Best Fiance EVER!

[Mallcrwlr3000]

New member here.

TL;DR My fiance surprised me with not only a custom ordered wagon, but also already built.

Sorry guys this may be a little long. This is my dream truck and I am so excited.

I have always wanted a wagon, just cause bang for the buck, I think it is the best truck you can buy. I haven't been a huge fan of the graphics plastered all over it. I get it, you buy a special edition truck, you want it to stand out from the regular edition next to it. I'm sorry to upset the purists. I preferred mine to make more of a statement by itself rather than the badging.

So rewind about 6 months ago. My lady friend is talking crap about my old truck, a basic 08 1500 ram. I'm keeping it. She still runs and drives great for 206k miles. She keeps telling me I need a new one and starts asking me what I would choose if I were going to go get a brand new one. Of course I chose the power wagon. So she then starts asking what I would do to it. I start showing her parts and pieces I have been dreaming of to make my vision of an ultimate truck. She willfully participates, and convinces me that I need to go to 40's instead of 35's that would still tuck a spare. I'm back and forth all over the place.

So, apparently, this girl was taking notes this whole time. She goes and custom orders a new one, with all the options we talked about. De-badged and all. She then meets the guy from the dealer half way to pick it up. She bought all the parts on the side and had her dad's trailer loaded up with them. So she sends a brand new truck to the shop to get cut all up. It had 400 miles on it when she gave it to me. I was big on keeping the factory suspension intact. Doesn't make sense to rip all that out so you can stuff bigger tires. Makes more sense to me to cut out some body to stuff bigger tires and keep the truck more useful.

I get it if you want to call it a mall crawler. I haven't even cracked 1000 miles yet. I would like to make sure the motor is properly broken in first before I get her covered in mud, blood, and guts. I would hate to go romping around and find myself into a situation where I have to liberally apply the fun pedal with prejudice on a fresh motor trying to get unstuck. One day soon, I'll post pics of her axle deep.

I know, I know..... pics or it didn't happen.

Here she is!!

 

[Odin]

Damn!!! I wish my wife would pay this much attention to what I want done knowing it's my dream truck! You better put a ring on that finger after this bro!

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[Mallcrwlr3000]

We are getting married next month. This was my wedding present. Not bragging but she has had a ring for a while now.

 

[BowerPower]

I thought this story was gonna be similar to might but she went way above and beyond where I thought this story was going. Congratulations!! You better keep each other till the end of time. I commemorate you for keeping the suspension stock it just sucks you have to cut those brand new fenders.

My fiancé has been tired of me driving old decrepit things. My 93 blazer with the dash that looks like it's gonna fall out with every bump (sold). I now dialy my mom's first car, a 1979 1st gen honda civic, that he won't even ride in. I do have my 85 vette but it's low and not spacious and needs some cosmetic work. Needles to say, we take his camry every. He told me to get a new vehicle, anything. I was like... we need a truck and I only want one truck, POWER WAGON. I told him how expensive, he said, that's not bad. A few months ago we order a loaded 75th anniversary in olive green. I take delivery in 2 weeks or less.

 

[Mallcrwlr3000]

Hell yeah. Congratulations. She was slightly disappointed when I had a fully loaded wagon in olive green built to order on my screen. She was like, "I thought you wanted Delmonico Red." I said only this year did they come out with the olive green and I kinda like it. Let me tell you, Delmonico Red, will do just fine for me hahaha. For reference, she drives a Tank Green Sahara 4 door Jeep on 35's. I thought the two in green would look lovely side by side. Especially with the tan leather which hers also shares.

 

[GTyankee]

You need some steer horns on that front end

Nothing permanent of course, sort of as a joke

That Ram looks like a Beast

 

[Mallcrwlr3000]

Funny you should mention that. Neighbor across the street has a boyfriend that has a 90s chevy all white with the Texas flag painted on the roof and a set of bull horns u-bolted through the hood. haha. Yeah I'm from Texas.

 

[Airmousam]

Congrats, sharp truck!

 

[Pudge]

You are in so much trouble. You better start taking good notes on her. LOL. Congrats! On the marriage and the truck!

 

[Treburkulosis]

Nice looking truck! Congrats on both it and the marriage!

 

[bcbouy]

nice truck.my wife just bought me a fully loaded red pearl power wagon as a retirement gift.it's still bone stock and will probably stay that way after all the money/time spent on our slt 2500.

 

[Tray Burge]

MARRY HER TODAY!
...before somebody else snatches her up.
Wow, nice rig. Don't be so hard on yourself, I'm a mall crawler too with my Jeep and proudly wear that moniker at the Jeep forum, It's never been off the pavement. lol

 

[Mallcrwlr3000]

I was planning on looking after we got married. I would have probably still had to order one to get all the options I was looking for. The used market doesn't have very many optioned out models for sale. I figure it would have took me 5 years or so to get the truck looking like this. I would have shed a tear cutting into that truck. Its all done now though, so I can't cry about it.

 

[56PW17]

Awesome post. Congratulations on such a great partner. God bless you both.

 

[Mallcrwlr3000]

Thanks. If I had to name the truck, "Blessed", would be a top contender.

 

[IRSmart]

Now that the congrats are out of the way, let me be devil’s advocate. That body kit is an absolute killer for performance, and I’m not using that word in a trendy gen z kinda way. Move those 40’s even slightly up or down and they’ll destroy it. Do you plan on wheeling it, or is it an asphalt queen?

 

[Nick@GotExhaust]

Congrats!

Let us know if she missed any mods you wanted. We can set you up with anything you may need like exhaust, bed cover, intake, throttle response controllers, etc...

 

[56PW17]

Now that the congrats are out of the way, let me be devil’s advocate. That body kit is an absolute killer for performance, and I’m not using that word in a trendy gen z kinda way. Move those 40’s even slightly up or down and they’ll destroy it. Do you plan on wheeling it, or is it an asphalt queen?

How are the flares different from other kits in the market? Do you think he doesn’t have enough lift to articulate the suspension?

 

[thkbaron]

yeah not my cup of tea. glad you like it.

 

[Mallcrwlr3000]

I understand if it's not your cup of tea. Different strokes and all. I have every intention of wheeling it. I'll see the limitations when I put her to the test. If there is a problem, I will adapt and overcome. My intention was to get the axles as high as possible without the truck being ridiculously lifted. I've had her flexed on two 12" ramps, opposite sides, front and rear. She looked like she had a long way to go before contact. The flares are all metal. There should be no contact above crawl speed.