Military Jeeper
02-27-2008, 23:41
Went and looked at this Jeep today and it was in pretty good shape ($6,500, 1985 JEEP CJ-7 4x4 Laredo).
Things bad and good about the Jeep:
Cons:
- The hardtop has seen it's better days (you can tell someone tried to fix it previously) but I don't think it's worth salvaging
- The passenger door doesn't have an outside handle and some of the interior portion of the doors have tears in them (same for seats, small tears)
- The front floorboards have some surface rust because a carpet kit is installed and moisture probably got trapped underneath
- Snap rings are installed on the tub for the old softop versions that used the snaps (meaning I'd have to remove them and patch holes one day)
- Brakes are soft (It does have power brakes though)
- Drain **** on radiator appears to have a small leak
- All chrome is rusted (not a concern as it would be removed anyway, but not salvagable for resale)
- Numerous gauges don't work anymore.......go figure, haha
- Some oily residue on engine, but to be expected on original engine (6 cyl)
Pros:
- Factory suspension, never lifted
- Steers straight, no wandering (Factory steering wheel too)
- Automatic (Normally I'd say this is a CON but I'm tired of shifting in bumper to bumper traffic)
- Seats in decent shape (Has factory back seat still)
- No body rust or frame rust.....even in the normal places (it was shipped from Cali)
- Decent paint job, not great but decent (Charcoal Gray Color with clearcoat still in tact, it's been repainted from what I can tell)
- Carpet installed (I can resell this and make $100 probably)
- Aftermarket center console and tuffy speaker boxes in the back.
- Factory installed swing-away tire carrier
- Never off-roaded
- Tilt steering
- Bikini top
- Spare soft doors
My only real dislikes about the Jeep are it's a 6 cyl.............and my current Jeep is a 79 CJ5 with the 304, much more fun and loud. I was planning on swapping axles and engine/driveline on my CJ now but if I grab this CJ7 I'll do it on this Jeep instead so it's kinda a moot point anyway.
http://images.craigslist.org/010111010210010404200801319f7718920f3d47786600845b.jpg
http://images.craigslist.org/010100010211011608200801311e91b3becfa2d406a900d67e.jpg
Things bad and good about the Jeep:
Cons:
- The hardtop has seen it's better days (you can tell someone tried to fix it previously) but I don't think it's worth salvaging
- The passenger door doesn't have an outside handle and some of the interior portion of the doors have tears in them (same for seats, small tears)
- The front floorboards have some surface rust because a carpet kit is installed and moisture probably got trapped underneath
- Snap rings are installed on the tub for the old softop versions that used the snaps (meaning I'd have to remove them and patch holes one day)
- Brakes are soft (It does have power brakes though)
- Drain **** on radiator appears to have a small leak
- All chrome is rusted (not a concern as it would be removed anyway, but not salvagable for resale)
- Numerous gauges don't work anymore.......go figure, haha
- Some oily residue on engine, but to be expected on original engine (6 cyl)
Pros:
- Factory suspension, never lifted
- Steers straight, no wandering (Factory steering wheel too)
- Automatic (Normally I'd say this is a CON but I'm tired of shifting in bumper to bumper traffic)
- Seats in decent shape (Has factory back seat still)
- No body rust or frame rust.....even in the normal places (it was shipped from Cali)
- Decent paint job, not great but decent (Charcoal Gray Color with clearcoat still in tact, it's been repainted from what I can tell)
- Carpet installed (I can resell this and make $100 probably)
- Aftermarket center console and tuffy speaker boxes in the back.
- Factory installed swing-away tire carrier
- Never off-roaded
- Tilt steering
- Bikini top
- Spare soft doors
My only real dislikes about the Jeep are it's a 6 cyl.............and my current Jeep is a 79 CJ5 with the 304, much more fun and loud. I was planning on swapping axles and engine/driveline on my CJ now but if I grab this CJ7 I'll do it on this Jeep instead so it's kinda a moot point anyway.
http://images.craigslist.org/010111010210010404200801319f7718920f3d47786600845b.jpg
http://images.craigslist.org/010100010211011608200801311e91b3becfa2d406a900d67e.jpg