Tube bumpers, diamond plate flat tops, old school 'ansen' mags...old Jeeps never die, they just get rebuilt by us diehards.
Yep. And easy to build. All you need is some steel, a welder and parts off of any other vehicle you have laying around.
This is my 3rd one (well, and a tj I owned twice). I bought a 86 cj7 for the farm that we still use today. It’s mostly stock, with a few gun racks, but that’s about it. Then I had a CJ5 that was a full on ghetto fab rock crawler (locked on bead lock 38s), without a straight panel on it. I beat that thing to death, then kind of got out of it. So I sold that, minus some of the goodies on it and got the 80 cj7 I posted. This one is more show than go, well, for right now. Mechanically, it’s all stock. I think it has 2” lift springs though, that were on there when I bought it. I made the bumper, front finders, side steps and tj rear flares. I adapted some Mazda Miata seats for the front (speakers in the headrests) and a corbu seat for the rear. Everything else is stock for now. Once the goblin is done, I plan to fix the steering, then pull the stock SR4 trans and d300 t case and put in a T176 and d300with 4:1low out of the CJ5. Then I’ll need to figure out something with the stock axles. I have a corporate 14 here at work, that’s begging to be installed.