- City
- Brentwood
- State
- TN
My daughter will turn 16 next year and I told her we are not getting her a new car but we will get an older vehicle she & I can fix up together. She chose an ‘03-‘06 Wrangler. I found this 06 LJR for $100 under budget. It came from Scranton PA. Frame & drivetrain seem solid but the sheet metal has a lot of rust. 
The plan was to take it apart, send the frame to be dipped & powder coated, rebuild the motor, replace the tub & fenders, paint it whatever color she chooses, and put it all back together.
So we stripped the interior and I started looking for a good tub: AKA a needle in a haystack. During my search I came across this one from Alabama at auction:
I got it for less than the silver one and it seems cheaper, easier, and faster to rebuild.
So Daisy and I are going to take out the interior from the red one & put it in the silver one next week. Then the silver one will go up for sale and the red one will go into my friend Glenn’s barn and we will disassemble it, send the motor off to be rebuilt while I collect a hood, grill, fenders, tailgate, bumpers, paintable fender flares, etc. Fortunately, these parts can come from a TJ or an LJ so they’ll be easier to find.
This will be a fun project for my Kiddo & I. My hope is that when she sees how much money & work go into it, she’ll have great respect for it, treat it well, and hold on to it forever.
I’ll post more pix before it goes to Glenn’s barn.
The plan was to take it apart, send the frame to be dipped & powder coated, rebuild the motor, replace the tub & fenders, paint it whatever color she chooses, and put it all back together.So we stripped the interior and I started looking for a good tub: AKA a needle in a haystack. During my search I came across this one from Alabama at auction:
I got it for less than the silver one and it seems cheaper, easier, and faster to rebuild.
So Daisy and I are going to take out the interior from the red one & put it in the silver one next week. Then the silver one will go up for sale and the red one will go into my friend Glenn’s barn and we will disassemble it, send the motor off to be rebuilt while I collect a hood, grill, fenders, tailgate, bumpers, paintable fender flares, etc. Fortunately, these parts can come from a TJ or an LJ so they’ll be easier to find.
This will be a fun project for my Kiddo & I. My hope is that when she sees how much money & work go into it, she’ll have great respect for it, treat it well, and hold on to it forever.
I’ll post more pix before it goes to Glenn’s barn.
