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JT Nesbitt, Designer Of The Confederate Wraith, Readying Land Speed-Record Attempt Documentary
I first met JT Nesbitt in August 2005, when he was the most famous motorcycle designer in the world. I was in New Orleans to profile him, which I did in an article titled "Mafia, Guns, Sex Toys and Hurricanes." It's that hurricane that changed things. A few months later I finally got JT on the phone. He was at work, at his new job in a gay bar, cleaning used condoms out of the toilet with his bare hands. But even Katrina couldn't keep JT down for long. Last September he headed to the Bonneville salt flats to attempt to set a speed record in a Lincoln Mark VIII he salvaged from New Orleans' flood waters. The documentary Salt Dreams tells that story.More »
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What Would You Drive To Your High School Reunion?
Now that we've given you an opportunity to help us determine what I'll be driving to my high school reunion, we're interested in knowing what car you'd drive and why. Yes, we've asked this question once before, and got some great responses — but in honor of this Turkey Day weekend, and my little soirée on Saturday — we figure it's appropriate to ask it again. So talk to us this Black Friday and tell us what you'd be pulling up to the door driving.
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I was the fat kid in high school. There, I said it. In fact, I was what you'd call "unpopular" — I'd never get invited to the parties, never got the date with the cheerleader and most certainly never drove the cool car. But all that pent-up pain and angst finally has the opportunity to release itself this Saturday with my high school reunion at Como's in Ferndale, MI. You see, a reunion's the perfect place to finally get one's comeuppance on the "cool kids" — whether it's through losing weight, taking the cheerleader with you or driving a cool car. I'll be trying to do all three — but for purposes of our loyal readers here at Jalopnik the a priori issue at hand is the car. And luckily, I happen to, as an auto journalist hack pundit blogger, have a decent number of options in front of me. I've narrowed my choices down to two diametrically opposite vehicles — the Jeep JT concept and the new 2008 Corvette Z06. Now here's the fun part — I want your advice as to what you think I should be rolling up to Como's in and then later today we'll be asking you what car you'd drive if you had unlimited options in a very special high school reunion edition of the Question of the Day. Then on Monday, come back here and we'll find out which one I ended up rolling down Woodward Avenue in and why. For the time being check out the shots below of the two choices and then hit the jump for the poll to help us answer the question at hand:
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Jeep JT Concept vs 2008 Corvette Z06: What Should Wert Drive To His High School Reunion?
I was the fat kid in high school. There, I said it. In fact, I was what you'd call "unpopular" — I'd never get invited to the parties, never got the date with the cheerleader and most certainly never drove the cool car. But all that pent-up pain and angst finally has the opportunity to release itself this Saturday with my high school reunion at Como's in Ferndale, MI. You see, a reunion's the perfect place to finally get one's comeuppance on the "cool kids" — whether it's through losing weight, taking the cheerleader with you or driving a cool car. I'll be trying to do all three — but for purposes of our loyal readers here at Jalopnik the a priori issue at hand is the car. And luckily, I happen to, as an auto More »
1:30 PM on Fri Nov 23 2007
By Ray Wert
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140 comments
Latest by n/a: The Vette has image problems if you're trying to avoid the midlife crisis look. Any old jeep wouldn't be my pick, but this is a one-of-a-kind, and so it's the easy choice. more »
spy photos
We were wondering where those Jeep pickup prototypes we showed you earlier were going and now, we've got an answer from spy photographer of the star-cars, Brenda Priddy. OK, it's actually from Phil Howell of Off-Road magazine, who she's quoting, but anyway here's the deal:
The Mystery Of The Jeep Pickup Truck Prototypes Solved: They're Being Sold To Egypt, Israel...Or Somewhere Not Here
We were wondering where those Jeep pickup prototypes we showed you earlier were going and now, we've got an answer from spy photographer of the star-cars, Brenda Priddy. OK, it's actually from Phil Howell of Off-Road magazine, who she's quoting, but anyway here's the deal: "The Jeep you see here is one of the units built to sell (hopefully) to the Egyptian military. As you can see, the rear doors are welded shut and, on the inside load floor, there's a pickup-style steel bed. It's powered by a diesel, has rear leaf springs and a rear Dana 60.More »
1:45 PM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Ray Wert
2,962 views,
15 comments
Latest by jeroen: Uhm, wait, what... How come AIL don't build their own Jeeps? [www.ail.co.il] more »
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