We picked up the Wildebeast Thursday afternoon...
My son is on Cloud 9.
We spent the better part of the remainder of Thursday with scrub brushes in our hands....tackling the grime inside/out that was present from years of use with virtually no care. The guy we got it from said he cleaned it when he got it 5 years ago....
but as a young/single guy (who obviously isn't getting any) he just used/abused it and cleaning was the last thing on his mind (other than "Where's the wimmen?")
A black grime ran down the walls as we went off on it with a combo of Simple Green and a small dash of bleach. We ended up inside with the garden hose and the high pressure nozzle...and after a serious stint the inside of this thing looks 1000% better than it did when we pulled in the driveway.
Ditto on the exterior. yesterday we attacked that mess...serious oxidation...clear coat GONE....etc. I knew we'd get tons of grime//etc off of it but I wasn't prepared for exactly how much and how long it took...
but we got there....and IMO...it's "as good as it gets" for a 20+ year old unit that no one really cared for as they should have...
you can see the difference in the roof pic. We got a bit of a shine out of it using a light app of rubbing compound mixed with a scratch cover paste and a liberal shot of Simple Green to keep it all fluid.from drying out on the surface... then iit got a coat of wax and a shot of 303.
The unit came with a Yak rack//towers....unfortunately...one tower is mounted off center and will slam into the shell window if you space out and open the unit without sliding the glass forward....but this should be a relatively easy fix by slotting out the roof bracket and reinstalling the rack in te proper place.
The guy we got it from was a yakker...so he had crossbars and a couple of bike attachments on top. I have 2 wire baskets in the garage taking up space...so we finagled the clamps a bit via longer bolts and came up with a way to mount the "basket case" under the second set of bars we added...
came out pretty nice...and the BONUS of this entire thing was that the guy we got it from told another guy we have a Snug topp shell to sell and i sold it last night for $400...meaning i have $200 in this Widerbeaster...
and now that it's clean...I'd guess this unit would bring $1K with no problem. (It has 2 cargo nets and the zip out rear door that covers the tailgate as accessories)
not that he's looking to sell it!
:D:D
