Bought this in '90....my first brand new anything, really.
I have been a Jeep guy forever now, beginning in teenage years. I desperately was saving my grocery bagging dollars for a local CJ-7, but my dad knew better.
A few years later and well into my tenure with the US Navy, I bought this YJ from the Jeep dealer in Oceanside, CA. I knew I was going to own one some day, but on this particular day, I was driving by, saw it sitting there and thought "well wtf...let's test drive it." It ended up about three hours later with my name on the loan doc, a total impulse buy.
This thing ran everywhere with me: from countless weekends in Anza Borrego, down to Ensenada, to Santa Barbara, north to Minnesota and east to Florida, finally settling in suburban Washington, DC, where it lived its last few years with me as my duck hunting Jeep. It was in my possession from March, 1990 to April, 2006.
I ran a VIN check on it a couple of years ago to see if it was still out there. It had been crushed some time prior by a Lynchburg, VA-area salvage yard. I put about 145,000 miles on that 4.2, I-6....a Swiss watch of an engine.
Hardly a day passes that I don't regret selling it.
