Overland History

Finally out of a 4month long winter hibernation in the garage and getting prepped for some Spring camping/traveling in a couple of weeks. 😍🤙🏻

Life has been busy, but today is the first time the XJ has been out of the garage in nearly 2 months! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! 🦃

Just filled the XJ’s 30gal Endurance Tank up with 29gallons of Diesel for the first time in a month! The efficiency of the new Turbo upgrade has rounded city fuel mileage up to 21mpg, which is just stellar! Excited for my next long road trip to Arizona later this Summer to see how much better the Hwy MPG has gotten! 😎🤙🏻

Happy Father’s Day to all of the great Dad’s out there, especially you ! 😎 The first pic was taken 20mins ago, the second pic is my Father with my old blue ‘94 XJ Country back in 2018 and the last pic is my Father with ole red back in 2017. Driving through my Father’s neighborhood today just before dinner time , I could smell nothing but grills going in backyard, so hopefully all of the great Dad’s out there have a beer in their hand and are snapping tongs telling everyone, “It’s almost ready!” 🍻

Nice to have the ole girl back on the road for the past couple of months with a fresh Turbo Upgrade! The Diesel now sounds like an old school Semi-Truck, the new Turbo has an ear-bleeding whistle and sounds like a Mountain Lion bark/scream between shifts, making it a riot to row through the gears! 😂🤙🏻

Happy New Year! 😎🤙🏻

I sure do miss Arizona sometimes. 😎

Lunch date in my favorite redhead. 😍 That’s the Atlantic Ocean in the background.

The ST got freshened inside and out, a full tank of E30 to maximize boost torque, and there’s a box full of parts from in the back that need installing as soon as the XJ is back on the road this weekend. 😎🤙🏻

It’s been a treat to daily drive the XJ lately, which I haven’t done since early 2021. Summer has been nice here in Va Beach so far with the windows down, Diesel purring accompanied by turbo noises. Speaking of Turbo, I’ve still got a Turbo upgrade that I never got around to installing, but it’s on my list of Fall projects, along with some other rad s**t. 😎🤙🏻

Bree recently reminded me that I’m a hoarder after she struggled to find one of these rare Jeep Cherokee XJ Wagoneer front fascias for her Comanche build. 😂 I feel a little guilty for hoarding this many, as just the corner lenses alone are almost unobtanium these days, and I happen to have a NOS one still in the original Mopar packaging. The only reason that I have this many is because U-haul lost my moving container when I moved to AZ back in Jan 2020, and 4yrs later found my container which contained 2 of these Waggy fascia’s, when I had already sourced 2 replacements during that 4yrs. 😂

Thicc as a brick, but she did average 23mpg loaded down with 600lbs of stuff driving 2,500miles across the country earlier this month. 😎