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The number of Jeep problems here. Why do people buy them?
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Good advertising campaigns dull the senses to reality, and they outweigh the need for people to do research. The call of the wild, while sitting in a Jeep, makes people do silly things. I think after the first Terminator movie, where Sarah Connors sat in her Jeep CJ5, made a lot of people buy jeeps.
and I was a teenager I wanted one. Never got one. In the 70's there were all those stories of surplus army jeeps sealed in boxes that could be had for a song. Never found one. In the late 80's had a friend who worked for a Jeep dealer. His words of wisdom to me were, "Don't buy a Jeep". I didn't. Reading the posts here makes me glad I didn't. But I would have loved to have had one of the surplus army jeeps.
Yep, I would love to have an old Army Jeep too. Ahhh...the thought of roughing it with a "trusty" Jeep with nothing more than a sleeping bag, a fishing pole, some beef jerky and a compass. From the looks of it by the number of Jeep problems, I don't think I would like to be out in the middle of nowhere depending a Jeep to get me back. But, the old Army Jeeps are nothing like the new Jeeps. A 4-cyl engine, manual transmission, no doors or windows, no electrical, no computerized engine...just a basic rough an tumble vehicle that all the new Jeeps wanted to be but never were. I've always wanted one of the old Toyota Landcruisers too but never got one.
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