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Guess where I went today... to see the fastest MJ (so far)..


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...after 3 hours of sleep too...

 

 

 

 

I'll post more after I take a nap.  :crazy:  Photo taking was VERY restricted (you will only see the MJ above), but I can tell you that the SCCA MJ, the blue 9-miles-on-the-odometer MJ and the Thunderchief are in good company among Hemi and turbine cars. :thumbsup:

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Our fellow member, World's Fastest Comanche, wanted to see the original and was able to set up an inspection, (which turned into a tour). He can fill in more info when he finally gets home (doesn't live anywhere near here). I asked if I could tag along and fortunately the guy at Chrysler agreed. :clapping: I can't believe all the times I've driven right by those buildings and never knew what was in them. :roll:

I'm working on the pics and will have them up shortly.

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Let's step back here. When did this take place? It has a 1986 Bonneville sticker with a 4.0 and a shortbed. Okay, it was a pre-production truck. So it was an AMC project. Now you know why it's kept under wraps, it's not a MOPAR.

Here's some food for thought. It had been written that when Chrysler bought AMC, the AMC engineers 'straightened' out engineering. Now we flash forward twenty years. Are Chrysler's troubles a result of the old AMC people retiring or because the AMC people 'straighened' out Chrysler? Maybe that's why Renault sold out. Jeep may actually be a curse.

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"Worlds fastest Comanche" knows more about the details of the test than I do. :hmm: But I believe it should be an 87 truck (like most vehicles, 87s came out in late 86 and engineers would have had test mules much earlier in that year). I didn't think to snap a shot of the VIN. :doh:

 

 

Is this at the Walter P. Chrysler museum? I like the single tow hook, makes it look like it's snearing.

 

 

Nope. This is at a discrete storage facility on a different chunk of Chrysler property. The building doesn't have a name, sign or even an address as far as I can tell. :dunno:

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"Worlds fastest Comanche" knows more about the details of the test than I do. :hmm: But I believe it should be an 87 truck (like most vehicles, 87s came out in late 86 and engineers would have had test mules much earlier in that year). I didn't think to snap a shot of the VIN. :doh:

 

 

Is this at the Walter P. Chrysler museum? I like the single tow hook, makes it look like it's snearing.

 

 

Nope. This is at a discrete storage facility on a different chunk of Chrysler property. The building doesn't have a name, sign or even an address as far as I can tell. :dunno:

 

The "Area 51" of Jeep History...

 

"I Want to Believe!"

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No pics of the other MJs. We were only allowed to film the one truck.

 

The cars are put on display when needed. I gathered that this was a storage and restoration location.

 

And I learned of this the same way you all did (or could have). W.F.C. posted on page 6 of his thread that he was going to visit the truck. I asked if I could join and was fortunate enough to get tag-a-long permission. :banana:

 

When i spoke to the Historian eariler, i had requested to see the truck, in the letter with the pictures he said that i could come and look at it and gave me the contact. I will probably head over next Friday with my son. It is stored in a building with 300 other "signifigant" chrysler vehicles.
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