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[Tank the Jeep]

Old enough to only have 3 channels- 3,10,&13?

In the Mountians of NC we got 3 Channels. Meh, I wanted to play with my trucks outside. Guess I still do.

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[roaniecowpony]

Wow! #chevymitchell must be pretty old, but still has a great memory to remember that.

 

[roaniecowpony]

Salt and pepper?

Ran out of pepper recently.

 

[desmo2]

I grew up with 3 channels and no remote. I played outside, after dark, blocks away from home. We threw rocks at each other and got cut on rusty metal. I carried a .22 or a 20-gauge into the woods with no supervision, and would be gone for hours. When it was time to eat, Grandma rang a big dinner bell in the front yard that you could hear for miles. I rode a bike with no helmet and took it over a lot of sweet jumps. I played with Yard Darts that looked like medieval weapons.

Eventually, I got a Super Pong, and later an Atari 2600. I still had to go to the mall arcade to play the cool video games, though. When I needed a ride home, I would drop a coin in the pay phone.

When I got my first car, I flipped the air cleaner cover upside down so the Holley 650 carburetor would make a cool "woosh" sound on acceleration. I had to yank the 8 track out of the dash and install a new-fangled cassette player so I could rock my mullet and denim jacket to Def Leppard, Metallica, and Guns N Roses.

When I turned 18, I joined the military and started my adult life.

I have to get a pencil, paper, and stop to think to count how many times I have broken bones, gotten stitches, or sprained an ankle.

These days, I DO sit on my front porch with an M1 Garand (or sometimes M1A, AR-15, 1911, .44 Magnum, etc.), although I don't have to yell at neighbors to "get off my lawn." I stare at the Lake, smoke meat, make my own whiskey, and yell at the wife to make me a sammich. She yells back and asks me who the F*** I think I am. I got it pretty good.

 

[roaniecowpony]

I grew up with 3 channels and no remote. I played outside, after dark, blocks away from home. We threw rocks at each other and got cut on rusty metal. I carried a .22 or a 20-gauge into the woods with no supervision, and would be gone for hours. I rode a bike with no helmet and took it over a lot of sweet jumps. I played with Yard Darts that looked like medieval weapons.

Eventually, I got a Super Pong, and later an Atari 2600. I still had to go to the mall arcade to play the cool video games, though. When I needed a ride home, I would drop a coin in the pay phone.

When I got my first car, I flipped the air cleaner cover upside down so the Holley 650 carburetor would make a cool "woosh" sound on acceleration. I had to yank the 8 track out of the dash and install a new-fangled cassette player so I could rock my mullet and denim jacket to Def Leppard, Metallica, and Guns N Roses.

When I turned 18, I joined the military and started my adult life.

I have to get a pencil, paper, and stop to think to count how many times I have broken bones, gotten stitches, or sprained an ankle.

These days, I DO sit on my front porch with an M1 Garand (or sometimes M1A, AR-15, 1911, .44 Magnum, etc.), although I don't have to yell at neighbors to "get off my lawn." I stare at the Lake, smoke meat, make my own whiskey, and yell at the wife to make me a sammich. She yells back and asks me who the F*** I think I am. I got it pretty good.

What? No Led Zep or Iron B?

I grew up on military bases. Depending where we were stationed, there was no guarantee the TV had English language channels. Between the age of 6 to 9, in MT, we played where there were frogs, snakes, coyotes, etc., threw rocks at each other for sport (bloody), at 12 we moved to Los Angeles where we hitch-hiked to and from the beach during the summer. I think we rode in Cheech & Chong's smoke filled van once or twice.

Oh, and my first two cars were Pintos. How the hell am I still here?

 

[BEACHED WHALE]

Then came the 80's. And now a rat infested sh*t hole will run you $1,800 per month. And I'm not talking about the mammal.

 

[swampflyer]

getting old is not for pussy's.

 

[Steph1]

A lot of people having made the same change as you (going from 3.6JK to 2.0JL ) make the HUGE mistake of thinking that the 3.6 in the JL behaves like the 3.6 did in the JK.

They behave totally different. The. 3.6 in the JL is night and day different than in the JK, thanks to small tweeking and mostly to the 8spd transmission.

I went from a JKUR10A to a JLUS, both with the 3.6 and it took me a few days to gauge the gas pedal and stop spinning the tires leaving from a stop.

 

[roaniecowpony]

Then came the 80's. And now a rat infested sh*t hole will run you $1,800 per month. And I'm not talking about the mammal.

I guess that's what balances the $15/hr for the unskilled service jobs. Raise one and the other goes up.

 

[BEACHED WHALE]

So in 50 years when most of us are worm food the 392 will come out on the Mecum auction floor with the broadcaster saying "from 2021-2023 Jeep built a hemi". My dollar while alive would like to see the alfa romero 2.9 twin turbo with a refresh package or something more modern than the decade old hemi thrown into the jeep for 80k

 

[HungryHound]

Sorry make that 7 channels. 2,4,5,7,9,11,13

We only had 3 and I was the remote control.

 

[Old Dogger]

Back in NW Indiana, we only had 3 Channels. And they only had shows on at different times of the day. The first one that I ever seen was the Lone Ranger. O'h.. I am 78 years old, so you can see how far back in time that this goes..LOL

 

[jmccorm]

I agree on the black rims, it gives a nice solid bumblebee color scheme.

 

[wandrur]

Lack of a manual option limited me to the 3.6L, but I'm okay with that. If the option were there, though...maybe.

Also, I grew up with one channel--Channel 10, CBS, out of Goodland, KS. I grew up in eastern Colorado. And I'm not that old, early 40s.

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