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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by 95Cherokee
It wasn't Obama that turned in the XJ's, it was their owners.
But Obama is the one who strapped the dangling carrot in front of the XJ owner. Plus it's always fun to point blame at the Failure in Chief. I hate that guy!

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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 11:49 AM
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I bought the last one for $3200. I'll sell it to you for $5000. And I am a born (again) American.
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Bustedback
You can blame Cash for Clunkers for thinning the herd of clean XJs. Freakin Obama! I hate that guy.

X millions The Kingdom of the US of "Obama. We do indeed need to look around us and see what is happening every day in our world, last week it was a government takeover of the internet "free speech" with the stroke of a pen.

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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Fred/N0AZZ
X millions The Kingdom of the US of "Obama. We do indeed need to look around us and see what is happening every day in our world, last week it was a government takeover of the internet "free speech" with the stroke of a pen.
Methinks you don't fully understand what the FCC did and why it was a good thing for Internet users' freedom. Eh, forget it. Keep blaming one guy for everything despite the fact that even he is just a cog in the machine. Keep derailing forum threads with political nonsense, too.
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Old Mar 2, 2015 | 02:04 PM
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Come to 4-corners area -

Here's the link just for Albuquerque on CL

Of course, your definition of "low miles" has to bear in mind that the newest XJ you are going to find is going to be almost 15 years old, so 175K is not unreasonable.
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Old Mar 3, 2015 | 09:23 PM
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I've bought 3 in the last 6 months. Two are nearly perfect with no rust and minimal issues. One was a Freedom edition 140000 miles owned by an accountant....it never saw dirt. The other was a rattle trap with 113000 miles but easy to clean up. The third is perfect......showroom. 129000 miles and every receipt for everything but gas. They were not cheap.
It took me many test drives and wasted trips to find them but they are around.

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Old Mar 3, 2015 | 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Skb2706
I've bought 3 in the last 6 months. Two are nearly perfect with no rust and minimal issues. One was a Freedom edition 140000 miles owned by an accountant....it never saw dirt. The other was a rattle trap with 113000 miles but easy to clean up. The third is perfect......showroom. 129000 miles and every receipt for everything but gas. They were not cheap. It took me many test drives and wasted trips to find them but they are around.
No wonder nobody can find a clean one, you're hoarding them all!
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Old Mar 3, 2015 | 10:30 PM
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I had a 75 Beetle...used to see them alllllll the time. That was here in good weather CA. Now...maybe once a year.

cars get old...or totalled. Especially ones that may have off roaded, were used in bad weather...or given to kids
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Old Mar 4, 2015 | 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Bustedback
No wonder nobody can find a clean one, you're hoarding them all!
No....bought one for my son. His first car. Bought one for me as a DD and the other one I haven't decided what to do with it yet but I couldn't "not buy it" after spending that long looking for them.


Probably sell the least desirable one of my two but I haven't figured out which that is.
Then I'll look for a beater to build.
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Old Mar 5, 2015 | 12:06 PM
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PM me if you're interested. Pix in profile. Just make sure you're prepared to give me $7,000.
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Old Mar 5, 2015 | 12:09 PM
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I was lucky that I found what I did when I did. It just so happened to align with my budget and was local when I really needed it.
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Old Mar 5, 2015 | 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by mschi772
Methinks you don't fully understand what the FCC did and why it was a good thing for Internet users' freedom. Eh, forget it. Keep blaming one guy for everything despite the fact that even he is just a cog in the machine. Keep derailing forum threads with political nonsense, too.

I fully understand what he did, just what he said he was going to do, another backdoor deal.

AR-15 Ammo stroke of a pen now gone "called armor piercing BS"
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Old Mar 7, 2015 | 09:01 PM
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I would post an Ad but I am not allowed to. No biggie, I keep looking and there are more and more popping up but I'd REALLY like to find my unicorn Cherokee (A 2001 Amber Fire Pearl Orange)
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Old Mar 8, 2015 | 09:27 AM
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Wouldn't a clean XJ be kind of an oxymoron? Isn't the point of having an off-road capable vehicle to get it dirty?

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Old Mar 8, 2015 | 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Nugget
I would post an Ad but I am not allowed to. No biggie, I keep looking and there are more and more popping up but I'd REALLY like to find my unicorn Cherokee (A 2001 Amber Fire Pearl Orange)
Just buy a cheap one and get it painted
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