: You might be a 4-wheeler if......


Belly Dragger
08-14-2002, 10:14 PM
You might be a four wheeler if-
10 -you think SPAM Shish-ka-bobs on a Phillips screw driver taste good.
9 -you have ever had 2 wheels off the ground and said "We're in good shape."
8 -you have ever "nuked" a microwave burrito on an intake manifold.
7 -you favorite cologne is "Eau de Unleaded" (91 octane).
6 -you have ever heard a counselor say "no I don't think 38" Boggers will work well under your wife's Ford Fiesta."
5 -you like mud cause "its high in minerals."
4 -every dent you put in your vehicle pops 2 dents out.
3 -you have to get the wheel barrow to clean your drive way off after you wash your vehicle.
2 -you think "protection from the elements" (i.e. a top) is for wussies.

And the #1 sign you might be a Four Wheeler is:
1 - you have driven a vehicle for 10 hours straight ...and never exceeded 3 mph.


Signs that you're a hard core Four wheeler:

- You find that you need a new house because you've outgrown your garage and the
neighbors are threatening violence if you park one more vehicle on the street or
in the front yard.

- The requirements you give your real estate agent are (in order of importance):
1) 8 car climate controlled garage with an attached shop, 8' high doors.
2) Outside parking for 6 cars, a motor home, a crew cab dually, a 28'enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel.
3) 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder.
4) A grease pit.
5) Convenient to a hazardous waste disposal site.
6) Deaf neighbors.
7) Across the street from a paint and body shop.
8) Some sort of house with a working toilet and shower on the property somewhere
-or- hookups for the motor home

-Your email address refers to your truck rather than to you.
- You buy new parts because you don't know where you put the spares.
- You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture for your house!
- You measure all family acquisitions in terms of the number of parts that could have been purchased.
- You look at the purchase of tools as a long term investment.
- Your garage holds more vehicles than your house has bedrooms.
- You have enough spare parts to build another truck.
- You have truck parts in your cubicle at work.
- Your Christmas list begins with another set of BFG MTs and E-Z Locker and your 'significant other' knows what they are
- After your answer to "What did you do this weekend?" the next question is always: "And you do this for fun? Right?"
- You have a separate drawer for 'garage clothes'.
- People know you by your "off"s". "Oh, you are the one stuck in the mud at Fishing Creek last weekend!"
- You talk to other cars on the road, calling them by the manufacturer's name.
- Your criteria for selecting a significant other include auto repair skills. Air tools optional.
- You plan your wedding around the club schedule.
- You astound the clerk at Sears by bringing in a snapped breaker bar every other week or so.
- You give out 4 wheel Parts Wholesalers number when a friend asks for the best hardware store.
- You hate long distance driving, but you will gladly drive 800 miles to the trail.
- You save broken car parts as " mementos".
- You know the exact story behind every one! (see above)
- You would choose a roll bar over air conditioning if it were an option.
- Your idea of a good time is sitting around figuring out gear ratios and the ideal crawl ratio for given situations.
- When someone refers to "The Good Book", you think of "The Jeep Owners Bible".
- You own five Trucks and only one of them is street legal.
- There's a poster of Moab up on the wall next to the family portraits.
- Your video collection contains more wheeling videos then regular videos.
- Your friends call to tell you they found another way into the woods rather than to see how your doing.
- You refer to "Friends" by the type of truck they drive rather than names.
- You filled out the Top Truck Challenge Voting card but threw away the Census 2000 forms.
- 90% of you work e-mail is wheeling related.
- You keep trying to coerce your significant other to allow you to remove the doors on the mini van.
- You refer to the local construction site as "The testing ground".
- You can remember how to get to every trail you've been on but get lost going to your in-laws.
- "The Big Question" refers to Bogger or TSL.
- When someone says someone is Biased you immediately think of tires.
- Your truck no longer fits in the garage.
- Your truck has gone to super model status and doesn't leave the garage for any trail less than a 4+.
- Your daily driver is considered a mild trail rig.
- Drivers behind you can see the car in front of you, under the truck.
- The term "Open with Attitude" is tattooed on you, or you're thinking about it.
- You base your next vehicle purchase on it's crawl ratio and what's available for it in the after market.
- People see pictures of your truck flexed out and ask "Is it broken?".
- You stopped washing your truck cause it shows off the scratches.
- Your boss asks you not to bring the truck to work anymore because it won't fit in the parking garage without the antenna scraping the ceiling.
- You've actually replaced a fluorescent light in the parking garage cause your antenna hit it.
- Your club web site is your home page.
- You are in search of a house that borders state forest and refuse to buy anything that's not even remotely close to it.
- You'll drop a couple grand on new axles but the kitchen sink still leaks.
- The vacation pictures are all off road.
- You ALWAYS have your drinks on the rocks!
- You look at an open area in the woods and can determine the best line.
- You base your social class on your recent RTI score rather than how much money you make.
- Working on your truck is considered relaxation.
- Every time you see a lowered truck you wanna get out and slap the driver silly.
- You look at other cars and think to yourself "I can crawl over that".
- You consider Rubicon as the holy land.
- Tellico no longer scares you.
- You carry more parts to the trail than home.
- You've installed or though about installing a lift on the lawn mower.
- You consider anything without 4wd-Useless.
- Your ideal vehicle is a Unimog.
- Your truck cost as much as an Italian sports car.
- When someone mentions "Xtreme" your eyes light up!
- Motivation involves someone saying "you can't make it".

And the #1 Sign you're a hard core wheeler:

It's not considered a good trail ride if nothing breaks!

joes75bronco
08-14-2002, 10:22 PM
that's a cool list... I cracked up the whole time I read it.

Ramstein
08-14-2002, 10:29 PM
Originally posted by Belly Dragger

- You find that you need a new house because you've outgrown your garage and the
neighbors are threatening violence if you park one more vehicle on the street or
in the front yard.



Man, im so there! lmao :laughing:

MilspecXJ
08-14-2002, 10:30 PM
Outstanding!! Thanks for the laugh. :D

Chris Geiger
08-14-2002, 10:39 PM
Printed it out and put it on the wall. Great post.

larryboy
08-14-2002, 11:10 PM
or started a campfire with gas and sparks off the jumper cables to keep from freezing to death:D .
take the doors off the mini van ? heck,i parted it out and the doors were the only parts left:eek: .
took the mowing deck off the rider and put on some big tires too.(instant log skidder).
funny funny stuff thanks for the laughs:D .

my75cj5
08-14-2002, 11:19 PM
ya that was good!

almost all of the above here.

I remember usin my 33" super swampers as an end table.
piled two high w/glass top

redrangie
08-15-2002, 12:48 PM
Funny. Damn Funny.

As a rover guy, I especially identified with this:

"You have enough spare parts to build another truck. "


j

white knight
08-15-2002, 12:57 PM
This was excellent ...............and so true:cool:

350 Samurai
08-15-2002, 02:02 PM
I'm framing it and hanging it on the wall of my garage.

PTSchram
08-15-2002, 02:06 PM
Spare parts to build another truck...

In carefully labeled boxes taped shut and cataloged in the attic!

Damn Land Rovers!

D'Oh, and while on the subject of Land Rovers, don't forget-that you can give at least three GM cross references for various components of your truck, and have examples of all three at hand!

Paul

e
08-15-2002, 02:19 PM
Your killin' me. LOL LOL! :D

morpheus
08-15-2002, 02:33 PM
>- You'll drop a couple grand on new axles but the kitchen sink
>still leaks.

aahah ...

I've spent countless hours in the garage working on my junk and the kitchen faucet will only turn off if you have the handle in just the right place. was thinking of the irony of that situation just the other day ! :D

- jack

RockRover
08-15-2002, 02:54 PM
Yup! LOL!

I sora' finished building my house...Enough to have the bath's and kitchen functional...Then I've been hitting the shop HARD, with piles of trim, paint cans (unopend), tile sealer (unopend), no back-splashes, construction debris ALL OVER the back yard, and light switches without cover plates on them...All sitting there 'waiting'.

Of course my pregnant wife is NOT pleased with this...Only when she threatens to "hire someone to finish it" does it get me out of the shop!

Hey I've got TWO important projects to finish!

F'in addiction I tell you.

--D

Cliffy [JD]
08-15-2002, 04:03 PM
Here's one:

Youre opinion of the best map, is that it has the phrase "ATLAS & GAZETTEER" on it, ad includes a GPS GRID!!! :D:D Who needs names of streets right ;)

1988YJ
08-15-2002, 04:05 PM
Great list!:flipoff2:

misfitcj
08-15-2002, 10:34 PM
great list pad pad pad

road1will
08-15-2002, 10:35 PM
you might be a SAMI owner if your set of new tires cost more than what you paid for your whole rig :flipoff2:

lwg
08-15-2002, 11:21 PM
Originally posted by Belly Dragger

- You look at the purchase of tools as a long term investment.
-

Preach on, brother! Keep spreadin' the good word.

Rocksie
08-20-2002, 06:00 PM
I know Im late on this one but OMG! BAHAHAHAHAHAH! *side splitting*

moveaside
08-20-2002, 07:00 PM
I don't know what was funnier the list or how much time you spent to do it. Thanks man made my day.

Jason R
08-20-2002, 07:18 PM
:D :eek: :D

CollegeBudgetFord
01-18-2004, 02:02 AM
that was awesome, when your email address reflects your truck instead of you, im all over that Big_Blue_Ford hahaha

Callen

DiscoDino
01-18-2004, 02:58 AM
- Your truck cost as much as an Italian sports car.
YOU HAD TO REMIND ME HUH?

- When someone mentions "Xtreme" your eyes light up!
:eek:

- You look at an open area in the woods and can determine the best line.
:flipoff2:

- You save broken car parts as " mementos".
GUILTY

- You have enough spare parts to build another truck.
LAND ROVER THING AGAIN :mad:

pfco3
01-18-2004, 04:12 AM
how about

if you log on to pirate "real quick"and then after an hour forget what you logged onto the internet for


kinda like me right now:D

animator
01-18-2004, 04:17 AM
Originally posted by pfco3
how about

if you log on to pirate "real quick"and then after an hour forget what you logged onto the internet for


kinda like me right now:D


no. How about

you set pirate4x4 as your home page, so even if you log on just to check email, you end up spending hours and hours on pirate.

:D

Toyotafourwheeln
01-18-2004, 08:14 AM
Originally posted by animator



no. How about

you set pirate4x4 as your home page, so even if you log on just to check email, you end up spending hours and hours on pirate.

:D

now ya sound like me :flipoff2: i usually just try to hit outlook express to check mail and end up hitting that big E on my destop and then pirate pops up and im on here for hours :D

BUZZISCRAZY2
01-18-2004, 08:28 AM
A +++++++.........:usa:

LandCroozer
01-18-2004, 09:00 AM
Originally posted by Belly Dragger
You might be a four wheeler if-

4 -every dent you put in your vehicle pops 2 dents out.


BWAHAHAHA!!!



- You buy new parts because you don't know where you put the spares.
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Don't we all?



- You have a separate drawer for 'garage clothes'.
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No sir! I maintain a pile next to the laundry hamper.. and they get washed on their own schedule.



- You talk to other cars on the road, calling them by the manufacturer's name.
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I thought it was the standard way you addressed other drivers: "OK, HondaBoy are you going to let me merge or what?"

-tom

Solid98
01-18-2004, 11:06 AM
Originally posted by LandCroozer



No sir! I maintain a pile next to the laundry hamper.. and they get washed on their own schedule.



How about if your old lady makes you install a washer and dryer in the garage specifically for the shop clothes and rags.

Here's a tip, after you wash a load of red shop rags, remove the red lint from the dryer trap. She had a shiat fit when she figured out what I done.:D

Islandzuki
01-18-2004, 11:07 AM
Originally posted by Belly Dragger


Signs that you're a hard core Four wheeler:

- You find that you need a new house because you've outgrown your garage and the
neighbors are threatening violence if you park one more vehicle on the street or
in the front yard.

- The requirements you give your real estate agent are (in order of importance):
1) 8 car climate controlled garage with an attached shop, 8' high doors.
2) Outside parking for 6 cars, a motor home, a crew cab dually, a 28'enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel.
3) 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder.
4) A grease pit.
5) Convenient to a hazardous waste disposal site.
6) Deaf neighbors.
7) Across the street from a paint and body shop.
8) Some sort of house with a working toilet and shower on the property somewhere
-or- hookups for the motor home

-

hahaha thats some funny S%#T:D

drsmash
01-18-2004, 12:06 PM
Ain't Carson City Great!!! Printed this out and put it in my Business for customers to read!!

axaviere
01-18-2004, 12:40 PM
if your tires on your truck cost more than you truck... i paid $900 for my bronco... 39s or 42s cost how much??

kling-on
01-18-2004, 12:58 PM
:laughing: :laughing: its so funny cause it so TRUE:D

Haole
01-18-2004, 01:30 PM
Originally posted by LandCroozer


I thought it was the standard way you addressed other drivers: "OK, HondaBoy are you going to let me merge or what?"

-tom

You ask? :confused:

281 Quad Cam
01-18-2004, 01:36 PM
when a good saturday project is setting up the big laundry room sink that you found in a garbage pile, outback the garage for washing up. a way to completely shower before coming inside is my next step. ;)

Tippy
01-18-2004, 06:49 PM
You plan your wedding around the club schedule

Ok - That ain't funny. I AM planing my wedding around Strugis Bike Week and the Dakota Teritory Challenge. Not fair!

break it in
01-18-2004, 07:51 PM
:D

Islandzuki
01-18-2004, 10:42 PM
you know youre ring & pinion size but not your ring size.....

rokcrln
01-19-2004, 06:30 AM
All your bills are stacked in the corner of your desk because their is no more room in the alphibitized magazine holder your girlfriend keeps trying to tell you is really a file cabnit.