Got a new UTV!!

Ryan'smilling · Sep 13, 2015

Hey everyone. I'm relatively new at posting here, but I've been a member for a few years now. After looking at threads here and at tractorbynet.com, I have been really wishing I had a side-by-side UTV to use for cutting firewood, moving tools and people around, pulling trailers, and the other dozens of things you can accomplish with one.

Well, over the last week, I got lucky and mostly through coincidence happened to run into an old friend (haven't spoken much in the last decade, though) who offered me his '87 Jeep wrangler. It's a 4 cylinder, 5 speed, hardtop with good tires. Runs and drives great. Needs a little TLC, and is definitely not rust free, but for the special price (drumroll please.........) of $300 and $150 worth of the vegetables we grow, it's mine.

He made the offer Wednesday afternoon, and Friday night it was in my driveway. I figured I'd better snap it up before he changed his mind. I guess he and his wife just got a new sedan and didn't like the hassle of parking two vehicles in Minneapolis. He's also not much of a mechanic (though he kept up with maintenance and had work done as needed) and didn't feel like wrenching on it.

Anyway, pics or it didn't happen, right?

Hinerman · Sep 13, 2015

Wow. You suck for sure...

H-Ranch · Sep 13, 2015

Ryan'smilling said:
Runs and drives great. Needs a little TLC, and is definitely not rust free, but for the special price (drumroll please.........) of $300 and $150 worth of the vegetables we grow, it's mine.

Running Jeep for under $450? Yeah, pretty much agree to that without having to even see it... nice score.

zogger · Sep 13, 2015

suckage! You paid fair for a used hard top, and got the jeep under it free!

Jere39 · Sep 13, 2015

Should perform well up against many different needs. My Dad picked this wood fetcher up free when an old guy he had befriended years ago died, and his widow was told she'd have to pay to get it hauled away. with rear seats removed, and the very rusted rear floor boards replaced with diamond plate, this thing was near un-stickable (I say near because each of my nephews managed to bog it so it needed to be pulled out with a tractor and chainsaw).