Here's the proof Bama-Ed!
Now, my husband and I are avid tent campers and backpackers. We have a 4x4 Wrangler, Sahara with full tow package and a portal tent...We love it.
But....planning to camp at Walt Disneyworld for two weeks and admittedly getting older...has made us start to look at more comfortable, time saving options.
Insert our very first pop-up!
This being said, we're taking it slooooooow and trying not to invest too much until we're sure we like RVing. After looking and looking, I found this old baby (1999 Flagstaff) at a Going-out-of-Business Sale for only $1,000!! It has the shower toilet, hot water heater, propane stove and 3-way refrigerator--no rust and everything is in working condition. The canvas has some rips and there is a soft spot in the wood of the roof where I'll need to replace the wood and create new screw holes for the canvas attachment. Might invest in a whole new canvas eventually but this one doesn't leak (we've had some pretty good rainstorms and I left it up to test it out).
All in all, it's a nice purchase. We took it out for the first time last weekend to a nearby state park, just 2 hours away. Far enough to try out driving a trailer for the first time but close enough to be able to save our butts if something went wrong. Me being a complete newbie, something DID go wrong. I had never learned to downshift (we have a manual) and I rode my brakes the last 20 miles of our trip on the side roads. Got to the park and popped on the e-brake and it immediately started melting and smoking like crazy!
Needless to say, I have since learned to go slower, let people pass me and downshift on the hills rather than ride the brakes. We LOVED being in the camper, but we did NOT like the people next to us that had 3 barking dogs...we need to find some good spots to go, lol!
I am currently in the process of making new curtains and reupholstering the cushions. It didn't smell bad, like water mold or anything, but it did smell old--so we're washing and replacing all the soft materials first (I have a sensitive nose) I'll post more pictures as I work on it.
The insides...sans cushiony thingies...and pre scrub down (it was pretty dirty but good old soap and water made it white as new)
My silly husband.
-e
Now, my husband and I are avid tent campers and backpackers. We have a 4x4 Wrangler, Sahara with full tow package and a portal tent...We love it.
But....planning to camp at Walt Disneyworld for two weeks and admittedly getting older...has made us start to look at more comfortable, time saving options.
Insert our very first pop-up!
This being said, we're taking it slooooooow and trying not to invest too much until we're sure we like RVing. After looking and looking, I found this old baby (1999 Flagstaff) at a Going-out-of-Business Sale for only $1,000!! It has the shower toilet, hot water heater, propane stove and 3-way refrigerator--no rust and everything is in working condition. The canvas has some rips and there is a soft spot in the wood of the roof where I'll need to replace the wood and create new screw holes for the canvas attachment. Might invest in a whole new canvas eventually but this one doesn't leak (we've had some pretty good rainstorms and I left it up to test it out).
All in all, it's a nice purchase. We took it out for the first time last weekend to a nearby state park, just 2 hours away. Far enough to try out driving a trailer for the first time but close enough to be able to save our butts if something went wrong. Me being a complete newbie, something DID go wrong. I had never learned to downshift (we have a manual) and I rode my brakes the last 20 miles of our trip on the side roads. Got to the park and popped on the e-brake and it immediately started melting and smoking like crazy!
Needless to say, I have since learned to go slower, let people pass me and downshift on the hills rather than ride the brakes. We LOVED being in the camper, but we did NOT like the people next to us that had 3 barking dogs...we need to find some good spots to go, lol!
I am currently in the process of making new curtains and reupholstering the cushions. It didn't smell bad, like water mold or anything, but it did smell old--so we're washing and replacing all the soft materials first (I have a sensitive nose) I'll post more pictures as I work on it.
The insides...sans cushiony thingies...and pre scrub down (it was pretty dirty but good old soap and water made it white as new)
My silly husband.
-e
). Buy camper radials if you can (that are the right size of course). 
I'll throw my 2 cents in. Don't don't don't overload the trailer. The leaf springs on popups are not heavy duty. They sell canvas repair kits online and places like gander mountain/ bass pro shop. Or you can do what we did and cut squares from a old tent and stitch patches on the canvas. I think joAnnes sells the special heavy duty needle and thread. Make you sure you use seam sealer on the stitches when done. Its 3 bucks at wally world. Replacing the canvas is not hard at all. As for tire's, the big thing is dry rot from sitting. We pulled our skamper popup with a full size van so we didn't know it was back there most of the time. With your jeep, you might be getting some sway back there, so maybe a anti sway bar. It helps a lot. Just remember to unhook it 'every time' you back into a camping spot. My last bit of advise from many years of popup camping is open it up when you get home and let it air out. 
