93 xj, bought it for $1500, have maybe another $1k into it and that is probably a high number. that isn't counting the welder, chop saw and other basic power and hand tools used to build stuff for it because that is unfair IMO.
i like the way cannon crawler put it with spending a ton more money to do a few harder trails... profound!
when it comes right down to it i can still daily drive it and i drove it 75+mph for 3.5 hours to moab for easter weekend, beat the hell out of it and drove it home with zero problems besides my rear yoke hitting the muffler on occasion (minor annoyance) from the muffler getting pushed up a little by a huge effin rock. i can't do the hardest trails but i also don't take bypasses or easy lines either. we did steelbender, ps/gs/gbr, fins n things, hell's and moab rim.
sorry for this pic again it's the only one that seems to be working in my shutterfly acct.