My Used Jeep Memories
My elementary years were spent in a rustic barrio in the highlands of a mountainous province in the Philippines. It wasn’t that far away but due to road conditions back then, a trip to the nearest city would take about 6 hours and my hometown was 8 hours away.
My grandfather was a former city boy who later in his life opted and has grown to love rural living. About once a month he would take us back to our city hometown to visit our relatives. Back in the city during those days, I would envy those who were in cars with rolled up windows and air conditioning. I would often dream of one day traveling and arriving in my hometown in a brand new automobile enclosed and protected from dust and heat.
You can imagine how amazed I am when people would approach my grandfather and rave how awesome our ride is. They would say they can’t believe how easy and quick it is for us to get to the city from where we came from. I could even remember then telling my grandpa that they would trade their brand new cars for my grandfather’s old and reliable jeep. Are these people serious? What they have are brand new automobiles and we have a second hand contraption.
That old jeep was purchased second hand by my grandfather. Firstly, he had it repainted a deep brown shade for a new look. Originally, the jeep didn’t have comfortable front seats so grandpa found some seats of an old car and had it reupholstered.
The trips we had with that jeep were really long ones. Grandpa always got gasoline rations from his company, and sometimes would receive gifts in the form of gasoline rations from some uncles. He had that kind of effect on people. A lot of guys always wanted to please him and make him happy. The original gasoline tank that didn’t hold so much just wouldn’t do so he installed this tank from an old truck. It ate up all of the front row area under the seats.
He also had leather roofings installed on the jeep. He connected a miniature electric fan, and even brought along his tiny portable set to be attached to our ride. I have to admit that despite me wanting a new car so much, looking back, we did have a wonderful jeep.
That jeep has been with us since I was in the third grade. I remember grandpa taking me to the airport in the rig when I was leaving to attend college in the capital region. By then it has been with us for a decade already. When I came home after graduation, my grandfather was already too old to make the trip. The jeep was still with him though.
That old jeep might have been pre-owned when we got it, but it fared and served better than all the other vehicles that we had. It has by far exceeded all the others when it came to performance and the memories we had with that old timer is by far more precious than any other ride we had.
It is true that a used car that is cared and loved for holds a greater value than anything you could buy new. Ours gave us the ride of our lives.
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