I joined this forum to post about Jeep Wrangler 392s. You OTOH stay up late night, searching the internet to try and make yourself look intelligent. I base my buying and selling decisions on personal real life experiences. I've stood at Manheim Auto auctions in the winter and purchased soft top Jeep Wranglers for nothing. Shipped to southern states and sold for a tidy profit. I won't single out New Jeep Wrangler sales here on this site as I see one is a sponsor here. I'm sure if you contact them they will share some of their knowledge about sales and shipping Wranglers as well as people flying in and driving them home. BUT with the advent of the internet, a sponsor here on this site, had NEW 392s considerably cheaper than anyone south of the Mason Dixon line. I hate to break this news to you but Northern dealers sell them cheap and move a ton of them to southern buyers. IT's called volume PROFITS! I can only assume you've never been in busines or signed a paycheck by your posts........................
How can you be so wrong in one paragraph?
You most certainly did not come here to talk about 392s. You came here to beat your own chest and proclaim how smart and awesome you are with made up assertions that cannot be proven. And your ego is so fragile that you feel the compulsive need to lash out at anyone who might break your self delusions.
The one thing that blows your position out of the water is the facts. The other is winter. Northern states get snow. Sometimes enough snow to be a problem for your average automobile. So people in northern climes tend to buy 4 wheel drives. More 4 wheel drives means more Jeeps on average.
Southern states on the other hand, require you to have the top on and the A/C blasting 6 months out of the year because it's just too hot to go topless in the summer. And the thunderstorms nearly every afternoon around 4pm in Mobile Alabama are a nightmare for a Jeep. Don't get caught out in that without the doors, if the thunderstorm doesn't get you the oppressive heat and humidity that follows surely will.
My personal record for number of consecutive days of daily driving without putting the top up is 119 days, in Billings Montana in the summer of 2009. It was glorious, and something I don't think I'll ever be able to duplicate. What's your record? Have you even had the top off the Jeep?
As for your assumptions about me, those are wrong as well (at least you're consistent). After the government price muddling killed off the family dairy business. I grew up poor. More so than most people can imagine. In a crooked falling-down house with no foundation and little food and less heat all winter long. I left home at 17 and learned to fend for myself. I had a knack for fixing things. Nobody wanted to pay me a living wage to fix Jeeps, so eventually I figured out the I could fix computers. I taught myself everything I could. I took on jobs nobody else would do, because they were too far away, or had to be done over a holiday weekend, or at night when there were no users needing access. I made hundreds of thousands of dollars for my employers, while getting paid enough to make it worth my while.
I started my own consulting and managed services firm in 2010, and sold it in 2012. I "retired" to western Montana, where I eventually got bored, and started remotely consulting again under a new business which continues to this day. I've consulted for IBM, CDI, CSC, Healthnet Kaiser, NBD, Bank of Mexico, many departments of the US government and so many others that I forget them all. I've built and managed multi-national teams for Fortune 50 companies. I've designed, built and refined technology infrastructure that you likely rely on every day in some fashion.
You... You're just a (probably) harmless blowhard. but you're pretty good at it.
Cheers
carry on.
