mickeykelley
Well Oiled
After several people here and at home suggested, I decided to take their advice and chronical my adventure. We decided last summer that we needed a permenant vehicle left at our cabin in the mountains of southern NM. It had to be 4 wheeled since we are there all times of the year and they do get snow, etc. I didn't want another car payment for 5 years nor the high cost of a newish 4 wheeled nor an old used POS that had unknowns and value always going down. Thus we started looking for a good Willys. At first we ruled out a CJ as could not secure items, top off and on, up or down, limited seating, etc. Finally ruled out truck for 2 person only, securing items and shoveling snow out of the bed. We found a great 55 wagon surprisingly a few hours away in Amarillo. It had been for sale for several months and price dropped once already. It ran and appeared mostly original, which we wanted, and all there. It was a 2 owner that started in the mountains near Red River NM with a skiing family like us and supposedly not many miles in past 15 years but kept in a building under cover. After a visit and test drive, negotiating a lower price, we agreed on it. $6,200 and put it in a storage unit until I could get back up in a month to trailer home. I would have preferred to pay $500-1,000 less, but that would not get the deal done and this one was in pretty good shape compared to others I saw plus it was the high altitude motor with the 2 bbl. I knew I would do a frame off and add some safety upgrades, but keep as original as possible. Here it is last September:
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