lack of a life

[Guest db99wj]

Can't do that in a STOCK Jeep either, but you can get pretty damn close.

Nope, just "slightly" modified!

[Guest c.a.s.]

I think the EDIT i added in makes it even more pertinent and likable.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

Can't do that in a STOCK Jeep either, but you can get pretty damn close.

Exactly.

The stowage/towage ability of the Jeep to pull, haul, and hold X amount of passengers... added to the sheer ability to pretty much go through whatever environment (offroad, flooded roads, snow, debri in the road, etc) that you could face daily in normal conditions makes the Jeep that much better of a choice.

You may lose a few miles per gallon to the escort, but the above factors are invaluable to a daily driver. I've learned this over the years of owning several BMW sedans, a Mustang GT, and now a Dodge Durango. Sure the Durango is a gas sucking behemoth with it's 5.9L v8 engine... but I wouldn't trade it for the world... even on $80 gas days.

[Guest c.a.s.]

I really like the storage space, and the capability of adding a winch if I really want to.

[TripleDigitRide]

Bottom line.......You can fit more hot chicks in the Jeep.

End of story!

[Guest c.a.s.]

I only want one, though. So the "hot chicks" factor is null. The "gun hauling" factor really kicks it up, as well as doing more work at Gramp's without him teaching me how to drive his truck and use all his gas.

[Guest GUTTERbOY]

Yup, the 4.0 I6 engines are friggin bulletproof, as well as being very torquey- great for truck stuff.

I almost bought a Cherokee before getting my Bronco II but the ebay seller screwed me over.

[BrandonTN]

I guarantee if you buy the Jeep, it will look something like this a few years from now.

I'm warning you though...if you get the bug, they can be huge money pits. This was after I stripped a ton of stuff off it and sold it at a HUGE loss. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

[Guest c.a.s.]

Nah, my money pit will be firearms when I'm old enough 8)

I'm not going to TRY to spend more money than I need to before then, but there ain't any promises.

I'm not too much of an adrenaline junkie, so the severe offroading won't happen unless I need to, and some mild offroading will happen when the feeling gets me. Or if I have to.

EDIT: Grand total of about 15 (I might have missed a few) for the Jeep. Seems I'm getting the Jeep. I'll get to talking to Magiccarpetrides about the financing and all that. What the payments come out to. Oh, and getting a frickin' job, even if I extremely dislike the idea of working at Walmart as a bagboy or something, it's that ot standing on the side of the highway holding the big sign for Little Ceasars, or POSSIBLY Food Lion if they have any openings.

Edited July 13, 2008 by c.a.s.

[Guest Mugster]

I got back from the range before the storm hit. I was considering washing the dog, but i usually get a few beers in her first. Otherwise its like a wrestling match with a 100 pounds of greased pig.

Now i got a few beers in me and no intention of getting up.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

You get your dog "tanked" so that you can give it a bath???

That's seriously the funniest **** I've heard in awhile... and I own a Cane Corso the size of a Clydesdale.

[Guest GUTTERbOY]

I guarantee if you buy the Jeep, it will look something like this a few years from now.

I'm warning you though...if you get the bug, they can be huge money pits. This was after I stripped a ton of stuff off it and sold it at a HUGE loss. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

It'll turn into a Grand Cherokee? Now that's a lot of modification!

[Guest c.a.s.]

It'll turn into a Grand Cherokee? Now that's a lot of modification!

It's only a Cherokee Sport, no grand in it.

I got to looking at the pictures, and it DOES have lots of space and it looks like it would fit me well.

[Guest Mugster]

You get your dog "tanked" so that you can give it a bath???

That's seriously the funniest **** I've heard in awhile... and I own a Cane Corso the size of a Clydesdale.

Pound for pound in the tub, i'll stack mine up against anything.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

Pound for pound in the tub, i'll stack mine up against anything.

We don't even do the tub thing anymore... unless it's winter and there's no choice. Otherwise it's outside on the driveway and using the garden hose. I'll try to snap some pics of the dog outside tomorrow. Dog is freakishly huge. The vet even stopped picking the dog up, to place on the examining table, when he was just a few months old... now it's either performed on ground level, on the dog's terms, or they simply walk outside and use the truck's bed gate as the table.

Trust me... I know exactly what you mean about the dog doing what it wants, when it wants... but I've never resorted to alcohol (yet).

That's awesome.

[Guest Mugster]

She's spoiled rotten. I give her half a beer and a beef stick once in awhile. She loves it, actually. She sneezes the burps out, its pretty funny.

Labs are something else to live with.

1. If she's hiding upstairs when i come home, I know she got into something. I call her and she won't come, but i can hear her tail going thump, thump, thump.

2. I make her run up and down the stairs 3 times to get a milkbone after supper. She won't play fetch though.

3. She sleeps on her back in the downstairs bathroom on the hard floor, and on the floor at the foot of my bed until i get up.

4. The first time my lady spent the night, she picked up all her clothes and stacked them neatly out in the living room. Including 3 pairs of shoes.

5. She won't bark, but will make a growling noise to tell you she wants something. I thought she was going to attack me at first until i figured it out.

[Guest GUTTERbOY]

It's only a Cherokee Sport, no grand in it.

I got to looking at the pictures, and it DOES have lots of space and it looks like it would fit me well.

That was my point. Brandon posted a photo of a GC and said yours would look something like that eventually. I've seen lots of mods made to Cherokees, but I've never seen them modded into Grand Cherokees. Just another attempt at cheekiness here.

[BrandonTN]

It'll turn into a Grand Cherokee? Now that's a lot of modification!

No, just really ugly and beat up....regardless of whether it starts as an XJ, TJ or ZJ.

[Guest db99wj]

No, just really ugly and beat up....regardless of whether it starts as an XJ, TJ or ZJ.

Don't forget the WJ's. They might be refined, but they still do ok!

[strickj]

Leave it up to Mike to start a thread about nothing and have it turn into 5 pages of nothing with 4 topics about nothing

I only want one, though. So the "hot chicks" factor is null. The "gun hauling" factor really kicks it up, as well as doing more work at Gramp's without him teaching me how to drive his truck and use all his gas.

Young grasshoppah!

Soon that one will turn into a big 0! Then you will need to haul around chicks[reads plural]

Then you will learn the technicals of having a girlfriend with out really having a girlfriend!

Plus there is always her hot friends you will have to haul around

Oh and dont forget with a Cherokee you will be able to look down into peoples cars! You will see lots of stuff you would never imagine people would do while driving down the road!

[Guest c.a.s.]

It also won't blow up if a hit a small tree that has fallen over the road, unlike the Camry (a tree fell onto the road at my grandparent's, it was a smaller tree but too big for a plain car to go over. We were lucky and a larg truck has already turned it into splinters), not ot mention EATING those little Camrys.

[Mike.357]

Leave it up to Mike to start a thread about nothing and have it turn into 5 pages of nothing with 4 topics about nothing

Just doing my part, and because of that I am loved and hated at the same time

You will see lots of stuff you would never imagine people would do while driving down

Yanno, I been driving for about 34 years, pick ups mostly, a few cars way back in the day. I have never ever seen anything funny going on. My sisinlaws hubby is a OTR truck driver, something like 3 million miles in his career. He told me he has NEVER seen anything. I think it is a myth.

[strickj]

These eyes will tell you differently! You just have to be nosy and pay attention!

I think the best thing I saw was a girl running faster then my Ram would run,and it would top out at 97.She was driving down 75N towards Chatt changing clothes.When she passed me I was doing just under 75mph and I still saw her! So I stepped on it and eventually caught up to her just as she got her shirt put back on.

Another good one was once again on 75 going through the construction zone at Ooltewah where I witnessed a girl going down on the driver.

Its out there you just have to look!

Oh and writing flash me on the back helps to

[TripleDigitRide]

Yanno, I been driving for about 34 years, pick ups mostly, a few cars way back in the day. I have never ever seen anything funny going on. My sisinlaws hubby is a OTR truck driver, something like 3 million miles in his career. He told me he has NEVER seen anything. I think it is a myth.

No, it's not a myth. I can't say I've seen as much as some have claimed, but I've definitely seen my fair share while driving the semi. Heck, it was about 2 months ago (with my daughter in the pick-up), when I glanced over and saw some Mexican guy leaning way back, getting a BJ while driving down Gallatin Rd. It was on a weekend afternoon, very close to Rivergate Mall. Imagine all the traffic.

There is also a woman who's always on the CB around Nashville, and she's more than willing to flash the drivers. Crazy Lady is her CB handle. She leaves her home, around exit 112 on I-65, and travels to work somewhere around Nashville, near I-24E. The whole time she's on the CB and flashing truckers. She's been doing this on a regular basis for several years. She's a bit on the older side, but those huge breats are holding up surprisingly well.

So, it does happen.

[Guest c.a.s.]

You old men.

I'll have ot agree with Mike on this. In all 13 years I've been going ot my Dad's every other weekend, a good 2 hour drive, in his pickups and vans, I haven't seen a thing.