Cheers from the Boston area!
09-28-2012, 01:27 AM
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Cheers from the Boston area!
Hey folks. I felt winter sneaking up and I don't think my '72 Triumph Spitfire would do very well in the snow! I did some searching locally, found a '97 XJ 2-door 5-speed with 60k on it, but it was amazingly rusty for its miles and I decided that the 2-doors aren't for me. Found a gunmetal pearl '99 XJ 4-door 5-speed in Brockton, gave it a good lookover and test drive, and promptly snatched it up.
Back in high school a few of my friends had older XJs and at least one of my brothers had a Wrangler at any given time, so I've always been around Jeeps. I also had a rather memorable regular customer who had over 350k on his, and the most work I ever had to do to it was replace a transmission cooler line that got ripped open by road debris.
Anyway, I haven't even gotten the car home yet (delivered to a family member's house), just waiting for that RMV-1 form to get back from my insurance company so I can go get plates and get it home!
Back in high school a few of my friends had older XJs and at least one of my brothers had a Wrangler at any given time, so I've always been around Jeeps. I also had a rather memorable regular customer who had over 350k on his, and the most work I ever had to do to it was replace a transmission cooler line that got ripped open by road debris.Anyway, I haven't even gotten the car home yet (delivered to a family member's house), just waiting for that RMV-1 form to get back from my insurance company so I can go get plates and get it home!
09-28-2012, 09:25 AM
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Welcome, that's a nice clean looking xj you got there.
09-28-2012, 02:11 PM
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Hi and welcome from England, looks good. Just a tad different from the spitfire, don't suppose that's yellow?
See a couple around here and the Gt6, nice.
Lets hope for snow!
See a couple around here and the Gt6, nice.
Lets hope for snow!
09-28-2012, 02:59 PM
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As for the XJ, It won't be clean for long! I'm window shopping for lighter rims and larger tires, as well as a modest lift. I'm considering the spacers/shackle extentions route, as I'm not a big fan of the AAL method.
There's some rust in the rear rockers that will be the first thing I take care of.
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