I had just took my last project to the scrapyard. It was a 1979 Jeep Cherokee Chief that I only paid $200 for. I wanted to restore it but it was just too far gone. I ended up parting some of it out. I sold the radio (am/fm/cb combo) for $175,the windshield for $50,the brushguard for $125, and some other parts that added up to a few dollars. I sent the remains to the scrapyard and got $430 for it. It wasn't very long (maybe 24 hours) when I felt I wanted another Jeep project. I looked on Craigslist for CJ-7's at first cause that is my ultimate goal. I then started looking at Cherokee's again and found this 1978 Cherokee S listed for $700 on Friday October 29th. I told my wife Kim about it and she said you don't need another project but I know you will probably call next week. Well that Monday morning I did call and set up a time to look at it. I was very suprised at how good of condition the Jeep was in compared to the last Jeep I had and this one was a year older. I worked with him and got the Jeep on November 4th for $650.
This Jeep is a 1978 Jeep Cherokee Chief S with a 360 4 barrel carb and a Levi's interior. The Levi's interior has seen better days and will have to be replaced. The body has 1 dent on the right rear quarter but will be very easy to fix. It also only has very minor surface rust that I will put rust reformer on and fix up. I found out that the Jeep hasn't run in 10 years but it was garage kept mostly so I am going to throw some new tune up parts at it and hope for the best.
I am in the process of buying parts to tune it up and restore it now and will document everything done to it here in this blog. I hope I have not bored you to death with this long post but I wanted to show how I got to this point. All other posts will be fairly short and to the point (we all hope anyway).
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