A great email turned into a great pissing contest,
The one thing I got from the ORIGINAL posting is this: the XJ, MJ, Cherokee, Comanche, Wangy XJ or whatever the hell you call it is one hell of a vehicle, its reliable and tough, it can get you from the mountains to the mall it can have a little 4 banger or someone could have put 426 hemi in it but what makes it real is someone is uses it, preferably off-road and they are proud of it.
A door off my 91' over the weekend (at my house, not on the trail) and I have had to drive my FREE 89' to work this week. Are either of them real XJ's? I probably spend to much time working/drinking/sleeping/chasing girls/reading this forum to take them wheelin’ as much as I should, although I did spend all last Saturday bouncing around southern Oregon trails after a driving 350+ miles up from the Bay Area and then drove home.
Do you have a real XJ?
I think that should be answered with another questions (extraneous personal or mechanical circumstances aside)
- Has your Jeep been off the pavement in the last 30 days? How about 60?
- Have you put your Jeep into 4 wheel drive in the last 30/60 days? (part 2 do you have to look in the owner manual to put your Jeep into 4 wheel drive)
- Do you check out other XJ’s when you see them?
- Do you spend lost of time trying to plotting/saving for/building your XJ so its even more ‘yours’
If the answers are mostly yes you probably own a ‘real’ XJ, if the answers are mostly no you probably just drive a Jeep and you’re probably pretty happy with that too.
BTW I think EAGLE has the market cornered on XJ knowledge and if we let him have the MJ preservation thing too he's likely take over the world, I am all about mutany boys