How to make your 7 year old son cry:

[aerocorey]

Tell him you're selling the Grand Wag. My wife went to the auto hobby shop on base to get a pass to park Herc on the auto lot and he FREAKED OUT. I talked to him on the webcam when I got out of work and he's pretty upset. "Daddy, is there something wrong with Hercules? Why can't we just storage her?" Makes me wish it wasn't such a bad idea to tow a heavy load from UT to VT behind a lifted narrow track SJ. :banghead:

[jeeping1974]

that is one amazing kid you've got there. he will grow up to love FSJs. :thumbsup:

[Bob Barry]

My middle daughter CRIED and CRIED when we sold our GW to get my wife a WJ Grand Cherokee.

She was also 7yrs old at the time...

:(

[krek]

My 5 year old threw a bigger fit when we got rid of the GW parts car than when we sold the Z06.

We have a Checker Aerobus (Gus the Aerobus) that needs about a billion dollars in work to be viable and I'm pretty sure both my boys would run away from home if we got rid of it.

[scantar]

My daughter is always upset when I sell off a Jeep. She starts off hating the new ones and missing the old ones...but it goes away after a few weeks and then she's back to lovin' the new ones.

The trick is to always replace it ;)

[Headhoncho]

I have just the opposite happen. Every time I sell one of my "latest acqusitions" there's a huge block party the following weekend :confused:.


I still haven't figured it out. :huh:



JR (down to 4 vehicles)

[Gambler68]

My 3.5 year old, Rowan (in my av) says quite clearly "I love my daddy's jeep"

Hmm..wait till he's a year away from getting his drivers license and you sell "his" favorite ride..that'll be some crying! :o

[aerocorey]

I told him I'd need his help getting the truck we're picking up ready to tow. He dried up pretty quick. It still put a lump in my throat.

[scantar]

I told him I'd need his help getting the truck we're picking up ready to tow. He dried up pretty quick. It still put a lump in my throat.

I don't know why but, to my kids anyway, these take on the personna of family pets rather than cars/trucks. The first thing my daughter does, even before dragging them home, is give them names. :rolleyes:

[jamsni]

I don't know why but, to my kids anyway, these take on the personna of family pets rather than cars/trucks. The first thing my daughter does, even before dragging them home, is give them names. :rolleyes:

Isn't that what keeps drawing us to Jeeps too? This thread proves two things: 1) Insures that there will be another generation who loves and appreciates them, and 2) that our crazy love of Jeeps is probably genetic! ;) :thumbsup:

[Serious Johnson]

You're a bad, bad man! :D

My 3-1/2 year-old Nephew seems unreasonably attached to my silly old Wagoneer. I rather doubt that he recalls being hauled home from the horsepistol in it, and wouldn't think that he'd remember much of our first run above timberline. Maybe it's because it's the first thing he steered into a tree. I sure remember the first tree I hit. Gotta love li'l kids!

S.J.

[texianjoe]

You don't have to be a small child. I've been trying to sell mine but every time I get serious about it I get misty and change my mind. I know its just metal but I've had it for 14 years and its gotten me out of a lot of jams.

joe

[kpasaa]

my one year old loves my jeep-s.... he crawls around jumps plays etc etc... i might have some issues when he gets old enough to drive... and i almost sold off my yj.. till i got a sick feeling about it... now my wife??? she is talking about getting rid of her wj... after having it since new.... helped her out in the winter tons of times...she wants a truck....
they do take on a persona for sure....they become part of the famiy...

[cyberbackpacker]

One of my sons first five words was "Jeep". I sold that one (90 XJ) and he was quite upset. From the time he was old enough to be out there with me, he was, typically with a screwdriver, ratchet, or hammer in hand!

Now after the XJ being gone just a couple months, I now have the J20 though, so there is peace in the valley.