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Rudy's Classic Jeeps LLC
19095 State Route 568
Findlay, OH 45840
ph: 614-203-1947

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Rudy's CJ's

Selling some of the best ORIGINAL sheet metal Jeep CJs and original used CJ parts left in the world.

We have more used 76-86 CJ PARTS than anyone HERE.

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SITE UPDATED 7/2/17

(Jeeps for sale updated)

86 CJ7 Sold 6/30/17

Why can't I keep anything in stock? Read below and look at the pictures.

I have pictures of this Jeep in bare metal before the shiny paint photos. Does the shiny Jeep you're looking at have that? Most the CJs left are rusty junk. What did that premium priced Jeep look like before paint?

Did it even have floors before they lined it with that hide all covering?

2nd LJ Sold 7/1/17

Premium LJ Sold. 6-28/17

Laredo SOLD 6-21-17

Scrambler SOLD 6-19-17

An original paint, privilege Jeep delivered 5-25-17

There may be better language but I think this is the best I can do to convey how I felt when Alan Jackson called and asked me to help him get a particular Jeep.

My shop goals in order are freedom, happiness and profitability and his request taxed the first and the third but maximized the second.

I had a plan for what I wanted to accomplish in my shop this Spring after the Dominican Laredo was finally done. Alan's request was far outside what I've been doing in my shop lately but he coaxed me slightly and I'm glad he did.

I'm often overdriven to run a one person Jeep shop and stay on the interstate hustling here and there to maximize distance vs time. It's hard to make a living doing this with all the insurance costs and the toll on my body but on its worst day, it's better than having a boss.

This Jeep and his requests were a bit of a diversion that slowed me down and took me down the back roads and everyone knows, those side trips are the most memorable.

It took a few months for me to get through this and along the way I reflected how his music had made me smile and I remembered good times.

A couple memories are:

...the radio tuned into the local country channel singing Chatahoochie late nights building trophy winning demolition derby cars with my buddy Crusher in our rented garages while we went to college.

Another is harmonizing along to his music with my best girl (and sometimes her little girl) in my 200k mile plus, proudly owned and lifted K10 Chevy pick-up bouncing and singing.

The privilege came in maybe returning the smiles to him with this Jeep and also in knowing he could ask anyone to do this for him and he thought I could deliver what he wanted. I understood it's to be used as a Jeep was intended as a get around vehicle on his farm.

It was named before I got there.

Eugene

The name has meaning 3-fold to him and is the best name for a Jeep I've ever heard.

This calendar worthy photo was delivered to me from him the day after I left

Meet Eugene.

I took Alan's money for this Jeep and he took mine for the scratched up CDs I still have in my truck. They've been in there about 25 years now. My old K10 would scratch every CD I listened to a lot right in the middle and cause them to skip.

I hope Eugene holds up and brings more smiles than headaches as I hope for all the old Jeeps I sell. If you were to ever ask me for a reliable CJ I'd tell you there isn't one...but they will make you smile and if you get one with good metal, it will hold its value.

Alan and his accompanying folks were great hosts and too kind.

This is a gratuitous photo taken by Billy for me with Alan's grace.

The harder I work, the luckier I am. Tomorrow maybe I'll fall on my face but today is a good day.

Thank you for the privilege Alan.

Rudy

86 CJ7 Laredo Restoration final photos here

85 Renegade sold before completed 4/6/17

Frame Update

16 Frames Sold since October

Jeep CJ7 Frame Update

1986 CJ7 Laredo Restoration Has a Buyer

Rudy update

Thanks to those who've inquired if I'm ok or what I've been up to.

A little time trail riding with friends in Sedona AZ for New Years

where I found this gem and now have it for sale.... 2005 30k Mile 4" lift TJ 6Cyl Auto w AC and Cruise

BELOW JEEP SOLD IN 2 DAYS!

Details and more photos HERE

Then some sledding with friends in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

With lots of parts sale in between AND another

...Frame inventory update (AGAIN)

Check out my world class restoration of a 1986 Jeep CJ7 Laredo using as few aftermarket Chinese parts as possible in the Jeeps for sale tab

Some inventory out of the shop for a Fall cleaning

and a weekend bonfire.

(photo taken 10-14-2016)

ALWAYS feel free to call to request parts as we have more used 76 to 86 CJ parts than anywhere I have visited coast to coast...

Most Jeeps left last year that we never lislted for sale.

Good products. Good problems!

Thanks for reading.

Rudy

Specializing in HONESTLY advertised,

preferably rot free 1976 to 1986 Jeep

CJs and quality Jeep CJ used parts

since 2002

* SPOT WELDS: Original Jeep CJs have factory spot welds down the sides of them where they were assembled in the factory and is a sign of original metal. Jeep CJs should NOT be smooth when you look down the side of them. Smooth sided Jeeps may have been patched or have body filler due to rust.

** ROT: I am sometimes asked, "No rot, does that mean no rust?" In my best attempt to explain this without splitting hairs, rust occurs when paint is scratched or when brake rotors sit for a humid day. It is for that reason I avoid the word RUST as ALL vehicles, even a new one, has rust. ROT by Rudy's definition is rust on metal that under reasonable circumstances can't be sanded away without leaving a rust hole. Rot can be hidden above gas tanks, underneath roll bars etc but in most places on these Jeeps, it is transparent. I also term ROT as bubbles under the paint and generally we don't sell Jeeps with bubbling, flaky rust. If it has it, we will show it in the photos. Bubbling rust may be sandable but is harder to guess at without actually digging at it. Experience gives me an upper hand on what original metal will hold up and what won't but only sanding it makes it factual. I hope this helps explain some more of the ambiguity out of our language and people's different perceptions of rust and rot in our best attempt to sell the best sheet metal CJs left in the world. If you don't mind rust or patched metal floors, sides, frames etc, we are not the Jeep shop for you.

Rot Free 1983 CJ7 For Sale as of 11/5/16

Thank you for the priviledge Alan.