After 20 years of adulthood and spending a pittance on my go-to-work driver, I finally bit down hard and bought what I’ve secretly wanted since I was in high school. After much looking I found a very low mileage 4.0 manual TJ with half doors - basically exactly what I wanted. I paid dearly for it but that was partly bc I despise haggling. The dealer seemed giddy, can’t figure out why.
Here’s my 2001 Wrangler Sport w 49k miles. No lift, no significant mods other than a cold air intake and a custom head unit for the stereo. I get the impression it was an Arizona/Colorado weekend/fair weather fun vehicle for the PO - it’s very clean, but also super dusty.
I’m mechanically … inexperienced. My goal is to make this last for another 10-20 years as a daily driver depending on my commuting situation, so I’m sure I’ll be bugging you all with plenty of idiot-simple questions over time. I’d like to use this vehicle as a means to learn a lot about working on vehicles and teaching my boys the same. Not interested in any hard core wheeling, but maybe some basic 4x4 trails depending on where we live at any point in time.
, she's way too pretty for that, I’d keep it as a side piece while hammering a standard pile of crap DD letting it soak up miles, salt, water, snow, ice, sun, potholes, road debris, dings, dents & various & sundry other retards, gypsies & thieves
