Just got done with the most expensive upgrade to date

[Boudroux]

I just stuck my red letter sticker on the rig and got a little tearyed eyed reflecting back on my first jeep purchase 7 months ago.

Thanks to this great group of folks and all the information and knowledge I gained on this site I'm now addicted like a crackhead. Axles, tires, armor, stiffners, where does this shit stop? I've blown a hole in my budget a mile wide and growing and there is no turning back now.

F you all! :firedevil

 

[souske]

It stops when you sell it to fund a buggy build

 

[David_Bricker]

It doesn't ever stop. Period.

David "people have budgets for XJs?" Bricker / SYR

 

[Boudroux]

It stops when you sell it to fund a buggy build

Funny I found myself happy on a bottle of wine the other night looking for sub $800 XJ's with the silly notion of dragging one home and doing something stupid with it.

 

[Lurch]

The best part is you'll be selling all of those brand new parts you just got in a year on the classifieds for half the price you paid for them in order to upgrade to something better and shinier. :scottm:

 

[Boudroux]

The best part is you'll be selling all of those brand new parts you just got in a year on the classifieds for half the price you paid for them in order to upgrade to something better and shinier. :scottm:

Yea that part I'm used to from years of racing dirtbikes except Jeep parts are 3+ times as expensive.

This all started last year when my wife announced I spend to much on dirtbikes and racing. She insisted I get a cheaper hobby and suggested a jeep. LOL A month or so ago after the kids were in bed she looked at me all lovingly and said "maybe you should start racing dirtbikes again." All I could do was look her in the eye and say NO F'ING WAY!

 

[mako my day]

This is fantastic.

 

[garrett83]

She must not know the acronym for JEEP, Just Empty Every Pocket...

Don't ever, never, let her know.

Oh, and the buggy builds start as soon as the jeep is flopped or rolled... Don't ever, never, tell her that either...

Carry on

 

[xDUMPTRUCKx]

then comes the post buggy " oh i miss a normal full body jeep"

then you get into grand wagoneers, sport trucks, and rare Venezuelan xjs.

 

[Boudroux]

then comes the post buggy " oh i miss a normal full body jeep"

then you get into grand wagoneers, sport trucks, and rare Venezuelan xjs.

The Venezuelan model come with a piece of glass on the dash and a bump stopped straw for the blow?

 

[Jeepnut1]

The Venezuelan model come with a piece of glass on the dash and a bump stopped straw for the blow?

No. Thats the Columbian model, The Venezuelan model comes with it's own oil well and is carried by poor people.

 

[GSequoia]

people have budgets for XJs?

Yes. It's that thing you hide from your wife.

 

[Ronbo]

Yes. It's that thing you hide from your wife.

Hiding the budget is easy. Getting FedEx to hide the deliveries, not so easy.

 

[Boudroux]

I'm guilty of having a thing or two shipped to my buddies house over the years.

 

[JeepBTDT]

and everything 'only cost $100'.

 

[bails85]

Because of Naxja I have turned my $1000 xj into a $8000 investment. I'm still wait for the market to build some equity

 

[Anak]

She must not know the acronym for JEEP, Just Empty Every Pocket...

Don't ever, never, let her know.

Oh, and the buggy builds start as soon as the jeep is flopped or rolled... Don't ever, never, tell her that either...

Carry on

The Bride saw this.

And smacked me.

You guys are getting me in nothing but trouble.

:confused1

 

[1904-96xj]

Don't forget the ol "It's easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission" speech. Mine usually goes, "But honey, I already bought it. Sure, they'll take it back, but then I have to spend all the money to ship it and a restocking fee. It's here and the Jeep needs it, so I might as well just keep it."

 

[garrett83]

Well...

 

[mako my day]

He has my beard.