1999 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

Some info about the Jeep and some of the accessories it came with:

Green with tan interior
Hard and soft top...both spice colored
72k miles (when purchased)
...around 77k now
4.0L Inline 6 cylinder
K&N Air Filter
30 X 9.50 R15 BFGoodrich All-Terrain Tires


I bought the Jeep on July 2nd 2004 from the Dealership I work at...Russwood Chrysler in Lincoln Nebraska...for $13,295.  My boss and friend had both purchased Wranglers a few months before me, and after seeing them in theirs and seeing how much they enjoyed them I decided I wanted one.  My boss Jason has a white/black '01 Sport and my friend Steve has a blue/black '03 X (he said something about it being called a Comanche, or something along those lines).  I personally think I've got the best one, but that's just me...haha. 

It took quite a bit of looking around to get this one, I wasn't even really looking for a Sahara and up until about mid June I was looking to get a 97 or maybe even an older YJ or something, just because there was no way I thought I could afford something this new and expensive (even though in the grand scheme of things it's not that new, or expensive for that matter).  However in mid June 2004 I wrecked my pride and joy, which would be my 1995 Ford Taurus SHO...actually a deer wrecked it for me.  I ended up getting a pretty sizeable check from the insurance company after buying it back and I dropped it from insurance, so I now had quite a bit more money to play around with a month.  So I drove my '92 Mustang LX for a few weeks then I switched over to my Dad's '92 Ford Ranger for another few weeks while I had a guy at work named Chad, who is semi-in charge of sales, look for Wranglers for me.  Steve and I drove all over eastern Nebraska looking at Jeeps and finally one night Chad stopped me after work and said that he thought he had found a Jeep for me in York, NE.  We went and looked all over York and finally as we were about to leave empty handed Steve spotted it at a lot near the interstate.  We looked it over and within a few days Chad ran up to York and brought it back for me.

I've had some nice mudding excursions with it so far and despite me burying the gas tank in the mud and getting stuck one weekend, it gets around really well, and it's a blast to go splashing around in mud pits.  The clean-up isn't near as fun, but since I pretty much wash and detail cars all day long it's nothing that I can't handle.

At this point I don't have any money that isn't being thrown towards my two project cars (my '95 SHO and the '90 SHO I just traded the Mustang in for) so I don't have any plans of doing anything to the Jeep for awhile.  But I do really plan on getting new rims/tires and a 3 or 4 inch lift eventually.  I think it will look something sort of like this when I get that accomplished...



Well enough of my blabbering, here are some of the pictures I have taken thus far, and there is more on the way...

 

and here is a picture that I took after doing just a little bit of cleaning after a mudding adventure, I wish I would have gotten pics right afterwards because this thing was pretty much 100% covered in mud, above the rear fender flares and along the back were about the only places you could tell what color the paint was.



 

 Well I was checking out some older files on my computer when I stumbled upon some pictures I had taken of my Sahara before her untimely demise, due to my recklessness.  I bought tinted soft top windows and had the front windows tinted before I took these pictures.  I had also dumped $300 into new back brakes because I pretty much destroyed them on a very fun stormy mudding adventure, not that ruining the brakes was fun, I just meant the night was.  Anyway my jeep is no longer with me and i feel pretty sad about it, but I will be getting another one soon enough.  Here are the pictures