am I crazy?

[spectre6000]

I was wondering about the bed and what caused that angle.

Rear ended. I don't have a JT yet (MY22 was a huge disappointment, and I barely drive what I have), but if you go out and look about where the bed meets the cab, you'll see a little hole or something in the frame. That's a weak spot they intentionally created to absorb energy in a rear collision scenario. The frame deforms (down so as to not go into the cab of the offending vehicle), and absorbs and redirects the energy from the impact.

If you look with a mind toward forensics, the front of the truck (aside from being completely burned away) is structurally in tact. The rear is not, as described above. It's not impossible this truck was part of a multicar incident and the fire started elsewhere, but statistically it's more likely that it was just this and whatever rear ended it. I've been up close to four vehicle fires in my life, and only one involved in a collision. All four started in the engine bay, so it's likely that whatever hit it caught fire in the engine bay, and it spread. If whoever did the hitting didn't turn the key off, the fuel pump could have kept spraying until the battery finally gave up delivering voltage, and that can be a long time depending on where the battery and fuse block are located (a number of cars have the batteries in the rear and the fuse block in the cab, for instance).

Sponsored

 

[Trickster]

Rear ended. I don't have a JT yet (MY22 was a huge disappointment, and I barely drive what I have), but if you go out and look about where the bed meets the cab, you'll see a little hole or something in the frame. That's a weak spot they intentionally created to absorb energy in a rear collision scenario. The frame deforms (down so as to not go into the cab of the offending vehicle), and absorbs and redirects the energy from the impact.

If you look with a mind toward forensics, the front of the truck (aside from being completely burned away) is structurally in tact. The rear is not as described above. It's not impossible this truck was part of a multicar incident and the fire started elsewhere, but statistically it's more likely that it was just this and whatever rear ended it. I've been up close to four vehicle fires in my life, and only one involved in a collision. All four started in the engine bay, so it's likely that whatever hit it caught fire in the engine bay, and it spread. If whoever did the hitting didn't turn the key off, the fuel pump could have kept spraying until the battery finally gave up delivering voltage, and that can be a long time depending on where the battery and fuse block are located (a number of cars have the batteries in the rear and the fuse block in the cab, for instance).

Maybe. ?

 

[EDsnowdum]

ARE YOU CRAZY!
Put it in your front yard for Halloween ? have lots of goblins flying out of it! Put old pieces of carpet on it, to make it a cat scratcher in the back yard. Put it in an old barn and tell people there was gold coins hidden somewhere inside before it burned.
CRAZY, CRAZY, CRAZY! Woopy!

 

[Aonarch]

Insane

 

[NightFog]

It's a little rough around the edges and might ride a little rough
but other than that it's a true chick magnet

 

[DirkG]

Wouldn't it make more sense to start with something like this? Current bid is $900. Ends tomorrow. Front engine damage would speak to your V8 engine swap but it looks like the rear is clean. A vehicle like this would still be a challenge but IMO way easier (and cheaper) to overhaul.

Here's a list of salvaged Gladiators ...

 

[jo1973hn]

I read an industry article/report/something recently that talked about the metallurgy involved in a JL/JT, and I don't think you'll find that much of the structure will have survived. Assuming the frame aft of the C-pillar isn't folded (and it looks to be), the roll cage and about a foot fore and aft of the b-pillar have for sure been compromised by heat. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. And I'm completely off my rocker. So, yes. You are crazy.

I thought that at first as well, then I realized that the vehicle was stripped before it was burned. for whatever reason they removed the bed, then set it back in place

 

[jo1973hn]

Wouldn't it make more sense to start with something like this? Current bid is $900. Ends tomorrow. Front engine damage would speak to your V8 engine swap but it looks like the rear is clean. A vehicle like this would still be a challenge but IMO way easier (and cheaper) to overhaul.

Here's a list of salvaged Gladiators ...

I would love to pick this rig up for 900 bucks! but if it goes for less than 10K, i would be surprised....

 

[EDsnowdum]

Wouldn't it make more sense to start with something like this? Current bid is $900. Ends tomorrow. Front engine damage would speak to your V8 engine swap but it looks like the rear is clean. A vehicle like this would still be a challenge but IMO way easier (and cheaper) to overhaul.

Here's a list of salvaged Gladiators ...

It’s not BBQ ? pit worthy! A CRAZY MAN understands the allure of achieving the impossible, but always fails to think ? ahead, thus, he fails to notice that when he is done with his restoration, the better job he does the less likely anyone will believe in it’s original hideous condition — and then the MADNESS ensues!

 

[spectre6000]

I thought that at first as well, then I realized that the vehicle was stripped before it was burned. for whatever reason they removed the bed, then set it back in place

What? How? Why? To what degree? So many questions...

Sponsored