Part 1: Introduction and Buying my First Jeep
My bro Davin bought a Silver '03 Sport in May of last year. Two of my really good friends, Calvin and Jon, had Jeeps too, one a Green '97 TJ Sport and one a White '05 Rubicon. They'd been telling me forever that I needed to get myself a Jeep. And Calvin (Green '97) let me drive for most of a weekend out wheeling and it was a blast. My bro getting one was the icing on the cake.
So I looked at lots of Jeeps in the autotrader and stuff but didn't find anything that really caught my eye. Then about a week after my bro got his I found one on a lot that really caught my eye. It was an '04 Rocky Mountain Edition, had 31x10.5" BFG Mud Terrains on it, nice aluminum rims, beautiful embroidered seats, blue paint with dark grey painted fender flares, the same grey again on the Rubicon rocker panel guards, cruise, etc.. I loved it (I think the tires did the most for me!) and promptly bought it.
I instantly started having a tonne of fun with the Jeep going offroad and it was only about 3 more weeks until another of our good friends got a Black '00 Sport. So we have a nice little group of tight friends with Jeeps now and it's just about perfect. Jon has the nicest Jeep so far with his '05 Rubicon since he's got a RE 4.5" Superflex lift, 33" tires, and lots of other goodies.
So.. the race is on to get the Jeep built up. We've been on some serious wheeling trips and I'm looking forward to making this Jeep into a whopping machine. As of this writing I'm not too far along with the Jeep yet, but I want to keep a build thread that I'll add to as I go and I can one day look back on and get some laughs. I've always found reading other's threads really interesting as well, so this is my thread.
My bro Davin bought a Silver '03 Sport in May of last year. Two of my really good friends, Calvin and Jon, had Jeeps too, one a Green '97 TJ Sport and one a White '05 Rubicon. They'd been telling me forever that I needed to get myself a Jeep. And Calvin (Green '97) let me drive for most of a weekend out wheeling and it was a blast. My bro getting one was the icing on the cake.
So I looked at lots of Jeeps in the autotrader and stuff but didn't find anything that really caught my eye. Then about a week after my bro got his I found one on a lot that really caught my eye. It was an '04 Rocky Mountain Edition, had 31x10.5" BFG Mud Terrains on it, nice aluminum rims, beautiful embroidered seats, blue paint with dark grey painted fender flares, the same grey again on the Rubicon rocker panel guards, cruise, etc.. I loved it (I think the tires did the most for me!) and promptly bought it.
I instantly started having a tonne of fun with the Jeep going offroad and it was only about 3 more weeks until another of our good friends got a Black '00 Sport. So we have a nice little group of tight friends with Jeeps now and it's just about perfect. Jon has the nicest Jeep so far with his '05 Rubicon since he's got a RE 4.5" Superflex lift, 33" tires, and lots of other goodies.
So.. the race is on to get the Jeep built up. We've been on some serious wheeling trips and I'm looking forward to making this Jeep into a whopping machine. As of this writing I'm not too far along with the Jeep yet, but I want to keep a build thread that I'll add to as I go and I can one day look back on and get some laughs. I've always found reading other's threads really interesting as well, so this is my thread.