How old are you? Is JK for all ages?
06-02-2013, 07:44 PM
#1454
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Im 24yo and the military and 2 deployments paid for mine.
I don't see how young kids do it. When I was 16, my parents financed my first truck. Which was $12k. I paid the monthly note and insurance. It was fairly cheep d it was still hard to afford it. I plaid sports and worked for min. wage.
I don't see how young kids do it. When I was 16, my parents financed my first truck. Which was $12k. I paid the monthly note and insurance. It was fairly cheep d it was still hard to afford it. I plaid sports and worked for min. wage.
Btw-I'm 22 and have an 07 jku
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06-02-2013, 08:19 PM
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I don't get this thread...
I'm 27 and fresh under a year with any Jeep. First car was a 03 BMW M3 convertible (e46), second a 05 G35, third an 04 BMW Z4 3.0i (e85), and previous to the best damn daily sled out (base 2012 jk), an 09 3-series two door. All manual, and always needing a roof rack or tarps to not destroy them.
The jk is the first actually mine, paid for and worked on and used right.
The point is a pretty important one in hindsight: Merkans need cars because our modern culture builds off it, like that quote from that guy that said aliens looking not close enough might think the cars are the predominant life form. "Tricked out" 4-door kids that either put car wheels on or jack em with stacks look for what I was looking for when I went down the line of "euro executive sports". Time teaches us its a money pit. Time says our memories and what we're made of never knew what cars we got nor cared. The "rich" kids (and a "kid" or otherwise a "dependent" on the tax papers that got something as shiny as a newish Wrangler is a lucky one indeed) look for a place to belong, a way to compete, and a thing to grant access or visibility in comparable social circles.
The JK marks a new life for me, as it easily would for anyone able to afford and enjoy it. Maybe it means coming back from a tour, or wrapping up that last task for that last paycheck, or even just being born into a supportive family and turning 16. "How old are you (anyways)" is kinda irrelevant when see a boy or girl building a model jeep, while across the street a married blue-collar takes an axel to the stock shock towers, and a old vet in the next town does his best to regulate the choke starting his pension-bought willys. We're all "rich kids" around our Jeeps or whatever we like, as long as we appreciate and preserve it. Even if mommy and daddy wrote the check for the mall-crawler on 40's and a giga-charged diesel between the rails; Thats just irrelevantly relative. A Jeep is a damn Jeep if the driver knows it.
I'm 27 and fresh under a year with any Jeep. First car was a 03 BMW M3 convertible (e46), second a 05 G35, third an 04 BMW Z4 3.0i (e85), and previous to the best damn daily sled out (base 2012 jk), an 09 3-series two door. All manual, and always needing a roof rack or tarps to not destroy them.
The jk is the first actually mine, paid for and worked on and used right.
The point is a pretty important one in hindsight: Merkans need cars because our modern culture builds off it, like that quote from that guy that said aliens looking not close enough might think the cars are the predominant life form. "Tricked out" 4-door kids that either put car wheels on or jack em with stacks look for what I was looking for when I went down the line of "euro executive sports". Time teaches us its a money pit. Time says our memories and what we're made of never knew what cars we got nor cared. The "rich" kids (and a "kid" or otherwise a "dependent" on the tax papers that got something as shiny as a newish Wrangler is a lucky one indeed) look for a place to belong, a way to compete, and a thing to grant access or visibility in comparable social circles.
The JK marks a new life for me, as it easily would for anyone able to afford and enjoy it. Maybe it means coming back from a tour, or wrapping up that last task for that last paycheck, or even just being born into a supportive family and turning 16. "How old are you (anyways)" is kinda irrelevant when see a boy or girl building a model jeep, while across the street a married blue-collar takes an axel to the stock shock towers, and a old vet in the next town does his best to regulate the choke starting his pension-bought willys. We're all "rich kids" around our Jeeps or whatever we like, as long as we appreciate and preserve it. Even if mommy and daddy wrote the check for the mall-crawler on 40's and a giga-charged diesel between the rails; Thats just irrelevantly relative. A Jeep is a damn Jeep if the driver knows it.
06-29-2013, 07:41 PM
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Some of us young people (sure don't feel young) like to work hard. Hopefully I'll be footing the bill for a jeep for my mum someday!
