Examples of the XJ Jeep Cherokee are everywhere in Denver junkyards (nearly as numerous as late-1990s Subaru Outbacks, these days), and it takes a special one to make me deploy my camera. I thought the factory-installed orange tape stripes on this ’91 Cherokee Sport were interesting, and now today’s ’93 with innovative tree-branches-and-rattlecans camo job has made the cut.
It appears that someone laid fir branches all over the truck and then hosed it down with pink and white spray paint. Why? Some junkyard questions have no answers.
It makes sense that Cadillac would use the British “Litre” spelling on their 500-cubic-inch engine badges, for general faux-classy reasons, but why couldn’t Chrysler spell it the American way on a good ol’ Jeep?
It will always be the 242 to me.
Is this the logo of an elite paramilitary organization?
“Brings you air that lets you breathe a little easier” turns out to refer to the driver’s side airbag in the ’93 Cherokee.
The debut of the 242 engine was bigger news than Chrysler buying American Motors!
That engine bay is oddly clean for a vehicle previously owned by an obviously kooky person.
Not kooky, IMO. This is a “country” woman who hunts.
The stickers on the front say State Farm salvage, so it was insurance total, so it was running until whatever happened to it. I don’t see any obvious accident damage.
Cylinder head on that 4.0 has some value, it’s one of the “performance” versions made between ’91 & ’95 and sought after by Jeep hot-rodders and off-roaders.
Some one really wanted to be ‘ different ‘ .
That’s a lot of work , more so as it appears they took the time to properly mask it too .
-Nate
It’s really not that much work, as long as you know what youre doing, of course. :)
I had one of the late model production 4.0L’s in my poverty-spec’d ’99 XJ.
Goddayum, do I miss that car. Only had roughly 100k on it… I totaled it out much too soon.
We had two in the family… a steel blue ’97 2-door XJ and my ’99 4-door. The ’97 rolled over a couple of times and ended up upside down in a field (don’t worry, it had about 170k on it, many more miles than the ’99), and my ’99 ended up getting submerged.
Yup, that’s how we roll in my family. Lol (sigh…)
I swear I’m going to break down and buy a clean (hopefully documented) XJ for a winter/4WD vehicle. When the time is right, of course. Then again, if my fiancé has anything to with it that purchase, it will be a Wrangler. Unfortunately. Because “looks cooler”, donchaknow. Priorities.
Why use “litre”? For the same reason every third developement has “Pointe” in it’s name, and every third strip mall store is a “Shoppe”.
Off topic.
But “shoppe” is one ugly word. Lol
Suburbia: where they name the development after the trees the developer cut down to build the development.
The Estates at Oak Branch
The Pines
Windbourne Acres
The Manors of Gentry
The Woods at Pine Forest
Chestnut Glenn
Oaks at Whitehall
Morningwood Apartments (Office Space)
Actually, that’s the official SI word, along “metre”. We’re pretty much the only country that spells it meter/liter. I personally pronounce the “correct” spelling metree and litree, and to me the whole enterprise is called the Metternich System, or SM if you’re French. Also, where we use a decimal dot, use a comma, and where we use a comma, use a period. The French saw how the British did things and perniciously did the opposite.
Pink camo? Where do you expect to hide? The lingerie department of your local big box store?
Well, now that you mention it, it has its advantages
Look up Muddy Girl:
http://www.moonshinecamo.com/blaze-pink-now-legal-for-deer-hunting-in-one-state/
How do you know it’s fir and not spruce?
Nothing “kooky” about this at all, unless you drive your average silver/black/white car(boring). Maybe I like this paint so much because it looks very similar to the paint job we did on my jeep, which is also very clean, despite my “kookiness” for painting my jeep pink-purple camo, as well. (instagram @ Bigbae_XJ) There’s nothing wrong with being different and standing out. I would love to find out who the original owner of this jeep is, it reminds me so much of my own XJ.