Finding adventure in a 1966 Jeepster Commando | Why I Drive #40
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- Kate Cook's father had only one requirement for her first car: it had to be four-wheel drive. Even before her dad set his conditions, Kate knew what she wanted: a Jeepster Commando. but wanted to find one that wasn't completely disfigured with the aftermarket modifications that so often befall old Jeeps. The Commando they ended up purchasing those years ago was not in the best shape, and thus began Kate's education in keeping a classic running.
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This is kind of people i want around me. This is beautiful! Every single detail.
Back at you bro!
These video's have picked up where Petrolicious left off. More great stories about people and their unique cars. Bravo!
The guys who make these are incredibly talented and super cool! They absolutely did.
Note, very few jeepsters were 4x4.if you have a factory 4x4 jeepster you have atreasure
Did petrolicious stop?
Damn, true
I couldnt tell you..
Thanks Hagerty for bringing us this outstanding content!
This has been the BEST ONE so far ... total awesomeness
Great vehicle. Great couple... I'm happy for them both. Long may it continue.
So cool, what a rad lady and couple. Loving and living right. Thanks Hagerty!
This is soooo nice... the whole story is so pretty that inspires me millions miles away.... I don't need to be there to feel the deepness of the story... great people, jeep... everything!!!
A wise old woman told me do something you both like to do.....
In alot of ways this reminds me how lucky I am to have a wife that likes the cars over the years. We have a 75 Winnebago brave that is so nice. We camp all the time and mountain bike together.
Also a daughter and a son that followed their dad's racing ways....
Now I have 3 grandson's that are as well.... Man are they little rippers!
Great story.... Your blessed.
I love it! I have owned and driven a 1968 Landrover Series IIA since 1987 and my three boys and one grandson learned to drive in it. Now two of my boys have passed on and I will leave the Landrover to my one remaining son.
I recommend moving the spare tire on you Jeepster to the rear so you can get into tighter trails and avoid damaging the quarter panel.
I too am a Hagerty customer, they’re the greatest!
I own a 69 landy 2a! My clutch is currently stuck. What are you repairing at the moment?
Sorry for your loss sir, that is heartbreaking
@@keithfarrell7638 hey Keith, I am debating between parabolic and stock springs . I like the potential of a softer ride from parabolic but I’m concerned about side slope lean! Any thoughts on this?
@@arthurias7693 Thank you Arthurias!
Great story! You just dont know where life will take you. Proves how we should never be afraid to try something different and just go for it!
What an awesome story! Bless you for sharing this. Uniting with loved ones/ family while wrenching is a highlight of my life. I get to share it with my dad and my son. Some of the best times are spent wrenching.
What a great story. As a former Californio I very much identify with leaving the Golden State and living in the Southwest. I left in 81 and have never looked back. Thanks you Cooks. :)
Love how you told your story. Your jeep and husband seem a great fit in your life. Thank god that girls were made that love to drive old trucks and have dirty boots and be comfortable in there own skin out in nature. Your dad seems to have been a great man.. and his love for you will last forever. God bless you and your family.
This is the most American video I've ever seen. 😊😊😊
LOL Fav comment. Thank you.
@@asphaltcanvascustomart The Jeepster Commando Club of America is having the 50th anniversary of the Commando at Moab next April if you’re interested. Facebook page is the best place to find information about the event.
You two are way cool, I also have a daughter named Katie and I'm sure your father is very proud of what you have accomplished. Thanks for sharing your story.
Absolutely wonderful! There are so many deeply thoughtful moments in Kate’s sharing of her experiences and history tied to the Jeepster.
For a shorter duration, but in a similar way, my ‘90 911 has become an extension of who I am. I began working with a trusted shop to modify the 911 several months before I started becoming sick with what turned out to be cancer. Through radiation, surgery & chemo, the interaction with my friends at the shop regarding the modifications was one of the bright spots that sustained me. Now that the worst of the cancer is over and the 911 is back on the road, the driving experience has become even more special as one of my happy places.
I Love This Father Daughter/ Wife Husband Story Behind This Seeing As How My Daughter Wants A Jeep Gladiator💚💪🏽
Wish I could give you a 1000 thumbs up ! One of the best Life Car Love stories I've heard in a long time ! Thank you for being able to share it with us . Of all of the Jeeps , the Jeepster has always been my favorite .
Restoring a car can be difficult.
Pinstriping??? Insanely difficult! Props to her!
Thank you!
Nice Jeepster plus Rat Fink AND Marvin Martian. You have impeccable taste. 😁
Her talking about pin striping and working on her jeepster is me exactly engine swapping out my miata being that this is the first time I've ever done anything like this!
Hell yeah man send it! Good luck on the swap 👊
Thank you for sharing this!!! I am 50 and a female. I still have (and always will!) My 67 mustang that my dad and I built when I was 16/17. I love that car! I love even more what it represents. I wouldn't trade anything for every moment spent in the shop with my Dad ❤. Even just ducking into the shop here and there these days to fix something, or just to hang out, those moments are priceless!
My family had a 1967 Jeep Commando. It had the 1949 jeepster paint scheme, yellow, white, and black convertible top. Dad swapped in a Buick 300 ci V8. Many wonderful memories, four wheeling that Jeep...
Hagerty - never stop.
This is the best channel on CZcams.
Bravo! Well done! Live life!
Those odd fire V6's sure sound sweet!
Thank you for sharing your nice story!
What a great story and cool car. That note from her Dad reminded me of notes my parents wrote me and they are priceless.
What a great personal story and a personal vehicle. I had a 1967 Jeep Wagoneer in the 1990s and early 2000s that had the same gauge cluster, steering wheel center cap, and other parts similar to this Jeepster. It's so nostalgic.
Anybody remember an old Pin strpiper from the 70's-80's (Shakey Jake) from So. California ? He stripped many new Porshe's, BMW'a and Audi's all free hand when I was a mechanic for Porsche. Like most Pin Strippers, A true Artist. Good Video, Thanks!
Hey Tom! Yes I do! So cool you brought him up. Never met him, only saw pics of his work. Thank you!
What a lovestory ,, I'll have to keep my eyes open for a brunette in a Vette !
lol! Good luck, she's out there!
Great car. Great couple. Great film.
We had a Jeepster with a V6 a great 4 wheel drive vehicle
We now have a Jeep Cherokee we still love Jeeps
Smiled through the entire video.
Thank you.
I own a Hurst Commando and I love this video and story! There is some very mystique about the Jeepster Commando. AMC did not do the best job building these “weird” trucks, most of them have rusted way and all of them have been forgotten for decades. People just now come around and understand why some of us bought them way before everybody even knew what they were! One of the coolest Jeep ever!
Amen! I've owned mine for over 20 years but remember playing in my dad's as a kid. Seeing a Jeepster rolling down a dirt road almost gives me chills. Love them and appreciate others do to! We are a unique ilk.
I had a 1969 Commando, odd-fire Buick v-6, broken gas gauge and all. Many, MANY great memories. Lost a TON of money when I sold it.
Cool people, great story, awesome truck - love it! Thanks.
I had a 71
Loved it
All I can say is WOW!
Great story!... Thanks for sharing!
Amazing! Simply amazing!
So glad to know hagerty has non jason content that does not require insulting folks to try to be funny. This is fantastic content.
Diggin that jacket !😎
Love this story !! ❤️
Awesome story
love it! WOW! the sound of that thing is awesome. would love to feature my fj60
Great story!👍
I have a 68 jeepster commando. With the dauntless 225 and automatic. Absolutely love it. I will never sell it.
Great story thanks for sharing.
tim from new mexico
This video makes me proud of my 2012 jeep Cherokee Laredo
Beautiful story
Very nice car and very nice story! Thank You! :)
U guys made me smile. 😃
Great story and thanks for sharing your journey ! I bought my girlfriend a 1972 Jeep Commando
Very nice story!
What a beautiful story. You’re a lucky woman
Awesome story. 👍
Cool video! loved the jeep!
This went from being a good story to a beautiful one.
These good people, this glorious car...
E-fuels everywhere please to help keep cars like these running in environmentally responsible fashion well into the future
Awesome story of true happiness. Almost impossible to teach and very difficult to find. May it continue for you both…. to the flower box.
Awesome! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Nice jeep
Great couple .
Good combain soul ..
Cool Story! October 1965 My dad pulled into driveway with a brand new 1966 F100. I learned to drive in it that fall. Guess what I drive today as my daily driver? Yep a 1966 F100. The collection has grown to 10+ 1966 trucks now in various states of restoration. My CZcams channel is about that. Restoration of Ford trucks. We always had a Jeep too!
There's 3 things that will make a grown man cry . Birth of a child, death of a loved one & rebuilding or the building of a long time family vehicle with a family member.
Love it!
When Jeeps were Jeeps!!!
Great story! Sweet Jeepster! We need more women wrenchers.
very nice
Super rare jeep. 👌
Impressive
I love this 🚗
Cool rig
Of all the vehicles I've owned none of them were as unique as my 72 Jeepster Comando. Practical no, fun to drive yes. Whenever I see one I go crazy like seeing an old friend. Drove it from California to Colorado pulling a trailer I think 4 times. Never got stuck, went everywhere 12k gravel mountant passes in Colorado, Taos New Mexico. No AC, dual exhaust that came out by the doors, bad gas millage oh but what a ride.
Cool
Great story but that can't be a 66, it has side marker lights. Side marker lights were mandatory in 68, unless someone added them.
I can relate I have vehicles that mean so much to me that I would live in a tent in the woods before I part with them.
Dennis Collins found a perfect condition one recently... red.. check out his videos.
Anyone else disappointed this blank white canvas of a jeep has no pinstriping?
Me! haha, hard to paint your own stuff when you're busy painting things for others. Its the classic "cobblers kids have no shoes" scenario Lol!
@@asphaltcanvascustomart Didn't want to sound like a hater, the video was great, it just seemed like a missed opportunity lol. Hopefully one day!
Oh. Texas. Yeah.
What 4 speed did you put in it
I think he meant to say the trip is the destination.
- "The trip is the adventure".
"the trip is the trip..." LUL
This is the most hipster thing i have seen in a while
Hipsters don't actually work on cars.
@@daison96 most dont. Most are busy drinking a expresso in a coffe shop but some do. They go nuts over not only the jeepster but the fsj waggys.
I mean if there gonna be a hipster this is the way to do it!
👍👍🤘
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned
from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the
Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas
station per city or county. Now they want to slow down all the gas station fuel
pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in
the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems,
turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and
New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be
done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of
crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.
How will they dispose of all those dead batteries?
Hello sir please help me
Old Jeeps? Man no one likes those 😁