SoCalManche Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 The NOS tires caught my eye, and then reading the rest really stuck with me. This is next level! Just found this very cool.
Car Enthusiast Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 Man, I just am not into that stuff. I am just trying to walk a line of running the jeeps hard and not tearing them up.
derf Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 It's interesting to see that level of preservation and I totally respect what that takes. But for me the real joy is getting your vehicle out on the road and/or the trails and driving it. I'd much rather have a restomod 71 Chevelle with a well built modern drivetrain than a factory original SS with the LS6 454. I'd drool over the factory original at the car show but let someone else keep it like that.
Car Enthusiast Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 I don't even lust after original cars anymore. I want to save those for the guys who enjoy that. My drooling is clean no rust shells! I think the desire for all original cars comes from back in the day when it was hard to bring a car back from being hacked up. When my Dad and I was looking for my first car that is all he would look at, and I get it. Back when 100k miles was a death sentence for a car. Now I don't even really care about mileage, just if it is going to make me do a lot of work on it.
Pete M Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 these reasons are why it's important to own multiple MJs. I certainly wouldn't want my only MJ to be a show queen.
silvertwinkiehobo Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 Bear in mind, this was a full-on restoration, not a hardly-touched unicorn. So someone (or multiple someone's) certainly got their use and enjoyment from this car. It may never be your 'cup of tea,' but I see the next-level restoration effort the man made to this car. It is a museum piece, and deserves to not be driven around as a DD anymore.
derf Posted July 14, 2020 Posted July 14, 2020 1 hour ago, silvertwinkiehobo said: Bear in mind, this was a full-on restoration, not a hardly-touched unicorn. So someone (or multiple someone's) certainly got their use and enjoyment from this car. It may never be your 'cup of tea,' but I see the next-level restoration effort the man made to this car. It is a museum piece, and deserves to not be driven around as a DD anymore. I agree that it's an impressive body of work. It does belong in a museum. Totally respect the effort that went into it. It's just not what I'd do with my MJs.
Car Enthusiast Posted July 14, 2020 Posted July 14, 2020 19 hours ago, Pete M said: these reasons are why it's important to own multiple MJs. I certainly wouldn't want my only MJ to be a show queen. Now that is a good selling point for getting a long bed I absolutely love full restorations, but just so you can restart the clock on enjoying whatever you got.
Torq_Shep Posted July 14, 2020 Posted July 14, 2020 25 minutes ago, Car Enthusiast said: Now that is a good selling point for getting a long bed I absolutely love full restorations, but just so you can restart the clock on enjoying whatever you got. While I am actually enthralled with this TE27 I agree with you. I would love a pristine comanche (or hell even a "nice" one), but only so I could pretend it was new. Will it ever happen? Probably not with this one =P
ComancheKid45 Posted July 14, 2020 Posted July 14, 2020 On 7/13/2020 at 12:43 PM, Pete M said: these reasons are why it's important to own multiple MJs. I certainly wouldn't want my only MJ to be a show queen. I concur.
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