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When Enzo Ferrari turned down Bill Harrah's request for a 4x4 Ferrari, Harrah did what any wealthy car collector would, thumbed his nose at Maranello and built his own. Taking a 1969 Jeep Wagoneer and mating it with a Ferrari 365 GT, the Jerrari was born. While its original 4.4L V12 is long gone in favor of a far more reliable 350 V8, the weirdly attractive bodywork and handsome interior are still all there. Not only is it in impeccable shape, it's up for auction on eBay.
Yes indeed, one of the two ever built is going against the block and at the moment of writing, fetching a positively reasonable $8,100. Sure there are over six days left before the winner is declared, and it is out in LA so all those red meat loving, SUV driving wackos will be all over it, but still — Ferrari SUV. Cool. [eBay Listing] (Thanks for the tip mtdrv)
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WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING IN THE BADGE?!!
And now for something completely different.
@Parkington: Seriously? That's the jeep. Popeye, I think.
@Parkington: That's the character Jeep from Popeye, who some say the magic lil' truck was named after (can't you read?).
In my ledger, that badge is worth millions of dollars.
I had a Jeep just like that (a '68). I never got around to adding the Italian sheetmetal to the nose however. I sort of liked the the way it was.
@Parkington: Jeepjeep! That's a jeep; a critter from the old Popeye cartoons.
Oddly compelling bodywork is the only way to describe this.
The fact that he had a badge like that custom made echoes the beauty of this machine.
I am simultaneously horrified and awed. Horrifawed?
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
@tenbeers: That's a keeper.
Tasteful Abomination???
I need to lie down now.
WOW! That thing is so Horrendous! I think I just found a new company car to replace our dead Smart!
The fact that there's no Ferrari engine in there makes it even more pointless and as such, more awesome.
And hey, are there photos of the 365GT with the Wagoneer nose?
Needs a bit of a rounder rear, I think. Round tail-lights from a later-model wagoneer to tie the front to the back and you're set. Also, a V12.
I would have preferred the 4x4 donor be a Rover of similar vintage. That would at least have a bit more pedigree. Only seconds later, that thing I said about pedigree now sounds like bullshit to me. It's only good quality is that it was way ahead of its time, as far as the luxury "sport" 4x4 wasn't actually realized in the market place until the late eighties.
Now there is room for Popeye, Wimpy, Olive Oyl, Sweet Pea, and Brutus... and their luggage.
Seriously, that badge emblem is worth the price of admission.
@beercheck:
Lol. I guess I'm not old enough to know this.
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...frightening.
Is it heretical to find the Jerrari desirable?
We need to have another Maximum Wagon Day.
This eats Cayennes for breakfast.
I mean, I'll take my Wagoneer with copious wood panelling and sheet metal that was as straight as the roads it could handle.
Oww! Oww! Mind cramp!
@Maymar: Buh, lost train of thought. That was supposed to end on the notion that I like my Wagoneers Grand, but this is still kick-awesome.
@charles_barrett: If Wimpy's there, the back's filled with burgers (as it should be), although they could always throw a roof rack back on.
It's like they were almost successful in shoving the square peg in the round hole.
He's also got a Wagoneer with a Ferarri V-12 in it at his museum.
A waste of two perfectly good icons. Like putting Angelina Jolie's face on Arnold Schwarzenegger's body.
That may be the Jalopnik car of the year!
@Turboner: Like, exactly almost.
@weatherman: You have no idea how brilliant your idea is.
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a Jerrari today.
@badco/LoJ: You mean the Feep?
im disgusted yet drawn near
Harrah's other Jerrari can be seen at the National Auto Museum in Reno.
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Jerrari: a perfect way to turn 2 colectible cars in something un-colectible..
he owner must be a potz...
You've got your chocolate in my peanut-butter! HEY! You've got Ferrari on my Wagoneer!!!!
Meh, he should have built a Rambler with a Dino V6 to go with it.
@STORC: I've got an upcoming DOTS submission that might have something to say about that...
So it's a Wagoneer with a Ferrari front end welded on and then the whole thing is lowered a bit? Really? I'm gonna pass.
I read about the Jerrari (one of them) in Ferrari by F,M,&T years ago. I'd never seen this pictured and that's probably okay b/c it certainly isn't my cup of tea.
THAT BADGE, however, is about the coolest thing I have seen in forever. Maybe that needs to be the Jalopnik secret greeting ("Jeep! Jeep!").
That's it. I'm off lolcats for the duration and headed to youtube to see if I can find any popeye Jeep clips. I'm probably going to be writing Jeep at the bottom of every post for a long time. I won't be able to help myself. Man, that's cool.
Jeep! Jeep!
I have to say I love it. It almost looks like something a company would attempt to build, sell for three years, have unmanagable cost overruns and engine fires, then sell the factory it was built in and fire all the workers just to get away from it.
It screams Italian Alps and the lair from "On Her Majesties Secret Service".
Yeah, I'd bid on it if I lived close enough to look at it first.
I knew it existed, but this is the first time I've seen it. I was hoping that he had just put a Ferrari v12 in a regular Wagoneer. That would have been COOL! But this . . . .this . . . .abortion . . . . gaaak! Two nice vehicles ruined.
@readplays: If it'll help your search, I think he was "Eugene the Jeep..."
(yeah, I'm old enough to remember black-and-white Popeye cartoons on black-and-white TV sets...) I get the Jeep confused with the Shmoo, which I think was from "Li'l Abner"...
@rawtoast:
I threw up in my mouth ALLOT!
It's a POS Jeep with a funny nose.
Pointless really. Don't you think?
@CEman:
jeepari hates you too,jeepari is displeased.
This is like the automotive equivalent of a mullet, although I can't decide which end is "party" and which is "business".
The Reverse Mullet Car--Party in the front, business in the back.
@tenbeers: "I am simultaneously horrified and awed. Horrifawed?" You said it.
Ferrari nose, Jeep body, Jaguar BRG paint, Lincoln Mark V roof covering and pro-street Chevelle wheels. Thats just the outside. Frighteningly cool!
@69 woodie..wait for it..:
I fear no jeepwhatevers. Bring the jeepwhatevers on.
Sure. There aren't enough mutherfukin' SUV pretend off road vehicles choking the ROADS already. ONE manufacturer has the good taste to not build another big ugly vision blocker, so there is still a bit of taste and class left in the world.
But some people just won't settle for that.
People like that would draw a beard on the Mona Lisa if it weren't protected behind glass.
@CEman:
fine, their coming for you biatch.
@biminitwst: i'm startin to see your side of the argument.
The creation of this vehicle is a legendary story and it was done by one of the true icons of the automotive hobby. It was always meant to be "in your face", and, judging by the comments, it still does it very well.
.. jagoneer? lol [it would be better a jaguar, then it would sound better 'jagoneer, i mean, since most of the car IS wagoneer]
LOL. When a Ferrari and Jeep make a baby. This is one unique one off
I love it!
All that car needs is a pair of twin turbos for additional earth-crawling torque.
@weatherman:
Arnie would be delighted to have Angelina's face on his body, I'm sure.