Crazy small world we live in.

[gogmorgo]

For the last three summers, I've been buying coffee from the same lady every morning on my way to work. I usually walk to work, but I had a training session today that was a few miles away, so today I took the MJ. The lady was outside setting up their patio when I pulled up. She got all excited about seeing my MJ, because she used to have one just like it.

Thanks to some paperwork I got from my MJ, I threw out a name of a previous owner (before the one I got it from).

 

It's her husband. She didn't own an MJ just like mine, she owned MY MJ,

 

Craziness.

 

I suppose everyone wonders about their vehicle's previous owners at some point. Maybe even they want to meet them.

I wonder how often it turns out that someone you already knew has owned your vehicle without you realizing it?

[AeroNautical]

That's an awesome coincidence. With the shape my MJ was in when I bought it, I wouldn't ever want to meet a PO, not even the one I bought it from, haha. 

[Minuit]

I pretty much know exactly who owned my MJ, when, and what it did during that time, and it is pretty interesting to know. I wish I had pictures of back when it was shiny and new (I have looked and none exist). Any time I see vintage pictures (or especially videos, like the '89 dealer videos that were posted a while ago) of MJs when they were new I feel motivation to work on mine some more.

[64 Cheyenne]

Yup, the Chiefs PO told me "Burns out in all four tires!"

[gogmorgo]

Well, in some ways I'm better off only knowing the wife of the guy who worked on it. I know the people I got it from weren't the kind who would do their own work. I'm pretty positive at least that those two aren't responsible for the engine nearly falling out (any more than I am for not noticing the missing/loose bellhousing bolts (those things don't just fall out), or the hackery that was done to the rear bumper, or the galvanized glasspack that was welded onto the cat, or the CB antenna mount screwed directly into the back of the cab with sheetmetal screws with no attempt at rustproofing them of any kind...

 

Mind you, at least I could change the oil, not like my Lada where I'm pretty convinced the PO tightened the drain pliug with a 7/16 hex and an impact, stripping out the 12mm hexagon while hammering it so far down that even a slightly larege torx bit pounded into corners of the hex wouldn't turn it...