Correct to all. Salad, the Jeep grille was originally a Ford design. When the military decided to combine the best features of the current three vehicles together, the Ford model was the only one with an actual grille. It had to be narrowed to fit the width of the chosen tub design. As for the HMMWV being AMC and using all kinds of parts, the old joke is AMC: All Makes Car. Lol

 

Back on topic: I hate hearing "Why dont you have AC?" Cause AC is a waste on a Jeep. Either roll all 4 windows down or take the doors off!

 

I know that. I have no rear windsheild so i dont ever need an ac. nice breeze always comin in from the back. too bad im always losin papers and receipts out the back...

 

Went to the dealer the other day to look at getting leaf spring bolts... Drive around the lot and look at a new JK with a RC lift on 35's. Get out and look at what all had been done and a sales guy walks up and says "Like what ya see?" I say its alright nothing to interesting and he said "Well im ready to get you into a real Jeep!" I turned to look at him, walked by him, got in my XJ, turned and floored it in the gravel lot over to the parts department and left him standing there like the ***** he is

 

Friend: Where'd you find all that mud on your Jeep?
Me: A trail behind the Pharmacy
Friend: I could probably make it easier than you (he has a Tundra, around 2008 model, with stock suspension, 22" rims, and lo pro mud tires)
Me: You kidding? I can do more in 2wd than you can in 4lo

You can't fix stupid, but you can pull it out when it gets stuck and laugh your *** off

 

Interesting, I had read somewhere that the 7-slot grille was a ****** trademark and when the US military arranged for Ford as a production partner in WW2 they wouldn't license that bit. Just hit the ol' Wikiwacky and it seems it's the other way around like you say, specifically that Ford had a lighter stamped design instead of welded flat iron.

Learn something every day!

 

"Do you have enough photos of jeeps on your phone"~ girlfriend
"There could be more"- me
"We'll it looks like your phone is cultured with jeep ****"-girlfriend

 

Thats creepy, me and my GF had the exact convo o.O

 

"Its like my xterra but with worse gas mileage"

 

Or even better, my dad said "I hope my friend (whom I got my xj from years ago) doesn't see what you've done with his jeep"

 

Have to be careful with wicki though... the sources aren't as reliable as you think sometimes. Sometimes the info is spot on, and other times - not so much. Found that out the hard way when I turned in a paper at school and cited wiki as a source... professor told me to go look up another source and hand it back... when I looked up the other source, it proved the information on wiki to be invalid... OOPS. So I sent wiki an email with the corrected information

 

This seems like the best place for this...

I was in the XJ with a housemate earlier, when she admitted that she shunted it with her car the other day. Luckily she hit my tow hitch so didn't leave a scratch.

Anyway, she then got out to get stuff out of the trunk. She lifted up the hatch, which fell straight back down and smacked her on the head!

XJ Karma

 

haha.... that's hilarious....

well, I don't know about it being something not to say to an XJ owner, but apparently that's something you don't want to cop to when you're sitting in said XJ

 

I would have asked if she was jealous.

Or told her to get naked and pose. Or tell her to jump on the Jeep and pose.

 

lol... last option is best of both worlds