Interview Natalie Highlift Off-road

So you were talking about, uh, the yellow TJ, like I said earlier, a couple of weeks ago, uh, yellow TJ, how did you get the yellow TJ? Yeah. My, um, my dad and my mom, they're wonderful, wonderful people and very supportive of the Jeep community. My dad always knew that, um, he wanted his kids to be safe in a vehicle and I'm actually a twin. So, um, we were having to turn 16 at once can be a little of a, uh, yeah, especially a couple of weeks ago, you know? But, uh, we, I was very fortunate to be able to get the sport. My brother got a white Sahara and, um, we had a great time in high school, driving those things to school and messing with each other on the road. And, um, it was great. I really liked, and I had that Jeep for 19 years. Actually, there we go. There's the age coming out. Um, but I put that thing and unfortunately I wish I would've known what I know now. It led me to what I'm doing now. Um, or I would've kept it. I didn't realize the gem that I have with that solar yellow color. Was it a four cylinder or a six cylinder? It was the four cylinder. It's a damn good thing. You got rid of it. I know. It didn't have the half doors, which you know, the Mopar half doors are hard to find now. So, um, if you cap it, if you cap it, you could have had them installing a himmy in there right now and killed yourself on the first drive. I know. Hop and wheelies doing all the things. So I did drive across the country a few times with my mom. I used to work on dude ranches growing up. So, um, through college and I thought, well, you got to have your Wrangler. You're going to be a Wrangler. So, uh, we did a couple of road trips to get out West in that thing, um, with the soft top and the half doors. It was a little noisy.

So we bought a TJ, I guess maybe 12 years ago is used. Uh, and, uh, when, when we got it, both my wife and I wanted a TJ from way back when the first Jeep that we got was a 98 XJ Cherokee XJ. Um, so we finally got the TJ and the first thing that we did was took all the top and everything off. Uh, and I can't remember, I think we had two doors, maybe not. It might've been completely doorless and we took off, uh, on a run through, uh, around central Texas, nothing, no, really no highways, some highways, but mostly just two lane roads, lot of trees, a lot of cows, a lot of yelling moo out the, out of the other Jeep.

And it was so much fun, but we couldn't talk. It was just too loud, 40, 50 miles an hour. Even it's just, it's just too loud. And yeah, I've never come up with a, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm, I never made it to get the license of a private pilot, but I did a lot of flying. So you know, and that you had to have a headset system, intercon system. If you wanted to talk to your passenger, and this is kind of the same thing that the Jeepers need if you're, if you're driving any distance off road, because if you want to, if you want to hell, if you just want to listen to music, you need a intercom system. So I've never found one that was cost effective because they make them all for airplanes. And if it's airplanes, it's very expensive. Yes, it is. I mean, that's good though. Try once, you know? Yeah. Well, that's true. All right. So, uh, anyway, yellow Jeep, you had it for 19 years. So you, so you got it when you were like a negative 20 or something.

So, uh, that was fun. Uh, how long ago did you, uh, did you sell the, the, the TJ and I'm assuming you sold it. Uh, I did know. I traded it in for credit. How long after you sold it, did you realize it was a mistake?