Offroad-Express

Thought i'd pop up some pics of the Jeeps ive had, and for added interest, before and after shots of them, and what was done to them.

My first (and only) CJ



My first XJ - Ltd
Purchased stock standard, and a little beaten

In between I sorted a 2inch suspension lift, some 31s Bajas on ROH alloy rims, snorkle, and took the spare from inside the rear and mounted it on the roof. Added treadplate skirt panel. And managed to get a gorgeous matt black paint job on it.




My second XJ - 1999 Sport
Purchased with ARB lockers front and rear, ARB front bar, custom rear bar, warn winch, a 2.5 inch lift and snorkle

Added a treadplate panel to the skirts, 15x8's. Also popped another inch on the suspension lift.




First TJ - 1997 Renegade
Purchased with 2inch sus lift

Added 1 inch bodylift, 15x8's and 33's (and rebuilt the auto twice)


Second (and current) TJ Sport
Purchased with 4 inch basic suspension lift

Added the following: Front and rear bars, winch, quick discos, flat fenders, hi clear belly pan, SYE and DC driveshaft, Front and rear ARB lockers, snorkle, Adj front track bar, Adj upper control arms, roll cage addition, rock sliders, cool confederate decal, 1.25inch bodylift, 1inch motor lift, HD tie rod, diff armour, bikini/duster/windjammer alternate top, replaced shocks.... and a heap of other stuff....

your current truck looks like a weapon!

Why so many TJ's in a row? Aren't they all basically the same?

Only two TJ's mate. One for me and one for the bride. Then I found her a nice 350chev in a VT Commodore, so her one (green) had to go.

Found a pic of the two XJ's together (the day the 1993 was sold)


And another of the two TJ's together. (before i'd started doing anything to them)

Always thought that second XJ - 1999 Sport looked good!

"Looks" good yeah, a little too pretty for doing what we do though. In all honesty, if i had to do it all over again, I'd keep the first XJ and throw some more $$ at it.

Dont get as many "cool points" in an XJ though!

Dont get as many "cool points" in an XJ though![/quote] so thats my problem,

No offense mate, its a little "in" joke with RJ and myself back when he was a Pajero driver.

xj wrote:No offense mate, its a little "in" joke with RJ and myself back when he was a Pajero driver.

ha ha none taken mark...skins got thick since i got the jeep...what other things would you have done if ya had kept the xj

locked the front, cut the guards and popped 33s on, regeared the diffs, added a winch. Would have saved myself thousands.

XJ, you are a sick sick man... all that money thrown at a jeep...

(couldn't pick the northland spots in those first few photos )

xj wrote:No offense mate, its a little "in" joke with RJ and myself back when he was a Pajero driver.

And I still have nightmares!

MNC wrote:XJ, you are a sick sick man... all that money thrown at a jeep...

Been called worse bud.... I have a triton in the drive.....

MNC wrote:(couldn't pick the northland spots in those first few photos )

Theres a reason for that too.....

Thought the plates in the first pic might have given it away.... tip for ya.... A big island (or is that a small continent) to our immediate west, on the west side of it...... but not all the way to the west of it, about 600kms short..... sorry, you dont like us mentioning the S---T word hey?

And the second pic... a tract of NorthPower land running out the back of a freinds driveway in Morningside, Whangarei. (but there were no river crossings!!)

RJ wrote:

xj wrote:No offense mate, its a little "in" joke with RJ and myself back when he was a Pajero driver.

And I still have nightmares!

One of those "fat ugly chicks a guy sleeps with when hes 18" moments aye..... the flashbacks.... the horror, oh the horror..........