I have always and will always modify my vehicles.
I dont like being just like everyone else, and i tend to flock toward vehicles with a specific purpose....
Jeeps, mustangs, classics, etc.

With the jeep i modify to make it more capable and more badass.
With the stang i modified to make it faster and more badass
I have a 69 gmc that i have modded to make it a badass classic truck.
I had a 64 1/2 mustang that i resto-modded

I mean if i had a camry, there would be no purpose to mod it (ricers do anyway but they dont count because they are idiots ) But the jeeps an offroad machone, the stang is for speed, the truck's for crusing and before that the old stang was for cruising.....

 

if you modify they will come

 

Not just Jeeps.
Bikes too.
Perfectly good Anniversary Edition Sporty

To this:

The mods are NEVER done!

 

I modify things because no company in their right minds (an oxymoron in itself) would ever build a vehicle that met all my ... um ... eclectic tastes.

 

My last 4 new vehicles have had mods waiting for them when I brought them home.
Everything I've had before that was modded within probably a week of me getting ahold of it.
All of the clunkers I had in high school and all of the others after that- everything gets modified somehow.
I got my first new vehicle right out of high school - an S-10 Baja pickup. I had a sawzall in hand cutting the roof off to make it a Targa within 3 weeks of picking it up. 1200 miles on the clock and the roof on the floor next to it when I was 18 and nothing has changed since then
I guess in my mind, if something isn't exactly the way I want it, why not make it that way?

Cars, trucks, bikes, house, toys whatever - if I wanna change something, I do it

I'll start with the vehicle closest to what I want that I can at least semi-afford and go from there. I guess I just look at them as starting points.

Unless you're a pure utilitarian "it gets from point A to point B" type, we all get a vehicle and think "wow I really like this EXCEPT....." so why not fix whatever the exception is? Whether it's changing the wheels, ripping the whole suspension out, cutting the roof off or whatever.

That's kind of the allure of the car culture to me, the variety.
I mean think about it - a new 7 digit Buggati Veyron for $1.2M or the used Cavalier up the road for $500 they do the exact same thing.
Just some do it faster, or smoother, or more comfortably, or over rocks, or whatever - still the same concept as back in the 20's - it carries our lazy asses around.

I've owned everything from 50's VWs to sports cars, 4x4s, luxury cars, trucks, hearses - well you get the idea, and none of them were 'perfect' so I play with them.
Kinda like big kid legos

 

I have never modded a new vehicle until our JK also. I think mainly it is because my wife is all for it with the JK, whereas before it was always like "You wanna waste your money on what?'. We both want to get the JK more trailworthy and start doing some serious fun stuff with it!!

 

Because a new-from-the-factory Wrangler with all the options is a good starting point for doing what I want to do...but there are still many places that I want to go where the factory rig won't - or won't comfortably.

With "just a few more mods" I'll be able to go where I want to go, and still use my rig for road trips.

 

for the same reason i used to climb mountains....


because we can!

 

I thought it was "Because it's there."?

 

It`s a personalization thing, but also a more capable vehicle is more likely to get you back home.

 

why? Because if God wanted us to leave it well enough alone he wouldnt have given us power tools.

 

All mine are modded in some way

82 Chevy C10... heavier springs
02 Chevy K2500HD... 4" lift and 35's
Wife's 03 S10 crew... lift and 31's
08 Jeep Wrangler... were do I start????? But I wanna all aluminum LS2 small block ..... then I'll have a Cheep, or Jeeprolet

 

This was a fun couple of years.

 

I think, for me anyway, it has everything to do with getting what you want and making it what you want. And certain things are made to be modded and personalized more than others. You certainly aren't going to lift an accord or put 40s on it.

My Jeep is the first vehicle I have ever modified. It is also my first brand new vehicle. My other vehicles were used, thus I was limited in my choices, and they were simply modes of transportation. The Jeep was something I wanted. I love it. It's my baby. I want to make her pretty and badass.

One day when I get my Harley, I will mod it too.

 

because chicks dig it

 

Really to go rock crawling. Guys liking it is a bonus

 

Back in the day (high school) we used to lift the rear ends of our cars to give them a raked look and to fit big ole' slicks on them. Engines were tweaked, paint was changed, mood lights were added and the best stereo a part time job could pay for was added.

30 years later I'm still at it

I don;t think I have ever owned a vehicle I have not customized or seriously modified in one way or another. I don;t know why, maybe just a guy thing.

 

Damn, a lot of car and motorcycle jockeys answered. The Jeep/4x4 answer is because you couldn't get there without a winch before the mod. I've been doing this since before I could legally drive. All the mods I do have a purpose and I only incorporate esthetics when practical.

 

Because a new Jeep is like a blank canvas.

 

Wow...I see sig file material there!

 

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