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Drove it to town and met dad for lunch at a burger joint. As per the norm I parked so I could sit and look at my truck.
Teeny bopper girl drove thru in a XJ. If you picture what kind of a XJ a high school girl would drive on 33's... this one is slightly better than what you initially picture. She must have just gotten it, it was mostly still there but was beginning the downward slide.
Anyway she drives in and I am parked on the inside corner against the building right outside the window behind our booth, she is gawking coming and going and rubber necking as she drives away looking at my truck... as she keeps goosing the throttle of her Jeep as if there was anyone in the truck to be intimidated. The exhaust had a nice "blown out XJ exhaust" sound quality to it as she revved her way over to the drive thru.
I don't know of the spare tire on the back was shorting her out or what but it was funny to watch.
Initial thought was something along the lines of "I don't know how big of a V8 it would take to obliterate a 4.0... but I know how big of one I would use" but I kind of settled on just being happy that a younger person out there is into vehicles enough to get that excited by a rival vehicle.
Teeny bopper girl drove thru in a XJ. If you picture what kind of a XJ a high school girl would drive on 33's... this one is slightly better than what you initially picture. She must have just gotten it, it was mostly still there but was beginning the downward slide.
Anyway she drives in and I am parked on the inside corner against the building right outside the window behind our booth, she is gawking coming and going and rubber necking as she drives away looking at my truck... as she keeps goosing the throttle of her Jeep as if there was anyone in the truck to be intimidated. The exhaust had a nice "blown out XJ exhaust" sound quality to it as she revved her way over to the drive thru.
I don't know of the spare tire on the back was shorting her out or what but it was funny to watch.
Initial thought was something along the lines of "I don't know how big of a V8 it would take to obliterate a 4.0... but I know how big of one I would use" but I kind of settled on just being happy that a younger person out there is into vehicles enough to get that excited by a rival vehicle.
