Hello everyone.....I just created a new group called the Dirty South Jeepers! I
am trying to get the group up and going because I would like to meet some new
people around my neck of the woods. I just added myself to a few groups, but i
wanted to create on for me and other jeepers for the "South". Plus i wanted to
be able to maybe link up with some folks to get a ride together and to be
notified of rides, events, etc. Thanks everyone and join today...
dude, that built rubi in the for sale section is just screaming buy me. I wish I
was in a financial position to do so. But Im not, so I will pass out tonight on
this lovely little mattress of mine and only dream of what could be, but isn't.
Sad story I know. Well, off to bed I supose, I will check out what's for sale
tomorrow... and begin another day of living off left overs and penny pinching to
one day reach my goal... an awesome rubicon in need of beefing up and off
roading... : )
I had no idea what wheeling is when I ambled on to the Jeep dealers lot.
Nope, not a clue! Now I had driven several 4X4's... Bronco's and a Samy, or
should I say a Geo Tracker. Same thing, different labbel. In fact it was the
Track with 150K miles on it that had me looking for a repacement. I kew it
needed some shop time if it was going to last much longer, but I still needed
something to get back and forth from work.
I looked first at the want adds for a Toyota FJ40. I've always wanted one
of those! I like the look, and the utility... nothing, not one was anywhere to
be found for sale. So I test drove a the new version at the Toyota Dealer. It
was sound and comfortable, but, I don't know, a bit too plastic, and had poor
visibility. I came away from the test drive rather un-impressed.
Then I wandered around the Jeep lot. The 07's were out, and I liked the
top.. two peace, hard top... great! But it just doesn't look like a Jeep. I'm
sick to death of "Bubble Cars" [anything that looks like a Ford Tarus from the
side] and do not want my Jeep to start taking that same shape. Then I saw them,
two classic Jeeps on the edge of the lot. One was all gloss black, the other
was black over white. The last of the 06 models.
I bought the white one. An 06 TJ Rubicon, and had no clue what I was realy
getting myself into. I did not then know about the low gearing, the
differential lockers, and heavy duty axles, or any of that, and why I'd want
them. I do now!
I have driven more places, and seen more of Idaho, in the last year than I
ever did in over 20 years of living here. I have braved trails that my other
rigs could not have crossed, and I have forged ahead without any carnage, dents
or troubles. Maybe some difficulty, but nothing that couldn't be handled. My
Jeep has opened up a whole new Idaho, I didn't even know thet it existed.
Now I love to go out wheeling. Near or far... in groups or alone... I take
the dog, and give her a walk. I take the camera and record the views. I take a
friend, and we actually have time to talk... now that's wheeling!
i'm just sittin here thinking of all the things i've done with my stock, 05
rubicon.
lets see, mudding, rock crawling (rausch creek), log pulling, towing (84
suburban with a snow plow up an 8% grade), hauling firewood and coal with my
m416 trailer, recovery (pulling out my buddies jeeps), getting stuck (my buddies
pulling me out), blazing trails, driving on the beach, camping. i must say i
love my jeep, and i'm not sure if i want to modify it, it does pretty well
stock. like i said, it's lovingly dubbed "the mule" mainly because of it's color
and ability to work hard haha.
i saw someone the other day with a shiny 07 or 08 dodge pick up truck, they saw
my 05 rubicon, all scratched and muddy and just gave me a look like "how could
you treat something relatively new like that" and i thought to myself, "this
jeep probably hauls more and has seen more trails than that truck ever will and
i've probably had way more fun then he ever will with his shiny pick up.
4x4's were built for a purpose, to gain traction in situations where 2wd just
doesn't cut it, to work, to play, not too be all shiny and clean all the time,
if you want that buy a 2wd haha.
i guess ever since having my first 4x4 (87 chevy half ton 4x4) i've always just
been a believer of "if ya got it use it for what it was intended to do!"
My husband took delivery yesterday of
our 2008 JK Rubicon in Detonator Yellow, and I think I was (almost) as excited
as he was! I'm gonna miss his old 'wife', his 1966 Ford Bronco---we've had it
for 15 years and she was a valued member of our family. I have GOT to take some
pictures tonight and get them posted here---the new 'wife' is just too damn
awesome. Even my stoic, staid father in law called it "SHARP". There are very
few around town like this one, but they are in black, rescue green, and I saw an
"X" this morning in burgundy--ALL great, but I have to say I've only seen one
other in our color--with the four doors (and YES, we love having a 4
door---husband has owned plenty of CJ's with two doors, and we LOVE that extra
space!). Too bad we're not closer out west, as where we are now there's not any
good rock climbing, but have already found a local roading chapter--gotta make
contact!
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