wildmanjoe

In what, a crash test?

Cheers or Jeers: 8,000 Mile 1985 Chevrolet Cavalier Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item3f1722241c (H/T SAmedi)

Cheers or Jeers: 291 Mile 1975 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item41656b3bfc (H/T SAmedi)

Cheers or Jeers: 1996 Hummer H1 Pickup Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item3cc5abd6a2 ******************************************************************** If this truck were a woman, I would marry her and we would have many strange looking children.

Cheers or Jeers: 1998 Lincoln Town Car 4x4 Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item231ce8fa0d

Cheers or Jeers: 1,000 Mile 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1996-Cadillac-Fleetwood-Brougham-NEW-LT1-Museum-Car-/150806750067?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item231cc86373

Check the maintenance history and do a test drive to see how well the transmission shifts and the steering/suspension handles. At these miles it isn't unusual for steering parts to wear out, suspension bushings to to go bad or transmissions to slip. If everything checks out there's no reason you couldn't squeeze another 100,000 miles out of it. Were you thinking of commuting with it, making a conversion van out of it or just using it to haul stuff that wouldn't fit in the Envoy?

Cheers or Jeers: 11,000 Mile 1940 American Bantam Riviera Convertible Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item231cb1f45f

Cheers or Jeers: Ford Focus Powered Ranger Cabbed Stake Bed With Suzuki Grille Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Rat-Rod-01-motor-34-MPG-5speed-/150805758744?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item231cb94318

Cheers or Jeers: Custom 1957 Chevrolet Corvette Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1957-CHEVROLET-CORVETTE-60S-CUSTOM-AWARD-WINNING-SHOW-CAR-/170833700021?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item27c67b64b5

Cheers or Jeers: 17 Mile 1978 Corvette Pace Car Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1978-Corvette-Pace-Car-L82-4-Speed-17-Miles-/120898081110?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item1c26165156

That's why I posted it. I've seen it called A GM, a Pontiac, a 1973, a 1977, etc.

Make, model and year.

There are still some things that automotive journalists can do better than the common car guy, it's just a matter of actually doing them. For instance: 1. When interviewing someone, don't let them weasel out of giving you a proper answer. For example, here's a recent interview from Four Wheeler: The proper follow up would be to ask him to be more specific, and if he isn't going to be, mention some dirt you were able to dig up on upcoming products. The answer Scott gave was useless and should never have been printed. 2. Know your audience. A journalist's job is to use his knowledge, expertise and investigative skills to clarify issues and enlighten their particular sub-set of readers, not engage in grab assing with other auto journalists or putting out Farago and Davis-esque fluff that is all style and no substance. 3. Unless they're an interesting person who has lead an interesting life and has interesting things to say, a journalist should stay away from opinion pieces. I don't mean they shouldn't have an opinion, I mean if they're going to go through the trouble of writing up an opinion piece and presenting it to the public, they would do well to make sure it is well supported and coming from someone who has been places and done things their readers have not; not something mundane that others have already expressed in a better fashion. An interesting and well informed opinion is one people will seek out; retreading the same tripe that has been said a thousand different ways before will not win them any fans. 4. Learn to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate criticism. A journalist's works needs to stand or fail based on its own merits, not be considered above critique because their position of unwarranted self importance. If critic says the journalists writing has more nutritional value than literary value, that's why the critic makes a habit of printing off everything the journalist writes and eating it; then the journalist can safely dismiss what the critic has to say. If the critic points out logical and factual errors in what the journalist writes, then the journalist needs to learn from the experience and move on, instead of being like this goofus: http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100615/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2616 5. Try to have some expertise in both their area of the automotive world as well as journalism. Whether they used to be mechanics, designers, engineers, etc; the journalist can offer some information and insight the reader otherwise would not be privy to. It's part of what separates an interesting journalist from one who just lightly edits and reposts press releases and those who the public admires and respects.

Icon is doing that, but it costs $80,000 a vehicle, base price: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/automobiles/collectibles/27ICON.html If I ever get the money, I'd like to design an open source Jeep knockoff that could be built with cheap and commonly available parts. A wood body would be easy enough to design, but I'd have to find a suitable power train and steering assembly. I've though about a GM one, but I'm not a fan of the vacuum actuated four wheel drive, I've though about a Ford one, but I'm not a fan of twin traction beam; I've thought about a Jeep one, but the axles are always either expensive or trashed. I'm sure there's a solution we're both looking for, I just haven't thought of it yet.

Cheers or Jeers: 1,000 Mile 1994 Jeep Wrangler Sahara Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1994-Jeep-Wrangler-Sahara-Edition-ONLY-1k-miles-Automatic-A-C-/251049479421?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item3a73b70cfd

Cheers or Jeers: 1986 GMC 4x4 Firetruck Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item19d061e6a2

Does the Wrangler double as a boat? Nope. If you put a trolling motor on your $30,000 grand Wrangler Unlimited and drive it into a lake, you'll just sink the same as any other overpriced Wrangler. Okay ... I'll take my tongue out of my cheek for a minute and admit that there is honestly only one Jeep. But I think there could be a big market for a (steel) kit version of the classic Army Jeep that could also float on water as long as its cheap. Something you could build yourself in a shed over the course a weekend and immediately start bashing it out on some trails. And in all seriousness, the Wrangler has become too expensive these days to be anything more than something you buy for its image and the other Jeeps currently in the line-up, as much as I like them, seriously do lack the off-road prowess of their ancestors. Closest you're going to get pricewise would be something like an old M38: http://www.midwestmilitary.net/51m38salep1.html $4,900 Or a GPW: http://www.midwestmilitary.net/WallysGPWsale.html $5,500

I question the impact resistance of the plywood:

Cheers or Jeers: 22,000 Mile 1968 Pontiac Firebird Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item2a1c8de7e8

Terex Titan 33-19. Now on display in Sparwood, British Columbia. 3,300 Horsepower.

Still 1,300hp short of this thread's mystery truck.

GMTruckGuy74 mentioned the company's name in the Faceoff! thread, and Chevrolet built a semi tractor by the same model name between 1968 and 1988.

A version of the engine was used in trains, but this version of the engine was not. Think bigger than a train or bus.

Fixed. Here's the video I meant to post: