Different view of a Pinz

[totaljoint]

Here's a new angle on a 712:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmxvMf1itqc

[audiocontr]

I like. I take it you're the driver? Love the fact I've developed a mental image of pinz owners and not a single one looks like I've pictured. Including myself.

[totaljoint]

I've developed a mental image of pinz owners and not a single one looks like I've pictured

Not my Pinz, I'm not the driver.
Just thought it was a different and cool thing to do!

But if you want to shock your mental image:


and my co-driver (son)

[PinzVair]

Howdy! Hey I'm glad I found this forum. The funny thing about how I found it was all of the sudden my video on YouTube BLEW UP with views today and that all came from you folks on here! So I tracked down the post where my video had been linked.

THANK YOU for sharing it totaljoint!

I drive an assortment of 60's Chevrolet Corvairs. Also air cooled vehicles so I feel pretty confident working on the Pinz. It runs amazingly well. My Dad owns it but never uses it. He had an old German man who apparently had been a mechanic for the Austrians during the Cold War work it over about 2 years ago. This video (below) shows the truck starting "fairly" easily after sitting for a good long bunch of months.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63JgH5XoCMc

[edward]

Edit: n/m the Q's below: I found the thread you posted where Andre set it up. Thanks for posting those

I have some questions on the cage!

Who made the exoskeleton for your Pinz?

How "removable" is it? Say if you had it on a hard top and wanted to remove the top - how difficult and how much time would it take?

Thanks!

[totaljoint]

Who made the exoskeleton for your Pinz?

Andre Swanson, Fat Fabrications.

How "removable" is it?

Entirely removable, can be put back to original condition.
No new holes drilled

Say if you had it on a hard top and wanted to remove the top - how difficult and how much time would it take?

While I'm sure Andre did it with more finesse, It took me a few hours with two guys and camper jack stands to take it off.

Putting in back on is another story. Took two days, had to replace a 5 rivitnuts, lots of clamps/spreaders, winching
and some fine backing up of the truck to get it in alignment. Frame weighs around 4-500 lbs, so we could horse it around some
to get it to fit all back together. Hardest part was reattaching the front bumper to the main frame. Ratchet straps are helpful tip.
To be fair, the frame sat for about 6 weeks and "relaxed" while the truck was painted, so that lining things back up
was a bit of a chore.

It is well designed, solid as can be and a real protection item. Can pitch a tent and sleep up there and watch the bears down below.

[acebee]

congrats.. Nice to see it do the rounds canvassing..

hope your friend then passes some pinz friendly laws..

http://edmonds.patch.com/articles/assau ... to-8167323

[totaljoint]

Thanks for the article, I hadn't seen it.

We had a 3 or 4 families climb in and on top and drove around town for a while, full of kids and blonds waving at folks at the side walk cafe's in
Edmonds. Then did it all again the next day in Everett.

Pretty typical main stream media hatchet job on the tour. The reporter totally missed the 30 minute discussion with the candidate on
his specific points on what the county can do to improve the job market locally and focused on the 3 minutes of Pinzie questions.

For anyone who drives these things, you know that we get a more than a "few glances from passers-by",
and a Pinzgauer is usually not referred to as a "low key alternative"!

"a tank or true assault vehicle would have been more dramatic"......Imagine what they would write if a Republican candidate showed up in
one of those around Seattle??? Anyone remember Michael Dukakis and his photo faux pas in 1988?

[PinzVair]

Another Sunday video of my pinz.. not the most challenging terrain but... we had fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THLtYuPGo10

[krick3tt]

Wow...you guys are right on the edge of adventure. Four wheeling in a parking lot with full lockers and amazingly
enough, you were going fast enough to have leaves stuck to the intake screen. I can't wait till you actually get
to an open road on the way to the Safeway store.

[David Dunn]

Morris,
What's amazing is that there isn't a puddle or parts under it from an exploded portal, axle or any other part of the drivetrain..... maybe in the next episode..

Nothing like utubing Atrocities against a Pinzgauer.

Jim, clean out a space, you got a 712 coming.

[Scollins]

Figured that since Pinzvair stopped putting up his vids I would do the Honors.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THLtYuPG ... ideo_title

gotta say Bob makes the vids more interesting

[PinzVair]

Morris,
What's amazing is that there isn't a puddle or parts under it from an exploded portal, axle or any other part of the drivetrain..... maybe in the next episode..

Nothing like utubing Atrocities against a Pinzgauer.

Jim, clean out a space, you got a 712 coming.

I only locked to go up the dirt pile. Everything else was unlocked/dis-engaged and I switched to the high box for the drive around the end of the car-port. Believe me I am very conscious of the lockers/diffs. I have several old vehicles on which I do all of my own maintenance/repair/resto/modifications. I don't see this as an "Atrocity"

[PinzVair]

Wow...you guys are right on the edge of adventure. Four wheeling in a parking lot with full lockers and amazingly
enough, you were going fast enough to have leaves stuck to the intake screen. I can't wait till you actually get
to an open road on the way to the Safeway store.

No safeway's here but maybe I can find some cars to "boulder" on down at the Wal-mart. Sucks that the outdoors is kind of a ways off from my house.

[krick3tt]

So where are you guys? Maybe there is a construction site close by that you can drive over some dirt piles.
If you are where it snows those mounds in the parking lots are fun.
Put your location in your profile so it shows up in the avatar. I am always curious as to where the pinzies are.

It is a shame that the 'outdoors' is far away. Maybe get together with some other wheeling folks, even if they aren't pinz people.
I had to wheel with jeep guys when I first got my pinz in San Diego cause I didn't know anyone else then.
I love it when the jeep guys ask if I can keep up with them on the trail.

Morris