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This started years ago, my example is the transformation of the Jeep CJ into the wrangler. CJ were fairly cheap, worked fine and came with no frills (I won't talk about rust). The wrangler is an overglorified SUV. When that happened, I went to regular automobiles, which are now getting harder to find these days.

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I can understand where you're coming from, but compared to the vehicles I own now my 98 TJ seems "no frills".

The soft top folded down pretty nicely. The rear seat could also fold down, as did the windshield. The half doors were still removable, and there were still only 2 of them.

It was a manual transmission but had A/C. The heater had two settings: "lava" and "off" :D

My cars heater started bellowing hot steam into my car through the vent system a few weeks ago. I took it to a friend who is mechanic and asked how much it was to fix it. He said "we live in the tropics, what would you use a heater for?", then disconnected it completely and charged me a beer.

Very unrelated.

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