The 5 and 6 share a front clip with variations between early, intermediate, and late(55-71, 72-75, 76-83) which are not identical. The 7 and 8 share a front clip as well but are not the same as the 5/6 parts.

I thought the Mahindra started life as a cj-5, not certain enough to argue though :)

Unless you live on the west coast the issue is more availability than anything, most across the rest of the US rotted away and we’re scrapped long ago. I ended up lucking out and got mine for a song off of a guy in rural IL. I’m really not sure who got the better deal as I’m several thousand dollars and countless man…

This is awesome! You only got me with the cj-10.

As a Systems Engineer myself: Phone monitoring and management, expensive but simple to see EVERYTHING you have done on it. Personal laptop on company wifi, cheap and easy to see EVERYTHING you have done on it on the internet.

I don’t know about where you live, but here in Missouri most cops ride Harleys so they are quite biased towards motorcycles. I’ve personally rode my old bike for a year with expired tags and never got pulled over. You have to be doing something really stupid on a bike to get a ticket here.

I’m voting for hardtails. With 0 rear suspension (usually combined with extreme rake and ape hangars) makes the bikes extremely unpleasant to ride without any notable benifit.

This isn’t a mod, for a while in the 90s manufacturers would pulse the headlight to lessen the load on the electrical system. Turned out to not be useful savings so it isn’t done anymore.

That naked goldwing gives me a serious case of want...

Yeah- when you make a vehicle in a brand with serious off road heritage, you shouldn’t use the platform of a mediocre front wheel drive sedan (the caliber). The results were even worse than expected...

I was talking the fact that the XJ was unibody construction. The renegade is also an ‘upgraded’ suspension technology from the coils and solid axles that the XJ, ZJ, and TJ had. Independent front and rear suspension, while weaker than solid axles, it offers substantially better on road manners and the potential for…

People said the same thing with the advent of the unibody XJ and that turned out well.

I’d say two things:

I love 70s Hondas as well for most of the reasons you mentioned. My 71 500 is nearly mechanically identical to your 550 except with slightly worse brakes and a little less power.

I love the old universal Japanese motorcycle, I’ve had 4... They look great, are comfortable, and are easy to keep running.

I ride a 71 Honda CB500 K0

Man, you are lucky you’re sane after all you’ve been through!

I had an old truck I could pull off something similar with. An 87 ford that didn’t have much floor left-there were a couple of holess I could fit my boots though...

Way to go getting the bike back on the road. I did that to my 71 cb500 this spring after it sat for last year.

I would say the Jeep, specifically the cj7. When Chrysler bought it they had big shoes to fill and did ok. The YJ never matched the CJ though.