WHY Did this Jeep Cherokee Sell on Bring a Trailer for $35,000? Craigslist Crashouts Episode 7

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]Well, well, first of all, I really wish that I would have recorded the screen of you sending me the text for this.

[00:00:11]Like, >> I didn't I didn't think about that until after you said you wanted to talk about it. Like, the live the live responses of me on this would have probably been pretty good. I I just I saw the bring a trailer link and I just thought this was going to be way way worse than how bad it already is. Now, now when you say worse, how bad did you I we should intro this show. Welcome to Craigslist Crash Outs everyone. It is I, your host with uh Mike from Washington. Uh this is an emergency broadcast. We are live right now on YouTube because no less than 5 hours ago on Bring a Trailer, something momentous happened.

[00:00:58]Something that I don't think has ever happened in our lives. And as a Jeep Cherokee owner, this is an occasion because on Bring a Trailer 5 hours ago, this year model 2000 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 Classic and you see it's pretty bone stock. It sold final bid $35,000 which is which is absolutely absurd. But when you when you sent Let me let me pull up the text just so I can read it.

[00:01:32]Hey, want to see something insane?

[00:01:35]>> What? Which is what I sent to a few different people because this is in this is to me insane.

[00:01:42]>> Oh, and I don't disagree that it is insane.

[00:01:46]uh especially from what I just pulled up on Google. Uh but you sent the link. I saw bring a trailer and I said I'm going to hate this. I'm going to absolutely hate this click. I don't even want to know.

[00:02:01]And I had to go grab a beer and sit down before I actually clicked on the link because I expected this to be 10 to$15,000 higher.

[00:02:15]Not that $35,000 is a in my opinion a great price, but I did I did expect it to be much higher.

[00:02:28]>> Well, I I don't think I've seen any of these Cherokees go for more than I mean I mean this is a bone stock one. So seeing a Cherokee go in my experience for like $15,000 or $20,000, you're dealing with like serious purpose-built rock crawlers. This is not that at all. We're going through I'm going through the videos right now.

[00:02:53]>> And I mean, this thing is nice.

[00:02:57]That that is I mean I I mean this is a this looks at first glance this looks like it's in eight out of 10 to 10 out of 10 perfect museum quality which is not there aren't that many XJs that are this nice anymore. Well that radiator looks brand new and well that that looks like the AC condenser.

[00:03:20]>> I that that that's one big big long unit. I think that's I could be wrong.

[00:03:25]May maybe it is AC condenser, but >> I mean they but but they I mean it looks new regardless. Like it looks great.

[00:03:32]>> For for just side context and I didn't think about this at the time. My cousin in 200 seven 2008 bought a brand new 2000 same color or not a brand new but a 200 low mile similar build Cherokee. And if I remember right he paid like $6,000 for it.

[00:04:04]Like I don't remember it being this clean though.

[00:04:09]>> But I mean it was still very But I mean it was the same blue the black interior for $35,000.

[00:04:18]And I don't this is just Google's AI overview.

[00:04:23]For $35,000 a 2026 Jeep Cherokee is from $35,000.

[00:04:32]I'm I'm I'm glad you looked that up because that was g that I actually have that written down as one of the questions I wanted to answer this stream was how much is a new Jeep one of those new Jeep Cherokees because they have to be in that mid30s I would think to start.

[00:04:47]>> Yeah. And let me dive a little deeper because that's just Google's AI overview. But just I mean I I I can't imagine a Jeep Wrangler is I mean and that was back when they were cuz those were unibody or the Cherokee sorry not the Wrangler but the Cherokee I mean it was always kind of the low buck like put up 3-in lift 33s weld the rear diff and just go with it >> and just keep adding stop leak until the blue. That's what I remember. My my friends who had J Cherokees in high school and in college. Yeah, that that's what they were. They they were they were a vehicle you could rely on for $500. It wouldn't be nice for $500.

[00:05:34]>> Oh, no. They were they were never nice.

[00:05:37]They usually didn't even have all the windows.

[00:05:40]>> But my my Comanche I got my first Comanche in 20 I think 2012 for $400.

[00:05:48]And that thing was dead on reliable for about three years. If you don't mind, I'm gonna review Let's Let's go ahead and re review this listing real quick.

[00:05:59]Just just for just for the AI overview thing.

[00:06:03]>> Sure.

[00:06:04]>> I'm on jeep.com/cherokee.html.

[00:06:09]Cherokee 4x4 MSRP starting at 35,000.

[00:06:13]>> So that's it's a that's a brand new car with a warranty. It's going to have probably probably heated seats and Bluetooth and it's going to have all of that or you can buy this from Bring a Trailer. This 2000 Jeep Cherokee Classic remained registered with the original owner until 2026 and now has 52,000 miles. Truck is finished in patriot blue pearl coat over AGOT cloth and is powered by a 4 L inline 6 linked to a four-speed automatic transmission and a dual range transfer case. Features include a roof rack, fog lights, power adjustable side mirrors, front disc brakes, an AM FM CD cassette stereo, and air conditioning. This XJ is now offered with a with I want to emphasize this. This XJ is now offered with a window sticker, the owner's manual, service records, a clean Carfax report, and a clean Michigan title in the seller's name.

[00:07:21]>> Oo, see, I didn't see that Michigan part at the beginning. Uh, I missed that.

[00:07:28]>> Any correct the any car from the rust belt.

[00:07:31]I I I I would imagine that has a something to do with why this Jeep went for the price that it did because it's in the part of the world where these are a lot of them have been rusted out and trashed. You and I, we are in the Pacific Northwest. Um here in Oregon, we don't even put salt on our roads uh to protect the Christmas trees that we export. So, we have a lot, especially here in Central Oregon where I'm at, we have a lot of these old XJ Cherokees that have 250, 300, 350,000 miles that are just there there's they're some of them are still owned by the original owners who bought them new 30 years ago.

[00:08:16]You know what I mean? And so, they're very very common here in the Pacific Northwest.

[00:08:22]I don't know. As a matter of fact, I I I talked to someone who grew up in in Minnesota, and she um she says she never really noticed or saw the Jeep Cherokees when she was in high school in in the Midwest, but here they as far as in my experience, they are everywhere. They're they are like a Volkswagen bug in that sense. And that they are everywhere here in the Northwest. There there was a guy who lives local to the to the Yakama area who had an entire side business that as far as I understand turned into his entire real business where all he did was just build Cherokee suspension parts and it turned it into a real business with him and his wife. And I won't give any more details than that. Um, just cuz I don't want to give him away despite us not being friends. Um, but like I'm I'm going through these pictures as you're kind of looking through the ad and >> someone preserved they didn't just take care of it. They preserved this Jeep by the looks of it. Yeah. I >> mean, even like the like the the ashtray on the center console for the back seat, which I mean, most kids wouldn't even know what that is today, but it's just a place to, you know, slot my phone in.

[00:09:55]Like, oh, my phone fits in there. Is that a Is that got a Has that got a magnetic charger in it?

[00:10:02]I say these must be the same kids who took these vertical photos.

[00:10:07]No, there there there are no landscape format photos, which is wild to me, too, for for for bringing a trailer. I'm used to seeing better quality photos than the than than this. Bring a photo denied me being a local photographer for this guy being able to post his own pictures. Kind of pisses me off. I'm not going to lie.

[00:10:33]>> Well, well, what do you want to bet that? What do you want to bet? They didn't want to hire a guy to go take photos of someone's old Jeep Cherokee because they weren't expecting any Jeep Cherokee to ever go for $35,000.

[00:10:47]remember right the one time I tried to post a a car on bring a trailer uh the the poster was supposed to pay the bring a trailer photographer if now that was like that was like seven or eight years ago uh and I got denied the posting uh and I I won't go into that but why I mean it's got really good under coding which is not common.

[00:11:17]>> Like if if you if you told me this Jeep has never the the tires have never left pavement, I might believe you. That's how clean that part was.

[00:11:27]>> If I had to if I had to honestly say where this Jeep Cherokee went to, it was church.

[00:11:36]>> Yeah.

[00:11:37]>> This this went to this this went to this went to church and back.

[00:11:42]like, oh, we gotta fit four people in a rig. Even when you look at the pinch welds, when you're looking like uh if you go to picture 114, >> we're going. We're going. We're going.

[00:11:55]I'm I'm I'm I'm getting there.

[00:11:57]>> Throw them cuz like the interior is just really nice. Like we we get the h it's Oh, it's nice. Like I I mean you don't see like like I mean look at the seatbacks are perfect. like, oh, there's a minor scuff there on the door panel.

[00:12:11]Oh, >> there there's no indentation in the, you know, you there's there's no ind there's no butt indentation in the rear seat, which means no one no one sat in it for very long when they did sit in it.

[00:12:27]>> Okay. Yeah. There there's that cup holder you were talking about.

[00:12:30]>> Yeah. Whereas like a in a in a modern in a modern Cherokee, that back center console piece is going to have like >> like two USBC chargers >> and like a vent and they're just be like, "Why do we open this?" Oh, it's not a vent. Oh, we can put our phone in here and charge it.

[00:12:48]>> Well, it's it's because mommy and daddy didn't buy the uh the air conditioned cooler package so you can get the the drink cooler back there.

[00:12:57]>> They might have actually did go back Look, is that a vent there at the edge of the seat in the center console?

[00:13:08]>> Yeah, it looks like it.

[00:13:10]>> So, they may they may have actually >> they may have actually bought >> I Yeah. Yeah. And there and I if you go back to the one where the cigarette uh ashray is open, you can actually see one on the other side, too, which was probably a really uncommon package in the early days of the Cherokee, but probably not in 2000 because they stopped making this in 2001.

[00:13:38]That is all very Yeah, they they're they're They're >> I mean this is this is probably one of the nicest Cherokees >> Yes.

[00:13:53]>> I've I've ever seen in my life. And and my my So three of my cousins and two of my good friends in high school around the the early mid 2000s era had these.

[00:14:13]And this is nicer than all of theirs were.

[00:14:17]>> Oh, this is nicer than any Cherokee I think I've been in. M maybe May maybe not my grandma's, but that was in 1995, you know, when when she when she had like a 1993 Cherokee or or what whatever year she had. Yeah, >> like like this like this is this this one is absolutely a uh >> this is one of the nicest ones in the country.

[00:14:46]What is dude's username? I just want to shout him out real quick cuz he sold it.

[00:14:52]Uh get Yeah, you're so Oh, you're at picture 114. That's That's the one I wanted to talk about. Um, there's just like even look at the pinch weld like right at the front right behind the front fender. There's like no rust right there. Like there's like just a a hint like all you would need is just a wire wheel and a little bit of primer and some body color and that's gone. Like and and this is again this is a car from Michigan, not one from somewhere that doesn't salt the roads.

[00:15:27]So, so we're at the we're at the window sticker. The original window sticker for this Jeep Sharky. Total price originally was 24 looks like 24,300.

[00:15:40]Okay, let me do labor of statistics. 243 and 20,000.

[00:15:49]Does it give a date at all?

[00:15:52]No, it doesn't. Doesn't look like it does. So just just for funsies, let's go middle of the year in 2000. So July 2000 to April of 2026, $46,000 83 830 94.

[00:16:13]Oh, this this is a this one is a Oh, here we go. Base price was just shy of 23 grand.

[00:16:24]for bare minimum on on a 2000 XJ for a Y2K XJ we could call it.

[00:16:34]>> Wow.

[00:16:36]>> It It's It's really nice. It's really well documented. I can't I can't argue that somebody who really wanted this would have paid the money.

[00:16:49]Uh >> I I I would not I would not have uh in any way, shape, or form.

[00:16:59]>> Well, so I've I I've said before on on this podcast that my I think my my 1970 Westfallia, the yellow high top at its peak, >> beautiful car.

[00:17:11]>> Thank you. At its peak was worth about 35 grand.

[00:17:18]I don't see myself ever thinking that this Jeep is as valuable as my bus.

[00:17:26]Well, it's well, and to you and I, it's not 100%. And to you and I, this is a massive liability because I I look at this like if I if I were to buy a Cherokee of this condition, even even if I only paid 10 grand for it, or I guess this is the point of this podcast is we're now in a world where, well, if I were to only spend 20 grand on a museum quality uh Jeep Cherokee because because I want it to study I want it to serve as the example for every other XJ owner around me to compare theirs to. I bought that a year ago with the white 93 Cherokee, which has 100,000 more miles than this, and it, you know, for wear and tear, it shows it. It's not quite as nice as this, but there there isn't there there is the upper echelon of these collector cars that hold the standard and become the standard. And I when I sent you the link, I wasn't sure if this was that kind of a that kind of a rig or not because I'm still flabbergasted at the $35,000.

[00:18:49]Oh, I am I am I am 100% with you on the price of them because even just a couple years ago, I was just thinking like, h, maybe I'll just go buy a Cherokee that's on 35s and has got a 6-in lift and, you know, maybe it's missing a couple of windows and is all dented up. But I could go get it for 1,500 bucks and Oh, shoot. Did we lose you? Oh, did we lose Oh, I think we lost.

[00:19:17]Sorry, I I I missed the last I missed the last 30 seconds, but I'm back.

[00:19:21]>> Yeah. No, what I was saying was just even just a couple years ago, I was looking at Cherokees that were like 1,500 bucks. They're like on 35s.

[00:19:29]They've got a 6-in lift. Yeah. Maybe they're dented and maybe one of the windows is is missing. But like I'm not looking at a Cherokee to go daily drive around anywhere. I'm looking at a Cherokee to go I want to go out in the woods. I want to take my dog. I want to go out there.

[00:19:48]I want to hike around. I want to I want to see country that most people don't see. Okay. So, you pulled that up. It It didn't directly link the one that I was looking at specifically, which is a bummer.

[00:20:02]>> No, but but I I pulled this one up because this one's only 49,000 miles.

[00:20:07]So, this is this has significantly 20% less miles than that 2000 that s that just closed at more than double this price. This is a 93.

[00:20:22]So, in my opinion, this would actually it's a 93. It's up in Illinois, so it's also in the rust belt.

[00:20:29]>> Yeah, it's ODB1, which is kind of a bummer, but you know. Okay. So, this is why you're on with me because I view OBD2 as a little bit of a liability.

[00:20:40]See, I I I personally don't just be and and and maybe that's just because of the time I spent in the automotive repair field where being able to just plug in a scan any basically any scanner and be like, "Oh, I can look at, you know, like throttle position sweep or I can, you know, the O2 sensor readouts or I can I can look at some of those things." It's to me advantageous because it's like I don't know what's wrong with the car.

[00:21:12]This will help me fix it. Whereas OB one just o OBD1 it it's like because it's so proprietary to the manufacturer whereas I I think one of the very very few things that our government ever did was give us OBD2 because having that universal platform of onboard diagnostics means that like it's easier for the every man to repair their car.

[00:21:46]All I'm going to say is that hasn't been my experience, but I I started wrenching on old aircooled Volkswagens and I've I feel I've only I feel I've graduated into Here's a vehicle that's it has one computer on it. The these Cherokees, these Comanches, they're I believe they're I believe they're all fuel injected. Maybe maybe not the uh like the 86s or something that early.

[00:22:15]Maybe those were carbureted, but there's I I I don't think I've ever se seen a carburetor, but one except that's not true. The the Chevy LR2, they would have come with a carburetor on the the V6.

[00:22:29]I would have I would have never I've never seen one. I've only ever had to deal with I mean, even as back as I think the first one I ever touched was an 89. Um, which was before I I think it I don't even think it was an ho.

[00:22:43]>> No, no. 89 would have been Renex, which is funky because the the Wranglers of uh in ' 89 were still carbureted.

[00:22:52]>> Well, but it Well, so actually it was an 89. It was an 89 Comanche. So, >> both of my Comanches have been 89 Comanches. They all came with Renex Renault. Renault Bendix fuel injection.

[00:23:07]This is a really nice Comanche. I mean, for what?

[00:23:10]>> Cherokee >> or Cherokee, sorry. What was the price difference on this was >> Oh, this was like 17 grand.

[00:23:18]>> Yeah, this is >> 16595.

[00:23:22]So, ju less than half for >> I'll take the lack of being able to read the computer and just have a a a paper clip that I put into the port and read the flashcodes off of the dash. I would take this all day. This is This is so I mean, again, I'm not saying that $35,000 was a great deal, but somebody somebody was going to pay it.

[00:23:50]And that's and that's and that's a sad that's the sad part about the market inflation is the person who paid $35,000 for that.

[00:24:01]Well, so so looking at this, is this one Is that 2001 nicer than this one?

[00:24:09]Because I'm not sure it is.

[00:24:11]>> I would say they are similar niceness.

[00:24:16]>> They they're they're they're very Yeah, they're they're they're contemporary to each other. Um I'm not sure what the difference is between the country package and the classic package. Um obviously the the classic has is a probably a higher grade trim because the bumpers are painted body color. This one has um look like chrome bumpers. I guess we can I guess we can go back. I'm I'm I'm in I'm Who's hosting the show? Who's running the show? Um though, that would that would tell me this is a lower or middle trim versus that other one being a middle to higher trim.

[00:24:56]>> Right.

[00:24:57]>> But also like I think I think this dash panel with a wood grain is much more handsome of an interior.

[00:25:04]I would gladly choose this one over over the 2000 just for the aesthetic and the the non-airbag steering wheel. I I I personally I have a high preference for all of that, that's all very cool.

[00:25:18]But if that one if that classic that sold today is is valued at 30, you know, 30 or $35,000.

[00:25:30]Yeah. I think whoever gets this one for under 20 or under 25 or or under 30 is probably getting a good deal if they hold on if they're willing to hold on to it for a few years. Sure. That just made me go back to Bring a Trailer because there's something on Bring a Trailer that I do appreciate that they do is they show people's comments and bids, >> right?

[00:25:58]>> And and I just pulled up the guy who has the winning bid.

[00:26:05]Now, it doesn't show him as an auction win yet because of how recent the auction was.

[00:26:11]Uh, but he paid $29,000 for a 2005 Land Rover HSSE and $129,100 for a 1973 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe.

[00:26:33]>> Yeah. So, yeah. So, this this Cherokee has officially sold for $35,000,000 or >> when I when I just pulled it up on my screen, it did not show it as an auction win as a past bid.

[00:26:49]>> It was 911 while >> that 911 is really nice. So, this guy has money and wants what he wants.

[00:27:02]I respect it as as a V as a VW guy and a and a Jeep guy. I respect it.

[00:27:09]>> I'm not I'm not arguing with you at all.

[00:27:11]In April, he bid up to $64,000 on a Land Rover Defender 90.

[00:27:20]Uh he bit >> 90 on a Grand Wagon. We got to look at this. This deep night blue 87 Grand Wagon Ear was refurbished by Wagon Master in Kurville, Texas before it was acquired by the previous owner. It's powered by a 360 V8 and a 3-speed automatic.

[00:27:42]So th this guy this guy buys what? Like so again, I'm crashing out with you on this. This is an insane price, but also this guy clearly just buys what he wants. Look down just a little bit.

[00:27:59]Pass bids. Look what he bid on that 97 FJ80. Scroll up. He bid an FJ80 to $89,000.

[00:28:12]And if you want me to crash out on the price of what a freaking car should not be worth, I'm sorry. I love a Cherokee.

[00:28:21]I love an FJ80. And it is insane that that same vehicle roughly, not oneowner and as nice as it is, but with 387,000 miles is going to cost $14,000.

[00:28:40]I'm sorry. I I I mean, I would I I've wanted an FJ80 ever since my aunt had one back in the late 90s, 2000s. I think they're one of the coolest Land Cruisers ever made. I don't really like the FJ60s or the FJ80s or the FJ uh 40s. I like the FJ80s.

[00:29:03]I It's It's a It's a 4ERunner that looks better.

[00:29:09]>> That's just my opinion.

[00:29:11]>> And he bit And he bid it up to 89,000.

[00:29:14]What did it sell for?

[00:29:16]>> 90.

[00:29:17]>> Oh my god. $90,000.

[00:29:21]That was This was only uh 41926. That's That was only a few weeks ago.

[00:29:28]689 more photos. Have you ever seen as many photos for a car? I not that many, but I I will say that the time that I tried to submit a car to bring a trailer, I think I took 137.

[00:29:49]>> Sure. 100 or 150 sounds reasonable, but that means that this is that means this is like five, not not five, but three to three to five cars worth of photos to sell this Toyota.

[00:30:06]Well, and if you're getting $90,000 for a 97 FJ80, I mean, granted, it's a 40th anniversary, so it's going to have it's going to have the dual locker.

[00:30:17]Wait, does it even have the dual lockers and the center locking diff? If it doesn't have a dual the front and rear lockers and a center locking diff, then I don't even know what my life is anymore because that's that's >> the the the the Cherokee in the Suburban of the mid80 or mid 90s wanted to be an FJ80.

[00:30:53]And the I guess the Yukon is thrown in there too. like they wanted to be this car, this truck, SUV, but they they wanted to be this because this was and still is honestly an FJ80 like you can go out on stock axles, you can put them on like 37s and just like slightly radius the fender and you'll go run it for with with a like what like a 3 inch lift and you'll go run it for 200,000 miles. I mean, I've I've literally seen these for sale.

[00:31:33]Like, just for funsies, let me go to Portland real quick. And I'll bet I I'll bet I find one with somewhere between 350,000 and 400,000 miles, between 15 and $20,000.

[00:31:53]Okay. 1999 Toyota Land Cruiser lifted off-road ready rooftop camper. This 1999 Toyota Land Cruiser is a legendary SUV built for reliability, adventure, and serious off-road capability. I can't attest to that. Known for its durability and long lifespan, this Land Cruiser has been upgraded to handle the outdoors with confidence. Powered by a strong 4.7 L V8. Ooh, that does make it kind of rare. uh and equipped four time all-wheel drive. It delivers excellent performance both on and off the road and the beaten path. This one is lifted and ready. Uh how how many miles is this one? 234,000 miles. And it's the V8. So, it's not even the straight six that is known to go for 4 500,000 miles. Even though the 40, what is it? The 3Z. I think this a three easy. I mean, that's still like $16,000. Like, >> right.

[00:32:57]>> I would I wouldn't I don't I keep hoping I come across one that's got a blown head gasket and they want like $1,100 for Well, those days might be over for both of us Judging by the way things are going.

[00:33:17]I know they're over, I know they're over. I just, you know, a man can hope.

[00:33:23]uh you know and and you know living where I live where I don't know about where you live so much but living where I live you know I might come across one that's like ah I you know maybe it needs an axle >> cuz somebody because I know people pull the axles out of those to put in 4Runners but I don't think I'll ever have one just like I don't think I'll ever have a Cherokee at this point like I mean just just to just to add to the crash out.

[00:33:58]Is there Oh, that says 4x4 original. Well maintained. How many miles? 170,000 179,000 miles.

[00:34:10]This thing looks really clean at 180,000 miles, which I that personally personally that doesn't scare me. Yeah. Yeah. Compared to uh compared to that one that sold on Bring a Trailer, this looks like a dang steel.

[00:34:29]It's like a killer deal.

[00:34:33]I mean, you want a clean stock Cherokee.

[00:34:36]I mean, granted, it's not the blue, which is the better color.

[00:34:41]>> It's not I say this isn't a bad color either.

[00:34:44]>> No, it's not. But like >> that's a much ne This is a nicer interior than than that 2000.

[00:34:56]>> It's It's nice and it's nice and it it's nice and bright and it's clean and bright and it shows that it's clean.

[00:35:02]It's not that it's not the dark gray interior. This is much more bright and feels a little bit more, you know, roomy.

[00:35:10]Owned by the I'm sorry I cut you off, but I I I just see saw here. Owned by the Oregon State Parks Department. I have records from the parks department of everything done throughout its life.

[00:35:21]Even for even for 4500 this 2000 Cherokee Classic and can be with 223. I mean, it doesn't have as good a pictures as that one does.

[00:35:36]>> For 4,500 bucks.

[00:35:38]>> Thank you. Like I mean, yeah, it doesn't have factory floor mats, but it's got like the similar bright beige interior and then and it's got the uh rear speakers and I've been saying it for a year now, buy an XJ while you still can because it $4,500 for this. This is like buying a running driving VW bus for 4,500 bucks 15 years ago. You know, you can't get into a bus for under 20 grand now.

[00:36:18]That's where I I think over the next 10 years, that's where these are going.

[00:36:24]And and today to Oh, I didn't I agree with you.

[00:36:28]>> No, no, no, no, hold on. There there are two things I I just I just saw. Um this one is a two-w wheelel drive. Oh, I didn't see that.

[00:36:36]>> And it has a clean North Carolina title, which has that would have that would have me asking questions. You know, what what the what the story is on it. But it's still very clean. I'm not Okay. 40 40 45,500 bucks. You put $5,000 into putting the front axle under it and a transfer case and redoing a bunch of stuff and you're still at $10,000. And I I would say you're gonna, this is my opinion, you would have a better fun rig, not showpiece rig, but fun rig than spending $35,000.

[00:37:14]I would agree with that. And so let's just back to bring a trailer. Um, we'll scroll down here. This is So this isn't even the most expensive XJ if you could believe it.

[00:37:28]So, so there there are there on Bring a Trailer at with 600 auction auction results. Check out this one, which is the the highest selling at $42,000.

[00:37:42]$42,000,000 miles.

[00:37:44]>> 10% of the mileage of the one that went for 35 today. See, when when you sent me the link, I was honestly more expecting kind of this price, honestly. And that's just because pe people absolutely love these vehicles. They really do. Oh, and this one's leather, power seats, and it's and it's an 01, so it is the last.

[00:38:08]It is the the cream of the crop, the top trim, everything's there.

[00:38:15]Oh, I I love I love that. If you scroll up, go back to just the the the list.

[00:38:20]Scroll.

[00:38:22]If I'm paying $42,000, Keep going. You see the fuel tank?

[00:38:27]>> Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:38:29]Yeah.

[00:38:30]>> If I'm paying $42,000 for that, you better clean that [ __ ] rust up.

[00:38:37]>> No. No. You know what? I disagree.

[00:38:41]I disagree. I I I would want to see the rust. I would want to I would want seeing the rust is kind of an assurance that it hasn't been prepped.

[00:38:52]I would rather see a brand new leaf pack put in.

[00:38:56]If I'm paying $42,000 for a 2001 Jeep, I would want a brand new leaf pack put in.

[00:39:02]And to my mind, if I saw a brand new leaf pack, I'd be asking other questions about what else has been replaced.

[00:39:08]Even if it was sitting tires on the ground this long, those leaf springs shouldn't sag at all, I would think. And so I would have questions if if it did have new leaf packs. Like why does it have new leaf packs after just 5,000 miles?

[00:39:25]Nashville, Tennessee is the location that it was selling from and it was sold by somebody called Mr. Jeeps.

[00:39:34]I do say I do have to say this is the thing that I do like about bringing a trailer. No, there was the there was he said the guy in the yellow text there was saying about fle to Nashville to pick up a Sylvia met Mr. Jeeps. She was in a garage out back. I'm assuming that she was the car.

[00:39:56]>> Yes.

[00:39:59]>> I just started laughing. Modern science is far from ding a time machine.

[00:40:03]But I got to taste what it feels like.

[00:40:06]That is a very weird comment.

[00:40:10]>> No, I I I get it. I I get what he's getting at. I just seeing I just saw S I just saw Sylvia and my JDM mind went Sylvia. Uh it's this Jeep is named Sylvia because it's silver.

[00:40:29]This Jeep probably came with a name.

[00:40:32]Uh, that's >> okay.

[00:40:37]>> Boomer.

[00:40:39]>> I mean, I named my I named it my 66 Mustang, but I named it after this crush that I had. So, I mean, I I I have >> my my my super beetle was named Evelyn just because I I thought that was a good name for her driving home. It just came in my mind and I've just I haven't changed since then.

[00:41:02]You have You haven't been in too many aircooled Volkswagens, have you?

[00:41:08]I think I've been in seven.

[00:41:13]>> Do Do you remember this? Do you remember the smell?

[00:41:16]>> No, because uh outside of yours, the windows were always down. and and and mine doesn't ha mine does not have the smell, but old Volkswagen afficionados will know what I'm talking about when when we talk about the smell. The there is a very distinct odor that that emanates from the the vinyl and the glue that holds the vinyl together for the seats and the carpet. There is a very distinct what is known as the Volkswagen smell. And because every Volkswagen that you encounter anymore has a new um aftermarket interior, they don't have that scent anymore. But on occasion, you can still occasionally open the door on a on a on a nice original beetle that hasn't been molested. You open the door and that odor hits you. And it it takes me back to when my dad I mean this was we we were in Eureka and I think I was three.

[00:42:23]I don't remember his bus, but I remember what his bus smelled like. In the last several years, I've been in a few buses that take me right back to three years old. So when this guy's talking about the new car smell, I get it. that that is such a powerful force of nostalgia.

[00:42:43]>> Volkswagen has clearly capitalized on that uh to a certain degree because I don't think I've ever gotten into a MarkV that wasn't a heavy smoker car and not just smelled crayons.

[00:42:56]>> Yeah. I mean that that's the meme for Jetta, you know? I mean that's the burn all all the Mark III memes is why does my dash smell like clear? Why does my dash smell like crayons? But that that's >> Mark III did not smell like like crayons. Every MarkV I've ever been in smells like crayons.

[00:43:12]>> Well, you weren't in my MarkV cuz my MarkV didn't smell like crayons.

[00:43:16]>> Well, it must have been smoked in previously cuz the only MarkVs I've ever been in have been like smoked in and then desmoked if they didn't smell like crayons. But I've been in a ton of Mark 3s and none of them smelled like crayons.

[00:43:34]All right, let's check out another another Bring a Trail Alumni. This one's got 37,000 miles and it sold for 37 grand. This sold for 37 grand. Hey, do you want to do your calculation? Your I'm sorry, your uh inflation calculator. This sold for 37 in 23.

[00:43:55]>> So, does it have a window sticker? Let's see if it's got a window sticker.

[00:44:00]Bro, the guy who the guy who bought this is also a guy. He bids on Jeeps and Porsche 911s.

[00:44:07]Zquad. That's funny.

[00:44:10]Well, I mean, it could be this it could be the same guy.

[00:44:14]So, in 2023, the $37,000 was $20,91524.

[00:44:25]So, 21 So, $21,000.

[00:44:31]No, no, no. In in 2023.

[00:44:35]>> Yeah. So, July July of 2023, >> right?

[00:44:40]>> Oh, wait. You wanted 2026.

[00:44:42]>> Yeah.

[00:44:43]>> I was I was going to say like like like we we haven't deflated the currency by 50%. That didn't sound right.

[00:44:50]>> I thought I thought you wanted to go the way of like, oh, what did it cost?

[00:44:54]>> No, no, no. I I want to know I want to know what 37 grand in 2023 what what would that value look like if it was bid on today?

[00:45:05]>> We got to April of 26 because that's the best date I got.

[00:45:11]Uh $40,000 3783.

[00:45:14]Okay. So, so here's here's another XJ that that also sold in 23 for 37. It was 36 and a half. We'll call it a 37, but sold for the same price. And I I I I >> Yeah, I I like this one, too. This looks This looks like what I would like.

[00:45:33]>> Well, that that's more ready to go do what I'm going to want to do with an XJ.

[00:45:36]And then I don't have to do any work.

[00:45:40]>> Correct. Which is so So that's interesting that for the same for $37,000 in 2023, you could get this or you can get a Bo bone stock low miles one for the same price. I I the only comment that I have that I don't like is I I'm not a fan of overshield or over windshield light bars. I don't I don't like that.

[00:46:05]>> Oh, that that that's okay. You can be wrong.

[00:46:08]>> I mean that they're easily removable and I'll put some KC daylighters up there and be wrong. But I the the light bar at the top of the windshield I just I've never liked it.

[00:46:21]I I think I have, you know, I have this exact same light bar because I have those exact same brackets and it's the same curve. It's it's it's a nice curve that matches the profile of the windshield. I have the same light bar on my Comanche. So, it's okay. You can be wrong.

[00:46:37]>> Well, I just have my opinion.

[00:46:40]>> You can have your opinion. So, speaking of opinions, are you ready for a game?

[00:46:47]>> I would love a game. We're gonna we're we're we're not doing an official cooldown segment, the cool off segment, but we'll play the cool off game anyway.

[00:46:59]For $35,000, Mike, I would like you to go find the coolest car on Craigslist on your local Craigslist. Pick a Craigslist and I will do the same.

[00:47:14]I was I was think I was thinking you were going to say go find the coolest four-door four-wheel drive off-roader for $35,000, but I will just go find the coolest.

[00:47:27]>> Okay. So, so, so in my mind, the Okay. Okay. So, so here here's the curveball. Here's the hook.

[00:47:37]$35,000 for any car, but you have to justify why it will be worth more in five years because I bet you these Cherokees are going up in value. So, you can't you can't just go pick a pick an old muscle car and say, "Well, I got the coolest muscle car for 35 grand." It has to be a car that's going up in value or that you can at least argue that it's going to go up in value.

[00:48:01]>> I I I I I like that. I like that hook. I like I I like I like thinking that way.

[00:48:06]You have to you have to think about Well, so that's okay because because I'm the hook of it has to go up in value is predicated on these Cherokees are going up in value. This $35,000 Cherokee.

[00:48:22]Well, see, and and see that that is also the crazy thing that you have to think about because and that's what like I was texting you earlier, the the the the market for the buses and the muscle cars is is shifting because like more people grew up around third gen and Fox bodies that have money now, not people that had, you know, wanted vans and Super Beatles. And so like the like I'm not saying that the value is going down on those particularly, but like the people who have the disposable income to spend is is shifting. And so figuring that out, I mean, do we really want to try to tell the public?

[00:49:08]I I mean I mean the the the market's going to >> the market's going to do whatever the market's going to do, man. It's I mean we're we're just commentating on what's going on. It's not like it's not like we're causing things to go up. And as a matter of fact, I have a little bit of a I don't know how to have a positive crash out, but this whole segment, you know, we're we're $35,000 for a Jeep Cherokee astonishes me.

[00:49:36]However, as a Jeep Cherokee and Comanche owner, well, let me let me let me re-qualify this. Um, Mike, you remember um I used to sell Volkswagen parts. The Dafton Classic was my Volkswagen parts business. the >> everybody >> what I learned when I started in 2015 until until I stopped selling a couple years ago. Um as the value of the of the buses went up and this was true for the Beatles true too. Um there are all sorts of parts for early Beatles and split window buses that you can get now uh mail order. You know, it's not it's not quite you you can't quite get them off the shelf, but you can call someone and order brand new parts for an early split window bus or an early even a split window or an oval window bug. Be that wasn't the case for those models 15 years ago.

[00:50:40]But when people started dumping $100,000, $200,000 into restoring a bus, the manufacturers of aftermarket parts responded with developing new replacement parts that previously weren't available. And that's why I rode the aircooled VW thing for so long because these were cars that I could I mean they're classic cars and I and I like them, but I can I could daily drive them because the parts are as easy to get as parts for a new car.

[00:51:16]>> Yeah, you could you could get them, >> right? And that that was that's what made Volkswagens special in the classic car market. I I predict there are go there's going to be a lot of development in the aftermarket support for the XJ and consequently also the Comanche. Um, if we're lucky, also the YJ for whatever. I mean, there aren't a whole lot of parts that interchange between the two platforms, but $35,000 for a Cherokee is a positive signal over time as more Cherokees approach that and surpass that number. Cuz obviously, I mean, we, as we just saw, that's not even the the highest selling Cherokee on bring a trailer, but it will become more common.

[00:52:05]And as that becomes more common, that means the little the little parts like water pumps and spring leaf packs and interior pieces. Oh, that's that's like the $40,000 A86s on Bring a Trailer.

[00:52:22]That's why you can buy a Teeu A86 chassis. Yes, >> you you can buy right now from um it's not not from Teeu, but you can buy a whole an entire new bus body. Now, there are companies that will give you an entire panel for panel replica VW bus unibody, including the including punches out, I'm sorry, including punch outs for samba windows and rag tops.

[00:52:53]That's it. That is the future. I'm predicting for the Cherokee and for me that's a very good thing. So it's everybody it's not a bad thing. I mean the Cherokee is honestly I mean poundforpound has been one of the most wheeled.

[00:53:10]The Miata on any given weekend there's more Miatas on a racetrack than any other vehicle in the world. I would honestly say there is more Cherokees in the woods than any other vehicle on any given weekend ever. I would more I mean when when you break it down from not just oh it's a Jeep where it's a a YJ X what but I'm saying as a specific model of Jeep there is more Cherokees in the woods than any other rig that certainly has been the case. I think that's been changing in favor of the JK, the uh um the the the the Wrangler that the Wrangler from the last 15 years or you know what was introduced 20 years ago. That Wrangler um but but that Wrangler there but that Wrangler was developed because of the Cherokee. it the that that Wrangler.

[00:54:20]I mean, well, the TJ before I um too um adapted when the Cherokee and the Comanche were introduced, the contemporary Wrangler, the YJ with the square lights maintained leaf springs like the old CJs.

[00:54:38]But because because Jeep was so successful with the front suspension design on on the XJ Cherokee, um they adapted it to the Grand Cherokee and then they adapted it to the TJ.

[00:54:54]The what I'm getting at is there is a direct lineage from the XJ Cherokee to what we have now, the big four-door Wrangler that just so happens to be shaped a lot like a Cherokee and is also just a little bit bigger than a Cherokee and has the same suspension as a Cherokee.

[00:55:16]I see as not a Jeep guy, I did not know that. I do have to just punch this in because as you were saying it, I got curious about it.

[00:55:26]Between 1984 and 2001, if you had to guess how many Cherokee XJs were made.

[00:55:37]Oh. Oh, no. So, I I actually I actually did do a little I actually did do some research on on this at one point. I want to say it's about 2 million 2.8 8 million.

[00:55:53]That's almost three million of them. So, with almost three million made, I'm going to stand on my ground that on any given weekend, there's still probably more of them than anything else.

[00:56:07]>> Yeah, I I have not found I have not found mine yet.

[00:56:11]>> Oh, gotcha.

[00:56:12]>> There there's kind There's actually not a whole lot here on the Ben Craigslist.

[00:56:17]I was shocked at the one that I found.

[00:56:19]Oh, that's a pretty nice one, but that's not going to go up in value, right? Well, it's like this like this beautiful 69 El Camino for 30,000. I mean, it's beautiful. And it's a 69 El Camino, but it's it's not going to climb. Or this like 62 Willies Jeep pickup.

[00:56:38]>> Oh, you know what? I got my I got my car. I'm I'm going to I'm going to make this fun.

[00:56:43]>> Oh. Oh, this is cool. Oh, this is cool.

[00:56:46]Oh, I I just I just write a detail that makes this cool. Okay, I'm ready.

[00:56:50]>> All right. Well, I just dropped mine in chat, so All right, let's pull Let's go pull up for the cool off segment.

[00:57:04]Let's check out your 1997 Mustang Cobra for $34,000.

[00:57:09]Take it away, Mike. Okay, so this is a 1997 Cobra Mustang with a Keeny Bell, which if you were around in the early 2000s, mid 2000s, you remember the of the Keeny Bell. Uh, this is a 2 L supercharger. I mean, this thing is a beautiful example of what it is. 28 and a half or so th000 miles. It's got a couple of aftermarket gauges, meaning the guy was probably looking after his AFRs, meaning he probably took care of the engine. Uh, not a very good description, but at $34,000 in 1997, they only made 10,050 of these things. Only 6,960 were coups.

[00:58:00]3,088 were convertibles. And honestly, the SN95 platform, aside from its absolutely weird shifter location is a slept on platform, and I will stand on that because the 4.6 modular was honestly a decent motor. It took low to mid boost reasonably well, especially with early engine managements that we had in the early 2000s and mid 2000s. I mean, we don't have the the the technology we have now. There is some cracking in the seat. It shows a little bit of wear, but I mean >> seat time seat seat seat time doesn't I don't think seat time takes away necessarily from a vehicle, but it is something I noticed. It does stand out on the on the leather.

[00:58:48]>> But seat time with only 28 and a half thousand miles, I mean that means that means he probably just got on the highway and drove it.

[00:58:57]Like I mean I don't I don't think I mean and maybe I don't know. I don't I wasn't in the Spokane racing scene back in mid 2000s, but I don't think this guy was out there drag racing this thing. I think this guy built this thing to have fun with it. Take it out on the weekends. Would have gone to Cars and Coffee if they had have had Cars and Coffee back when he built this thing.

[00:59:23]>> It's a show car.

[00:59:24]>> Yeah. Well, and I I would have bet I would have bet this was built in 200 uh probably 2003 2004, maybe 2002. Um as just a as just an old man kind of this is my clean show car. Uh and the reason and my reasoning for why the price on this Cobra uh is at where it's at and where I think it would climb. I mean, at $34,000, that's a lot. And I mean, there's no dyno sheet, there's no nothing. So, I mean, who knows if it's been properly tuned. Uh, but about 4 years ago, uh, I looked at and test drove a 2000 Cobra.

[01:00:13]Uh, I remember those was Oh, I guess two 2026. So, in two early 20 or late 2020, I I I don't remember exactly. I test drove a 2000 Cobra and they only wanted 195 for it. I mean, granted, it had about 85,000 miles on it, but I I honestly I I think if somebody bought this and parked it in their shop and drove it three weekends, four weekends a year, and just maintain the fluids, I could see this being in 15 to 20 years, uh, you know, a car that somebody who was five in 1997 would pay 4647,000.

[01:01:04]for >> so my guest >> so I I just pulled up there they're they're what what sold a couple months ago on bring a trailer is a this 2300 mile uh SVT Cobra R that sold for 38 grand. So the Cobra R is the Cobra R is different.

[01:01:23]Is it okay? I I I don't know. I'm not a Mustang guy.

[01:01:26]>> So the the Cobra the Cobra RS were different than the Cobras.

[01:01:31]uh the the the Cobra Rs and and I'd have to I it's been a while since I've really dove into it, but the Cobra RS were actually independent rear suspension.

[01:01:41]>> Uh because they were like the they were like the homologation roadgoing version of of Ford's GT.

[01:01:49]>> But I I still think I still think at at at 28,000 miles, I still think this is going to go up. Maybe not as much as I think it will, but I still think in 5 to 10 years, this could be a$10,000 to $15,000 increase in value.

[01:02:07]>> Well, so just looking at the bring a trailer results for all for the whole SN95 platform, uh 30 3035 is down is down here. There are a lot of Mustangs that have sold for much more than that.

[01:02:20]And I think I think there's a very clear trend that yeah, they're probably going to start going up. There's a lot of them coming on the market which is holding the prices down probably. But also someone someone spent $175,000 on a 2003 Cobra.

[01:02:42]So the the demand for the Cobra is there. I I I I see it. I >> That thing is brand new.

[01:02:53]So again, >> and so again, someone was willing to pay this much so that they have the example to compare every other Cobra against.

[01:03:04]See, and I didn't I didn't I did I will admit I did not even look at that. Now, the biggest reason I will say that I jumped on the SN95 bandwagon, this is about to become the S13.

[01:03:21]Well, unfortunately for you, Mike, I found a cooler car.

[01:03:27]>> I'm not saying it's I mean, I've never been that huge of a fan. I'm just saying the reason that I jumped on this as it being a clean cool this is going to increase in value is because the uh the nationwide drift scene has slept on the SN95 until about the last year and a half. And so these are now getting swooped up and turned into drift cars just like the S13 was. Uh and there's tons of aftermarket support for them.

[01:03:55]There's tons of aftermarket parts.

[01:03:58]>> Okay. But that doesn't make it cool.

[01:04:00]This is this is a this is a cool off.

[01:04:02]>> But I I I mean I still think it's cool.

[01:04:06]>> Well, I I found a cooler car.

[01:04:10]I see. Are you ready to see um a cooler car? If if I had to spend $35,000 on a car and I expected it to go up, are are you ready for this? Are you prepared for this, Mike?

[01:04:24]Your 9 Your 97 Cobra is not as cool as this 2001 Plymouth Prowler Roadster with 27,000 miles. So, it's been driven.

[01:04:36]It's been loved.

[01:04:39]But they are asking I believe where did I where pull the actual $31,000.

[01:04:52]I love as as I've talked about before. I love the Prim Plymouth Prowler. I think it is a gorgeous car. I also think it's I I I don't I I don't I I just don't I don't see it, man. I don't I don't Had they put a Hemi or something better in it, I think the Plymouth Prowler would have been a great car.

[01:05:26]To my knowledge, they never offered it in a manual. Well, so so I I noticed that, which is why I I jumped on, oh, this is going to be the one because they listed it as a manual. It says very clearly auto stick.

[01:05:39]>> Yeah.

[01:05:40]>> Like a Volkswagen, like a lazy Volkswagen Super Beetle. This is not a manual. It's an auto stick.

[01:05:47]>> Tectronic or whatever. So, this will drive like a real like a like it will be like driving my mom's old Intrepid backwards because it is rear wheel drive. But >> they are >> the P the Plymouth Prowler was never produced with a manual transmission. All production models came with a four-speed automatic. They featured an auto stick for manual style shifting.

[01:06:15]>> Wamp wamp. Yeah, that that's that's why the it it says it says clearly on the Go back to that photo.

[01:06:21]>> Yeah, >> it say it says it says auto stick, which is funny because the >> it's like a it's like a bump shift.

[01:06:29]Well, so well, so Volkswagen in the 1970s offered a what they called the semi-automatic transmission, and it came with on on the Beatles and the Carmen Gears that came with the automat the semi-automatic transmission, they were called automatic stick shifts or the deck the on the deck lid badge just auto stick.

[01:07:00]And those were those were just three-speeds, two range three speeds.

[01:07:04]They got they weren't that's why they weren't considered full automatics was they weren't uh PRN D21.

[01:07:11]They were it was PR D2D1 and you and you would ship between you would put it in D1 at a stoplight and then shift it into D2 to drive around town.

[01:07:28]But no, but there was no clutch pedal.

[01:07:29]You just had a big um brake pedal that operated a vacuum operated clutch inside the auto stick transaxle.

[01:07:38]>> I did not know that. That's actually interesting.

[01:07:43]>> Yeah, I I I the earliest that I'm aware of. Absolutely.

[01:07:46]>> Like not I'm not saying it's a sequential, but like the earliest quote unquote sus sequential.

[01:07:53]>> Yeah. Of the Plymouth Prowler. Um, I'm not seeing quite as strong. They they've they've certainly not lost value even in even over going going back to the first one sold in 2018.

[01:08:08]There's not been a significant drop.

[01:08:10]There's Okay, so here here's one that that sold for uh just under five, but it's a utility trailer that's made out of a Prowler.

[01:08:20]Oh, here's another Prowler utility trailer.

[01:08:24]>> Um, or this junior, >> right? So, they're not >> they're not losing they're not losing.

[01:08:33]>> Yeah, they're not there's the they're not gaining value quite as strong as as your Mustang.

[01:08:39]>> So, they're not >> they're not losing they're not losing value.

[01:08:44]>> Yeah, they're not there's the they're not gaining value quite as strong as as your Mustang.

[01:08:50]>> But here's here's here's the thing.

[01:08:52]Honestly, had Chrysler done this thing justice, th this would have been something. And and and I will say this, part of the reason that I say this is my local that I go to and and have beers from time to time, one of the guys there has got one.

[01:09:13]His has only got, I think, like 26,000 miles on it. It's it's very beautiful.

[01:09:18]All the front fenders have been removed and it's very nice, but it's like I would never I would I would never pay like on on and this is just me. I would probably never pay more than like 5,000 bucks for one of these. Like the amount of work I'm going to have to get it to where I thought it was cool is just it's not Not to say that I didn't absolutely love and I don't generally like what Chrysler does. I loved what they did here. They >> Yeah, I would say unfortunately it wasn't about trying to make a cool car.

[01:10:02]It was about Mercedes trying to clear some shelves off.

[01:10:07]Chrysler did what they could with what they had with what they were provided provided with.

[01:10:13]>> And it's just a >> No, I I'm I'm I'm personally I'm with you. I don't If someone gifted me a Prowler, I would take excellent care of it. I would I would give it the respect that as an art piece it deserves. But I'm with you. I don't think I would ever actually go out and buy one of these. I just think a Prowler is cooler than a Cobra.

[01:10:35]That as an art piece it deserves. But I'm with you. I don't think I would ever actually go out and buy one of these. I just think a Prowler is cooler than a Cobra.

[01:10:45]>> Oh, no. I don't disagree. It is cooler.

[01:10:48]Uh, >> but if to to back to go back to the cool wall of of Top Gear of old, I still don't know that I'd put it up above the Cobra. I might put it like in the same line. Like it's it is cool, >> but there's enough about it that makes it well, unfortunately for the cool off wall, which is what I'm calling it, which is going to be our version of the cool wall, there can only be one.

[01:11:20]And so in the comments, if you've made it this this far into this emergency episode of Craigslist Crashouts, uh we really appreciate you listening. Drop in the comments your vote for which car is going on the cooloff wall. Will it be this 99 Plymouth Prowler or will it be this 97 Mustang Cobra?

[01:11:46]We'll find out at the next episode.

[01:11:49]Mike, thanks for joining me on such short notice, buddy. Do you have anything you would like to promote?

[01:11:55]>> Um, not currently. Uh, I'm working on a few things, but nothing.

[01:12:04]>> All right, I've been your host, Brennan.

[01:12:06]Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you next time.