UTslick68

I admit it, I used to be a Jeep owner for 25+ years. In June of '21 I took a leap and purchased my 1st 80-series as a refreshening project between my daughter and I.

Nearly 2 years later, after untold work and never-to-be-admitted financial commitments, a driver pulled across 2 lanes of traffic, directly in front of my daughter. Thankfully she wasn't seriously hurt, but that wonderful rig was no more.

For almost 5 months, I swore off Land Cruisers. I was grieving. Then, a friend and collector texted about his son's 40th that he was going to put up for sale.

It has too good of a documented history, and years 6 through 24 of its life was spent out West, away from salt and rust.

So, I sold my most recent Jeep, and jumped back in to my current 80, a wonderful Sage 40th with, now, 248k and counting. Thankfully this one is not a project to bring back from the brink, like my 1st. I didn't have the mental capacity to tackle that again.

While she runs incredibly, I'm laying the groundwork for the front and top ends "reset" on the 1FZ hopefully to be done, first half of 2025. Mostly because my favorite pastime is long road trips out to Wyoming and the Inter-Mountain West all the way from East TN. I don't want to treat a nearly 30 year old head gasket and timing set on 10k feet mountain passes.

Can't wait to take her on her first, hopefully late next summer.