Ep. 14 He Interviewed This NZ Jeep Owner One Week Before the 6.3 Quake!

Welcome back to the XJ Talk Show! In this classic episode, we sit down with Wayne Lang (Cantab27) from Christchurch, New Zealand for a pre-recorded interview about his 1995 Jeep Cherokee XJ. Wayne shares how he got into XJs, his mods, daily driving and wheeling in New Zealand, the challenges of parts and shipping “across the ditch,” and what it’s like owning a right-hand-drive XJ imported from Japan. We also dive into life in NZ, fast food, holidays, and more. 🎙️ This interview was recorded just **one week before** the devastating 6.3 magnitude Christchurch earthquake. Wayne later called in live during the aftermath, but tonight we play the original conversation. Later in the show, Rainey calls in while driving to give us the breaking story on a dramatic XJ rollover recovery in North Houston — nose-over-tail flip into a ravine. Hear how they got the Jeep back on its wheels with winches and teamwork, plus updates on the damage (surprisingly minimal!). This episode is pure old-school Jeep community vibes: helpful people, real wheeling stories, and XJ love from across the globe. **Timestamps:** 00:00 Show Introduction and Branding 02:42 Listener Call-In Information 03:13 Caller Testimonials for XJTalk 03:30 Chat Room Roll Call and Interview Setup 06:45 Interview Intro with Wayne Lang 07:23 Global Manufacturing of Jeep Cherokee 07:46 Wayne’s Work and New Zealand Holiday Schedule 08:32 NZ Holiday Practices and Personal Reflections 09:25 Fast Food Landscape in NZ and Australia 09:47 NZ Convenience Stores and Corner Shops 11:21 Convenience Store Culture and Opinions 13:06 Introducing Jeep Cherokee Details and Pricing 14:15 Sharing Jeep Photos and Repair Guidance 15:09 Persistence in Jeep Maintenance and Purpose 16:41 Jeep Military Heritage and Production Origins 17:58 Perception of Jeep Luxury and Modifications 18:41 Lifted Jeeps, Colors, and Community Views 19:24 Luxury vs Lifted Jeeps in NZ 20:25 Lift Costs and Gear Ratio Adjustments 21:11 Gear Upgrades and Shipping Challenges 23:38 Parts Availability, Pricing, and Body Repairs 24:26 NZ Mod Ideas and Learning from US 24:57 Salvage Yards and Parts Sourcing in NZ 26:06 Christchurch Earthquake Aftershocks and Community Impact 29:35 Earthquake Events and Predictions Discussion 34:26 Show Wrap-Up and Final Remarks 34:59 Rini, Mighty Mike, and Modification Projects 37:58 Functional yet Fancy Jeep Enhancements 38:28 Appreciation for Wayne and Moderator Role 39:03 Final Closing Conversation 39:27 Farewell and Closing Remarks 39:51 Interview Recap and Jeep Enthusiast Mood 40:30 Chat Room Appreciation and Audience Thanks 41:20 Recovery Story Clarifications and Discussion 48:59 First Rollover Recovery Experience 50:18 Continuation of Recovery Talk and Gratitude 52:01 Pride in Community and Thanks 55:23 Sponsored Segment: 4Wheeling+ Advertisement 56:38 Brian XJ’s Praise for XJTalk 57:01 Show Ending and Final Sign-Off If you’re into Jeep Cherokees (XJ), off-roading, international Jeep stories, or classic Jeep Talk Show episodes, this one’s for you! 👉 Join the community: https://xjtalk.com **Follow the Show:** – Website: https://xjtalk.com – Facebook: Search XJTalk – Twitter: @XJTalk Big thanks to our sponsor: 4WheelingPlus.com — Great deals on Jeep lift kits and parts! Don’t forget to LIKE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE for more Jeep Cherokee XJ content, interviews, recoveries, and tech talk. #XJ #JeepCherokee #XJTalk #JeepLife #OffRoad #4×4 #ChristchurchEarthquake #JeepRecovery Visit our website: https://jeeptalkshow.com/ Watch/Listen on Spotify https://jeeptalkshow.com/spotify Join our Discord Server: https://jeeptalkshow.com/discord Subscribe to our newsletter: https://jeeptalkshow.com/newsletter Help Support the show via Patreon: https://jeeptalkshow.com/patreon

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Jeep Cherokee XJtalk.com show. My name is Tony, also known as Mudderoy, on XJtalk.com.

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This is a talk show about XJ vehicles, which is the two-letter designator for the Jeep Cherokee.

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Produced for many years, almost three million units sold.

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We love them. We drive them. Some of us take them off road. Most of us take them off road.

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Tonight we’re going to be playing a pre-recorded interview with Wayne Lang, Cantab 27, from Christchurch, New Zealand.

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This interview was recorded just a week before the 6.3 earthquake that they had and devastated the Church Christ area. We may actually have a call from Wayne after the interview just to catch up with him from last week’s live interview.

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We’ll get started here right away.

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XJtalk.com XJtalk.com

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It’s where you go when you’re not off road.

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I just wanted to tell you about XJtalk.com. It’s a great site. There’s no bashing. Everybody’s nice and friendly. Great place to be.

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This is Brian XJ. Just calling in to tell you that we really like the website. Full of a lot of tech and a lot of good people. Always get a response back quickly. Thanks. Have a good day.

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Okay. So just looking here at the chat room, we’ve got Dalton 4×4. Dalton, we can always count on you to be here. I know that a couple of the guys are out doing a vehicle recovery tonight. We had a new member come up in the chat room on XJtalk and say, “Hey, need some help out

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night-wheeling with a friend of mine.” And they rolled the Jeep.

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So I’m not sure if it was an XJ or not. It certainly doesn’t matter as far as

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the rolling of said vehicle. Because

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we’re all a part of a community and we want to try to help out anybody that

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needs the help. Anyway, there wasn’t anybody available last night. It was around 10.30, I guess, Central Time, when that information came in. And it seems everybody up in North Houston goes to bed early because they have to get up early to go to work.

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So I believe Renee and Matt were going to be going out there tonight and or after work and trying to roll the vehicle back over.

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That new member is Big Jeep. I wanted to say Big Jim. Big Jeep, Big Jeep. And

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he was a passenger in the vehicle. So hopefully we’ll get some images, whether it be video or stills, up on the site. And of course the site is xjtalk.com, in case you didn’t know.

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So what I have here tonight is an interview that we were originally going to play last week.

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But the 6.3 devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, occurred just the day before the normal Wednesday show.

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So it was just by luck Wayne was actually able to call in via Skype from Christchurch and just give us a good idea of what was going on there and his thoughts and feelings

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that he was going through. And it was a very interesting interview for me anyway, being on the other half of it. Hopefully it was for you as well. But that was last week and because of the events and because Wayne was able to call in live, we did not play that recorded interview.

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So that’s what we’re going to do tonight. The recorded interview was done one week before the 6.3 earthquake in New Zealand. And I believe there’s even some discussion about

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the earthquake that happened back in September and also to the threat of new

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earthquakes coming up. And of course we had no idea what was going to be occurring just one short week away.

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So anyway, without further ado, let’s get to the interview.

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Thanks for joining us Wayne. Yes, pleasure to be here Tony. Wayne is down in New Zealand and Wayne I guess you’ve been there all your life, right?

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Yep, born and bred in Christchurch but I did spend 10 years living in Australia.

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How was that?

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Hot.

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Very hot. So it’s not as hot in New Zealand?

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No, Australia is one big desert. She’s pretty close to what you guys get by reading New Texas weather. He emitted really hot.

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Interesting, I didn’t realise that. So it depends what part Queensland.

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Right. Certainly,

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well it’s a long, long ways away from us which is the thing that I find most interesting about Jeep Cherokees and other countries. It’s such a long way from where they were manufactured. Of course parts come in from all over the world so it’s hard to have anything these days that is

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built by one country. Although I guess the Russians probably did it with varied results.

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So Wayne, what do you do in Christchurch?

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I’m a concrete place there. I do decorative concrete, driveways, pettios and such.

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Oh that’d be great to have here. I’d like to have some work done. I guess the travel expense would probably kill me.

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No job too big or small Tony. Three quotes. So how long have you been doing that?

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Must have come up nine years again on that. My goodness. So something interesting happened I guess last month or so. Interesting to us because we don’t really have a month off. You were off for a month, right?

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They’ve just increased your holidays in New Zealand. You were entitled to three weeks of Christmastime plus your four stats which is Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, New Year’s Eve or whatever it is. They’ve just increased it to four weeks plus your stats.

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So is that just for your company or is that like a national thing? That’s all over New Zealand. So how do you buy anything if everybody’s off?

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it just works out. All the holidays you can take them whenever. Most companies close down. Like the building industry, like Ironman close down but shops, bars and everything else keeps going. They just have their holidays different times of the year. I got you. That makes sense. It’s simple but I kind of had it in my mind. It was a national thing and I thought man everybody’s off for a month. What do you do? You can’t just stock us but eat beans.

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It’s staggered. The holidays are staggered. Before I was conquering I was working in bars, running bars and I’d take my holidays in the middle of the year kind of thing.

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Which is kind of cool because no one else is on holiday.

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Right. Well that makes it nice to, I’m sure it makes it nicer to get out and do things during the day when everybody else is working. Yeah it was good. I enjoyed that. You can get to do more stuff.

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This really isn’t related to anything but probably New Zealand. Do you have fast food places? Yes. Like Jack in a Box and things like that? We got the Golden Arches, your pizzas, your Pizza Hut, your Subway. Here goes a Burger King over in Australia. It’s Hungry Jack’s. We got all those ones. KFC. Then you got your corner

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fish and chip shops or burger bars where they’ll make the burger you kind of want. And then a girl in front of you kind of thing. Just like a little size of your average land kind of a shop.

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See that was the thing that disappointed me the most about visiting Mexico. I went over there with my wife. She’s originally from Mexico. And I went over there to, this was years ago too, before our second daughter was born and she just turned 16.

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So we were in Monterey.

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I was very disappointed because

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they had a Chili’s. They had a water burger. It was like going into Houston.

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That’s just the way things go. But you know what? I think the American vision is, well it’s like people in other parts of the country. They speak with somebody in Texas. They want to know if you have an oil well and how many cows you have.

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I’m sorry, interestingly enough I did have a cousin. It’s funny we also have what they’re called Derry’s.

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It’s like a, you call them convenience stores but they’re only little stores. They’re usually old houses and the lounge is turned into a wee shop. You got one of those in most corners. I’ve got two within five minutes where I am. Drive.

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You’ll go into your sub-herbs or town and there’s usually one in every third corner. It’s run by Indians or Chinese. It’s quite bizarre. It’s always been like that. It’s handy. It’s just like your cigarettes to your ice creams to your little

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household products. They’re everywhere. I got you. So it would be like our stop and go or

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7-Eleven or I can’t remember the one. I never stop at them. I hate those little things. They’re convenience stores.

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Yeah, we call them Derry’s here. I’ll post a couple of pictures that are quite bizarre because like I said they’re in the corner and just like old houses converted into little shops. It’s been like us as I can remember. Yeah, that would be interesting because that’s not how we do it here. Of course the places that we have here are kind of like gas stations and convenience stores. If you forget your can of green beans on Christmas or Thanksgiving you can go buy a can of green beans at the convenience store for like eight bucks. They’re normally like a buck or something.

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Our surveys are going like that now because

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we’re about 10-20 years behind everyone so our survey stations, you get your groceries in there now kind of thing. It’s all beginning to change.

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So it’s killed most of the main town and shopping. Our CDB or whatever you call it, the Central Business District. There’s a little dime because big malls are going up. But like I said, we’re far behind. We’re slow to catch up and avoid people shopping and whatnot. Well that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I mean the malls are fine but most men don’t like going to the malls because it’s an adventure. You can’t just go get what you need and get back to the television or the computer or whatever it is you want to get back to.

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No cheap parts of the mall. Yeah of course the women like cruising around and seeing everything and doing the window shopping.

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Yeah, and you get caught for cruising around looking at the woman cruising around. So that’s why they make dark sunglasses Wayne.

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Yeah, I told you we were way behind. It’s like looking at the sun. You just don’t look at it very long. If you look like it’s too long it’s going to burn your eyes. Yeah, not wrong.

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Okay, so anyway getting to the meat of it, the Jeep. You’ve got a Jeep Cherokee XJ. What year is it again? It’s 95.

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And how did you come across that?

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Actually this would be nice for Jim. I had a Toyota Hilux double camp. That was slightly modded.

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And I kept overheating so the wife told me to get rid of it because she didn’t like it. So I was actually looking at Land Rover’s.

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They had Discoveries, the V8 ones. Right. And I come across an ad for the Jeep Cherokee.

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Went round and drove it. I like the way the window wiper, you know how it washes the whole screen. Right.

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And I like that so I brought it. Ever since then I didn’t know nothing about it. I didn’t even know that it was anybody that didn’t have chassis back then.

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So how many miles did it have on it?

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Sorry. How many miles? 160. I think it would want to be less.

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was very tidy when I brought it. And I paid just over three for it. I think it was three and a half.

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How long ago did you get it?

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It would be three and a bit years ago. So that’s not a bad price. I mean even here that would have been really bad a price.

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When I first started posting you could see some photos of it and it was actually quite a tidy one. It’s not so tidy now but hey. Well you’ve used it quite a bit.

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Yes. I brought it ahead of all these clunky noises as they do and what not but because of joining these forums I just slowly weeded it out myself. Ask questions. Try things. Fix things. That’s what I like about them. Yeah it’s great knowing how they’re put together and it’s a big confidence builder when you know

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what to look for and what to expect. It can be very maddening at times because especially when you fix something and it fails again or something similar or in that area fails and you wonder when you’re ever going to get to it or get done with it.

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I think I read Stiff saying to one of the boys yesterday, Brian, it might have been saying to Brian about don’t worry about it, it’s only a piece of metal. Go back to it kind of thing. Which it is. Walk away and go back to it and have another go.

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Well I think we have a little bit different perspective because we can go down or you can go pretty much anywhere and find

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one with a whole other set of problems for $500.

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And of course that’s one of the problems you guys have there. The owners of Jeep Cherokees in New Zealand is parts. Getting parts. And actually I guess getting the parts aren’t so bad as the price that you have to pay for

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Yeah, price ends. Yeah, that’s the colour. But in saying that not many people do the XJ’s that’s another reason why I got one. Because it’s different. Everyone’s like they do the Japanese stuff over here, all the British stuff, the Land Rovers, the Nissens

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or the Toyotas, the Surfs, the Hyluxes and whatnot. I wanted something different. And a lot of people do Wranglers but

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I just wanted to be a wee bit different.

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I got the XJ. I can’t remember if it was you that told me that the XJ is like a luxury vehicle.

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When they first came out they were worth a lot of money. Mine probably retailed in $95,000 from near on $60,000. My God.

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So it’s viewed as a luxury vehicle and anybody that makes modifications to it is viewed as being insane. Well that’s funny because the Jeep Club I was going to join,

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they’ve got a lot of older blokes here, even older than me.

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It brought them brand new.

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And I’ve rocked up and I’ve cut it and gutted it and dented it and they kind of looked down their noses at me so I didn’t really end up joining. You young whippersnappers.

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I reckon.

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Well that’s what the Jeep is for. The name Jeep, it’s a military vehicle. Its birth was military vehicle, World War II. And it’s designed to go places. So you’re doing exactly what it was designed to do. And I understand how people, if they don’t want to do that, that’s perfectly acceptable. But to me,

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you’re having fun with it. You’re enjoying yourself. That’s what it’s for. It’s a four wheel drive. Mine actually come in from Japan too. It’s imported from Japan. So it left

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America, went to Japan, I don’t know when they put it in their right hand conversion.

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Right hand drive conversion. But I was actually water blasting the motor the other day. One of the stickers, Japanese stickers come off and it’s got the American right hand, you know, watch your fingers for the

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belt or whatever it is. Morning.

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I’m not sure where they did their right hand drive conversion. I think Japan drives on the same side as us. So maybe over there or before it left the country, I’m not real sure.

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I wonder if they have a plant there. I was thinking they actually built them there.

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It might be assembled there maybe. I mean, I don’t know. I’m just assuming. I don’t remember reading anything about it. I was just assuming that maybe Chrysler licensed it to, or Jeep licensed it to be built over there. And

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they just built it and then it was closer

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to ship from there to the

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A very underrated vehicle over here.

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You get looked down your nose is that but more people have seen my one out and about. They’re getting to take notice and looking at them and what am I one of those. There are a couple of nice ones being built up now.

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That’s interesting. Well, there was that red one that the gentleman. I have updated photos of that. I’m just waiting for it to be emailed to me. I took a lot of photos the other day when we were flashing my transmission.

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I’ll do it right up on it as well. Oh, great. Yeah, that was very interesting. I forget his name on XJ talk, but it was interesting. He sent me a message telling me he was going to create a Jeep look just like mine. I was very flattered and my gosh, that was a beautiful Jeep. Once he got the lift and the tires and stuff on it.

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Okay.

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went out wheeling a few times, but I think I told you to sell it. Yeah, I started his business.

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And he kind of sell it lifted looking like that. He had to break it down. He had to put a

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stock suspension back on and tires.

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He sold the then he sold the Jeep was a 2001 for 6000.

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It’s 1300 on the left and 1300 for those rims and tires, which was quite a good deal. Yeah.

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Can you just pause for a minute Tony? My land noise going right ahead.

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So it sounds like he broke everything apart. He got more money for it. If he and then he would have selling it

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all together. Of course, the buyer made it. Maybe they didn’t want all that crap on it.

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Yeah, it’s not correct when it’s lifted. It’s rude not to lift the Jeep. Actually, I agree with you, but over in New Zealand, it may have been that people didn’t want it being a luxury vehicle. They wanted it, you know, like I think I think the guy wanted it for towing, but I would have lifted it. You know, a guy paid sex. He could have a team before that. It was a very good looking. Oh, it was beautiful. Like he might not want it. Yeah, it was wonderful. It really reminded me of mine. Whenever I first started making modifications to it, beautiful color

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that read that red. Really? Sure did.

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But you guys like your green and that wouldn’t mind a green Jeep. I mean, green is great for, you know, off road and back in the woods and. You don’t play this, but you will. But I don’t care what color they are. Long as they’re on X-Joke. Green is just an in-house joke. Yeah, I’m the same way. I mean, they’re all of them have

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just the body lines and how they look, especially lifted. Yeah, they look cool. Yeah, whenever it’s a stock thing, it looks a lot like a, you know, a station wagon, even though they’re very capable of stock. But once you lift it, oh my gosh, it’s just an amazing transformation. Lifted in a seat of muddies, they go well because it’s so light. The power ratio thing, isn’t it? Yes, they really get going fast. I mean, routinely we go over well over 100 in mine. That’s back in the stock configuration.

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I

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took the trip in this stock when my mate’s stock limited, 94 limited, the leather, la, de la, la. And I forgot how nice they drive stock standard

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and the power. Beautiful. Yeah. Well, you never did change the gears in yours, did you? Yours took up the 355? Yes, it’s on the list, but it’s not really a daily driver. Right. But it is on the list.

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I was just going to mention that when I put the 456 gears in mine, it was like driving it when it was stock, except you’re sitting high.

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I’m going to have to do it then. It was an amazing thing. For the fun of driving the Jeep, that was the biggest thing that I’ve done to it. It was expensive, but it was the best thing because you notice it every time you drive it.

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One of it’s worth pricing up some gears and

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getting how I put that post up for my friend going to Hawaii. You know, that’s not a bad idea.

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The gears are a little heavy, but I don’t think they’d be as heavy as wheel bearing assemblies.

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I’ve got to put a wee list on there, so hopefully people can price or put links to some pricing.

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And then me and him are going to nut out and think what would be good stuff to bring over, just throwing our gear bear kind of thing. A lot of sensors will be always bringing back. And I’m sorry, the people listening that don’t understand what we’re talking about, it cost a lot of money to get parts in New Zealand. It’s largely due to getting it shipped there.

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The parts themselves are expensive too, but the shipping is outrageous. So he’s got a friend that’s going to be going to Hawaii. And in the United States, we have a deal with the US Post Office where they have this deal where if it fits in a box, a certain size box, it’s 70 pounds or less, it ships for a fixed rate. So for something like eight bucks or something,

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we can ship something from Houston to Hawaii.

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And then his friend, whenever his friend gets on the plane to come back home, he can check in his luggage. And now the whole shipping thing, gosh, I guess gears would probably cost 50, 60, 100 bucks to get shipped to New Zealand. And now we’re talking about eight bucks and the guy’s on the plane anyway. That obviously is a cost, but it’s not going to be a shipping cost.

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As an example, our front hubs will be like $250, $100 a side.

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I think it’s A1 Tony selling 100 bucks a pair of American. Right. And I’m sorry, how much was the shipping?

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No, that’s just how it’s landed here. For me to go to where I buy them from, to buy new ones, it’s $250 to $300 a side. Okay. I see what you’re saying. So you can probably figure that a lot of that is shipping. And it just amazes me that

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there, gosh, you would think that somebody would snap up the idea of putting a bunch of this stuff on a boat. Well, again, there’s not that many Jeep Cherokees over there. So I guess it’s not worth doing it. And that would be another reason why the prices are high.

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Well, that’s a, someone should have been decent hubs for the, I just could regreeze and repack maybe. That was a little disappointing to me as well. I’m not used to that. A sealed, non-serviceable bearing.

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Sam, because I’m like, I’m on beyond to you. I know my left front one is playing up. That’ll be my, you can see it. In three years since I’ve had it, in the last set, it’d be like if I’d done 10,000 K’s on them.

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But it does play in a lot of rubbish. Right. Well, you get in the river a lot and that’s got to be washing out that grease.

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Exactly. So it’s a four-wheel drive. You pay for these things. Yeah, that’s true. It’s a hobby.

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Same as the body works, a bit bunged up. But hey.

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So what kind of things do you do over there? I mean, I’m asking this because you’ve been on our site and there’s a lot of, a lot of American things and American ideas that we, that we talk about there. What are the things that you do differently with your Jeep than, than we do over here or are there different things?

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Nothing really. It’s more a learning curve for me personally, myself and getting ideas from you, which can make my modifications cheaper if you get what I mean. Sure. Or silly, not stupid or silly ideas. A good example is the

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pulp noodles.

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Yeah. And so I had no idea how to sort that out and Rene,

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he said, “Yeah, two bucks.” You know, it did cost me two bucks and that was, that was, that was brilliant.

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Probably one of the better things I’ve done because it keeps all the crap and stuff out of the hinges and inside the cab. Right. Yeah, I was a little surprised by that too. It makes perfect sense. But he talked about it on the website and then one of our Houston area meeting greets. I said, “Show me the pull noodle.” I was a little nervous at first, but he pointed towards the Jeep.

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Yeah, that was on his interview wasn’t it? I remember that. Yes, it was. A video interview. Yeah. Yeah. And the thing, and the thing I found interesting was I believe he had a pull noodle on one side, but not on the other.

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Just the driver’s side. So he was pull noodle pacing himself.

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It says more, more, more that I get more ideas of use. It’s like, we can’t go to the junkyard as you call them. We call them car wreckers and make a so-called bus and pack up or get springs or bits and pieces of ricks. We just, we just don’t have the vehicles over here for that. Yeah.

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Yeah, I think you used your Broncos or your F-150s or your Mustang injectors, for example. We just don’t have that. And if they did, because that rear over here, that’d be so expensive.

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So what is the, I guess all the cars, there’s no national, a local built or a New Zealand vehicle? We don’t, we never built cars. Australian cars, the Ford Falcon and the Holden, then it’s your Japanese, your Toyotas, your Nissons. And then you got your British, your Land Rover and whatnot.

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Or the Land Rover. Then you got a lot of European cars here now, very cheap. The BMWs, the Fugeos and whatnot. They’re getting very cheap over here now. Are the Land Rovers very prevalent?

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They’re probably classed the same as the Jeep. They’re underrated, but

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people reckon they got electric problems. Everyone’s got a personal, what you like. It’s what you like. I’ve never owned one, so I can’t bag one. I’ve owned a Toyota. I can bag that. Yeah, no, I mean, I was thinking maybe there was a lot of them there. I know in the end. Yeah, there’s usually the soccer mom cars, the big V8 ones. I think your gangsters drive around and then with the bling bling. Oh yeah, they are luxury vehicles here because they cost so much.

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They’re a nice vehicle, but I have seen there are a few modified over here, but same now coming down in price because the

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cost of petrol. So the older ones, or the 95s, 90s, even to the T10,000, you probably pick up for $10,000. New Zealand. Right.

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So you could really go four wheel drive in a luxury. Yeah, and I don’t know. Something kind of rubs me the wrong way. Of course, I’ve got

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power windows, heated mirrors. I’ve even got a block heater on mine. I guess mine is probably

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next to the fanciest one you could get. I think the one that I saw that had the only one that I’ve ever seen that had more was a sun or moon roof

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built into it. I didn’t realize they came that way from the factory. I didn’t actually realize that until I saw the movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks. He was driving a blue Jeep Cherokee. Beautiful

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Jeep Cherokee. I think it was about the same year as mine.

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It had a sun or moon roof on it. And I thought, what the hell? I thought I had everything on mine, but I was missing that.

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Get Jimbo to guess, cut your one on.

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Yeah, I don’t know. Everybody says they leak. And of course, that wouldn’t be a problem with you, would it?

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That would be a good way to get out when it’s drowned, maybe.

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You take yours in the deep water a lot, don’t you? Yeah, that’s really all we got here. We got rivers. We have got some trails and some real hard stuff on the west coast. But most of our runs in Canterbury were all over Crosschurch, involved Mardane Rivers.

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Well, I personally like the mud.

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The freshwater rivers are good too, because you just wash it on the way home.

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We even got rocks.

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Yeah, I’m not a big rock person. I don’t like the idea of rolling my vehicle in the process of climbing over rocks.

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I’d be worried about busting the old running gear, I think.

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Maybe see.

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That’s all we got down well here. We got

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some really hard stuff on the west coast,

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which is all mud and one chain of making your own trails and probably horse passion a bit to get around them. But we’re pretty lucky to go wheel out of wheel most places. Obviously not on private land and farms and stuff, unless you get permission. And most of the farmers are quite good.

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We’re really lucky.

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Oh, actually speaking of the land there, you’ve been having quite a few. There was a 7.1 or so very close to Christchurch back in, was it July?

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Two bars. Two by the fourth. I know this one well. Six minutes past four, I woke me up. Did more than wake me up. Yeah, I’m sure. And fortunately nobody was killed in that, but it did a lot of damage as well as 7. anything should do. I’m sorry?

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We were just very lucky when it happened at that time of morning, Tony, I think, looking at the damage in town and certain sub-oops. It was amazing. It was really amazing, especially the links that you were sending us. I was very enthused that you had internet access because I was afraid we weren’t going to hear from you for some time.

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And we were really lucky. The infrastructure or the bandage that up really okay. There was some sub-oops who lost it for weeks and stuff. We were only out for like 3, 5, 6 hours kind of thing.

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There’s a sub-oop just up the road where my boys mate lives. They’ve still got porta-potties or toilets outside. They’ve still got no sewer down there. And that was from the initial earthquake and not the aftershocks. We’ve had over 4,000 aftershocks. We’ve had 4 years today. We’ve only had 1 today.

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I think that’s the thing that shocked me the most. Here in the 7.1 was a big deal, especially when I heard Christchurch because I was like, “That’s where Wayne lives.”

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And then I got on the site and got ahold of Rene Arginard and told him about it. And I don’t know. He may have actually called you on the phone. I can’t remember. I think he was trying to email and stuff. Right. Because we were in no power and I actually spent the first couple of 3 hours sitting in my work here listening to my aim. The aim stationed on the radio finding out where the earthquake was because when it first struck, we lived real close to the coast and we were worried if it was out to sea we were going to get washed out anyway. It was Tsunami or something. It was our biggest fear.

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We found out it was inland so we were kind of a bit happier after that. Right. So the thing that surprised me the most was not only all of the aftershocks but I heard such little about the quake and almost nothing but the aftershocks. Really the only reason why I knew about any of this stuff is because you were on XJTalk telling us how many quakes or aftershocks you had that day. And some of them were 3, 4. You had some bigger than a 4.0, didn’t you?

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We had some 5’s, some good 5’s. The last decent rock we had was probably not the Friday go. The one before was a 4.9. That rock the house pretty good. And you’re getting quite a bit of damage to your house as well, aren’t you?

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they’ve quoted 20,000 and that’s just visual but we begged to differ. We’ve had stories. I think it was

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Warren who’s on XJTalk as well, another Kiwi. He’s got friends who were the same boat. They were 16,000 visual damage and the quake started coming in and

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people were looking at the work today, the contractors and they’ve quoted over 60,000.

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So I don’t know, it’s gone through Fletcher’s now who are doing all the rebuilds over $10,000. We’ll just have to wait and see. And you really don’t want to get started on rebuilding anything with all the aftershocks I would assume.

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We are doing our first rip out and replace of a driveway next week, earthquake damage. They’ve given us the go ahead.

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So they think that maybe this is on the downside then?

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Well there’s a guy predicting a big one next month, March the 19th or the

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But was that a reliable scientific kind of guy?

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My stepson is just standing there and sitting on the couch saying he’s just predicting the most of them so far. I actually put a link up, Steve, 4.3. He’s read the, it’s quite a good read actually. If you don’t know the link, MP mean, oh MP yeah, it’s a very good read. He’s called the Moon Mean. He’s very good on tides and what not as well. It’s really good reading as in it makes you wonder. Right. So but it’s a guy that has made predictions in the past and has probably come through. Yeah, he’s pretty close. He’s all on the moon in the water in the pull of the gravity and ladle out. But I have my head actually. Yeah, stretching the crust and it moves. But he’s got everyone worried about the 19th, 18th or 19th next month. These people actually leave in Christchurch. Interesting. So March 19th, 18th or 19th, it’ll be a, if you don’t hear it well, if you don’t hear from me, you know it wasn’t. Well, I’m gonna, I’m gonna mark that down so I can pay attention and make sure to think happy thoughts. Maybe I’ll jump up and down over here and see if I can counteract it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that’d be real cool.

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Well, Wayne, we’re hitting about the 30 minute mark. So was there anything that you wanted to cover that we haven’t already?

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Yeah, I’d like to,

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no, I’d like to just say that

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one day we were planning on coming over there. Oh, that’d be great.

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And we just have to pick somewhere. I know America is a really big place. We won’t be able to catch up with most people, but we’d have to sort something out.

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And I’d like to go

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wheeling with hardcore beer, but I think he’s a bit too hardcore for me now.

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And just to maybe do a bit, a few more with big Jim and Winnie. Oh man, he’s a wild man as I’m sure you’ve been able to ascertain from some kind of… I gotta get some video of me doing some stuff. Yeah, that’d be great. Yeah, I’d love to see some video. Yeah, I do

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stuff like that.

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This is good, Dave, but the Jeep holds up all right. I actually used the

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Jeep that winched in the garden the other day pulling out stumps. It was great. Oh, the winch is a wonderful tool. I love, I’ve pulled out a rose bush for the wife.

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I said, look honey, it’s well worth the $500 I spent on it just to pull up this one bush.

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Yeah, I pulled out, I’ve posted pictures and stuff. They pulled quite a good nice stump out actually.

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I read their comments for that. I forgot what, is that a worn winch that you have or I can’t remember? No, no, the Chinese one has the

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T-Mak or T-Mak or something like that. It’s like a 12,000 pound winch. Yes, 12 is a big one, but it was under that water for a long, long time and it still goes, so it must be sealed up pretty well.

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Oh, and they’ve improved a hell of a lot there, which is the Chinese ones. The Smitty-Bilts have really amazed me because I think Renee’s been using his for well over a year now. It looks like hell and he puts that Jeep through hell and it’s still going.

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We have a vendor right now that’s selling them for $279 shipped. I think actually you were asking about it because you were asking that the shipping was still good for New Zealand. Yeah, I knew what the answer was, but you’re going to ask. It’s a good price.

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It’s an American built.

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The Smitty, are they American built? No, I believe it’s the Chinese. I mean the Smitty built name is an American name, but I believe that’s just a Chinese winch with a Smitty built name on it.

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Don’t quote me on this, but I think that Rough Country, the winch that they’ve recently started selling, is the exact same winch. It’s also the same Chinese winch.

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You should have asked Renee to post a decent picture of her as a winch. You probably find that there’s not much difference in their shape or how they look to my one because it’s being Chinese.

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Right. If it works, the cheaper the better. Well, hey, if it works once when you really need it, mate, it’s worth paying for, isn’t it? Exactly. And for $279, if I had the funds, I would get one and put one of those little trays that you can plug them into a two inch receiver and I’d keep it in the back of my Jeep and I would put the wiring back there so that I could run it from the back of the Jeep because you don’t always get stuck in the front. Exactly right. You can do all that with the old blocks and tackle, but one on the back would be nice, like Steve’s got all you here’s mighty one up, isn’t he? Oh, that’s a beautiful, beautiful setup. It’s very slick. Of course, Steve does all that stuff that is just all the thinking and the drawing and the doing. Yeah, it’s amazing. He does some good stuff, some nice stuff, especially the mighty mite.

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Yes, that’s true. He gets to play with a lot of stuff. I just wish he wasn’t in California. It’d be better to have him here in Texas.

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Well, I see, see, I just got to tell those young fellas, all this comes off age. They’ll be like that one day.

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You know, I wish that was true. I think there’s some people that don’t go to that level of detail and don’t spend the time learning that much. I mean, you can see the level of detail that he goes into. Just looking at that aluminum rear bumper. Yeah, it’s a nice piece of work, isn’t it? It really is. Very, very fancy. Functional, but very fancy.

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Well, Wayne, thank you very much. I really appreciate this. We’ve been trying to get you on here and schedule conflicts because of the huge time difference. I think there’s like 19 hour time difference between you and me. We’re not any other front. Yeah. And so it’s great that we were able to get on here and actually get 30 minutes into a recorded interview. And I just want to tell you, thank you very much because you’re one interesting fella and we really appreciate having you on the site. I mean, you’re on the site quite a bit. And actually, Wayne is a moderator on our site now recently became a moderator. So thank you for that as well, Wayne.

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So good. It’s all good. I see you got a night shift man, but he wasn’t there last night. I did post about that. I see. See.

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Yep. Brian said he’s actually been off on vacation and he’s going back to night. I told him that you were complaining.

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Did he put him for his vacation?

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I don’t know. Well, there you go. I’d be docking him straight away, Tony. That’s exactly right.

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I’ll be docking him.

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That’s all good. No, it’s pleased to talk to you, Tony. Get out to all the rest of the boys out there. Thank you a lot, Wayne.

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Okay, Tony. I’ll talk to you later.

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Well,

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I think that was a really good interview with Wayne. Wayne’s always fun to talk to. He has a good outlook on life. And if you listen to the live interview that we did last week, it was very apparent that he was down when the interview started. And as it progressed, he started picking on Bear and Reaney and several people. So it’s hard to keep Wayne in a bad mood. I’m sure it’s just like any man with a Jeep. You can get him in a bad mood quickly, but he usually gets himself out of it.

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We’re starting to get sweetness in the chat room. Dalton4x4 says, “Yeah, the old part’s got a big heart.”

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So we did increase our viewership here in the chat room a bit. It’s not big numbers, but we appreciate everybody that’s taking out their time to join us on the show. I see Wayne, the cantab27, the gentleman we were just interviewing, is on. Dalton4x4. Lizardrunner. Order…

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looks like O-R-O-D-E-R-D-E-N-E-B.

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More Deneb. Punisher72. Weldman. And a couple of guests. So I think we lost somebody along the way.

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Could be they just were here for the interview.

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But thank you guys for all showing up tonight. By the way, I think I misstated there was some chat room chatter about Reaney and Big Jim out doing the recovery. Not that.

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And that probably makes more sense.

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Matt is helping nurse his wife back to health. She’s been sick with the flu. And

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he probably needs to stay home anyway.

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So guys, did you have any questions for Wayne? I mean, you’ve been talking to him here in chat for a while. I’m not sure if Wayne, if you wanted to call in and chat with us a bit. If you just want to stick in the chat room, that’s cool too.

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Just reading here the chat room. What’s going on?

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Not much.

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Well, I was kind of thinking that maybe Jensen was going to call in tonight. And if

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Wayne wasn’t available. But I don’t think… Yeah, he is online. You know what? I think I’m going to try calling him. Let’s see.

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Wayne, you weren’t going to call in, were you?

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No telling how long it takes for me for the

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bit that I just said to get to New Zealand and then for Wayne to type in and answer.

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Well, I’m going to try to give Jensen a call.

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And we’re calling now.

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Shows him online. Doesn’t show him active.

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It’s ringing.

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I’m not getting him.

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You know, it’s a shame. I should have…

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I was doing some stuff with the system last week and Rene Arganard

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sent me a friend’s request. And I think it was from his cell phone.

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And that would have been pretty good to get him on the cell phone.

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Well, I guess I don’t have to get him on Skype.

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I wonder if we could…

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I wonder if it would be too bad if he was… if he’s very busy. We could give him a call

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and see how the recovery went or how it’s going.

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Let me try that. He can always tell me to go to hell.

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Let me just grab his number real quick and we’ll give him a call. So, I’m going to play some music and see if I can get him on the phone.

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Hey man, what are you doing? Did you get the Jeep un-flipped? Can you talk to us on the air or do you need to pay attention to the driver?

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Yeah, I hear you.

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Yeah, but that’s actually going to be good for a show. You want to do it? Alright. Okay, I’ll put you on. Hang on.

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It’s an XJTalk Live phone call. Okay, well we’ve got Rainey on the line. As you can probably hear some of the background noise. He’s actually driving down the road in his Jeep.

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So, we’re going to be very understanding because Rainey needs to pay attention to the driving more than he does talking to us. Hey Rainey, you’re on. We just got through playing the interview with Wayne from… that we recorded back before the Big Quake. And I mentioned in the beginning of the show that you were out un-flipping a Jeep this evening.

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We got it over. It was going down a little trail that was right next to a real big run-off stream and dropped off in a little ravine that was like a washout. And it fell over and it went literally nose over tail.

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Oh no. Or tail over nose. But yeah, we ended up coming up to it, looking at it, scratching our heads. First off, we tried to winch it up the ravine on its lid and that didn’t work. So, we just ran the winch cable over the top of the Jeep or over the bottom of the Jeep because the bottom was actually off. The wheels were in the air and hooked it to the back bumper and pulled it over, front end, dug in the ground and it came up that way. So, it worked. Wow. That sounds like that was very fortunate. It sounds like it was very fortunate. Nobody was hurt.

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Yeah, it was really amazing that nobody was hurt. Yeah, when they said roll, I figured that it was an actual, you know, roll over, not a nose over tail. That would be a hell of a ride.

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Yeah, it was an end over end and I was like you. I’d bought rolled over into a ditch, but no, it was a whole lot worse than that. And actually, there’s a lot of pictures of it. I have none because I was, I don’t even have my camera with me, but I actually just had my phone and of course I couldn’t see anything. And, uh, could be out here just about dark. So, there is some pictures and they will be up on XJ Talk later on tonight. But, uh, yeah, we got pictures of it and,

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you know, I actually, my winch did fine until the very end and I’ve got it hot. So, I’m actually running down the road with my winch cable wrapped around my bumper because it got hot enough that actually went in thermal overload.

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Wow. So, uh, was that, was your vehicle the only vehicle out there for the recovery or did Jim take his?

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No, actually it was me and Wes. The big CJ7 that’s on the homepage for the video, it was actually that CJ7 and me, but his Jeep, we never even needed it. We didn’t even get it close to the flip over site. The only thing his Jeep got used for was at the very end. We kind of pushed it out by hand and then Wes tied it and actually pulled it out the rest of the way to the road. So, this was, was this an XJ that rolled over? It was an XJ. And is it pretty bad? I mean, I think Big Jeep was saying that it looked like the hood or the roof was crushed and the doors were crushed in. Believe it or not, the only damage to it really, I mean besides, you know, things are dense and stuff all over the Jeep.

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Right about where your mirror would be is feeding about

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a foot.

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But other than that,

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we actually broke out one of the rear windows winching it out. But other than that, really not that bad. All four doors still open or actually the passenger door. No, they all four. All four doors still open. And it had a sunroof in it and the sunroof wasn’t even broke.

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That’s amazing.

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Oh,

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yeah, and the hatch is destroyed. You know, the big fiberglass hatch was just destroyed. Was that, was it destroyed in the original accident or the winching out?

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No, the original accident.

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Well, the only damage we did winching out was busted out one of the rear windows. You know,

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it was like, oh, well, what do you do? You know, the only reason he got busted out is it was against the

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was actually against the trees. I mean, against the the bankment of the

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the ravine and as it was coming out, it pushed into it and just went, but that’s really the only damage that we did to the Jeep coming out. So which was, you know, pretty amazing, I guess. Well, boys and girls, let this be a lesson to you that whenever you go out wheeling, you need to be wheeling with a buddy. And I don’t mean the buddy sitting next to you in the same Jeep because these guys were out probably nine or ten o’clock last night and the Jeep by themselves. When this happened, you never know when this is going to occur. Were there recovery points on this on the Cherokee?

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Yes, they’re actually the front bumper was a good recovery point and the back bump, you know, the back had a hitch on it. So we actually just use the hitch with a tree saver is what we actually did. And of course, now we did have to tie my tree, my Jeep to a tree because it would have sucked me into the ravine. But other than that, it came out pretty easy.

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Great. Well, I hope you do a write up on that because there’s not a lot of us that have done recoveries. I know I haven’t. Well, I’ve done one recovery, but that was just somebody stuck in a mud hole. This was this was a major deal. You can tell. Yeah, this is actually I’ve been wheeling for a very, very long time. And this is the very first rollover. I’ve had to go pull out. So this was a new one on me, too. So did you get to meet our new member big Jeep, big Jeep? Yeah, in fact, he’s in the Jeep with us right now. We’re actually bringing him back to his house.

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Was the was the Cherokee, the role Cherokee? Was it what year was that? And was it drivable?

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It’s a 90. It probably would have been drivable, but it’s sad. You know, sad overnight with all the oil leaking into the motor. So we didn’t even try to start it.

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So is it sitting out there or is it being triggered back?

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They’re going to actually call AAA.

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Okay.

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So did you just pull it out to the road or how did you or is it just where it is?

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Yeah, it actually pulled it up to the main road and just left it on the side of the road. That way they can come get it with a record without having any issues.

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Wow. Well,

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and that’s the other thing. If you want help in North Houston or spring or con road, you need to do it before 9 p.m. Otherwise, everybody’s in bed.

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Yeah, pretty much. But this is one of these things where,

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know, generally it wouldn’t have been a big deal like last night, but I didn’t hear my phone. So, you know,

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what do you do? Well, you guys get up early. I know Matt gets up early to go to work. You get up early to go to work. I have no excuse for Bear. I’m sorry. I have no excuse for Big Jim. Sorry, Bear.

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Yeah, Big Jim gets up early, but

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he was on. He was on last night. I think he was sitting down with the guy in chat that he had two bald tires and a raging case of herpes.

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We’re going north, but yeah, OK.

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Yeah,

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hold on. Just a sec, guys. I’m trying to figure out how to get out of this neighborhood.

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OK.

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Uh-huh.

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They’ll bring you back out to the main. It’s the same thing. Live radio, folks.

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Appreciate it, guys. All right, man. Appreciate it. All right.

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right. OK, I’m back on now. Well, what’s your opinion of the rolled Jeep? Is it salvageable?

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You know, I would cut the top off and

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put a cage in it and wheel it. It actually wasn’t a bad looking rolled Cherokee. I would imagine before the flip it wasn’t half bad. And be real honest with you, I believe that

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somebody like Jensen could probably put a top on it because the back part of the top wasn’t crushed down that bad.

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So I mean, more than likely, somebody could actually,

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with a little bit of a body work experience, probably have this Jeep back up and operational. Well, I know this skin Jeep’s pretty easy. And I bet you, although I don’t know, I probably have to think about it for five minutes, but I bet you could actually cut a top off another Cherokee and do it, fix it quicker.

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But like you say, you know, you can was it a was it a daily driver or was it a off road primarily off road vehicle?

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Was that a daily driver, Jim? Do you know? No, it was primarily off road. Well, time to scrap the hood. I mean, scrap the roof and put a roll bar in it then.

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Oh, yeah.

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All right, man. Well, I appreciate you taking the call right here in the middle of all the stuff that you’re doing. It’s a great story, breaking story that’s going on. And I look forward to seeing those pictures.

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Yes, so no, hi. And we actually got pictures of it the whole way around. I mean, as it was coming out, they were taking pictures. So we should have some pretty good pictures of it. It was a little bit, you know, a little bit different. Like I said, this is my first real rollover recovery. So I’m interested to see how the pictures turned out. Also, too, did we get a new XJ talk member out of the out of this rollover recovery?

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The guy knows about XJ talk. He said he was going to sign up and put some pictures on. So we’ll see. Excellent. It’s all been worth it. Yep. All right, man. Have a very good night and a safe trip home. All right. We’ll talk to you later. All right. Bye bye. Bye bye.

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Here we go, guys. And so that was I know I was personally curious about what had gone on with that rollover recovery. And we just happened to get rainy at the right time to where he could actually talk about it. They were apparently just finished had just finished up and were driving back to I guess it was a big jeep, big jeep that was being let out at his house.

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mean, I cannot stress how

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generous that is of a rainy and overseas just that way

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to go out there on a Wednesday night, miss the show. I mean, you know,

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that’s small, right? But go out there on a Wednesday night and help out a fellow jeeper. And that’s the big thing that really impresses me about you guys is the community. I know that we can fight and squabble and raise hell and maybe drink too much. And that’s part of the reason all the rest of that happens. But

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when people need need help,

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there’s somebody with a jeep willing to go out of their way to lend you a hand.

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So

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pretty cool stuff. It makes me very proud to be a small part of bringing you guys together

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with XJTalk.com.

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And guys, that’s another show. In the can. Not Porta Potty.

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I want to thank Wayne very much for not only being the interviewee, but also for showing up on chat tonight. It’s always good to see that you have electricity and internet and, you know, just so we can know that you’re there and doing okay. I know it’s probably getting pretty old, all this shaking that you’re having to go through, but stay with it, man. It’ll get back to where it used to be. Stable as a rock. No pun intended.

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Thanks guys and thank you for another great show. See you on the side.

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