Baby turned a year old! My how they grow so fast!

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Yeah, I think they're down to 3% off the invoice, but I think it's purely because they're not hurting for customers. I was talking to the one guy helping us and he said they're a top 5 or 10 SRT dealer in the country and that week I was there he sold 36 392s Wranglers and had one being shipped to WA state that same day. So yeah, they move some vehicles.

Glad to hear. They deserve the business. I was originally gonna go with the dealer in Tennessee but didn't want to beg for them to take my money with all the unreturned emails. Chapman was on it every time.

This is such a good thread, thanks for sharing your pics.

You're welcome!
I've had a lot more adventures but I'm usually having too much fun to stop and document it, but most of the time I regret not doing so, lol.

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You must've been considering the Gladiator before that though, right?

I'd always been a Ford pickup guy and respected jeeps, especially the Scrambler which came out in my high school years and when I first saw the Gladiator I fell in love. Never thought it'd be a reality and wouldnt've until I was doing a job for a friend who had one and after sizing up the baby bed, convinced myself that I could work out of the back of it.

My dad had bought a wrangler a few months before, so I thought it was cool but hadn't really been thinking of one. All the gladiators I had seen were stock and (no offense to anyone) I kind of think the stock gladiator doesn't look right. So I was driving by the dealer and they had this one lifted and on 37s with the diesel--- all it took was a quick test drive and I was convinced. It didn't hurt that they gave me 6k more for my Tacoma than I paid new.

 

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So I was driving by the dealer and they had this one lifted and on 37s with the diesel--- all it took was a quick test drive and I was convinced. It didn't hurt that they gave me 6k more for my Tacoma than I paid new.

Was it new or used?
When I first started looking I wanted to lease and we drove a blue diesel Sport with 35s and adaptive cruise but it was used with 4k miles and I tried begging the dealer to lease it but they wouldn't/ couldn't. The salesman suggested I do a factory order which at the time I thought was way to burgoisé for me. In a week I'd convinced myself that was exactly what I was going to do but when I went to text him to see if he was going to be there to take my order, he had blocked my number! (Thanks again, Ryan!)

 

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Was it new or used?
When I first started looking I wanted to lease and we drove a blue diesel Sport with 35s and adaptive cruise but it was used with 4k miles and I tried begging the dealer to lease it but they wouldn't/ couldn't. The salesman suggested I do a factory order which at the time I thought was way to burgoisé for me. In a week I'd convinced myself that was exactly what I was going to do but when I went to text him to see if he was going to be there to take my order, he had blocked my number! (Thanks again, Randy!)

It was new. And not a horrible price for the time. I definitely over paid, but not by too much and it was a little easier to swallow since I also just made 6k on a Tacoma that I'd put 28k miles on. Either way, that was half of the fun, to buy it spur of the moment. Plus I was going to do most of those mods anyway, so by having them done by the dealer it is all covered by the mopar warranty.

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