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First Drive: Jeep Wrangler AEV Hemi Conversion
Unstoppable until it runs out of fuel. Which might be often.
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“In California, I was standing in line at the DMV, and I was, you know, sort of beginning to lose it,” recalls Dave Harriton. “That’s when I resolved to move where people weren’t and to build cars that would take me places people weren’t.”
In 1997, Harriton thus borrowed $35,000 and launched American Expedition Vehicles (AEV), based in Missoula, Montana. Today, half of AEV’s business is off-road parts, but the other half is devoted to converting Jeep Wranglers into unstoppable little off-road armadillos. Including the cost of the Wrangler, the conversions fetch from $45,000 to $100,000, “the latter for a king in the Middle East,” says Harriton.
