How much money have you sank into your FSJ?

[mokurt]

Paid $1750 for the '67
$250 for registration and tax
$110 rear axle seals
$40 transfer case adaptor seals
$20 transfer case seals
$60 for door weather striping that did not work
$60 carb rebuild
$40 electric fuel pump
$30 oil change
$25 transfer case and diff fluid
$20 transmission fluid
$50 tune up parts
$300 on extra parts

Still needed a windshield
Motor smoked bad
turn signals did not work

Does yearly registration and insurance count?

Sold it for $3000

Got an extra tailgate when I bought it.I'm keeping the tailgate to make a bench.

[440sixpack]

When I'm done I'll have over 20K in my '78 J10 Golden Eagle. more than it's worth I know but I don't care if it takes 30K.

I've wanted one of these since I was 16 in 1978 and at last I will. I'll have it until I die so resale isn't an issue.

[Nikkormat]

Kept track when I was buying the 91 and putting it on the road. As it sits today with a practically new Holley 2300 and after some horse trading during the purchase (flipped an ATV to the guy I bought it from and got $300 off the purchase price.) Insurance and registration included it was on the road for $1200!

Alot cheaper than getting my Cherokee on the road, I'm probably 10 grand into it and it is going to get parted out and turned into a truck now.

[FPG-funpergallon]

More dollars than sense, but I saved it from the junkyard and am feeling good about that! Questioning the wisdom of saving all those receipts though, hope my social director does not come across that folder.

[bufurd]

North of 50, but I/we (thanks Zack) built it because that's what I wanted to drive. I've put over 85,000 miles on it in the last 2 years, I have no regrets. 2 more years and it will have paid for itself.

[brielly]

Over 15 years and three cherokees, I'd rather not tally it up but its probably north of 10k.

[rang-a-stang]

I've had my mine for about 6 weeks now and am keeping very detailed records on it. I'll spare you all the little purchases (nuts/bolt/vacuum hose, etc)

Jeep: $1000
Tune up parts and gaskets for oil leaks from Rock auto/amazon:~$150
DMV (title transfer fee, sales tax):$89
2bbl intake manifold: $41
2 bbl carb: $43

Actual Total: $1,391.67
If it passes smog (and I think I have everything I need to get it through sometime shortly after thanksgiving) I should be driving a sweet Cherokee for cheapo!

Next plans will be to buy some Craigslist rims/tires and clean the crap out of it (if it passes smog).

[selkplitt]

At about 13,000 now. New engine was 4000 of it. And I ain't done yet neither. I'll be over 20 when I am done with it. But that will be over the course of years.

[ShagWagon]

Not enough it seems!

[fsj454]

Money can not buy Love.....

[JSJJ388]

Eh, what the hell. Ive probably spent and will spend the least or at least close to the least of anyone. I bought it because a buddy at work who knows my jeep addiction said it was going to the crusher if I didnt come get it. Got it for use in the bad weather and to drag my ZJ (lets not discuss that total ) to the trails and back, and also, these things are just cool. Here it goes.

Spent -

$150 - purchase
$20 - for a buddy to spend 2 hours helping me drag it out of the woods
$50 - fluids
$10 - bungee chords
$??? - my time

sub total - $210

Going to maybe spend -

$150 - get a title
$500? - odds and ends

sub total - $650

total - $860



Waaaayyyyy cheaper than my wifes car and 1000xs cooler. Even she is warming up to it.

[itselliot]

I just sold Gertrude(1990 GW) for ,.....I think>>>>>>a small profit after 6 years of dialing her in. It was fun,.....and now I can focus on the J20.......I think I have both A.D.D. and O.C.D......drive on.

Update:11/26/2017
The J20 is pushing $30K......no wiring as of today and no interior......
Painless wiring will add ~$600 this month.

[Pillow]

Still in the works... But probably close to 10k +/- before it is semi decent.

I'm starting with a good body but the rest is rough.

[JTruck-Connor]

I still refuse to answer these questions, because it would require me to total everything I have spent on it and I don't consider this necessary information...

I got it for a grand.... then fixed the tcase... then redid brakes, doing suspension, got some headers... gonna get a title for it...

"But it's so cheap!" <-- My ongoing justification for everything. Don't wanna know if it's true.

[Phils67]

I have saved every reciept. Just took over an hour and totalled it up and my wife looked like she was going to point blank me in the face with a grenade launcher haha $22,486.14 plus shipping and handling where applicable, not counting my labor over the last decade, and thats not even bodywork yet..well, what can i say, its a never ending labor of love.