In 1987, the AMC factory in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, began pumping out the new-model-year Jeep. The Wrangler had been born, and of the 45,053 new YJs produced that first year, one ended up in the ...

For Norton Freeland, the ambition to build a newer, more capable four-wheeler came after driving a '47 flattie on the trail for 12 years. He finally got tired of working on his vintage Jeep all the ...