{"id":448,"date":"2009-08-27T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T15:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2009-08-27T12:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T16:07:31","slug":"cheap-jeep-cherokee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/cheap-jeep-cherokee\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Jeep Cherokee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that first appealed to me about the Jeep Cherokee is that they are cheap to modify for off road use.  I was a bit hesitant about whether I would enjoy off road driving so I started by building my <a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/project_cheap_jeep.shtml\">Project Cheap Jeep Cherokee.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found I really enjoyed off roading with my Cheap Jeep.  At the time I was rally racing a Jeep Cherokee but the races on the east coast had all but disappeared.  I then decided to convert the race car into a Cheap off road Jeep.<\/p>\n<p>I started with a <a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/reccomended-jeep-cherokee-lift-kit\/\">cheap lift kit from JCW.<\/a>  I got some cheap tires off an old F150 mudder truck.  I scavenged as many parts as possible to make sure my off roader was a true Cheap Jeep Cherokee even if it did have a full racing roll cage and a 4.7L Stroker engine.<\/p>\n<p>The recent cash for clunkers may have taken a few good cheap jeep project Cherokees off the road.  However, some of these will find their way to lots like Pull a Part were we can get plenty of good parts for our Jeeps.<\/p>\n<p>Searching ebay, there are always lots of cheap Jeeps available. See a sample of listings below:[phpbay]Jeep Cherokee, 10[\/phpbay]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that first appealed to me about the Jeep Cherokee is that they are cheap to modify for off road use. I was a bit hesitant about whether I would enjoy off road driving so I started by building my Project Cheap Jeep Cherokee. I found I really enjoyed off roading with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/cheap-jeep-cherokee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cheap Jeep Cherokee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,18],"tags":[126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}