1st Time Jeeper Opinions
SlowPocono
Active Jeeper
I hope this is the right place to post a request for help like this. If it isn't, kindly suggest a more appropriate forum.
I've never owned a jeep but my intention is to buy one in the Spring. Almost everything I know about old Jeeps is from reading JEEP-CJ.com.
I'd like to have all of your opinions about what will be the best thing for me to get and if there's anything that I should really avoid.
In other words, help me spend my money.
To begin with, I like the way the 1955 to '71 CJ5's look, but I haven't ruled out something older.
I'm not interested in power steering or brakes and I don't need something with highway capability but if it I could take it on the big road without getting killed, I wouldn't mind. I will probably never do any real off road work with it either. That's because there aren't any trails that I'm aware of around here just as much as I don't want to abuse and break my toy.
For some reason that I can't explain I like the idea of a steel body instead of a fiberglass tub. The greater the number of shift levers that I can have poking up through the floor the better.
I'm probably going to put less than 4,000 miles on my Jeep in a year so fuel economy isn't a major concern, but I would like opinions about the configurations that would achieve the highest MPG.
Please let me know what your ideas and recommendations are. If you have an opinion that there's something wrong or stupid about my approach, I want to hear that too.
Thanks.
I've never owned a jeep but my intention is to buy one in the Spring. Almost everything I know about old Jeeps is from reading JEEP-CJ.com.
I'd like to have all of your opinions about what will be the best thing for me to get and if there's anything that I should really avoid.
In other words, help me spend my money.
To begin with, I like the way the 1955 to '71 CJ5's look, but I haven't ruled out something older.
I'm not interested in power steering or brakes and I don't need something with highway capability but if it I could take it on the big road without getting killed, I wouldn't mind. I will probably never do any real off road work with it either. That's because there aren't any trails that I'm aware of around here just as much as I don't want to abuse and break my toy.
For some reason that I can't explain I like the idea of a steel body instead of a fiberglass tub. The greater the number of shift levers that I can have poking up through the floor the better.
I'm probably going to put less than 4,000 miles on my Jeep in a year so fuel economy isn't a major concern, but I would like opinions about the configurations that would achieve the highest MPG.
Please let me know what your ideas and recommendations are. If you have an opinion that there's something wrong or stupid about my approach, I want to hear that too.
Thanks.