New to CF! I just picked up my '87 XJ on 08-29-2012 with 61k original miles on it working on a self paid college budget so itll be slow but shell be a beauty! Sorry for all the dark cell phone pics, ill have my camera next week


gassing her up on the way home from picking her up


first night at home


all the chrome on the front was ugly so i pulled the grill and bezels painted them flat black and bedliner-ed the bumper




did the same on the back


the old lift struts didnt work AT ALL so i got these off amazon


they are SUPER strong. deffinately recomend.

there will be more on the way!!

 

painted the two stupid chrome strips above and below the grille, black. and also painted the mirrors black. starting to look better without all the chrome

and fixed my droopy headlight haha

 

looks good man! very good mileage! The black is way better, i dislike chrome as-well!

 

thanks man, yea an older guy had it and he barely drove it but he died in 2004, its been sitting since then. but ima go with the blue and black theme on it

 

Got some free time today so i sanded(by hand) my hood and ornament panel and primered it.. got dust from sanding EVERYWHERE!...

 

got bored after my primer project so i decided to bed line the panel below the windshield wipers lol

ill put it back on tonight

 

annnnd... its back on

 

It's sideways but it's my flashlight mount

 

Looking good so far..are you gonna paint the hood or what?

 

Looks much better with black, should accent the wheels with some black maybe in the pockets or spokes with plasti dip

 

Wow! 61,000 miles. That is awesome for an 87. I'm jealous lol. Props dude

 

yea im going to repaint the whole car. im thinking a semi gloss or flat midnight blue. i just sanded and primered the roof ill put the pics up when the racks back on

im planning on either painting those black or bedlining them at least until i can get some new rims, either way theyre gonna be black

yup i got a steal, gives me plenty of years to build and play with it

 

got the roof sanded and primered and bedlined the roof racks
before:

AFTER

 

door skip plates bedliner-ed

 

Nice 87 man, love seeing a good solid renix.