oh yeah its fancy i bought it to lift and build a trail rig but it's too clean i can't trash it
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Old Nov 12, 2010 | 11:16 PM
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My old '93 YJ had 113k on it when I bought it. It was from california, and it was a little pre customized. It came with some goodyear 31s on american racing wheels, It had a radio with a 12 disc CD changer, there were two 6x9 speaker boxes mounted to the bottoms of the roll cage in the rear, there was an alarm system. And it was clean as a whistle. I'm sad that a drunk driver wrecked it back a few years ago because I still miss it. I had just put on my lights and my brush and grille guard a week before the accident happened too lol
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 08:05 PM
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For a long time the drift boat has been the famous wooden McKenzie style built in the 1930s and 1940s by Woodie Hindman or Tom Kaarhus from Norway in McKenzie river country. With the appearance of new materials such as Aluminum and fiberglass we have seen an evolution in design and shape, sometimes for the good sometimes for the worse. A number of drift boat companies got started by a passionate fly fisherman who wanted to make a living building drift boats, but knew little about composite materials in particular and boat design in general. The movie "A River Runs Through It" gave a boost to fly fishing in 1998 and helped those companies to survive for a while. ugg boots cheapest
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 08:07 PM
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Where are the pics?
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by brooke111
For a long time the drift boat has been the famous wooden McKenzie style built in the 1930s and 1940s by Woodie Hindman or Tom Kaarhus from Norway in McKenzie river country. With the appearance of new materials such as Aluminum and fiberglass we have seen an evolution in design and shape, sometimes for the good sometimes for the worse. A number of drift boat companies got started by a passionate fly fisherman who wanted to make a living building drift boats, but knew little about composite materials in particular and boat design in general. The movie "A River Runs Through It" gave a boost to fly fishing in 1998 and helped those companies to survive for a while. ugg boots cheapest
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 08:15 PM
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 08:16 PM
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i like it!
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 08:16 PM
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all i did was paint the top black (it was grey) and the flares (they were body color) and threw the tires on
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 08:25 PM
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I had a white with grey hardtop and it came with bikini, soft, tonneau and windjammer. Friggin carter carbed the first half of 89. Hated every minute of it.
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 08:31 PM
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i already put a weber on it and hei conversion 25 mpg outta the 4.2
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 10:25 PM
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What happened to the sun decals that were part of the oh-so-ugly Islander kit??

We have a yellow one running around here.. I want to just take a scraper to the stripes and sun.
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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 11:25 PM
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took the fried eggs off the side and hood it was too ugly
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Old Nov 15, 2010 | 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by brooke111
For a long time the drift boat has been the famous wooden McKenzie style built in the 1930s and 1940s by Woodie Hindman or Tom Kaarhus from Norway in McKenzie river country. With the appearance of new materials such as Aluminum and fiberglass we have seen an evolution in design and shape, sometimes for the good sometimes for the worse. A number of drift boat companies got started by a passionate fly fisherman who wanted to make a living building drift boats, but knew little about composite materials in particular and boat design in general. The movie "A River Runs Through It" gave a boost to fly fishing in 1998 and helped those companies to survive for a while. ugg boots cheapest

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