I have a contender Jeep for you if you're willing to spend more money... but I live in California. Zero rust, 1997 TJ sport with a 5-speed and a 4.0. I am tapping out after putting a lot of money and time into this one, but it passes small with flying colors and would need nothing to take it on even the longest of trips. I just listed it and it's currently on the higher side but obviously just about anything that's for sale is negotiable. I grew up in Buffalo New York so I'm intimately familiar with the s***** wnters and springs and falls and even summers back there. When I was first able to escape from New York, and I was stationed in Arizona, when I went to wrecking yards crawling around to inspect the pristine frames and bodies that were stacked up like cordwood of even 60s muscle cars they would ask what I was looking for (when I told them rust they seemed to not understand what that word meant).
Avoiding a Money Pit
- Thread starter ironcladtopedo6974
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Wife or GF is not the issue.
The issue is that she is the only one that knows if he is getting laid tonight.
It would seem the tide has changed.
Even local asking prices for parts, like hardtops, are coming back down toward reasonable.
TJ prices in Pennsylvania have cratered over the past year or so, it seems every one of them that gets listed is soon thereafter 'reduced' in price, then again, then eventually they just de-list, maybe they're getting sold, who knows, but I've watched the prices pretty closely over the past 8 years and they just aren't getting the numbers they used to & they're sitting far longer. Piss away money is in short supply, and things like TJs, Harleys and such are some of the victims.
Local markets are always relative, so over the years rusty PA TJs had a certain value warts and all, always lower than non-rusty sun-belt TJs, but that PA value has absolutely decreased from what I've seen so it's a buyer's market all day long. I can't speak for other regions of the country as I don't track prices anywhere else, and while exceptions always exist I'd suspect Kamala Harris' economy has put a damper on many markets
Local markets are always relative, so over the years rusty PA TJs had a certain value warts and all, always lower than non-rusty sun-belt TJs, but that PA value has absolutely decreased from what I've seen so it's a buyer's market all day long. I can't speak for other regions of the country as I don't track prices anywhere else, and while exceptions always exist I'd suspect Kamala Harris' economy has put a damper on many markets