If that top and doors still come off like a normal jeep, then this may be genius perfect.

Makes a ton of sense for a fleet vehicle that basically just sits at HQ when off duty.

I was going to ask my barber that tomorrow. I have the suit to match.

MB has had some version of this since 2013. This seems like an evolution of what they’ve been doing for a long time. The problem is the apps & the infotainment system are stuck in the year you buy the car. Imagine an iPhone circa 2013 with no upgrade path & the same 12 apps. If this allows for an upgrade cycle…

BURN IT WITH FIRE! Oh, wait, it will self immolate at the next cars & coffee amid a gaggle of innocent bystanders. All is fine.

When you dole out a pile of cash that size the term sheet will contain enough clauses to make the difference between a loan and an investment blurry. 

We need more riveted body work in this life. Props.

If they could only make a competitive Formula 1 car again, life would be all clovers and stardust. Alas, they are back markers in the pack, and so CP relative to the products out of Maranello & Stuttgart.

Hydrogen buildup.

Very impressive sleuthing through a mess of public data. Well played.

As a small town banker I have a fair amount of experience in this, so here’s my $0.02:

“Electrolyzing it out of water is energy-intensive, and getting it from petroleum derivatives or biomass or other compounds takes more energy than you can recover from its use, and has severe ecological penalties, too.”

VW Bug truck. When I was a growing up I used to see a bunch of these running around KC because a guy a few blocks from my folks had a business that specialized in the conversion. Blew my mind at 10 YO, and I’m still not right in the head.

Seriously, it is this that keeps me coming back to the Jalop. Cheers to you and your mom for what looks like an awesome day together!

So how may rubber parts have rotted to pieces over the last 54 years of being driven 22 miles? I’d imagine all of the them. Every head, main, exhaust, carb, etc. seals, gaskets: toast.

Simple equation: Car’s resale value (or) trade-in value - cost of repair. If you wind up with a negative number, its done. At least that the insurance industry definition as I understand it. I held on to a Toyota Tercel for so long that replacement tires and an oil change meant the car was “technically” totaled. Miss…

The end of the video gets me. “We’re not done collecting data, and we want to put our data out there so that guys can find out that it is repeatable.” (or words to that effect)

Knowing Jim sometimes strolls into the land of Jalop on occasion, if you find this comment, hat’s off to you, sir! You are doing the *good things*. Cheers to bringing an amazing machine up to road worthiness, and may SCG bring you many good returns in the future! Mad respect.

I dunno. Sounds like every v-8 ‘vette I’ve heard for the last 20 years. And the video looks like the handling is loose AF. CP. If they are going to play around with 65 years of front-engined tradition, then they should go full out, and make the thing scream & move like a banshee escaped from Valhalla riding a cheetah…

Pretty sure I could register this as road legal here in Kansas. The entirety of a vehicle inspection in Kansas consists of checking to see that the VIN plate matches the title. That’s it. No safety check, no smog, noise, whatever. Consequentially, every so often you’ll see something on the highway and say, “Damn, how…