I've never been a "mudder". The closest I ever came to that was racing motocross as a youth. Some of my vehicle purchases are purpose-driven, some are "just because", and a lot of them get put to hard-use on the Aardvark personal-ponderosa. I bought this one new in 2006 after having an under-hood fire on my 1973 Landcruiser FJ40 (which was one beat-up beast). I sold that FJ40 to a guy I knew that restores them because, well, he wanted to tackle it and I didn't. At my wife's suggestion. I replaced it with this, and I just never could bring myself to take it out in the mud. Or snow. Or rain. I had plenty of other stuff to do that with. So. Ladies and gentlemen, I present the automotive version of a safe queen:
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2006 Jeep Wrangler Sport. Six speed manual, the last year of the 4.0L straight-six. Garage-kept, dealer-serviced annually at inspection-time, the only thing ever replaced would be the OEM tires because one perished to a sidewall cut, and the battery, replaced, of course, with Mopar. It has just under 10,000 miles on it. Crazy, huh?