Ready For Adventure

With everything cleaned up and the Alpine CarPlay installed, I was ready for adventure!

The journey that led up to this Jeep was an adventure unto itself. I had gone a few years without a car when another Jeep came along, “Oscar” was a 1993 2WD Cherokee that came to me in 2015 from a work friend. I was so excited for some cheap transportation and a Jeep to boot even if it was only 2WD. Oscar came with a rather unique paint job as you can see below. To help with re-sale, I rattle canned Oscar satin green with black trim. I definitely recouped the $60 in materials to make this a worth while project.

After a couple years of adventures in Oscar along with a new serpentine belt, new wiper motor, new heater core, new tires and countless bits and pieces here and there, we were blessed with a the gift of a brand new Ford Fiesta Hatchback. It wasn’t exactly my dream car but I absolutely loved it and loved having a new, repair free vehicle.

When this Jeep came along a year later, I knew now that I could start to wander farther and farther into the woods. At first I kept to my established habit of a leisurely drive to a favorite hiking trail for a day in the mountains. But soon, I started wandering up the Forest Service roads and started to get an idea of what I needed to make a more trail capable vehicle and began to formulate what the build would look like.

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BUILD TIP – I know how exciting it is for us new Jeep owners to start with our builds right away! Suspensions, tires, wheels, winches and on and on…. so much stuff to make our Jeep OURS! The ability to mod your jeep is just one of the reasons we all love Jeeps but taking the time to understand what you’re going to use your Jeep for will help you make the right decisions with your purchases. One of the reasons I wanted to highlight Good and Bad decisions in my Blog.