Gum Smackers and Teenie Bops in Jeeps

Jeeppicus · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

There seems to be that growing fad of teenagers and their "ultimate convertibles" everywhere. Most, as you said, haven't been told about the wave and don't know what the short shifter is for. If more people join the family, local clubs will grow, and more trails will stay open.[addsig]

PASmokeater · #2 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Doin' my best around here, but everytime i take the money pit to the car wash after a day on the trails, these people don't want to get they're jeeps dirty [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_evil.gif[/img] All are stock, and most people (including me before my first wheeling trip) don't know how well a stock Jeep will preform off road.[addsig]

drack · #3 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Always try to educate, great job on the iniative there man [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] . Nothing worse than Jeep elitists that only wave to certain models or certain drivers or whatever kooky criteria they concocted [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] . Hell, I was driving the wife's KJ already and waved at a stock TJ....guy just gave me a WTF look [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] . If I see him in my TJ, he gets a wave from me, just one finger this time [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] .[addsig]

Tug-n-pull · #4 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Dang your tough to impress there Bobj [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [addsig]

drack · #5 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

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Not really, just give him something shiny or a ball of yarn and he'll be occupied all day [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] .[addsig]

Tug-n-pull · #6 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

So Bobj is easy to impress and Drake knows him well enough to know that. What I have found from this is People have more Fun than anybody. And this guys seem to have as much fun as most. Thanks for the laughs. Tug[addsig]

SHLBLYN · #7 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Thanks for what initially began as a support to the teenyboppers/gumsmakers in jeeps. Although no longer a teen, I am a new jeep owner...and got it because it looks good, is fun to drive, and it inspires camaderie. However, I also noticed the jeep wave is not as abundent in college towns like mine (Tucson, AZ)...and although I ask no one seems to want to go out 4-wheeling. Perhaps they think it is a pickup line??? I've only gone out four times myself...and would welcome information on any clubs in my area (Tucson, AZ). Thanks!! [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [addsig]

Tug-n-pull · #8 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Well welcome to the wide world of jeeps and yes they do look good and birds of a feather do flock together. We do need to support each other in this effort but more so we need to teach people what the short shifter is for and when to use it. Keep asking but look for older jeeps in the yj and pre yj classes. Look for mods and mud! Car washes are a good place to find folk that use their jeeps in the wild. If it is really clean and pretty they most likely will not venture far off the pavement. Sad but true! Do not give up in reaching out and if you want a off road friend you will get lucky if you keep trying. Tug [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [addsig]

Jeepster05 · #9 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Ever noticed the girls that drive jeeps only drive TJ's and nothing older? I call TJ's sorority jeeps now. I own a YJ and I'm a teenager but I wave to jeeps and use it for what it's made for. My jeep was covered in mud within the hour that I got it. I have noticed only a few people around here (Raleigh, NC) wave to me after I wave to them mostly because everyone around here drives sorority Jeeps and liberties, no offense to you TJ owners who know what a jeeps for.[addsig]

extremeYJ · #10 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

I live in a fairly big city (Tampa) and alot of the people that drive jeeps dont wave, but i do everytime and im a teenager and my first car is a jeep 95 YJ and i use it for what its made for. i take it mudding and offroading all the time and i performs really good for a stock jeep and im planning on buying another jeep (CJ7) to fix up and take that one offroading instead on the one i have now. and when im driving through town covered in mud people and even some jeep drivers look at me like im crazy and like Jeepster05 said and i said before girls drive TJ's and dont wave. [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

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extremeYJ · #11 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Quinners, i've come to this conclusion from my experiences with women that drive TJ's so you can eiher accept it because its true or you can ignore it because you think otherwise. either way im still right. yeah what is the jeeping world coming to? more women driving TJ's? [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

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PASmokeater · #12 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Although you are most certainly entitled to your opinion about TJ's, I don't think a person could be more misguided or more biggoted tword those of us driving the TJ. What could the problem be if some of us want to drive around in a newer Jeep. Is it possible, that there are those of us who want to take our Jeeps running through the woods and mud, without going through the time and expense to crawl over big rocks. I'm not trying to offend the rock crawlers, they do what they want, and have fun doing it. I don't appreciate being called a "girl" because I drive a stock TJ. It's what I enjoy that counts, and you who share the same opinion as that chuckle head, just suck. [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] I'l put my stock TJ out in the woods against your stock YJ, and I bet we'll both be able to do just about the same level of obstacles. Douche [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img] [addsig]

RayOvac · #13 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

POOOOLeeeeaaassseeee people people....why can't we all just get along? So yeah a lot of girls and teens drive TJ's. Why? Because they are nicer inside, offer a smoother ride, safer (airbags) and have anti-roll stuff. I drove one and I was like hot damn...this is nice. Not like my bumpy ol YJ with plastic dash but still outdated separate gauge design. Those things are really nice. If you are one of those ppl that think that a nice interior and sleeker look takes away from the "jeep" feel than a TJ is not for you. Get a CJ or a YJ. Another thing...a modified TJ is very very badass on the trail...those guys with their coil suspension and control arms can get over and through way more stuff than our leaf sprung rigs could ever dream of. So please don't bash ppl that have TJ's....this crowd is more for....a jeep is mean't to go offroad and rock crawling and stuff like that. The TJ's were meant for that but also for a nice on road vehicle too. Chrysler was looking for a compromise....and the TJ is a damn good one. Personally if I could have afforded to buy one, I would have one now.[addsig]

Tug-n-pull · #14 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

All Jeeps were new at one time! TJ's will be the old beaters of tomorrow! I wish I had a TJ to plush around in I wish I had a rough and tumble old CJ to kick around here in the hills. I am glad I have a YJ that untill the TJs came out caught all the junk with the square head lights and all. Jeep is ever changeing and will be ever changeing untill there is no more jeeps. The kids drive jeeps both sexes and that is because Daddy and Momma bought them what they ask for a New Jeep. It is all good, the only point I was trying to make in the start here is teach the young to be responcewable members of the jeep brother and sister hood. They know not what they are doing! Thanks Tug[addsig]

MrBill · #15 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

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I sure hope so!!! More women with the best Jeep ever made... who could ask for anything more... [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

As to you... people who are too dumb to set up a forum signature make me [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

I've noticed that they all drive YJs... [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

How's that for a generalization... [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img][addsig]

kizer · #16 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

I picked up a TJ when the time was right for me to purchase a Jeep. I was going to a while back, but when jeep sold out and went to the square headlights I figured I'll wait it out and pick up a jeep when they wake up and return to the round headlight look.

Of course the addition of coil springs and improved dash was a plus too [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] [addsig]

Natty · #17 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

I kinda prefer my dash over the TJ's. I have a YJ, but my bro has a '99 Sahara. It's awesome. If there are any old school Saturday Night Live fans out there...there was a skit advertising a car so smooth that a rabbi was performing a circumcision in the back seat while cruising over potholes. I'm convinced the TJ could be used as a stand in. It's amazing on and off road...smooth, powerful, agile. I love my YJ, as PAsmoker guessed about the comparison of stock TJ's and YJ's...it's true. Before I modified mine, I conquered the same terrain as my bro did. One fact of history is that everything improves over time. Eisenhower was quoted saying something to the effect that the Jeep was the most important weapon of the war. How much has the image of the Jeep changed since then? Performance? Not much on the image or style, but the performance is HUGE. The modern Jeep is based on the original...and the modern one, which ever (insert next letter here)J will always be on the cutting edge of offroad performance, for a relatively affordable price tag. There's no winning the ****ing contest...just have fun and enjoy this planet...and please don't throw cigarette butts on the ground...and if your friends do...smack them...really hard... [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [addsig]

far_right · #18 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

the best dash ever were the cj series......plain. no crap, no nothing, but then again if i owned a "fc" they would most likely be the best jeep ever.....what im gettin at is whar ever jeep you you happen to own is "the best" even though cj's really are [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [addsig]

rustynuts · #19 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

I only wave to TJ's CJ's and YJ's and lifted wj's or xj's. I got tired of the what the *&#@ are you looking at looks when you wave at the soccor moms in the wj's. [addsig]

Natty · #20 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Extreme YJ - greetings from Lakeland, Fl. Ya' ever go out to Sand Key area of Clearwater Beach...some little sand dunes and hills to play on...nothing too crazy, but the cops don't seem to care or screw with you. There's some fun stuff by the Museum of Sceince and Industry (MOSI) too. I'm probably heading to the beach this weekend - or the other alternative is heading to the Ocala National Forrest - hit the Jeep trails up there and camp out for a night or two with some other friends with Jeeps. I'm sure there are enough of us in this state to put together a kick ass weekend... If there are any interested parties...let's do it. I know you're not too far away there Raven...[addsig]