Seeing the tan and green Rio Grande!

 

My first memory was as a young kid. I had a Power Wheels Jeep when I was about 3. I loved that thing. It was red, had a big decal of an eagle on the hood. That was my first memory of "Jeep."

 

Dude that was my first memory too!

 

Driving my power wheels into a jeep..

 

I remember when I was somewhere around 10-12 my dad has this car he was selling and he came home to try he had made a deal to trade it for a Jeep. I was so excited and pictured a topless and doorless ride. I went outside to be greeted by an 85 Cherokee with a 2.8. I went back inside, told him that wasn't a Jeep and spent the rest of the night in my room.

 

Watching two shows - a long time ago - in black and white - Combat and, more importantly, The Rat Patrol (jeeps with mounted 50 cal) !!!!

 

Riding in the back of my uncle's baby blue CJ5 Renegade...I was hooked.

 

It was 1984. Me and some friends were counsilors at a summer camp in the North
Carolina mountains and we had the day off. So we rode around in a top down red 83 CJ-7 all day, then picked up some take-out pizza and went to the drive-in theater that night. Two of us sat on the hood with our backs on the windshield and had pizza and beer while watching the movie. I can't remember the movie now. I would not advise sitting on a JK hood but the CJ's sure could take the weight. Good times!

I was hooked on a Jeep ever since then so I bought a brand new 93 YJ for my 3rd vehicle and just recently traded it in for a new 12 JK for my 4th one 19 years later!

 

My dad had a CJ from the late 70's to mid 80's. I remember going for rides in the back with big brother in Dade county Florida. We fit 2 adults and 2 kids in that Jeep. So anyone who says the 2 door JK is not family friendly is delusional. We did it then and I'm doing it now.

 

To be perfectly honest, my first jeep memory was getting the Jeep in "Cruisin' the USA" video game as a secret car. I've loved jeeps ever since!