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This is Clifford

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:55 pm
by dzJeepchic
My husband George bought this '92 XJ for me almost a year ago, in fact is was in February 2010, so it was my Valentine present. I know it's weird that I named him, but I swear that the day we went to look at him and I put my hands on the stinger and looked back at him he said to me "I'm Clifford".

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At the time we owned a '96 Cherokee that George had fixed up and it ran well and was a great vehicle. But we were at a cross roads where $1,000s were needed to get it where we wanted it so it could get us where we wanted to go. When this Jeep came on the market it wasn't hard to do the math, so we sold the '96 and bought it. The big appeal was all the after market mods: interior/exterior cage, lift, axles, gears, winch, etc.

George literally worked on the rig for months before he would even take it out. It had been fairly abused so a lot of work needed to be done. We kept an ongoing picture log and build thread, which you may see here:

http://www.offroadpassport.com/forum/sh ... .php?t=402

Clifford is finally getting where we want him to be. In October we took him on a trip to the Canyonlands Maze District and it rained everyday, but we were able to sleep inside, which was the reason I wanted an XJ in the first place.

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Re: This is Clifford

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:23 pm
by BlueFJ
Clifford looks good and I love the exo-cage, but why the tarp the second pic?

Re: This is Clifford

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:21 pm
by OLLIE
Clifford is very well set up. It has the internal cage and the exo-cage. :D

Re: This is Clifford

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:55 pm
by cruiserlarry
Very nice...With the internal and external cages, you're really ready to "roll"... :lol:

Re: This is Clifford

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:35 am
by dzJeepchic
BlueFJ wrote:Clifford looks good and I love the exo-cage, but why the tarp the second pic?
It was deff going to rain so we put the tarp up for a place to sit, eat dinner & keep dry. Check out the trip report if you want: http://www.offroadpassport.com/forum/sh ... .php?t=772

Re: This is Clifford

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:42 am
by photojeeper
Cool Jeep... I really want to do Canyonlands. It is on my list for 2012.

JJ

Re: This is Clifford

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:58 pm
by dzJeepchic
cruiserlarry wrote:Very nice...With the internal and external cages, you're really ready to "roll"... :lol:
Haha! Missed this til now. To me it's a 'World According to Garp' thing. It's been on it's roof once, it's not going over again. I hope. d 8-)

Re: This is Clifford

Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:42 pm
by BlueFJ
dzJeepchic wrote:
BlueFJ wrote:Clifford looks good and I love the exo-cage, but why the tarp the second pic?
It was deff going to rain so we put the tarp up for a place to sit, eat dinner & keep dry. Check out the trip report if you want: http://www.offroadpassport.com/forum/sh ... .php?t=772
Ah, I didn't notice that the tarp extends out towards the camera with a pole holding it up...

Re: This is Clifford

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:41 am
by dzJeepchic
BlueFJ wrote:Ah, I didn't notice that the tarp extends out towards the camera with a pole holding it up...
That is an optical illusion now that you mention it. You were probably wondering why the h3ll I put that picture up! :roll: d

Re: This is Clifford

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:39 am
by BorregoWrangler
It was great watching Clifford work the rocks out here at Corral Canyon. Great build thread!