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This story started on February 9th, 2015, I was in my junior year of high school And looking through craigslist I found a beautiful mildly clapped comanche for the perfect price of $450. 6 days later It was all mine...... now being a much simpler person back then I though it was the best deal that had ever been put on Craigslist, from the pictures you can see that it was a death trap that should have went to the scrapyard, but not on my watch, I was going to pull that hunk of metal from grips of the shredder and dump $#!& loads of money into it so I could drink beer and run it into trees. And that’s exactly what I’ve been doing ever since.

Photobucket ruined all versions of this build on the internet, and people have asked on other forums if I had the old pictures. I do, but it's a lot to sort though, so I've basically decided to post the build over from the beginning, just much more condensed than it was originally. I am going to upload everything to Imgur, so hopefully they don't pull a Photobucket at some point, but we could cross that bridge when the time comes. Since I was doing that anyways I figured I'd throw it in here, as it really takes no added effort and some of it is applicable to the MJ platform. The day I bought it: I had actually thought it was an SJ Cherokee based on the terrible ad and the owner's lack of helpfulness. Turns out it was an XJ, but for $100 I couldn't say no. It didn't run, but as it turned out it was just the ground cable off the battery. I should have sold it right there, pocketed the couple hundred in profit I could have made, and moved on. But nooooooooo. It honestly was terrible. Rust, disgusting interior, hack repairs... The piece of aluminum instead of a back window was a nice touch. Disgusting. Steering column was all torn up because of a NSS issue and really bad troubleshooting. Yeah.