NorthwestMJ Posted April 24, 2023 Posted April 24, 2023 I was driving to work a while ago and saw a Comanche in a driveway not far from where I work. After reading about the street Comanches for a while at work I was convinced that I had found one. I even took a creeper shot of it while on my way to send to my good buddy wranglermangler to get his opinion…. So Saturday I saw the guy who has it working in his yard. After much persuasion by WranglerMangler to find out if it was a street Comanche, I pulled in and asked. It wasn’t. It was, however, a remarkable find. It’s an 88 with a complete paint matched Archer Brothers body kit never installed, besides the air dam. The truck has the 2.5 with 120k on the clock, good taillights, has the same very rare rear bumper as my 87 MJ, a great bedliner, vent windows and is complete and supposedly runs! Needless to say I offered the guy some cash…. And I now have two MJ’s! This one is going to be a restoration to all of it’s 80’s glory! We can blame all of this on WranglerMangler….. meet TealSteel!
Salvagedcircuit Posted April 25, 2023 Posted April 25, 2023 Holy Jamolies! What a find. Clean her up good and polish to the moon. What a score indeed. Plz update us with your restoration work
WranglerMangler Posted April 25, 2023 Posted April 25, 2023 Well, you could have said “Hey WranglerMangler, I found another Comanche for you to buy!” We want more Pictures!!!! What a beautiful little truck.
NorthwestMJ Posted April 25, 2023 Author Posted April 25, 2023 3 hours ago, Salvagedcircuit said: Holy Jamolies! What a find. Clean her up good and polish to the moon. What a score indeed. Plz update us with your restoration work Will do!!!
jpnjake Posted April 25, 2023 Posted April 25, 2023 Wow what a score, I can’t wait to see what this turns out like, a full archer kit in blue Congrats on such a nice find
pizzaman09 Posted April 25, 2023 Posted April 25, 2023 Darn cool looking truck. Those wheels go with the theme so well.
NorthwestMJ Posted April 26, 2023 Author Posted April 26, 2023 20 hours ago, pizzaman09 said: Darn cool looking truck. Those wheels go with the theme so well. Thanks! I love them too!
NorthwestMJ Posted May 2, 2023 Author Posted May 2, 2023 Got the truck home on Thursday! Due to work and some house projects I needed to get done, didn’t get to the truck until today. Began by pressure washing the truck and going through what was there vs. what wasn’t. So far, the what’s not list is very short. A gray passenger side window crank and the shift knob. It also seems to be missing the tube assembly from the warm air port on the air box and needs new headlights. Other than that she’s great! Here’s a picture of the rest of the Archer Brothers kit in all of its glory! Still need to dust it off.
NHMJXJ Posted May 5, 2023 Posted May 5, 2023 Quite the score. I didn't realize the entire kit was painted. You did good!
NorthwestMJ Posted May 5, 2023 Author Posted May 5, 2023 5 hours ago, NHMJXJ said: Quite the score. I didn't realize the entire kit was painted. You did good! Yep! The PO had the truck since 90 and got the kit directly from Archer Brothers. He had it painted to match the truck and never installed it for one reason or another.
NorthwestMJ Posted May 7, 2023 Author Posted May 7, 2023 12 hours ago, Jlindsey86 said: Too cool, nice find! Thanks!!!
Pete M Posted May 14, 2023 Posted May 14, 2023 On 5/2/2023 at 2:05 PM, NorthwestMJ said: No, I need to! ?
NorthwestMJ Posted May 15, 2023 Author Posted May 15, 2023 4 hours ago, Pete M said: ? Get this truck on the registry!
Pete M Posted May 15, 2023 Posted May 15, 2023 2 minutes ago, NorthwestMJ said: Get this truck on the registry! yes, so what's the hold up? grab that vin!
WranglerMangler Posted May 15, 2023 Posted May 15, 2023 Don’t forget the ‘87 too while your at it. We know your holding out on us
WranglerMangler Posted December 19, 2023 Posted December 19, 2023 What happened to our pictures?!! There’s no way your daily driving this thing now without a single new post!!??
Salvagedcircuit Posted December 19, 2023 Posted December 19, 2023 I think I'll chime in here: Man this thing is soo unique. It must be a treasure to see it pass by.
NorthwestMJ Posted December 19, 2023 Author Posted December 19, 2023 Wow! I see how it is! I guess I’ll have to see what I can do. I’ve been kind of inactive lately due to school, right now I’m in between semesters so I guess I’ll have to work on trucks… I appreciate the kind words guys. I won’t let you down.
watchamakalit Posted December 19, 2023 Posted December 19, 2023 I'd be down for an update too. Show us some more of that archer porn.
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