I live in the mountains of New Mexico now, and people wave on the back roads as a rule to everybody else, no matter what you're driving (except the Jeep guys, they never wave at the H2). We moved there from rural southern Miss, and people generally waved there, too. But I've waved at just about every H I've seen and can't recall getting a wave or a flash. No big.
Was in Clearwater week before last and had a copper 2 pull up behind me. He eventually got beside me at a light to turn, and I put the window down and told him he had my favorite color 2. He was friendly but I could tell it surprised him.
On the wheeling thing, don't be to quick to snub us 'standards'. I just don't have a lift or bigass wheels or 50 million watts of lights, but we live up a canyon road that I wouldn't have any other vehicle for. This thing is just a friggin beast, both the '04 and the '08. I will build the front end on both if I can ever get the down time, but that's about it. Too much muds and rocks where we live to gussie them up too much.