how did you find a love for the comanche?

[boardmanMJ]

I'm just alittle curious about how everyone came to find out about the comanche. some bought them new from the dealer and some found out by accident. for me, when i was a youngin (I'm talking 9 or 10 years old) my friends dad had a black sportruck edition. i never knew the name of it until i got older but i always remembered it at "the jeep sport truck" i forgot about it for y thena long time about 5 years ago when i started driving i needed a car i googled "jeep sport truck" and the comanche came up. i didnt know anything about them but i found one at a dealership and i remember it like it was yesterday. it was a silver pioneer edition that was 2wd with a longbox and a camper shell with red interior, and the worst part......it was a completely rust free 92.... i passed on the opportunity because i didnt know how few and far between the comanche is anymore and i was looking for something 4wd :doh: if i could go back intime with all the knowledge i have today i would have had it in a heartbeat.

 

 

so whats your story?

 

 

 

Josh

[Jeep Driver]

After owning a couple of XJs I started looking for a J10, they are either rust bucket, trail trash, or out of my price range. I chose the MJ for the ease of parts swap and availability of parts. I also like owning something that not everyone else owns.

 

My last truck was a Ranger, 12 years since new and 249K miles later I decided to part with it. I'll now own nothing but Jeep.

[86customanche]

I had wanted a pickup since I started driving about 8 years ago but never found the right one for the right price. Over the years all of my friends had jeeps that we all worked on like a religion so I knew I wanted a Jeep so I looked into it. I quickly found the perfect match a beautiful creation. Now the only problem was finding one close by that wasnt a total POS. The first one I found was but the second is great and I'm always looking for the next one.

[shawn]

same as a lot of others. i had an xj that i took over from my wife and she got another xj. i put many miles on the one i drove and had a lot of adventures - loved it. then when i found that i wanted a little pick-up to haul stuff to the dump with, i started thinking about a toyota or an s-10 and suddenly remembered that jeep made a little pick-up too.

i started searching craigslist and there were only 2 around at the time. so i took the bus down to vancouver and looked at one -then looked at the other , then went back and made an offer on the first one. and brought it home. ------- it needed alot more than i realized but there was something about driving it that was definitely different than any truck i had owned before.

i still have it . it's the white '91 4x4 elim in my thumbnail pic. i also had the blue 89 pioneer 4x4 for a couple of years and totally regret selling it. these days I'm DDing an 86 "x" and even though its a long box, - it's definitely the one ive had the most fun with to date.

[SW86]

i was looking for a two door XJ which was (and still is) not an easy feat. stumbled across an old craigslist ad and bam, there it was. i knew right then and emailed the guy. i called the next day and that weekend i went and drove it home 2 1/2 hours. havent looked back since. the guy told me the ad wasnt even supposed to be there anymore. he tried to delete it several times after no one really showed interest. the ad finally went away the day after i bought it.

 

i think it was fate.

[pwrliftin]

Got mine in a trade. I was getting rid of my 82 VW Jetta(diesel) and the guy offered it to me as a straight up trade. I had seen 1 other in my life and thought it was cool. So I took it. Now looking back I wish I would have sold the VW and bought a different MJ, but I got one and thats all that matters now!

[pwrliftin]

Got mine in a trade. I was getting rid of my 82 VW Jetta(diesel) and the guy offered it to me as a straight up trade. I had seen 1 other in my life and thought it was cool. So I took it. Now looking back I wish I would have sold the VW and bought a different MJ, but I got one and thats all that matters now!

[Backdraft]

OK, I'll play. It was in 1992 when I was 15. My dad took me around to all the dealerships to look at trucks. We stopped at the GMC dealer and I was dead set on a Sonoma. A friend of mine had one and I thought it was sharp. Told pops that I was done looking. He said wait a minute, we have one more place to go first. Reluctant as I was, we ended up at the Jeep dealer where a barely used blue 1986 4 cylinder auto 4x4 was sitting. I walked around it a few times checking it out. It wasn't blowing my skirt up because I was still thinking about the Sonoma. Anyway, it was cheaper so naturally dad picked it. Brought it home the next day and I played with it a little until my 16th birthday, slowly and quietly favoring it over the GMC. Drove it for 6 weeks from my birthday until on Christmas Eve I emptied it of oil and drove it 11 miles back home. Needless to say I threw a rod and killed it. Dad was none too happy about it. He yelled at me for 3 hours solid. I spent 3 years of high school and 4 years of college begging him to let me fix it. Let me buy a new engine. Anything to get it running again. I had fallen fast in love with my go anywhere/do anything Jeep. He refused each time telling me that everytime I look at it, it will be a constant reminder to check all my fluids. Well that lesson stuck! Anyway, I lost my dad in a work related accident in January of 2006 and inherited the truck. By then the paint was peeling, the wiring was chewed to oblivian by mice, etc, etc. The state of the truck put me on the hunt for one in better condition. In 2009 I found the black Eliminator and that got me back in the game with Comanches. I built it to honor my dad for all the tough lessons I learned from him that did nothing but better me. Now I think he's up there laughing since I started another one with my son.

[Blue88Comanche]

I had no other chose but to get my MJ. When mom and dad where buying the F-250 they traded in the Dodge Dakota v8 4.7L. that left me with my Grandfather's 1988 Pioneer 4x4. well lets just say I hated it to start with and leave it at that.... after about a year or so dad had it repainted as a gift and that is when i think I fell in love with my Comanche, and when my obsession began.

 

now everyone at the auto parts store knows me as the Jeep guy, and my family asks what i did on my MJ last weekend.

[buxmj]

Mine started with my first mj, an 86 4 cyl automatic. I think I was frustrated with the lack of power I had but I loved the look and ride of that mj, so I bought a brand new one, 4.0 5 speed. That was 22 years and 246,500 miles ago.

Buck.

[GummiBeer]

I liked these trucks as a kid/young teen. When i moved to the north of canada for work i met a fellow east coaster with a 2.5 sportuck. We became best friends and worked together. I did the maintenance on his truck and never ever asked anything for it cause he was my buddy. One day he calls me and tells me he found a 4.0 4x4 that he was getting, i offered to buy his. A few hours later he came by my placeand we went for a coffee in the new one and he gave me the old 89 2.5. I loved them ever since

[XxStirCrazedxX]

Had my xj for a few years and we needed a second car so I jumped on cl and first thing I seen was a 86 mj. Blown head gasket and wanted 300. Kept looking around but kept going back to the add cuz I had never seen one. Asked the guy if he would take 200 and didn't hear anything back, month later I get a call asking if I was still interested and told him I had to think about it. After few days I offered him 100 and a speaker box and he jumped on it. Hooked tow dolly to my xj and went and got it. Got it home change all the fluids and been driving ever sense. Figured out the head gasket wasn't blown was just alittle water in oil from sitting. That's what started my addiction, now I have 2 and been looking at another.

[txjeeptx]

Jeeps are all I've ever had, up until getting married. I still have my high school YJ as a rock-crawler, but I was using it as a daily driver back in 'o4 when I bought a house with a bare-dirt yard. I needed something to haul soil and landscaping stuff in, since my YJ couldn't do the job very well(hauled a lot of mulch and plants with it before getting the MJ), and I couldn't keep a utility trailer due to HOA rules(moved out of that 'hood, now no HOA where I live). I searched for half a year to find a decent 4.o/AX-15 MJ, and settled on the one I have now because it has a D44 rear axle, even though its a 2wd(always planned on converting to 4wd, but never got to it). Its been a rough time for me and my MJ, suffering through two not-my-fault accidents and lame insurance adjusters and an expensive crappy paint job, and I'm currently contemplating selling it(have ad posted, but no bites) since I have a newer/bigger/"safer" truck to drive now . . but driving it all day yesterday makes me 2nd guess the thought of parting with it. It may well become my son's first truck, although maybe that isn't fair to it, for all its already been through. I keep tellin myself I can always build another someday, but . . .

[hick92]

well i totaled my 93 chevy silverado then after a while i went to the local dealership and i always liked jeeps but i really wanted a truck and he just got a light blue 91 2wd comanche in i went and test drove it the windshield was about to fall out needless to say $1500 later he called the windshield guy and it was setting out front

[Paul Bruchal]

When I was 16, I was getting dropped off at a summer job. I got enough money to buy my first vehicle. I wanted a MR2, but my step-dad kinda forced his 1988 MJ Pioneer on me. I said "okay, I guess". It was in Washington, so he took my $ :fs1:, flew to the west coast, trailer-ed the MJ all the way back to NC. It had a 3" lift with 31" tires with a clean body.

 

I think the reason why I own another MJ is because I like the confused attention my MJ gets :D and the 4x4 capabilities it has.

And in HS, I always had a ton of girls hanging out in the bed of the MJ :thumbsup:.

And I no girls liked my Mitsu Eclipse after my 1st MJ was killed. RIP :(

 

Plus its a Jeep Truck!

[87MJTIM]

I married mine.

 

No, really. I got out of college in 86. I own a POS Datsun B210 (Pre-Nissan). It lost a it muffler one day. I pulled into a Ford dealer and bought a 87 Mustang 5.0. Thought I was Hot $#!&.

 

My girl friend/ soon to be fiance/soon to become wife got out of college in 87. She bought the Comanche in July 87.

 

She drove the Comanche until 89 when we get a Cherokee. I sold the 'stang and started driving the Comanche. I LOVE this truck.

 

It was my DD until 97 when I got a Wrangler. The Comanche sat for years. I'd drive it on weekends or to the hardware store. There were a few years it got less then 1000 mile. Literaly, I would fill the the gas twice in a year.

 

After getting rid of the Cherokee, Wrangler, Durango, Chevy Silverodo, we got a Suburban 8 liter (god, I dislike this beast) for towing a travel trailer. I started driving the Comanche again. I fell in love all over again.

 

It is 25 yrs old with 262k mile. I hope it lasts 25 more.

[dfreeman616]

i had a cherokee and my wife was driving a nissan altima, until she got in an accident that thankfully didn't hurt her too badly, but totaled the car. i had to find something quick and cheap. did some searching on another 4x4 forum, found a link to a MJ for sale on here, and got a buddy to go tow it with his f350 and trailer from IL back to MI. $200, some diesel fuel, and dinner later, i had a truck i had to piece a few things back together on and drove for quite awhile.