Dewyaw
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I saw someone else ask in another thread “do we still wave at wranglers?”
I want to talk about the Jeep Wave in general.
I’ll start by giving some context: I bought my first jeep in 1995 and it was a 1987 Wangler Laredo. Brown, much like the one in the photo.
Back then, you could go three or four days without seeing a single Wrangler. When you did you really did want to wave at that person; they shared something with you that not everyone understood: an absolute love of something uncompromising, uncomfortable, inconvenient, a singularly focused off road machine. It was a brotherhood. It was really cool.
I only had that Jeep for a few years, it was an absolute shit show mechanically; not a smart vehicle to have for a 19-year-old in college.
Fast forward to 2015, and I bought my second wrangler, a 2015 Rubicon Hard Rock. Copper brown of course.
I quickly noticed something: I practically had to keep my “Jeep Wave“ up for my entire trip. I’d see 15 Wanglers on the way to baseball practice. Wranglers had lost their exclusivity, their coolness. I wasn’t too keen on waving to the soccer mom in her jacked up, mean face Wrangler.
Regrettably I sold it a few years later.
All this is to say as soon as Gobi becomes available for 2021, I will order my Gladiator Mojave.
I’m probably not going to be waving at the 30+ Wranglers I’ll be seeing every day.
You can bet your ass I’ll be throwing it up to the Gladiators...Looking forward to that exclusivity again!
Edit/Update
Rereading this I realize I may have put out the wrong impression...
If I get a wave from a Wrangler I will certainly wave back. I won’t not wave...That’s just weird.
I want to talk about the Jeep Wave in general.
I’ll start by giving some context: I bought my first jeep in 1995 and it was a 1987 Wangler Laredo. Brown, much like the one in the photo.
Back then, you could go three or four days without seeing a single Wrangler. When you did you really did want to wave at that person; they shared something with you that not everyone understood: an absolute love of something uncompromising, uncomfortable, inconvenient, a singularly focused off road machine. It was a brotherhood. It was really cool.
I only had that Jeep for a few years, it was an absolute shit show mechanically; not a smart vehicle to have for a 19-year-old in college.
Fast forward to 2015, and I bought my second wrangler, a 2015 Rubicon Hard Rock. Copper brown of course.
I quickly noticed something: I practically had to keep my “Jeep Wave“ up for my entire trip. I’d see 15 Wanglers on the way to baseball practice. Wranglers had lost their exclusivity, their coolness. I wasn’t too keen on waving to the soccer mom in her jacked up, mean face Wrangler.
Regrettably I sold it a few years later.
All this is to say as soon as Gobi becomes available for 2021, I will order my Gladiator Mojave.
I’m probably not going to be waving at the 30+ Wranglers I’ll be seeing every day.
You can bet your ass I’ll be throwing it up to the Gladiators...Looking forward to that exclusivity again!
Edit/Update
Rereading this I realize I may have put out the wrong impression...
If I get a wave from a Wrangler I will certainly wave back. I won’t not wave...That’s just weird.
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