Editor Trasborg likes to claim that this is the Jeep that started it all. Then again, he also claims that, unbeknownst to his boss, this is the Jeep that caused the big move out of the old building.

The original idea was so simple it makes an anvil seem complicated. Where we ended up wasn’t quite as simple as we’d originally planned. Trasborg had a ’94 four-cylinder-powered Wrangler with a blown ...