My wife Sally and I took our first trip in our motor home to Arizona towing my 1942 jeep. I spent the last year working on this 1942 Ford Jeep that my dad left me. I spent $7,900.00 dollars overhauling the transmission and going through the brakes and bringing it back to its 1942 origin. My father purchased this in the 1950's and it had three bullet holes in the back and quite a few dents. My father patched it up and it has been used for the past 30 years for elk and deer hunting in Oregon. I have had it stored in a warehouse for the last ten years and finally spent last year getting it fairly close to original.
My original thoughts were that I would use this to go gold mining! Well that didn't work out as my jeep says on the tag that it will go 65 miles per hour while the actual speed on the arizona freeway was about 40 and I knew if I pushed it passed that it would blow up the motor. As you all probably know the speed in Arizona is 70 miles per hour and I thought I was about to die!!!!
Next winter I will take my little ford Ranger 4 wheel drive pickup. I did run into a gentelman from England who went to Canada to retire and purchased a motor home and met me at Imperial Dam LTV. He told me he was from a town in England that has a big parade every year and they bring out their old USA war machinery for the parade. He said my jeep would bring $75,000 in england just the way I had it.
That was my big draw for the trip. My wife and i tried our metal detectors for the first month and a half and dug up everything but gold. We finaly had a fellow prospector at the Stanton LDMA camp tell us that we needed to dig down to bedrock and save the last four to six inches of sand to run through a sluice and blue bowl. We tried this but didn't go down to bedrock so now at home running this through the blue bowl and not really finding anything!!
We will try this spring and summer around Oregon and hopefully we will start to find gold.
Take care
John
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