Ok, so this has nothing to do with muppets, or cartoons from china or whatever.  Sorry.  I'm not a well rounded person- if it ain't Jeeps, its complaining about my cell phone not working cause I've inevetiably jacked it up.  Anyway, the specs: '98 XJ, 196K miles on it.  I just got it and took it out into the desert to see how it would work.

Ok, so by now, me buying yet another Jeep should be no suprise.  It was 1000 bucks or less, it ran and drove, and I had the money sitting around.  No brainer, right?  Well, this is the first "wagon" type Jeep I've had on the road and I'm really shocked that I like it.

I'm from NJ originally, and rust kills vehicles.  Back there I wouldn't even look at a unibody Jeep much less one with a hard top.  Wheeling?  Best done topless.  Cruising to the beach?  Same.  But, out here in So Cal, most of the wheeling consists of eating a bunch of dust, and any cruising to the beach you might do is likely to entail sitting in a ton of traffic.

But, I digress.  I got the Jeep, swapped the O2 sensor, plugs, cap, rotor, beat on the rear quarter panel with a hammer to fit a tailight on it, swapped on some Dick Cepek DC-1 wheels with mini Super Swamper TSL tires, gave it a good washing, drove it for like 3 days and took it for a 90 mile jaunt in the middle of nowhere in the desert along the Bradshaw trail.  It did great.  Call me a wuss, but it was nice wheeling in AC, not sucking on dirt all day long.

Also, I got to see some awesome unexploded ordanance along the trail as well.  Check out the size of the bomb... its the same length as the XJ!

Hmmm I could get used to this "wagon" thing.