rustiest MJ

[Pete M]

I'm sure there are worse looking ones out there, but this one is definitely in the running.  

 

 

[Vineyard86manch]

I can already see the ad now!

 

”These are super rare, especially in this condition, no low ballers I know what I’ve got!”

[eaglescout526]

Looks like a parts basket-case

[neohic]

The body line didn’t look near as bad as that, but I recall my old ‘88 I got years ago in a mad scramble to figure out a cheap winter beater.

 

 

There was TONS of rust all covered up with bondo! I had it and then I sold it to Austin (xjrev10). He was filling it with gas, the tank got filled enough that the weight ripped the straps out of the frame, so it got a ratchet strap all the way around the bed! I think he then drove it home to empty the tank followed by driving it across the scales. I’m sure it’s pots and pans by now. 

[JMO413]

It looks like it's trying to fold in half. 

[Pete M]

it is for sale near chicago.  I think he's asking 300.

[MJXJjeepguy]

That rare Taco comanche!!

[JMO413]

I think I'm going to try for less rust on my next one. Still have plenty to fix in the one I have!

[MJXJjeepguy]

I just looked up close on the first picture Pete post u can see there is snow plow but no plow on it right now but u can see there is light for plow no wonder rusted out. 

[Strokermjcomanche]

18 minutes ago, JMO413 said:

It looks like it's trying to fold in half. 

 Challenge accepted 

[JMO413]

15 minutes ago, Strokermjcomanche said:

 Challenge accepted 

Yep that's broken!! 

[eaglescout526]

1 minute ago, JMO413 said:

Yep that's broken!! 

JBWeld it.

[Pete M]

if it's steel, it can be mended  

[Minuit]

Just now, Pete M said:

if it's steel, it can be mended  

Although I think for these trucks, "mending" will look something like

 

Step 1: Remove license plates

Step 2: build new Jeep Comanche

Step 3: Installation reverse of removal

[Pete M]

some day I'm going to find the rustiest MJ I can and build a hidden channel frame and jump the crap out of it to everyone's amazement.  

[onebigmj]

I’ll get pictures sometime this week. The 92 I picked up has gotta be a contender.

[NHMJXJ]

[gogmorgo]

I'll play. Just dropped it off at our welder's place on the way to work this morning, we'll be looking at putting some square tube in instead of the, um... air. 

 

Don't be fooled... anywhere you see paint is the outer rocker, anywhere there's rust is the inner falling apart. 

 

 

and that's just the rockers... The bedsides are going, I'll probably get some heavy plate welded in there. The floors are still solid enough to pass an inspection... somehow. 

[omega_rugal]

and i though mine was rusted...

[dasbulliwagen]

This is a very sad thread.

[gogmorgo]

It is pretty sad. Even my ZJ, the nicest in my small fleet, is a little beyond "a touch of rust around the edges". And it got hit by a fresh splash of road salt again today. 

 

To all the locals the snow today would be nothing, but the unfortunate part of being in a resort town is all the tourists who've never driven in snow in their lives, in rental cars with garbage for tires, means the plows and sanders come back out. 

[Lthompson741]

On 6/16/2019 at 6:02 PM, Pete M said:

I'm sure there are worse looking ones out there, but this one is definitely in the running.  

 

 

This one was part of the collection where I bought mine.  (Jeep hoarder forced selling by County).   Its a little more ragged then it was, as the seller stripped the tail lights and looks like some trim.  It was a plow jeep, and the sub frame was reinforced with angle iron.  From the bed forward actually was in decent shape.  It ran and moved under it's own power as well.  I think it was only $150.00 or so when I looked at it.  It was more interested in mine and trying to save it from the scrap yard that I didn't think twice about it.  Now looking back I should of paid $150 taken the tail lights, dome lights and tail gate, and let it go to scrap.  I know a jeep flipper bought a couple things from this collection, and obviously hes trying to cash in now that it's stripped.

[NHMJXJ]

 

Another contender ... this is just sad. 

 

[Pete M]

I don't see the image, but I'm assuming you mean this gem:

 

 

[NHMJXJ]

19 minutes ago, Pete M said:

I don't see the image, but I'm assuming you mean this gem:

 

That's the one!