Our Jeeps

2006 JT Sport	No Name 2006 Jeep Wrangler Sport, 6 speed manual Bought 2005 Kept stock The TJ was our ranch vehicle, bought new for $26k in 2005, it stayed at the ranch in Liberty Hill while we flew back and forth between Pittsburgh PA and Austin. Both daughters learned to drive a manual transmission in this Jeep. It also was ued to pull a small flatbed trailer to pick up bales of hay. It was a fun little Jeep, but aside from driving all over the ranch, it was never wheeled. Sold in 2011 for $16k with only 3k miles on it.
1965 M35A2	The Deuce In 2010 we bought a 1956 Kaiser-Jeep Deuce and a Half cargo truck. The best feature was the Whistler multifuel engine. We drove it a few times, but after a long trip, the brakes leaked dry, and we were never able to properly bleed them. Sold 2021
2006 KJ-CRD	Thing 1 2006 Jeep Liberty CRD, 105k miles Bought 2012 Our first diesel Jeep, we test drove it in Houston and had it delivered to Austin. Thing 1 has been my daily driver for eleven years, and continues to be be a work horse for the ranch.
2011 JKU	The Toad Rover 2011 Jeep Wrangler Sahara Unlimited, 90k miles Bought 2013 2-1/2 inch lift, 35s, 4.56 gears, e-lockers front and back, Rugged Ridge aluminum bumpers, Extreme Terrain Barricade rock sliders. Our first wheeling rig, the Toad Rover was purchased used from the service manage Mike at Nyle Maxwell. It was already lifted, but was painted the original factory black. The Toad Rover was named after the Mars exploration vehicle from "The Martian", because they both see a lot of orange dirt. Now that the EcoToad is our main offroad rig, our daughter Kay is driving the Toad Rover as her daily driver.
2014 WK2	No Name 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel, 100k miles Bought new in 2013, the Grand Cherokee is Debbie's daily driver. We ordered it built from scratch in 2013, and it cost $65,000. It was delayed about four months waiting for the EPA and Jeep to approve the transmission and mileage of the diesel Grand Cherokee's. Debbie loves this vehicle, and it's given good service for nearly 10 years.
2006 KJ-CRD	Thing 2 2006 Liberty CRD, 152k miles Thing 2 is a near duplicate of Thing 1: same make, model, and year. Thing 1 is black and Thing 2 is navy blue, so they are almost the same color. Thing 2 was bought from a small car lot for a mere $11k in 2015 with 140k miles on it. Its purpose was to be a spare for Thing 1. The Liberty diesel was basically a prototype commissioned by Dieter Zetsche to attempt to bring European style small diesel cars to America. Since Jeep and Chrysler were owned by Daimler Benz in 2005, Thing 1 and Thing 2 are basically Mercedes Benzes. Thing 2 has served mainly as a spare car for our kids when their rides have to go into the shop.
2023 JLURD	The EcoToad 2023 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon EcoDiesel, 600 miles At the Overland Expo in Flagstaff AZ in May of 2014, FCA Chief Jeep designer Mark T Allen hosted a workshop on the coming diesel Wrangler. I sat in the front row and promised him that if Jeep made a diesel Wrangler, I would buy one. Then in October 2022, while on a Jeep trip to the Black Rock Deert in Navada, I read that FCA was discontinuing the diesel engine option on the Wrangler by the end of the month. The first thing I did after getting back home was to march in to my Jeep dealer and order a new Rubicon EcoDiesel with all the options. Only 5 weeks later I took delivery of another all-black Wrangler, orange having been dropped as a color for 2023. Mark Allen, wherever you are, know that I kept my promise... you built a diesel Wrangler, and I bought one.