Haha 😀. Back in the day Jeep owners would just wave at each other or help them in a sticky off road situation. 👍. I’m glad that I parted with my Jeep(s) prior to this practice of ducking a fellow Jeeper.

I have kids and fortunately are adults now. Having kid toys in your vehicle was one thing but I just couldn’t understand the need to duck another Jeep when they’re not looking. 🤔

 

As long as it’s mostly peaceful, that’s fine. 😎

Jeeps used to be affordable utilitarian vehicles for real people that used them as intended. Now they are overpriced status symbols that spend most of their time on city streets. I would bet majority of them never even go into four-wheel-drive. I don’t even wave at the newer jeeps. I only wave at TJ‘s and older.

 

As long as it’s mostly peaceful, that’s fine. 😎

Jeeps used to be affordable utilitarian vehicles for real people that used them as intended. Now they are overpriced status symbols that spend most of their time on city streets. I would bet majority of them never even go into four-wheel-drive. I don’t even wave at the newer jeeps. I only wave at TJ‘s and older.

Overpriced vehicle! Have you priced pickups lately. Holy 💩

 

Yea, you’re got watch those duckers ! They will duck you when you least expect it!

 

I sold my Jeep right before this trend started and I'm glad I did.

On a different note ... I thought the whole ducking thing was "real" jeeps, as in wranglers, JK, or TJs etc... Not the "other" Jeep branded SUVs.

 

It's mostly Wrangler owners who never take their Jeeps off-road from what I've seen.

Real Jeeps are rear wheel drive when they're not in 4x4 mode. They usually have low range, and always have solid front axles.

Real Jeeps include all the CJs and Wranglers, the old SJ line (full size pickups and wagons,) and the WJ, XJ, and ZJ Cherokees/GCs. The last time a real Jeep wagon was made was in 2004 when they ended the WJ line.

 

That's the first time I have ever seen an impaled duck. Nice touch with the blood stream😭😁

 

I drive the old Jeep XJ,s. Have only gotten one Duck and that was from a family member.I guess I dont rate.

 

If I gave out ducks, I'd give you one before one of these new giant Wranglers.

I think the people at Chrysler didn't get that message: The military Jeep line, which leads directly to the wranglers, is supposed to be small, light, and nimble, and have what amounts to a tractor motor. The 2.5l and 4.0l AMC-based motors were the last of those. The newer V6s they use, from what I can tell, make their power too far up the RPM band.

 

I don’t get it. What the heck do ducks have to do with Jeep? I’ve had it happen several times now. I just chuck them in the nearest trash can. Now rubber turds on a Hundai I could understand...

 

Neither did I so I Googled it. Here is the answer:
5 Rules Every Jeep Owner Needs To Know About 'Ducking'
Apparently @Josh Smith and other posters have not bought into the idea.
Total Disclosure: I do not have a Jeep and would not buy one until they make them stong like they did for WWll

 

@Sourdough49 ,

Apparently some woman in Canada (leave it to the Canucks 🤣) had a bad day and left a rubber duck on someone's Jeep because she liked it, and to make herself feel better.

It went viral. All it means is that someone likes your Jeep.

 

@Sourdough49 ,

Apparently some woman in Canada (leave it to the Canucks 🤣) had a bad day and left a rubber duck on someone's Jeep because she liked it, and to make herself feel better.

It went viral. All it means is that someone likes your Jeep.

Must have been in BC. There's a hotel chain in BC known as Accent Inn and they give out free rubber duckies to guests. They have them set out in every room. I put a lot of my drivers up at those hotels when they're running in BC, and the running gag for the longest time was to leave them in the duty manager's office on her desk.

 

Hey @ForaFrank , are you active here? If so, I summon ye! What do you think of my duck 🦆? 🤣

 

My FIL Chryslerized AMC . Which.meant closed all the non Jeep Plants and offices and installed Chrysler accounting in the Jeep Plants. He said hed never seen such a bad set of books. My wife bought me a Wrangler in 1986. Square headlights, leaf springs, mirrors on the doors. It was the only car I didnt drive to death . After 3 years , I gave it to my brother to sell. It rode bad drove bad got terrible milage.noisy and un comfortable. I happily replaced it with a Plymouth Neon .

 

Sounds like you were using it for the wrong purpose. The YJ was, admittedly, the answer to the CJ lawsuits, brought by people who didn't understand the onroad limitations of that series. The CJ was designed around a top speed of 45-55mph, and yet folks expected them to hang on the interstates.

Still, the YJ Wrangler was meant to be simple and capable off-road. That eventually evolved into the TJ Wrangler, which made use of coil springs and solid axles -- basically the same setup as on my WJ. It's a wonderful setup for off-road driving and much more comfortable than leaf springs onroad. The trade-off is complexity in the suspension system.

I suspect you'd have been much happier with the YJ had you taken fire trails home everyday. I also think you'd have been at home in a two-door XJ if you see any snow where you live.

 

Send them ducks to the cruise ships where they belong!

 

I was considering a Jeep for my next ride and now I'm... not.

 

My ‘74 cj5 gets ducked from time to time. No big deal. If I get triggered it will be over some real slight, not some harmless someone trying to be cute.

 

My ‘74 cj5 gets ducked from time to time. No big deal. If I get triggered it will be over some real slight, not some harmless someone trying to be cute. Try growing a pair, it might help.
Go ahead and give me a warning moderators, I can take it.

I think you misunderstood my intentions. I'm not mad.

 

 

There's a Jeep with a snorkel under that isn't there?

 

The manufacturers build (for the most part) what sells the best and what the people (supposedly) want. They care very little about tradition. Their eyes and minds are clouded by dollar signs.
The other problem is that most people don't really know what they want and are swayed by what everybody else or advertising tells them is cool or trendy and pay the price accordingly.

 

I recall 76 balls and my girlfriend wanted me to fly her panties.

 

Can I steal this pic? I am part of another Jeep group that may (or may not) appreciate it.....but I did so there's that.

 

Absolutely you may. What Jeep group? I may or may not belong to it.

 

You guys....

My first jeep was a 1946 CJ2A. Purchased it in 1971 from a friend. The front differential was out of it. Knew a friend that used to be into the older military jeeps so I went over to see him and astoundingly, there was very good front differential - exactly the one I needed - sitting on the ground under a tree. $20 bucks later I took it home and installed it - worked great. Wish I still had that little jeep. Army green.

Never occurred to me to stick a duck on it, nor would I have done it had it occurred to me. My friends would have laughed me out of the county.

 

My first jeep was a 1946 CJ2A. Purchased it in 1971 from a friend

Me too. I was about 12, and my father bought it (a beater ‘46 CJ2) for “me” to work on. It had a 3-on-the-tree, and between it and our old Ford 9N, I pretty much taught myself to drive. Lots of fun taking it out in the local fields (which are all subdivisions now, but that’s another thread).

 

Mine doesn’t have a duck and never will 2021 Cherokee trailhawk low range and rear locker

 

Don’t let them live rent-free in your head. They never give you a thought.

 

My 1973 CJ-5 could flat track around corners and was able to do some respectable canyon carving too thanks to anti sway bars front and back. Those got disconnected whenever I hit the trails here in the Sierra Nevada Mts.

 

My Great Grandmother worked in the Willys-Overland factory late 1940's then Kaiser Motors 1950's assembly plant in Toledo OH. My great uncles used surplus WWII jeeps as utility vehicles leveraging the PTO for various things plus even one could pull a small plow...they used these their farms in NW Ohio until they didn't run anymore. Those Jeeps lasting into the 70s-80's but were pretty rusted out and tired by then. I couldn't imagine placing a rubber ducky on one of these machines but seems like a cute gesture now...my brother in OH has 3 "Real" Jeeps a 2015 4 door Wrangler, 2021 Gladiator Willys Trim, just got a 24or25 2 Door Wrangler...he gets some ducks here and there and the kids/wife are into that thing.

I have owned 5 apparently "not-real" "regular" Jeeps a couple of half ton trucks and a Suburban...all 4x4's that hit the dirt more often than many Real Jeeps do including my Brothers. I live in AZ and have a lot more areas to go than in OH but that's beside the point.

 

TIL there is such a thing as a Jeep duck. I guess I'm not one of the kewl kids.

...or maybe I just don't spend enough time parked in town.

 

Start your own trend of leaving something else - miniature skulls with realistic fake blood, biohazard warning stickers, pictures of vaguely off-putting shrubbery, and so forth. Then you will rule the kewl!

 

The answer to the question of why do you own a jeep , is because I can.