Leave it or Hot Rod it?

My wife could give two craps less about my old cars, but she absolutely loves her CJ-5 I bought her one year for her birthday. She will run the wheels off that old Jeep in the summer time, it’s a nice Jeep but it still has manual steering and brakes.
And whenever it needs maintenance, she is right beside me helping.
My wife still talks about the Jeep she rented years ago, I bet if I was to...