It has been a long winter, one of the longest I can remember. Normally in the nation’s Capitol, weather gets cold in the fall but doesn’t get bitter until January rolls in. By March winter is forgotten and spring is right around the corner. What this means is generally in January and February in Washington D.C. most classic cars are off the road since this is the period where salt and sand are dropped in abundance on the roads due to the snow and ice that blankets the area. By March the snow is replaced with rain which washes within a short period of time all the salt and sand of

It has been almost twenty years since the Grand Cherokee was first released in the spring of 1992 as a 1993 model year release. The all-new 1993 (ZJ platform) Grand Cherokee was an innovative SUV, it was rugged and fully capable off-road yet it was civilized. Before the Grand Cherokee most SUVs including Jeep’s popular (XJ platform) Cherokee had rough riding road manners and boxy styling by Lego. The (first generation) 1993 Grand Cherokee was more capable off-road than any other previous Jeep at that time, however it rode like a luxury car on the paved roads with its 4-wheel coil suspe