“Enthusiast Owned” + “CEL on” = “Hooned enthusiastically by someone who doesn’t care.”

Boooo bad debate form. Your one-vehicle anecdote isn’t valuable when it comes to protecting a model’s reliability. Just because you got a car outside of the bathtub doesn’t mean there’s a good probability that another buyer will be able to be so lucky.

He’s retiring, not fresh out of basic

Start your midlife crisis early.

fun, easy to wrench on, cheap, north texas? Triumph Spitfire or MGB.

dirt simple, fun to drive, cheap to buy, cheap and easy to fix, great gas mileage.

no better way to decompress after work than driving a silly little british convertible.  by the time you get home, you will forget you even went to work that day.

I’m going to go with a V6 Mustang. here’s one near dallas. $8500, 305hp, 31mpg on the hwy, 6speed, leather, premium package. https://dallas.craigslist.org/ftw/cto/d/fort-worth-2012-ford-mustang-premium-v6/7164056486.html

The irony is THIS is exactly the kind of Jeep you should acquire and focus your talents and energies on. Like another commenter said, get rid of all that other riffraff and let this one be an exception.

Young people will love this new standard and those who grown up with electric sports car will look back at combustion cars and associate their sound with weakness and unreliability. Our opinion is distorted by nostalgia and our reluctance to accept profound change. 

I’d wager the whine from this thing is due to straight cut gears.  They’re stronger than helical cut gears but really noisy. 

I don’t know, a lot of insanely powered gasoline cars, like the Hoonicorn, don’t sound “good”. They sound powerful and equally manic, but that’s just what we’ve grown accustomed to expecting out of a powerful vehicle.

Or maybe they are scared because they are using unemployment to pay their mortgage and may have to sell their house. Maybe they are worried having a junk yard down the street will hurt the value of their major investment.

Yup, this is way better than the postal pile of rust.

This. It’s almost a unicorn. It’s exactly what you should have. Dump something else. Rent space in a storage yard. Don’t let this one get away.

Its because its in too good a shape. No seriously. I don’t get it. So you were eager and happy to buy a whole bunch of junker super common XJ’s and stuff but not this? If it were me I would buy this, sell literally everything else you have except your daily driver and restore this one. It looks to be in pretty good…

You don’t need another Jeep/project/lawn decoration.

Eh, tbh i’m done with manuals on regular cars. Even if they are a manual transmission, it’s usually watered down compared to ones on dedicated sports cars. Whether it’s gears that are too tall, clutches/motor mounts that are too soft, or rubbery feeling shifters.

Just a Camper Special... ford and chevy both made them with the rear axle way back.  That out of the way.... isn't the Bronco too large to be a compact pickup base?

AMC Eagle would probably print money in this day of crossovers and SUVs built on sedan platforms.

DS but electric, including the brake button

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