What was your attraction to owning a cj?

[grozam]

Mine is the fact that they are simple and can be worked on and maintained easily.

 

[PaRenegade]

My initial attraction.... as a kid, they were just plain cool and they seemed like they could go anywhere. And from the age of 15, with my Four Wheeler subscription (they used to review new vehicles) I was pricing out one to find out how much money I had to earn to buy one. (a concept lost on today's generation) At 19yrs 3 mths I had me a shiny new Renegade !

 

[Old Dog]

Mine is the fact that they are simple and can be worked on and maintained easily.

^^That's a big part of it, that and I just like the way they look.

 

[grozam]

I like the way they look as well. They remind me of a model A with more ump.

 

[thiswontbetooexpensive]

I wanted one since I was a kid. Had the opportunity to acquire one with a known history and jumped on it. The ease of working on it is an added bonus!

 

[mtnwhlr]

I remember when I was a little kid going dove hunting with my dad and his friend, my dads friend was big into Jeeps and was a member of a club and went 4wheeling all the time. So we are out dove hunting and I'm riding in the back of his CJ when he goes up this steep hill and I remember being pinned back in my seat and looking out the windshield and all I could see is sky. After that trip my dad bought one and parked it behind our house for awhile and I would stare at it and say to myself I'm going to get one when I grow up. Funny story about the Jeep my dad bought one weekend he decides he is going to park it in the garage and still be able to put his car in it well we had a one car garage so he is going to put the Jeep in side ways all the way in the end so he spends all afternoon going back and forth inching it up in to the end of the garage I think back on it now and that is some funny

 

[tjmons]

When I was in high school ( many years ago ) my friend and I four wheelin and having a crazy time. It was the 70's

 

[johnlaw484]

Drove one in the military {yes I am that old}. I Brought a new CJ5 in 73 which unfortunately left with the practice wife.

About 6 months ago I was able to score a 1975 CJ5 that I knew the history of and brought it before his practice wife got it.

I have a love affair with them for a long as I can remember.

 

[jdcaples]

I didn't know anything about Jeeps or Jeep history before I saw and purchased my CJ7 .

The primary attraction: no On Board Diagnostic Port.

The second attraction: There's an AMC logo on the steering wheel and it's not a Pacer or a Gremlin.

What do I mean? I mean maybe you had to be a teenager - in the late 70s or early 80s, aching for a drivers license, willing to sell your soul for that first car, desperately hoping you wouldn't end up driving something you couldn't respect - to "get that."

Seriously, if that's not ironic, it's close to it. My late father - heck, all the dead grown-ups - would be laughing so hard at me (not WITH me, but AT me) it'd be fatal.

Added warm-fuzzies:

If I do something to it, we're both stronger for the effort.

If it does something to me, I probably deserved it. I'm pretty sure that, on such occasions, and if the Jeep could have feelings, it'd be royally self-righteous at my expense.

We get along well.

-Jon

 

[Beckyandzoo]

Nothing like a good old fashioned carb! For me, working on carbs and distributors is cake! Learned to work on easy stuff when I was young with my Dad...VW's!!! Yep. I'm lost when it comes to computer stuff and fuel injection...what?

 

[alpha6]

You're kidding right? I was told they are a magnet...and it's true!!!!

 

[PaRenegade]

I want one of them hood magnets like you got! ^^

 

[Dan86CJ7]

hell I need to get me one of those magnets!!....got my CJ7 cause I've been a jeep tech for 14 yrs and wanted a nice old example of a jeep...and they're cool as hell!!

 

[grozam]

I want one of them hood magnets like you got! ^^

I'll take both of them!

 

[bdpalace]

I had friends in the '80s that had CJs and I can't think of I time when I was riding around in them that I didn't have a smile plastered across my face and an overwhelming sense of happiness. While in Iraq, I committed to owning a CJ. Two months later and a short stack of $100s got me in the game. Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile~!

 

[viking4949]

I always loved jeeps growing up. My neighbor was about 10 years older than me and got a CJ when he turned 16. I envied him. Along the way acquired an old BMW as my toy. Drove it a few years and sold it to get my CJ7 . Love the simplicity, ruggedness, and the fact that you can work on it with two wrenches, a screwdriver, and a handful of sockets.

 

[Barry2]

My kid gave me this 74 and it was all stripped down in pieces so naturally I had to put it back together and now am attached to it....fun toy.

 

[Wrangled13]

You're kidding right? I was told they are a magnet...and it's true!!!!

Where you get those fenders? . But seriously

 

[Wrangled13]

Mine was parked in my garage for 8 months before I bought it. Got tired of no one wrenching on it, so I bought it. Plus I love my 09

 

[TroyaCantrell]

They are super cool.
They look great going down the road.
They are like like Lego, add parts, take parts off, whole new toy.
You can make them YOURS.
On mine, no SMOG !