About Jeepsters

Jeepsters' owner, Bill Coll, is a former Navy F-14 mechanic and a long-time Jeep enthusiast. After leaving the Navy, Bill received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management from San Diego State University in 1995. Upon graduation, he worked in management in a corporate setting until 1997, at which point he chose to do what he loved.

Early in 1997, Bill became certified as an ASE mechanic and opened a one-man shop on 101 1st Street in Largo, Florida, which he named “Jeepsters”. He focused on service, sales and after-market parts, and, as the name suggests, those services were limited exclusively to Jeep vehicles.

After two years of successful operations, Bill became interested in the concept of stretching a Wrangler and adding a second set of doors. He envisioned a vehicle that would cater to the Jeep lover whose family obligations had outgrown the two-door vehicle, but who still yearned for the openness that only a Jeep can offer. In 1999, Bill began to draft plans for the Stretch Wrangler. Over the last five years, after much painstaking effort, those plans have become a reality. Early last year, to accommodate the growth of the Sales, Service and Parts divisions, Jeepsters moved to its new location at 6875 Ulmerton Road in Largo, Florida.

Today, Jeepsters had developed a reputation in the Tampa Bay / St. Petersburg area as an “all-in-one” Jeep enthusiast’s resource. Sales customers have come to know Jeepsters as the premier place to purchase a high-quality used Jeep at a fair price. Service customers have found that Jeepsters provides honest, reliable Jeep service and repair work at prices far below dealer prices. Nationwide, Jeepsters has developed a reputation for providing hard-to-find new and used aftermarket and original equipment parts for Jeep vehicles. Most significantly, Jeepsters has produced and sold a number of prototype Stretch Wranglers.

Sales, Service and Parts continue to grow, and the new Stretch division has entered the market as a major competitor to other SUV vehicles, including the H2. Production of the stretches has become standardized and is based exclusively on stretching 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Wranglers. As the cornerstone of Jeepsters future, the Stretch provides a custom vehicle that is built to each customer’s unique specifications. As a result, the Stretch purchased today is unlike anything you will see on the road tomorrow.