Shane Drake
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Hello,
We are currently rebuilding our home and shop we lost in a fire, all my cars are lowered aside from my wifes YJ, so getting in and out of our long driveway and hauling gear to the property was becoming a hassle... So I made the logical choice and bought a 2011 Raptor SVT supercrew I found in NC. I decided to pull the trigger on this one sight unseen, it has around 140k, silver with navigation, but after looking at the pictures closely i saw over $33k (retail) in suspension, cosmetic and overland style upgrades and I couldn't pass it up. I heavily modify my vehicles and was debating getting a bone stock high mileage 2011 for 8-9k less, but knew I would end up with less in the end.
That being said, with the amount of stuff in this truck I would be surprised if the PO was not a member, so if you are on here THANK YOU for putting the money into the right areas and providing me with an awesome platform to make some adventures with my wife and 10yo daughter up here in Maine.
This truck will replace my Audi Avant as a daily and help me with stuff around our 10acres and during this rebuilding process. I'm hoping to get some hunting and camping trips in with it as well, my wife and I love to travel! Originally we bought my wifes lifted YJ for that stuff but its a YJ.. so long trips are a headache and the gear it can haul is minimal.
I am former military, 8 years active, 4 of those were in japan. I have built several internationally featured cars including my VW Caddy which I swapped a triton 5.4 into, converted to RWD and it got picked up by several magazines along witrh Speedhunters (http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/06/the-volkswagen-caddy-from-hell/)
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I run a company called DRAKES where I make mostly parts for FD RX7s, and other JDM cars. http://www.Draklore.com I own a 92 RHD FD I brought back from japan and have done extensive work to. My daily was a lowered Audi Avant, I will keep it and have some big plans for it once I am wrapping up the FD, new home and shop.
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anyways, thanks for the welcome and hopefully i can expand some of my automotive knowledge and experience into this platform as well.
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We are currently rebuilding our home and shop we lost in a fire, all my cars are lowered aside from my wifes YJ, so getting in and out of our long driveway and hauling gear to the property was becoming a hassle... So I made the logical choice and bought a 2011 Raptor SVT supercrew I found in NC. I decided to pull the trigger on this one sight unseen, it has around 140k, silver with navigation, but after looking at the pictures closely i saw over $33k (retail) in suspension, cosmetic and overland style upgrades and I couldn't pass it up. I heavily modify my vehicles and was debating getting a bone stock high mileage 2011 for 8-9k less, but knew I would end up with less in the end.
That being said, with the amount of stuff in this truck I would be surprised if the PO was not a member, so if you are on here THANK YOU for putting the money into the right areas and providing me with an awesome platform to make some adventures with my wife and 10yo daughter up here in Maine.
This truck will replace my Audi Avant as a daily and help me with stuff around our 10acres and during this rebuilding process. I'm hoping to get some hunting and camping trips in with it as well, my wife and I love to travel! Originally we bought my wifes lifted YJ for that stuff but its a YJ.. so long trips are a headache and the gear it can haul is minimal.
I am former military, 8 years active, 4 of those were in japan. I have built several internationally featured cars including my VW Caddy which I swapped a triton 5.4 into, converted to RWD and it got picked up by several magazines along witrh Speedhunters (http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/06/the-volkswagen-caddy-from-hell/)
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I run a company called DRAKES where I make mostly parts for FD RX7s, and other JDM cars. http://www.Draklore.com I own a 92 RHD FD I brought back from japan and have done extensive work to. My daily was a lowered Audi Avant, I will keep it and have some big plans for it once I am wrapping up the FD, new home and shop.
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anyways, thanks for the welcome and hopefully i can expand some of my automotive knowledge and experience into this platform as well.
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