My Holy Grail
Well we had a nice little '81 picked out for Vicki that seams to have fallen through. No response from the seller for a few weeks so it was back to Craigslist. Since I bought the '80 Vicki has actually grown more attached to that one. She'd still like an automatic but she's definitely developed a liking to this one. That left my options a little more open.
I set out scouring Craigslist again and running across some of the most rusty junk the East Coast has to offer. Usually I concentrate on 80s Cjs with the T-176 Dana 300 combo cause it's the 2nd best Transmission / tcase combo Jeep used. The '77-'79 wide ratio T-18 / Dana 20 is the best off road ready combo ever put in a AMC era Cj. The problem is they rarely pop up around here and when they do their usually crazy money. Most of the '77-'79s I see around here have the T-150 / Dana 20 which aren't very desirable from an off road perspective.
That's when I ran across an ad that read " 79 CJ7 $1500. I'm ready to read T-150 or QuadraTrac when I see 4spd granny gear Transmission . Now I'm excited and fire off a quick email asking for an address and pics. He sends a few pics of a pretty clean Jeep but it's been sitting for years. Unfortunately I couldn't make the 2 hour trip to see it till Thursday. I reluctantly tell him it's his to sell if he can before I get there. Luckily Craigslist didn't let me down. He called me last night saying it's mine. He didn't want to deal with anymore idiots. Thank you Craigslist morons , I will now own what I consider the Holy Grail of Cjs , a 79 CJ7 T-18 Dana 20 . Heres a pic. Lots more to come.
I set out scouring Craigslist again and running across some of the most rusty junk the East Coast has to offer. Usually I concentrate on 80s Cjs with the T-176 Dana 300 combo cause it's the 2nd best Transmission / tcase combo Jeep used. The '77-'79 wide ratio T-18 / Dana 20 is the best off road ready combo ever put in a AMC era Cj. The problem is they rarely pop up around here and when they do their usually crazy money. Most of the '77-'79s I see around here have the T-150 / Dana 20 which aren't very desirable from an off road perspective.
That's when I ran across an ad that read " 79 CJ7 $1500. I'm ready to read T-150 or QuadraTrac when I see 4spd granny gear Transmission . Now I'm excited and fire off a quick email asking for an address and pics. He sends a few pics of a pretty clean Jeep but it's been sitting for years. Unfortunately I couldn't make the 2 hour trip to see it till Thursday. I reluctantly tell him it's his to sell if he can before I get there. Luckily Craigslist didn't let me down. He called me last night saying it's mine. He didn't want to deal with anymore idiots. Thank you Craigslist morons , I will now own what I consider the Holy Grail of Cjs , a 79 CJ7 T-18 Dana 20 . Heres a pic. Lots more to come.
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