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"Featured Jeep"

Model: CJ-8
Year: 1984
Condition: Above average for age
Mileage: 124,375
Price: $12,800 Or Best Offer OR Possible Wrangler Trade
Name: Eric
City: Alexandria
State/Province: Virginia
Uploaded On: 08/02/09
Email Address: s2mllc@gmail.com
Has: 31 inch tires 6 Cyl stock 40L EFI CB CD Player Dana 300 t case Manual Transmission Power Steering

Detailed Description: One-of-a-Kind Fuel-Injected Six-Passenger Jeep Scrambler CJ-8 Red Betty – a 1984 Jeep Scrambler Laredo, customized with six-passenger seating and a modern Cherokee engine and 5-speed. Less than 28,000 of these special long-wheelbase Jeeps were ever built, and if you live in NOVA, you may have seen her around. If you’re tired of cookie-cutter SUV’s, here’s the Jeep you’ve been waiting for! See Here. What’s her story? This jeep was literally found rotting away in a barn (cliche but TRUE, she was discovered nearly undriveable in Lake Hopatcong NJ). Now she’s mechanically almost new, just breezed through inspection (although she's actually exempt from emissions as an '84, she passed anyway), and did a 600 mile trip to Kitty Hawk last week purring like a cat. Beneath the hood is the fuel-injected 4.0 liter and AX-15 five-speed taken from my own one-owner 1998 Cherokee. The drive train, including a complete new clutch assembly, was swapped in by the Jeep-obsessed guys at Mount Zion Offroad less than 3K miles ago, including a complete new cat-back exhaust. (See the swap Here). She started life as a black two-seater, later fitted with a bad back seat and a broken hard top that didn't fit right. Now, she's bright red (actually it's the "Flame" red from a 2005 Jeep Liberty) and fitted with a full length Bestop soft top and four matching (and very hard to find) black and silver laredo seats, with tip-up mounts in front (both sides) and two fold-and-tumble rear seats. A Skyjacker suspension makes room for 31x10.5 inch Bridgestones. She’s got power steering, power brakes, new body mounts, and an all-steel body that’s bedliner-coated inside and out. Heavy new steel plate (no pop rivets and tin sheets here!) has been welded in the wheel wells, front floors, side panels and roll bar and body mounting locations. This Jeep's body is now stronger and less susceptible to rust than when it was new. All the gauges work (when was the last time you saw a CJ where that was true?!), 4 wheel drive works, intermittent wipers, tilt-steering column, tachometer, clock (what Jeep considered fancy options in those days), everything works. Complete new fuel system with electric Cherokee fuel pump? Done. Complete new cooling system and oversized radiator to keep her bulletproof Cherokee motor cool – check. Front end rebuild? Power steering box rebuild? Rebuilt Dana 300 transfer case? CD player and CB Radio? Done. Done. Done. Done. Nearly every hose, bolt, belt, joint and moving part on this Jeep was replaced in the last couple of years (and I’ve got the pictures and – OUCH! – $20K in receipts to prove it). Go Here for pics of her now, and shortly I'll be adding all the ones from her early condition and early body and mechanical rebuild. If you're seriously interested, I can make you copies of receipts for EVERY part that went into this Jeep. What do we want for her? We’ll never get back what we’ve put in to her, but I guess that’s our loss and your gain. We’re asking $12,800, but make us an offer or, if you’ve got a 2002-2006 Wrangler, we might be interested in a trade or partial trade. We're not growing up, but we are growing older, and we decided that A/C, airbags and the like are probably a good idea, so we're open to offers. Why’s she called Red Betty? The current paint was an inexpensive job while we put the money into the mechanical work, but as you can see she still looks great! The plan was to finish her with a truly high-end paint job, topped off with custom pin-up girl Bomber-style “nose art” to honor my wife’s father and uncle who served in WWII. We even have the design ready and can email you the hi-res files if you'd like to have the Red Betty decals made. Contact us at S2MLLC@gmail.com or 703.582.4749 for more information.