In my particular case, yes, very much so!

 

It was worth twice what I paid!!!

 

Oh gosh. I'll tell my wife you think so lol

 

39 years of marriage and she should have dumped me after year one!

 

Yes sir, 4.0 HO for the win. I like 'em a lot.

Heated leather in this one too. It's loaded and was a pretty nice ride when it was in new shape. I'm hoping to make it into a mild luxo-wheeler if I can ever carve out the time (more on that after a while).

Those 5.9 ZJs are hard to come by and highly sought after. If I recall correctly the only SUV built in the states since then that was quicker was in '06 or so when they made the Grand Cherokee SRT with the Hemi in it. I'm not a big Mopar fan, so I may be wrong, but I think that 5.9 GC was touted as the fastest US made SUV for a good while.

They take a lickin' an keep on tickin' but I'd say 65 MPH collisions would probably do it. Glad you had something around you that kept you alive.

You asked for Pics, so here they are. She's a 60 footer, but it's worth what I paid for it (or at least it will be if I can get it to quit dying for no reason at all). It has a set of brand new Goodyears on it that are probably worth what I paid for it. It'll be a good work beater for me, it just needs some TLC.







So on that time thing.... yeah.... We accepted an offer on our house this weekend, so Lord willing and the Creek don't rise we will be moving out come the end of September. My biggest worry in all of this was that somebody would come along that wanted us out before 9/12 when we are building the Ox, lol. There are a lot of hoops to jump through yet, but we're moving ahead. The plan at this point is to buy about 11 acres of my grandparents' farm, including the house, buildings and pasture. The house needs a complete overhaul and most of it needs to be done before we can move in, so I'm gonna be spread pretty thin here the next few months (years, decades....). We're really excited to make this move as it's something that we have been praying and dreaming about for a long, long time.

 

Looks the body is in good shape!

 

Nate, big congrats and blessing on the house situation. That definitely sounds like a huge thing for you guys. I'll be anxious to see what happens. On the Jeep thing, it looks purdy darn good for a beater! Looks like a fun little project to clean up and keep on the road. You'll have a lot going on, but busy is better than stagnant. All things work together...you know the rest.

 

Hmm youd think an Excursion with the V10 or even the 6.0 would keep up with a 360. Then again those 360s are beasts. My brother somehow found a 4wd Dakota with one...


Congrats on the house sell Nate!!! That's awesome news!

 

Sweet deal nate. Sounds like the move will be quite a project

 

Yeah I was talking with him a couple weeks ago. Having just gone through this, I don't envy the guy one bit!

Whatever your budget is Nate, add 40%! Lol

Maybe I was naive, be we spent about 115% more than I anticipated. Granted I ran into many more problems that you just can't find until walls are opened. Oh and I'm still not done...

 

not sure how this end of the month Monday is gonna go...

Too much to do.you fellas and your house projects...nooooo thanks..I am no carpenter and have no patience for it!!!


On a fun note...blew the y off my pass head on my way to work screwing around.. Dangit.. Now I'm gonna get crap from the Chevy guys after work...

 

Ive pretty much decided, Mondays just plain suck sometimes. This one isn't too bad, but its always hard to go back to work after a nice weekend.

Oh well, gotta keep truck money coming in some how. lol.

Aaron, inform those chevy guys that even though you blew a boot, you were still able to get to where you were going, while they spend most of the time on the side of the road if they even look at their engine wrong...lollllll.....haha.

 

Been a hectic Monday here - one of the guys lost their grandmother over the weekend, so he's out on bereavement for a couple days...and we're picking up the slack.

 

C heap,
H ardly
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L uck
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Yes, it is a miracle everyone was ok, especially when you consider the power lines that were involved.


It sounds like everyone has a lot going right now. Cars, Trucks, Houses, etc.

 

Nyuck nyuck nyuck.