Hi guys and girls. As may be obvious from my for sale thread, the fiesta project has died a death. Which means I shall be concentrating on the vehicle below, with dads help. it’s an 82 jeep Cherokee chief. (W/T) As a car its not worth a whole lot. It holds more sentimental value than anything else. Frankly if I wanted the money its worth the best part of 4 times in bits than it is as a whole car. I know 99% of its history I can go back as far as 1988 in paperwork. Its been my uncles first….then parents….then mine
. it was manufactured in late 82 (found the build sheet) and hit our fair shores on a cold day in January 83. It then went straight to Howes Motors. Which were the official place for a right hand drive conversion. Rather than the pikey method of linkages behind the dashboard. Any modifications are period. They’ve all been on there 20 plus years. Carb and inlet, headers, cam etc. its done a whole 78k miles in that time. The nudge bar has been on since it was converted…the ones they make now are clumsy and dog ugly. It does have its bad points. The roof might as well have a PG tips tag on. They’re notorious for it. But that is the only place mines gone bad. Ive checked the others. That’s a time consuming repair various bits will need looking at and or replacing before I use it again. Plus some bits I wanna change. A suprising amount of stuff is available. The euro specific stuff is a bit harder to come by. Ill update this tread as and when I get stuff done. At the moment its in store. Im just waiting to get it moved home so I can begin.
Comments welcome.
