little dolls on Jeep dashboards

[rockquarry]

What's the story on this? Strictly a fad or something meaningful?

 

[quikdraw67]

Good question. I've seen it as well. It seems to be both men and women. Certainly not my cuppa. But, to each his own.

 

[ColbyBruce]

Around here, Jeepers award rubber ducks to one another. The best I can figure, these ducks are tokens of recognition by people with similar interests.

 

[tlawler]

My son’s fiancé drives a jeep and collects them. Like ColbyBruce said, jeepsters trade and award them to each other. I think it’s more of a gen z/millennial thing because I don’t see any of the local old dudes in jeeps with them.

 

[NYlakesider]

My son’s fiancé drives a jeep and collects them. Like ColbyBruce said, jeepsters trade and award them to each other. I think it’s more of a gen z/millennial thing because I don’t see any of the local old dudes in jeeps with them.

Guilty as charged!. Every now and then I find a duck carefully placed on my Jeep . Its a form of comradeship as I see it. I am not into it and it just ends up in the trash bin. I will give a wave back if waved at while out on the road.

As a Vette owner for over 30 years I'm well used to giving a friendly wave to another person driving that kind of vechicle.

 

[rockquarry]

I had a 1975 CJ-5 for a long time. I don't recall it having a dashboard but if there was one, it wasn't much.

 

[BillBond]

I have noticed that the more duckies they have the more perfect the paint job is.

 

[WardenRoss]

BMW Motorcycle Owner's of Alabama used to have a great Chicken Rally.

You would get a rubber chicken for each attendance.

I have a few.

They grilled chicken, day and night, for the three-day event.

Fun times.

 

[fatcat3]

. I think it’s more of a gen z/millennial thing

I'm a senior citizen and these have been around as long as I can remember. Don't get the fascination, but each to his own.

 

[galena]

Around here, Jeepers award rubber ducks to one another. The best I can figure, these ducks are tokens of recognition by people with similar interests.

I own a great running but ugly 1995 Wrangler 4cyl 5spd and I still get my share of ducks here in the Southern Colorado Rockies. Good fun.

 

[OutAtTheEdge]

I had a 2006 TJ Wrangler that I drove daily for about 5 years until the unfortunate day when I hit a stretch of black ice and ended up parking it on it's roof in a snowbank. Back then, in the pre-ducky days, it was always the "Jeep wave"; you pass another jeep, you wave, and if you didn't see it until it was too late, you felt bad about it.

 

[reddog81]

It’s not new, back in the 90’s people would line their dash and rear window with beanie babies. My mom had a few and I remember being embarrassed about it.

 

[llowry61]

Wife drives a grand cherokee, she got her first duck a few weeks back. I guess it is just something fun folks do. It is the only one she has ever received, but will be the last once the 4 Runner arrives from Japan later this month.

 

[Valmet]

Don’t understand it myself but I don’t like things cluttering my dashboard regardless of what it is.

 

[Rustyt1953]

My dad had one on this slant six fire-breather.

 

[mckenney99]

The only duck I've ever gotten was at about 95mph in my patrol car grill when it took off from the berm at just the wrong time. Body behind the grill but the little duck feet were sticking straight out of the grill.
Sorry, wrong kind of little duck story.

 

[HardToHandle]

FWIW, in my area the Jeep with Ducks have almost 100% Venn Diagram with “texting while driving” and “Vente Starbucks cup”. There’s a lot of Jeeps with Ducks in my suburban neighborhood.

I note this because I was getting an annoying Harrison Ford advertisement pushing Jeeps on YouTube earlier this year. Then Jeep switched to a WW2 themed advertisements lately.

Something like 85% of the Jeep Wranglers in my area are driven by women. WW2 and Harrison Ford just don’t seem coincide with Jeeps+Ducks demographic but the Italians who own Jeep must know something I don’t…

 

[rockquarry]

What's a Venn Diagram?

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Imissedagain]

My Jeep driving friends, give them out, to cheer up other owners, after another part falls off their Jeep.