Tethmes
Well-Known Member
Good day all! New member checking in. My name is Dylan and I live in Michigan's lower thumb. I don't have my jeep yet, but I wanted to get a head start on the forum action in case I had questions during my excruciating wait for build and delivery.
First off, I ordered my dream jeep recently on 2/10/22. My order is included in the attached pic. My dealer told me it's currently a 4-6 month wait. I have my VIN and am currently in D status. But from lurking over the last week or so I've learned that means basically nothing, so in the meantime I hope to get to know some of you lovely forum goers! I'd like to share my story if anyone is interested in reading, and if you aren't, that's just fine as well.
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I've wanted a jeep for almost my entire life. I remember seeing my first one when I was 2 years old. I'll be 35 this year. All I know at this point is that it was a CJ of some sort with big tires, and without a top or doors. But I remember that it was the coolest vehicle I had ever seen, and that I wanted it. Fast forward a few years and Jurassic Park was on the big screen. That movie solidified the want into a need to some day own one.
Ever since then I have been obsessed with them. Since the moment I got my license in 2003, it was really the only thing that I wanted to drive. But as many of us know, life isn't fair. For the past 19 years I have not been able to make it happen.
In 2013 my father acquired a red 1963 CJ5. It was my first real experience driving a jeep, and I'm not sure if it was because it was such a basic, raw experience, or if it was just because it was a jeep, but crawling the beaches and trails of northern MI in that thing further kindled the flame into a full on fire.
Since then, my parents have purchased 3 more jeeps, with their current ones being a 2012 JKUR and a 2004 TJ. (All while knowing how jealous they were making me with each purchase!! But it's okay since I do get to drive them from time to time. ?)
During my earlier years I was always dead broke, but even later, when I've had multiple chances to purchase one, I've always chosen to be the responsible adult and get what was really needed opposed to what I wanted. Even culminating up into last year when I had a massive down payment saved up, but decided with my wife that we should really purchase our first home instead.
On the way home from signing on our house, I told her that I was at my limit. I was done being an adult. Our next purchase would be the jeep.
Luckily, she understood!
So here we are. With the crazy prices on trade ins right now, it's the perfect time to offload my Ford Focus (one of those "necessary" purchases for commuting a few years back), and get what I really want... What I NEED.
Maybe it was seeing the CJ when I was a toddler, or maybe it was the Jurassic Park movie. Maybe it was the experience of driving that CJ for the first time almost 10 years ago. But when I've always thought of a jeep, I've thought of a basic, no options experience in which you can have an absolute blast with while out in the wild. So that's exactly what I ordered. (couldn't go without A/C though ?) Manual everything on a brand new vehicle in 2022? My friends think I'm crazy.
Thing is... I KNOW I'm crazy. Crazy for this jeep that will be in my driveway in 4-6 months. 33 years in the making.
So happy to finally be able to make this post, and to finally join the great community on this forum, as well as the jeep community in general. Cheers all!
First off, I ordered my dream jeep recently on 2/10/22. My order is included in the attached pic. My dealer told me it's currently a 4-6 month wait. I have my VIN and am currently in D status. But from lurking over the last week or so I've learned that means basically nothing, so in the meantime I hope to get to know some of you lovely forum goers! I'd like to share my story if anyone is interested in reading, and if you aren't, that's just fine as well.
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I've wanted a jeep for almost my entire life. I remember seeing my first one when I was 2 years old. I'll be 35 this year. All I know at this point is that it was a CJ of some sort with big tires, and without a top or doors. But I remember that it was the coolest vehicle I had ever seen, and that I wanted it. Fast forward a few years and Jurassic Park was on the big screen. That movie solidified the want into a need to some day own one.
Ever since then I have been obsessed with them. Since the moment I got my license in 2003, it was really the only thing that I wanted to drive. But as many of us know, life isn't fair. For the past 19 years I have not been able to make it happen.
In 2013 my father acquired a red 1963 CJ5. It was my first real experience driving a jeep, and I'm not sure if it was because it was such a basic, raw experience, or if it was just because it was a jeep, but crawling the beaches and trails of northern MI in that thing further kindled the flame into a full on fire.
Since then, my parents have purchased 3 more jeeps, with their current ones being a 2012 JKUR and a 2004 TJ. (All while knowing how jealous they were making me with each purchase!! But it's okay since I do get to drive them from time to time. ?)
During my earlier years I was always dead broke, but even later, when I've had multiple chances to purchase one, I've always chosen to be the responsible adult and get what was really needed opposed to what I wanted. Even culminating up into last year when I had a massive down payment saved up, but decided with my wife that we should really purchase our first home instead.
On the way home from signing on our house, I told her that I was at my limit. I was done being an adult. Our next purchase would be the jeep.
Luckily, she understood!
So here we are. With the crazy prices on trade ins right now, it's the perfect time to offload my Ford Focus (one of those "necessary" purchases for commuting a few years back), and get what I really want... What I NEED.
Maybe it was seeing the CJ when I was a toddler, or maybe it was the Jurassic Park movie. Maybe it was the experience of driving that CJ for the first time almost 10 years ago. But when I've always thought of a jeep, I've thought of a basic, no options experience in which you can have an absolute blast with while out in the wild. So that's exactly what I ordered. (couldn't go without A/C though ?) Manual everything on a brand new vehicle in 2022? My friends think I'm crazy.
Thing is... I KNOW I'm crazy. Crazy for this jeep that will be in my driveway in 4-6 months. 33 years in the making.
So happy to finally be able to make this post, and to finally join the great community on this forum, as well as the jeep community in general. Cheers all!
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