Yeah, and cheaper, too. I must say I'm a bit impressed with the Ford. It always starts, I've only had the trans rebuilt at 120K, and its a French made trans not up to meeting the "power" of the 4.0L. Its up to 141K and I'm finally fixing all these things that went wrong 20K ago and it was stilll running fine through all these problems. It also makes a good pair with the MB.

There seems to be quite a following with the 1st gen Explorer. I get thumbs up's from people on the road with 1" lifted Cherokee's, and some dude tried to buy it off my driveway with a Cherokee. He didn't like my "buy it now" price, I think.

Anyway, fishing trips are again being planned in the house of Orkrist.