The Alternative: Restoring a Vintage Jeep

Sure, you could scour Craigslist to find the next abysmal lump of what was once a Jeep rotting away on someone’s acreage. Prepare to pay over $5,000 for the privilege of excavating a decrepit husk from a thicket of thorn bushes, barbed wire, and animal feces. Take it home to find bolts so rusted your sockets and wrenches will hide themselves and wiring so tangled it’ll make headphone cords look like a phone charger.

When you start rebuilding the suspension in the garage, the job inevitably bleeds over to your wife’s side – “It’s okay honey, it’ll be done in a week.” What begins as a single box on the kitchen table soon becomes the latest warehouse for eBay and Amazon parts. After a month the house smells so thickly of PB Blaster and old fuel that your dinner starts tasting like it. One night your wife comes home and catches you in the bedroom with a fuel sending unit. “It was just a quick rebuild, I promise!” you plead, but the rusty torment has gone too far.

Single and penniless, you’re forced to sell the only thing you have left. You hand the Jeep’s keys to a teenager who plans to buy XD wheels and spray bed liner right over the rust. He assures you it will be “dope af” but it breaks down long before any of that happens. That old Jeep ends up parked in his parents’ backyard where the cycle starts all over again.

Don’t let a Jeep restoration ruin your life. Buy a Roxor instead.