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Posting on another thread in this sub-forum yesterday, got me to thinking (something has to occasionally 
). I have a decision to make regarding the disposition of some equipment, and would like the opinions of my brother and sister forumites. I purchased the 1993 Ford Ranger 4X4 below, as a factory custom order, then proceeded to further hop up the 4L motor and suspension, new intake, headers, stablizers, Etc. At the time, I was a security supervisor at a petroleum companies R&D HQ, and the XO of their executive protection team. The Ranger did triple duty as a daily driver, a pursuit takedown vehicle when someone ran the gate at the main entrance, and as an escort vehicle when on EP detail. I tried to never really abuse the vehicle, but worked it hard, and it pulled me out of more than one difficult situation. When I left that job to become a facility protection specialist for a telecommunications company, one of my primary responsibilities was preparing my particular facility for Y2K issues. The truck was then relieved as a daily driver, and fitted out as an critical incident response truck. It carried a full compliment of disaster zone capable equipment, including some pretty sophisticated electronics, and surveillance gear for the time. In 1998, I also procured a small camping trailer, and outfitted that with additional CCTV and Comm. equipment, to support the facility should our primary systems go down. By the middle of '99, despite all the media hype, we were pretty sure that Y2K was going to be uneventfull, with the exception of possible terrorist activity. Despite that, the Rig was parked on the property throughout New Years. After that, both Ranger and trailer went into semi-retirement. I wasn't working in the industry for 9-11, the wake-up call that Y2K wasn't. The Ranger was driven occasionally, and the trailer sat next to my house, under a large carport. During the winter of, I think, '03-'04 (it's kind of a blur, I had a lot of issues then), we had a large snow/ice storm, which resulted in the collapse of the carport onto the Ranger, the trailer, and some equipment lockers I had stored under there too. It was a HUGE mess, and it took me weeks just to get the vehicles free. Everything sustained some damage, but was still mostly serviceable. We re-erected part of the car port, and the Ranger and trailer have sat underneath, until 2 weeks ago, when we took the carport down again, fearing it wouldn't survive another fall/winter. Now that you know the history, the question I'm asking myself, and I guess you, is... Do I strip them out and scrap them, as they'd both need a lot of work to ever be fieldable again. Or, do I keep them, and try to restore them when I can, as in a way, they symbolize a turning point in history, and the horrendous possibilities that awaited us on Y2K, were realized on 9-11, and loom larger in the future. Your thoughts are welcome.
Front of trailer was CCTV, rear was Comm. without much space in between
). I have a decision to make regarding the disposition of some equipment, and would like the opinions of my brother and sister forumites. I purchased the 1993 Ford Ranger 4X4 below, as a factory custom order, then proceeded to further hop up the 4L motor and suspension, new intake, headers, stablizers, Etc. At the time, I was a security supervisor at a petroleum companies R&D HQ, and the XO of their executive protection team. The Ranger did triple duty as a daily driver, a pursuit takedown vehicle when someone ran the gate at the main entrance, and as an escort vehicle when on EP detail. I tried to never really abuse the vehicle, but worked it hard, and it pulled me out of more than one difficult situation. When I left that job to become a facility protection specialist for a telecommunications company, one of my primary responsibilities was preparing my particular facility for Y2K issues. The truck was then relieved as a daily driver, and fitted out as an critical incident response truck. It carried a full compliment of disaster zone capable equipment, including some pretty sophisticated electronics, and surveillance gear for the time. In 1998, I also procured a small camping trailer, and outfitted that with additional CCTV and Comm. equipment, to support the facility should our primary systems go down. By the middle of '99, despite all the media hype, we were pretty sure that Y2K was going to be uneventfull, with the exception of possible terrorist activity. Despite that, the Rig was parked on the property throughout New Years. After that, both Ranger and trailer went into semi-retirement. I wasn't working in the industry for 9-11, the wake-up call that Y2K wasn't. The Ranger was driven occasionally, and the trailer sat next to my house, under a large carport. During the winter of, I think, '03-'04 (it's kind of a blur, I had a lot of issues then), we had a large snow/ice storm, which resulted in the collapse of the carport onto the Ranger, the trailer, and some equipment lockers I had stored under there too. It was a HUGE mess, and it took me weeks just to get the vehicles free. Everything sustained some damage, but was still mostly serviceable. We re-erected part of the car port, and the Ranger and trailer have sat underneath, until 2 weeks ago, when we took the carport down again, fearing it wouldn't survive another fall/winter. Now that you know the history, the question I'm asking myself, and I guess you, is... Do I strip them out and scrap them, as they'd both need a lot of work to ever be fieldable again. Or, do I keep them, and try to restore them when I can, as in a way, they symbolize a turning point in history, and the horrendous possibilities that awaited us on Y2K, were realized on 9-11, and loom larger in the future. Your thoughts are welcome.
Front of trailer was CCTV, rear was Comm. without much space in between
