Colorado B.S. Thread

The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.

Killed the import light truck market, and it's still currently imposed... Because the cheap chicken was being sent to Europe and undermining their expensive domestic chickens.

Companies get around it by assembling stuff in the US that is built overseas, domestics included

 

I had an 82 cj7 and it was ugly loud and had the i6 stroker in it and it was great when I was in high school and a few years after that....now I just love my truck too much to go back to no room for packing anything no matter how good of a 4x4 it was

 

I had a '64 CJ6 with the 134ci F Head, (not a flathead) and an '80 something Cherokee with the 4 liter. Both were complete money pits. The Scouts that replaced them were actually more economical.

 

What about the turd gen thing?

 

Nobody understands that phenomenon.

 

They're great platforms for trail rigs, since any "real" Jeep will have solids front and rear. They're easy to do axle swaps on, as well, since the drivelines/t cases/whathaveyou tend to be pretty interchangable. But between the electrical gremlins, the idiocy that is the Dana 30, NV t cases, slip yokes, and half-hearted motors later on, I'm over the whole Jeep thing.

At this point, the only Jeeps I'm still after are an LJ Rubicon (4.0L and Rubi 44s), and a CJ8 with the AMC 360. Every time I think about building another WJ as an overland rig, I have to come back to my senses and remember all the $20 electrical failures that bricked the last one for half an hour at a time.

 

I still want a TJ that I can use to Toyota swap the whole thing. LC80 axles, turbo RZ engine

 

Actually I had two of those box top Cherokee's. I forgot about the one that burst into flames in the driveway. For no apparent reason. Good thing I was home that day.

 

Had a 78 CJ-7 way back when, TPI Corvette, dry sump oil system, Atlas II, CO's front and read, 40's, blah blah blah. It was fun, but at some point it just got boring.

 

Anyone been to the IMI Motorsports go kart rentals? Sounds like a blast, outdoors with fast karts!

 

I had two late 90's I6 Cherokee's that had similar issues. This was well before I ever really got into off-roading as a serious hobby, but both were electrical nightmare shit piles. Completely impractical and unaffordable for a high schooler...

 

Piles of Jeep everywhere

 

Hellooooooooooooooooooo Colorado!!!

 

It is a blast. They make you do a session on the normal carts before you can rent a shifter cart and really get crazy, as I recall.
They also open the track to motorcycles, which is fun to watch when you aren't driving a cart.

 

Only half the story, due to this foreign automakers opened plants in the USA and later NAFTA allowed work to shift to Mexico & Canada.

Due to this and the American love of SUV's both BMW & Mercedes make all their SUV's here and exported them around the world.

Now you know and knowing is half the battle!

 

Sounds like it shall be a meetup location one of these days.

 

My three XJs never had any electrical issues. i didn't own them for a huge length of time either.

 

Oh boy, TW patch GB, wish they at least offered more colors...

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/tacoma-world-patch-group-buy.472733/#post-14277299

I would get a sticker but looks patch only.