A new hope with a used Jeep

             Well this month i had to pick up a new used vehicle out of both necessity and whats. Do to financial constraints my wife and I had to let out suburban go it was not an easy situation or diction but it was the only   thing that made since. So I had already been toying around with the idea of stating another jeep project. My first car as a teenager was a red 92 jeep wrangler that i absolutely loved. I told myself that I would never sell it and would give it to my children some day. Well fast foreword a few years and with my second son on the way I decided it was time to sell the four seater jeep. It absolutely broke my heart but it was necessary and I told myself that some day I would own another jeep and share the experience with my kids. So with only a few days to find a new used mode of transportation I landed on "project snow ball" a white 92 Jeep Cherokee.

             Now I don't consider myself a writer of any means but I have finally found something to try the blogging thing with. I am an aircraft mechanic by profession, defiantly not a columnist or blogger. But I have always enjoyed reading funny, life telling stories by writers such as Dave Berry. So I will try to make this story of my new project a real life tale of the ups and downs of taking on a project 4x4 for anyone will to read this in the hopes of avoiding my pit falls and share some sure to be funny mishaps. 

             To get this blog up to date of the project, i have had snow ball for about two weeks as of today. As I said I had only a few days to find a new ride do to losing my main vehicle to financial wohhs. I had been watching CL for some months prior for jeep Cherokees. do to thinking of getting back into off-roading now that my kids are a little older and have been bugging about going camping. So I made the drive up to Phoenix    to take a look at a few jeep for sale and as luck or divine intervention as my wife would say I was only able to look at and test drive one of the four I had planed on checking out. After a somewhat rushed decision I laid down the money for project snow ball. It was definitely not the most ideal deal but it was going to have to work. It had relatively low mile for a 20+ year old jeep and the engine and tranny seemed to be in good working order. the body was in descent shape for a dessert rat and the kid i bought it off had put some money into a lift and nearly new 33" tires. As for the project name I derived it from that simply fact that its a white jeep and that in that last two weeks the list of things to fix on it has grown in size just as a snow ball rolling down a steep mountain dose.