Long time Jeep owner, figured I’d join the group here.
Just picked up an Electric Lime Green, 2005 Rubicon with 40,000 original miles! 6 spd manual, bone stock minus some new Duratracs and a Bestop soft top. Only thing it’s lacking that we were hoping for is a hardtop, but I’m sure I can find one this summer.
This is going to be my daughters first vehicle, she’s 15 now and has her permit and is super excited about the Jeep. She won’t be 16 until next January, so she won’t be tearing up the roads in our little town (by herself) for a while, that also gives us some time to get it setup the way she wants.
Here’s a pic the day we picked it up and then the next day at home after getting some snow overnight...
Plans for it at the moment are a good “daily driver worthy” lift to clear some 33’s, new wheels, better lighting, some clean bumpers, better rock sliders, and maybe some corner armor and fenders to help keep other kids from banging it up too bad in the high school parking lot! Plus we’ve had a handful of built jeeps over the years, so she’s familiar with them and likes the look/style of some of the rock crawler accessories, pretty much gonna build her a mini mall crawler. Before any of that though, Mom says first addition needs to be a real roll cage lol, so that will likely be first order of business!
Here’s a few of our most recent Jeeps we bought/built/wheeled/sold over the last few years (only ones I have pictures of on my phone)...
1992 YJ, 4.0, 5spd, twin stick Atlas, 60 front/14 bolt rear, 40’s, stretched, geared, locked, armored, etc...
2001 TJ, 318 Dodge V8, 5 spd, Atlas, 60 front, 14 Bolt rear, 3 link front/4 link rear, 40’s, coilovers, stretched, etc, etc, etc...
2007 JKU, 6.0 LS, 6L80e with tap shift, rubicon 4:1 tcase, 60’s front and rear, 5.38’s, e-lockers, armored all around, wheelbase stretched 2” front and 1.5” rear, trimmed lots of sheet metal to clear 40’s on a 4” long arm lift. Even built a custom roof rack at one point to hold a roof top rent so we could do some “overlanding” trips with it lol...
Have had a few more through the years, love Toyota’s too, so we’ve had a fair share of Tacoma’s, 4runners and FJ40’s as rock crawlers and even a few pre-runners built for the desert!
Obviously not looking to get too carried away with the new Rubi for the kid, but hoping her and I can put together a nice clean daily driver for her, will be fun to spend some more time in the garage together and help her build something she can be proud of!
Just picked up an Electric Lime Green, 2005 Rubicon with 40,000 original miles! 6 spd manual, bone stock minus some new Duratracs and a Bestop soft top. Only thing it’s lacking that we were hoping for is a hardtop, but I’m sure I can find one this summer.
This is going to be my daughters first vehicle, she’s 15 now and has her permit and is super excited about the Jeep. She won’t be 16 until next January, so she won’t be tearing up the roads in our little town (by herself) for a while, that also gives us some time to get it setup the way she wants.
Here’s a pic the day we picked it up and then the next day at home after getting some snow overnight...
Plans for it at the moment are a good “daily driver worthy” lift to clear some 33’s, new wheels, better lighting, some clean bumpers, better rock sliders, and maybe some corner armor and fenders to help keep other kids from banging it up too bad in the high school parking lot! Plus we’ve had a handful of built jeeps over the years, so she’s familiar with them and likes the look/style of some of the rock crawler accessories, pretty much gonna build her a mini mall crawler. Before any of that though, Mom says first addition needs to be a real roll cage lol, so that will likely be first order of business!
Here’s a few of our most recent Jeeps we bought/built/wheeled/sold over the last few years (only ones I have pictures of on my phone)...
1992 YJ, 4.0, 5spd, twin stick Atlas, 60 front/14 bolt rear, 40’s, stretched, geared, locked, armored, etc...
2001 TJ, 318 Dodge V8, 5 spd, Atlas, 60 front, 14 Bolt rear, 3 link front/4 link rear, 40’s, coilovers, stretched, etc, etc, etc...
2007 JKU, 6.0 LS, 6L80e with tap shift, rubicon 4:1 tcase, 60’s front and rear, 5.38’s, e-lockers, armored all around, wheelbase stretched 2” front and 1.5” rear, trimmed lots of sheet metal to clear 40’s on a 4” long arm lift. Even built a custom roof rack at one point to hold a roof top rent so we could do some “overlanding” trips with it lol...
Have had a few more through the years, love Toyota’s too, so we’ve had a fair share of Tacoma’s, 4runners and FJ40’s as rock crawlers and even a few pre-runners built for the desert!
Obviously not looking to get too carried away with the new Rubi for the kid, but hoping her and I can put together a nice clean daily driver for her, will be fun to spend some more time in the garage together and help her build something she can be proud of!
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). Welcome to the forum. Please stick around - it looks like you've been around the block a few times.
