1979 Jeep CJ-7 Narrow Track

I believe Luke Skywalker said it best when he said - "What a piece of junk".  He was referring to the Millenium Falcon upon first seeing it.  Well that is what I thought when it rolled up to my house upon delivery.  It definitely won't make point five past lightspeed...  This Jeep was bought from Pennsylvania off eBay and I had it shipped down to Florida.  In April 2007 I paid $3000 for this.  Cost to ship to Florida was around $700.  Lesson learned for me is a $400 plane ticket to check out the Jeep would have saved me thousands.  Even though I spent close to 45 minutes on the phone with the seller this thing was a bucket of rust.  But I wanted a CJ really bad.  So going forward, never again.  Here is it as shipped to Florida, snow plow and all!


Now for some of the positives. Snow plow works perfectly and caused my neighbors here in Florida to give me strange looks. It started, drove, ,all electronics, all gears and transfer case worked. That is a big plus and only 87K original miles on it. Hard tops fiberglass is not rotten. It was funny though breaking and having the rear wheels come off the ground from the weight of the plow. Now for the bad.


This is the rear frame, or what is the remains of it.   The other side was not much better. In fact someone welded some random angle iron and "fixed it".   This was one thing I grilled the seller about.  He said there was rust, but this is not technically a safe frame anymore.


This is that random piece of angle iron.  Who knows what this piece of metal was cut off of before being welded in place.  Check out that wiring as well.  Somehow the seller managed to hide all that before listing it.


Here is another patch of rust on the main tub.  I won't bother with any more, we will cover that in the tear down.


Another shot of the plow.  Useless in Florida.