Episode 1002 – Jeep and EJS
Jeep Concept Vehicles
We here at the Jeep Talk Show have been wondering if Jeep was going to be at the Easter Jeep Safari this year! As you may remember Stelantis had pulled out of several events last year, including SEMA. We thought, surely, they would be at EJS, and they are!
Jeep has concept vehicles, that either I’m looking at NOW, when you’re hearing this, or will see during this week as I and several team members and listeners are at EJS 2024.
I’m hoping that this will be a yearly event that Jeep Talk Show each year.
Jeep describes its vehicles as “an entirely new collection of attention-grabbing, mission-capable concept vehicles.” Featuring a wide range of Jeep Performance Parts by Mopar. Can you say Jim Morrison?
Jeep has published small teasers about these concept vehicles. Looks like five Wranglers based on one Gladiator, and a Grand Wagoneer. As I recall this is similar to what was revealed in EJS 2023.
Stay tuned to the show, and our social media for first-hand JTS reporting and images. No telling who we might be speaking to about the Jeep concept vehicles.
Towed Jeep Goes Up in Flames
A man who was driving a car and towing a Jeep on Monday afternoon, March 11, pulled to the side of I-55 in Festus, unhooked the Jeep that had caught fire and fled while authorities dealt with the fire, authorities said.
The Festus Fire Department got a call about the vehicle fire at approximately 2:20 p.m., Chief Jeff Broombaugh said.
“A car was towing another vehicle on southbound I-55 just north of Hwy. A when a (Missouri State Highway Patrol) trooper followed it after seeing smoke from the towed vehicle,” Broombaugh said. “(The driver) pulled over. The state trooper tried to put (the fire) out with an extinguisher but could not.
“Herculaneum was first on the scene; then I got there. It was already about 50 percent involved. The gas tank had ruptured and was leaking gas. We got it out and remained on scene for about an hour.”
Broombaugh estimated traffic on I-55 southbound was stopped for 20 to 30 minutes.
The Jeep was destroyed by the fire and nothing else is known about the vehicle, he said.
No firefighters were injured during the incident, he added.
Cpl. Dallas Thompson, spokesperson for the Highway Patrol, said the trooper was busy dealing with the fire while the male driver fled.
“The driver unhooked and pulled forward from the (Jeep),” Thompson said. “The trooper turned to talk to fire personnel and the driver took off.”
Thompson said the matter remains under investigation, but the condition of the Jeep after the fire left little evidence behind.
The Festus and Herculaneum fire departments extinguished the car fire.
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