Apocalypse Hellfire...

[ZeoBandit]

I tried to watch their TV show called Truck Dynasty. I couldn't get through the first episode.

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[MauiSteve]

And yet, there will likely be Someone, Somewhere that will look at it and picture themselves out in the boonies or cruising the neighborhood and say Yessssssssssss!
to each his own.

 

[etoften]

Poor fun was fun... when I was a broke kid. Being this is the JL forum, I'm pretty sure we are all past that stage of life. I wouldn't go back to a TJ or even a JK let alone a shitbox samurai, but you do you. And nobody who's ever driven anything with 750hp is going to ever say that an 80hp samurai is just as much fun. Even if it's a hideous, grumper faced, 6x24" wheeled, abomination it would still be a blast to smoke nearly everything on the street that pulls up next to you in this ridiculous thing on 40s.

I might be 50 and have a little more money in the bank but I am still a broke kid. Lol. I appreciate your perspective. I have built and ridden in some of the fastest boats on the water. I would still take a john boat and zebco over them. I have stayed at some of the nicest hotels around the world and eaten $100 steak dinners. Still doesn't beat a blanket, can of beanie weenies, and a night under the stars. Speed, power, and money don't change the way we experience things. They change the things we experience. Our perspective changes the way we experience them. Again, not knocking you. Just sharing a different mindset. I agree completely the samurai was junk. But i will still take a weekend sleeping in the futon in the back at public parking lot on the beach every once in a while to cleanse my soul.

Deep philosophy aside... that thing is still fugly. The higher the price goes the uglier it gets. Lol

 

[Zandcwhite]

I might be 50 and have a little more money in the bank but I am still a broke kid. Lol. I appreciate your perspective. I have built and ridden in some of the fastest boats on the water. I would still take a john boat and zebco over them. I have stayed at some of the nicest hotels around the world and eaten $100 steak dinners. Still doesn't beat a blanket, can of beanie weenies, and a night under the stars. Speed, power, and money don't change the way we experience things. They change the things we experience. Our perspective changes the way we experience them. Again, not knocking you. Just sharing a different mindset. I agree completely the samurai was junk. But i will still take a weekend sleeping in the futon in the back at public parking lot on the beach every once in a while to cleanse my soul.

Deep philosophy aside... that thing is still fugly. The higher the price goes the uglier it gets. Lol

Don't get me wrong, I don't have to spend money to have a good time. We still tent camp in remote locations regularly. But I wouldn't roadtrip a shitbox period. We own 2 nice Jeeps for that. Our off grid property is 600 miles from our house. Crawling out of the tent when it's in the 20's outside I'll keep my seat and steering wheel heaters. The gas is the only real cost of camping/ wheeling but I'll pass on the old, beat up junk we used to do it in. Sure the actual camping and wheeling would be comparable. The getting there not even close. Not to mention the much higher frequency of swinging wrenches on the trail. I can cook a ribeye on the campfire about as easy as a can of beanie weanies and it's infinitely better. Spend the money where it matters I'd say.

 

[ASSFROW]

Just want to point out that buying that ridiculous looking thing now is a waste of money. Didn’t you know? All cars are free in the apocalypse, you just go out and take one (while avoiding the free roaming herds of zombies, of course.) Also, today’s paper currency is tomorrow’s TP, anyway. Just sayin’.

You’d be better off putting your money into guns, ammo, canned goods, medical supplies, and building up your bunker.

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[Zandcwhite]

Another SoFlow Customs that no one wants. I'm amazed those guys are still building that crap.

The seller bailed likely because he paid $200k+ and the bidding was at $90k. Hard to argue no one wants it when there were dozens of bids well over $50k though. Do I want one at $265k (highest price on soflo's website)? Hell no. Would I buy it at a lower price than I paid for the JLUR or JT? Hell yes.

 

[alphawolff]

I guess this action didn't go as planned. Looks like the vehicle was $321K + The cost of buying the vehicle itself. He listed it as a no-reserve auction and it sold for only 90k, then the owner backed out.


Personally I don't think the vehicle is worth anywhere near 100k as it's a novelty as best that'll be near impossible to find shops willing to work on it. Better as a show room piece if anything, but the styling is very subjective.


edit; I dug a bit deeper into the ownership history as I was curious on how such a thing came to be. It actually appears the original owner was the custom shop that built the vehicle, meaning the original $321k invoice is most likely made up as some type of tax write off. I doubt the build price was even half what was 'invoiced'.


I'm genuinely curious what the actual owner paid for it.

 

[Zandcwhite]

I guess this action didn't go as planned. Looks like the vehicle was $321K + The cost of buying the vehicle itself. He listed it as a no-reserve auction and it sold for only 90k, then the owner backed out.

Personally I don't think the vehicle is worth anywhere near 100k as it's a novelty as best that'll be near impossible to find shops willing to work on it. Better as a show room piece if anything, but the styling is very subjective.

Any shop that does amw swaps I'd imagine would work on it. Sure the 6x6 is unique and all, but how often do you have your suspension or axles worked on? The front and rear suspensions are basically the same as any other JT and from the pics the middle is the same as the rear aside from the feed through 9" axle. You probably aren't going to get a dealer to touch it... which makes you better off in my opinion.

 

[alphawolff]

Any shop that does amw swaps I'd imagine would work on it. Sure the 6x6 is unique and all, but how often do you have your suspension or axles worked on? The front and rear suspensions are basically the same as any other JT and from the pics the middle is the same as the rear aside from the feed through 9" axle. You probably aren't going to get a dealer to touch it... which makes you better off in my opinion.

I mean, yeah, but you'd have to have one of those shops readily available to you. A lot of the work is custom so you're generally just working with fabricator shops more than anything. In this case the interior electronics are totally custom, too

I've had 6x6s come into my dealership before for oil changes, which we've done, but that's the limit of what we'd do. If you had an actual problem with the vehicle we wouldn't touch it.

 

[Sportacus]

All that “money” in the build and they use DV8 and Smittybilt parts

Talk about cutting corners, and thats only what we can see.

i was just watching Jurassic World the other day (the first one) and they had a 6x6 Gwagon as one of the park vehicles. I saw that and was thinking, wtf would you have a 6x6 there? I know hammond “spared no expense” but even he wasnt that crazy. Im surprised they didnt have a Gwagon 4x4 squared, although that would actually make more sense, in some small weird way.

this jeep monstrosity only “makes sense” if you live in dubai.

 

[ZeoBandit]

I guess this action didn't go as planned. Looks like the vehicle was $321K + The cost of buying the vehicle itself. He listed it as a no-reserve auction and it sold for only 90k, then the owner backed out.

From reading the comments on the BaT auction site, the owner didn't back out after it sold. BaT pulled the vehicle with an hour left in the auction due to inconsistencies and a "misunderstanding". Everything seems very shady as the owner never responded to any questions about a lien and where the vehicle was actually titled.

 

[Nitehawk92]

Only a day left to get your bids in people!

Apocalypse Hellfire

Ugly ass grille...

 

[flick2614]

The seller bailed likely because he paid $200k+ and the bidding was at $90k. Hard to argue no one wants it when there were dozens of bids well over $50k though. Do I want one at $265k (highest price on soflo's website)? Hell no. Would I buy it at a lower price than I paid for the JLUR or JT? Hell yes.

I was speaking more in terms of how many newly built SoFlo Customs have come up for sale through random channels lately. I have a few contacts at used car lots that have said the auctions are full of them right now.

 

[Zandcwhite]

From reading the comments on the BaT auction site, the owner didn't back out after it sold. BaT pulled the vehicle with an hour left in the auction due to inconsistencies and a "misunderstanding". Everything seems very shady as the owner never responded to any questions about a lien and where the vehicle was actually titled.

Which is pretty much the same as the owner backing out? The only caveat being the owner may not get banned by BaT for it as they can simply claim they were somewhere off grid and couldn't respond but would have sold it for whatever the auction would have closed at.

 

[Deleted member 116711]

I've seen those type of jeep in socal. I frankly don't care for them, they're sort like the cybertruck. Just a monstrosity that's Fugly.

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