My grandfather left me an ‘83 Scrambler with 9648 original miles on it. Its sitting in a barn right now till I can get a garage built to properly work on it.

Is this a thing now on Craigslist to post pictures of the car you’re selling with a more interesting car in the background? Yesterday’s listing did it too.

This is a rust free California owned and very clean CJ-8. I’ll buy as many of them at this price as I can find. Now I just need to find an AMC 401 to build for it. 

Dave, I was about to call you out - bimini is boats, bikini is jeeps. But I just looked at the Quadratec catalog and they’ve renamed all the old bikini tops as bimini. That’s really weird. In the 90's you would order a bikini top from them for a CJ. If you were ordering for a YJ with the extended roll bar, you ordered…

I love the idea of a CJ8. Buuuut, I can tell you from experience (Had one in the 90s) That extra storage space comes at the expense of departure angles. I would just start with either a CJ7 or YJ. Buy one of the many frame/body extensions kits. And have fun.

Both “bikini” & “bimini” are technically spelled correctly, so it’s not a matter of spell check.

So the seller can take a picture of the matching hot wheels car but not the engine bay? 

I’m not sure what the people who are posting CP on this CJ-8 have been smoking this morning, but the price is much lower than the going rate:

“It also was never officially called the Scrambler. Jeep named the model CJ-8 as that was the next in line in the CJ series.”

No low ballers or tire kickers.

Mechanicals start off with a 4.2-litre AMC OHV six

Odd but consistent ’80s fetish.

If this is the vehicle you want, it is a NP as long as it looks good in person. These are rare so the price may be deserved. The seller deserves less though for documenting a $14K 35-year old unicorn with a pathetic five images.

Exactly. Pictures and words on Craigslist are free. Dude can’t be bothered to get an under the hood or interior shot?

I’d be curious to find out what the other side of it looks like.

It’s a great truck but waaay too much money to be asking while leaving out such basics as the odo reading.

Nice Price or Crack Pipe?

These are rad. But the gods honest truth is this is vehicle is going to need constant attention. Jeeps are made to be used. Most people with Jeeps use them hard (compared to their road-going counterparts). Its old too. Its likely seen a lot of offroad, water, mud, terrain use.

Is it just me or do these just look wrong without the 80s graphics on the side?

Crack pipe. Scramblers are one of my favorite Jeeps ever. Unfortunately, they are the highest of the 70s-80s CJ rigs. You can still find reasonably priced local CJ5/7 Jeeps but as soon as it goes to CJ8 no matter the condition there is a massive price jump.