The end of an era (A thread no one asked for)

jeepinmatt

jeepinmatt

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May not seem like a big deal to some people, but its a big deal to me. That Solar Yellow 2000 Wrangler TJ Sport that I've been hanging around with since August of 2000 is getting sold tomorrow. 25 years of good and bad, driving and wheeling, buying parts, selling parts, switching parts, breaking parts. Getting in trouble in high school for having too much mud in my parking spot. Meeting you a-holes and somehow becoming friends with so many of you. Doing obstacles that seemed impossible. Laying under it wondering how the heck I am gonna get this broken heep home. Driving it when I met my wife for the first time and driving away from our wedding in it. We've been through a lot together. And I'm ready to let it go, but dammit its gonna be tough. But the end of the road has come, and it's time to let it go.

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The meth tracker

1993 ish Geo Tracker “The Meth tracker” Bought this and got it running. Added some parts and wore its ass out at The Veterans Ride ‘24. Put some more parts on it in anticipation of the G2G and I couldn’t get it to stay running. New parts: -Plugs, wires, cap, rotor, coil -Alternator -TPS -IAC...
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IJS….
 
Ron said:
Booo

Should have been son's first car
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I think a mod should put this in that sucky butt thread.

I didn't think it originally but I agree!
 
willness33 said:
I told you you'd regret it someday. Hope I'm wrong.
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Man I regret selling your regret. I think about that jeep every day almost. @Van-go knows where it is or at least used to.

@jeepinmatt I was shocked when you finally put it back together a few years ago and came out. Even more shocked you’ve sold it, but I know how it goes. Can’t say I’ve owned a ride that long though.
 
Dang man. Emotions. I’ve had my TJ for 23 years now; we too drove away from our wedding in it and drove it to our honeymoon.

We all look forward to finding out your new avatar!
 
77GreenMachine said:
Man I regret selling your regret. I think about that jeep every day almost. @Van-go knows where it is or at least used to.

@jeepinmatt I was shocked when you finally put it back together a few years ago and came out. Even more shocked you’ve sold it, but I know how it goes. Can’t say I’ve owned a ride that long though.
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Which one?
 
willness33 said:
I told you you'd regret it someday. Hope I'm wrong.
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I’m currently at the point where I regret keeping it this long but I’ll see how that feels in a month or a year. I think a big consolation is that it’s staying in the NC4x4 family, so I can keep up with it and if I realize it’s a terrible mistake then maybe it’ll cross my path again some day.
 
77GreenMachine said:
@jeepinmatt I was shocked when you finally put it back together a few years ago and came out. Even more shocked you’ve sold it, but I know how it goes. Can’t say I’ve owned a ride that long though.
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Honestly looking back I feel like I sold its soul back in 2011 and it’s never been the same since.
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Project Reset

After spending the last 11 years making my jeep bigger, heavier, and more complicated, I came to a point where everything was pretty much how I wanted it. It rode great, drove great, flexed great, and never saw any offroad use. The right opportunity came along, and I traded my built Dana...
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Life comes in seasons, 2000~2010 was Jeep season. Then when I sold the axles and suspension and t-case that I had meticulously put together and sorted out over the previous decade, it never felt the same. Different axles, different tires, different parts, but always something someone else had put together, and it was always a compromise. It’s now the best it’s been since 2011, but I’m at a different place in life and realize that the only thing left from those memories and that season is the body and the stroker, and it’s just a stock jeep body anyway. I have no regrets about doing what I did back then either. It was the right decision and I’d do it all over again. Dude traded me a pair of built TJ axles with cromos, air lockers, 4.88s, and 36” TSLs, for my locked 60s and 38” Creepies, and threw $5700 on top, which was huge money for 2011, and hugely helpful for putting a septic system in place and giving us some cash so we could finish up and move into our first house.
 
Boooo! Nobody like a quitter! You're going to look back on today like a the dudes that sold mint CJs in the early 90's!



This is the affirmation you're looking for right? :flipoff2:
 
awheelterd said:
Boooo! Nobody like a quitter! You're going to look back on today like a the dudes that sold mint CJs in the early 90's!



This is the affirmation you're looking for right? :flipoff2:
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Yes and no. I fully understand and get what you’re saying. I appreciate the perspective everyone is offering in this thread. I don’t really need affirmation one way or the other, I think I just needed to type some of this out for closure. In case yall havent noticed, I like typing out my thoughts and opinions sometimes! :D
 
jeepinmatt said:
Yes and no. I fully understand and get what you’re saying. I appreciate the perspective everyone is offering in this thread. I don’t really need affirmation one way or the other, I think I just needed to type some of this out for closure. In case yall havent noticed, I like typing out my thoughts and opinions sometimes! :D
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12yr old jeepinmattjr "Hey dad, remember when you had that cool yellow jeep? I wish you still had it instead of this gay Tesla ranger"





12yrold wheelterdjr "hey dad, remember that cool yellow jeep you thought about buying but wouldn't because you are a cheap ass? That would have been fun to have"
 
I sold my ZJ soon after my oldest daughter was born, because “life”. I still regret that decision, I love the TJ, and crazy to think I have had for 10 years maybe. But I do keep vehicles a long time as well, had the ole dodge V10 since 2008
 
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