{"id":10377,"date":"2010-06-23T22:07:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T05:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/?p=10377"},"modified":"2012-08-04T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T19:36:21","slug":"land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Racing Jeep Comanche, Yeah, You Heard Me, A Jeep!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fland-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F06%2FSpirit-of-America-Land-Speed-Racer.JPG&amp;description=Land+Racing+Jeep+Comanche%2C+Yeah%2C+You+Heard+Me%2C+A+Jeep%21\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[10377]\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"Land Racing Jeep Comanche, Yeah, You Heard Me, A Jeep!\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Land Racing Jeep Comanche, Yeah, You Heard Me, A Jeep!&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\" data-text=\"Land Racing Jeep Comanche, Yeah, You Heard Me, A Jeep!\" data-desc=\"Bonneville Salt Flats: Jeep Race Car This story is: \"My Ride is Me\"!\u00a0 Combine Bonneville Salt Flats Racing,\u00a0a Jeep Comanche and a father and a son.\u00a0 Perfect! Meet Peter, a new member\u00a0here at\u00a0MyRideisMe.com, he's a\u00a0Jeep guy, but not the off-road type\u00a0 you might expect.\u00a0 Here's his story... It\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Spirit-of-America-Land-Speed-Racer.JPG\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><h3>Bonneville Salt Flats: Jeep Race Car<\/h3>\n<p>This story is: &#8220;My Ride is Me&#8221;!\u00a0 Combine Bonneville Salt Flats Racing,\u00a0a Jeep Comanche and a father and a son.\u00a0 Perfect!<\/p>\n<p>Meet Peter, a new member\u00a0here at\u00a0MyRideisMe.com, he&#8217;s a\u00a0Jeep guy, but not the off-road type\u00a0 you might expect.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s his story&#8230; It was too good for me to mess with.\u00a0 ha ha\u00a0 I asked him one question, that&#8217;s all it took to get him talking. -Hechtspeed<\/p>\n<p>Written by: Peter Lechtanski<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;The Inspiration?\u00a0\u00a0 Why do people do what they do?\u00a0 What makes something (a car) so important to us?<\/h3>\n<p>I guess to answer your question, I have to go back 40 some years, it was 1963, and a saw a story on the evening news (on a black and white TV) about this 24 year old guy named Craig Breedlove. He&#8217;d just gone 400mph+ at the Bonneville Salt Flats, breaking a record held by the British since 1949.\u00a0\u00a0 He was the first man to go over 400mph in a car (and later the first man to go 500, and 600mph).<\/p>\n<p>I was about 12 years old at the time, 2 years before we elected John Kennedy, the youngest President ever.\u00a0 The Country was charged up.\u00a0 We were challenged by our President to go out and do things, like go to the moon!\u00a0 He also started the Peace Corps\u00a0 and VISTA (Volunteers In Service to America).\u00a0 Mostly young people joined these organizations.\u00a0 We all believed our generation could change the world!<\/p>\n<p>Craig Bredlove was charged up too, his car was the &#8220;Spirit of America&#8221; . His goal was to bring the Land Speed Record back to America, and he did.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Spirit-of-America-Land-Speed-Racer.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[10377]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10663\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Spirit of America Land Speed Racer driven by Craig Breedlove\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Spirit-of-America-Land-Speed-Racer.JPG\" alt=\"Spirit of America, Land Speed Racer, Bonneville Salt Flats, Craig Breedlove\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Spirit-of-America-Land-Speed-Racer.JPG 615w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Spirit-of-America-Land-Speed-Racer-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Spirit-of-America-Land-Speed-Racer-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Spirit-of-America-Land-Speed-Racer-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 60&#8217;s was a time of endless possibilities (I guess you had to be there).\u00a0\u00a0 Craig Breedlove continued to go faster and faster, but a couple of brothers from Ohio started to challenge him,\u00a0 The Arfons brothers.\u00a0\u00a0 It was mostly Art Arfons in the Green Monster.\u00a0\u00a0 The record would go back and forth between Breedlove and Afrons.<\/p>\n<p>On Breedlove&#8217;s return run to break the 500 mph record,\u00a0 both his chutes failed, they ripped right off.\u00a0 His brakes were a joke, but he was going 400 some mph, no chutes, and his steering was not working correctly.\u00a0 He did put on the brakes, and although all of Breedlove&#8217;s speed records have been broken, he still holds the Guinness record for the worlds longest skid mark (5 miles i think!) After 10 miles or so he finally ran out of salt, and ended up in a pond with just the tail of the car sticking out.\u00a0 He walked away without a scratch!\u00a0 Talk about the invincibility of youth!\u00a0 This was reality TV back in my day.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this was exciting! Going fast on the Bonneville Salt flats seemed like a great goal. Of course life happens, and the great hope of the early 60&#8217;s turned to civil\u00a0 rights riots and the Vietnam war.\u00a0 Then I got married, had 2 kids and perused my career.<\/p>\n<p>I had always liked Jeeps, My grandfather has a 1949 CJ on his farm I use to drive around when I was 10 years old or so.\u00a0 When I first started to drive\u00a0 at 16\u00a0 I had a 1962 Jeep Wagoneer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A little later I got a 1952 CJ3a that was badly rusted and restored it over a couple of years.\u00a0 I also did cool stuff like an engine swap, redesigned the steering,\u00a0 put an overdrive in it, etc.\u00a0 But marriage and the career left little time to work on the Jeep. It set for 2 years in the driveway with a tarp on it, and I finally ended up selling it.<\/p>\n<p>So fast forward about 15 years&#8230; My son is 16 years old and tells me about a deal on a Jeep CJ7.\u00a0 It belongs to a friend&#8217;s dad.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s broke and they wanted it out of their driveway.\u00a0 I went to look at it, it was VERY rusty, it had a Chevy 383 stroker in it, TH350, Dana 300 transfer case.\u00a0\u00a0 The output shaft of the Transfer case was snapped off, i guess that 383 had some torque! We bought it for a couple of hundred bucks and dragged it home.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be a good father-son project, and maybe deep down I wanted to replace the CJ I had sold so many years before.\u00a0 Well I started to look for a new transfer case on the internet, and my son started to pull the body off to see what kind of repairs were required and what the condition of the frame was.\u00a0 Turns out the body was not worth fixing, and the frame was pretty bad as well.\u00a0 We decided to keep going with it anyway, but it went from being a quick fix to a long term project.\u00a0\u00a0 My son still needed some transportation.\u00a0\u00a0 I went on Ebay and found a 1986 Jeep J10 pickup for $2,500.\u00a0 Not a bad deal for a 4wd pickup.\u00a0 Problem was that it was in Joseph, Oregon and Ilived in Barrington, IL.\u00a0\u00a0 My wife an I flew out and drove it the 1,800 miles home, but that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/White-Jeep-Commanche.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[10377]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10665\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"White Jeep Commanche\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/White-Jeep-Commanche.JPG\" alt=\"White Jeep Commanche\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/White-Jeep-Commanche.JPG 922w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/White-Jeep-Commanche-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/White-Jeep-Commanche-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/White-Jeep-Commanche-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So my son drove a Jeep pickup to High School.\u00a0 The truck was made the same year my son was born.\u00a0\u00a0 People would ask him &#8220;what is that?&#8221; or &#8220;Jeep makes pickup trucks?&#8221;\u00a0 The truck was in great shape, and I think my son liked being a little different then everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it is not uncommon that when you have some special type of car, they tend to multiply.<\/p>\n<p>One day a guy I worked with said &#8220;I have a friend that has a Jeep Wagoneer that&#8217;s been sitting in his garage for 10 years and he wants it out, you interested?&#8221;\u00a0 My son and I went over and looked at it. Turns out it was not a Wagoneer, but a full size Cherokee in great shape.\u00a0\u00a0 It had a 360 V8 with a Holley, Edelebrock intake, headers, cam, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 I asked &#8221; why is it sitting &#8221;\u00a0 the owner said,&#8221;After I put all of the performance stuff on, the transmission took a crap, I just never got around to fixing it.&#8221;\u00a0 We bought it for $100 and dragged it home.\u00a0 My son actually fixed it himself.\u00a0 Turns out there was nothing wrong with the trans!\u00a0 When the previous owner put the carb on he didn&#8217;t adjust the kick down linkage correctly so the transmission would not shift correctly.\u00a0 In the mean time the J truck had engine problems (another story) so my son started driving the Cherokee.\u00a0 After about 6 month of driving he hit some ice and slid into a tree.\u00a0 The frame was bent pretty bad and he needed transportation to get to his job and school.\u00a0 Back to Ebay to buy what else? Another Jeep.\u00a0 Found a Jeep Comanche not too far away for $1,200.\u00a0 My daughter wrecked her car about a year later and needed some transportation, I also bought her a Comanche for $700.<\/p>\n<p>I guess kept buying the Jeeps because they were cool, cheap, reliable and just a little different. Maybe it all started when I was 10 years old driving the CJ around my Grandfathers farm.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of like the guy who rode in the back of his dad&#8217;s 56 Chevy, and 50 years later he buys one of his own.\u00a0 Maybe alot of this car thing is about reliving your youth, I don&#8217;t know if it is or it isn&#8217;t but\u00a0 I do know I enjoy it and passing it all along to my son.<\/p>\n<p>But a piece was missing, and it didn&#8217;t come to me until I saw a special on the Speed Channel about Craig Breedlove and the Spirit of America.\u00a0\u00a0 I recalled the days of my youth when my friends an I would follow what was going on in the late summer and fall at the Bonneville Salt Flats.\u00a0 I guess it was a few months later, the spring of 2008\u00a0 when I typed the letters S-C-T-A\u00a0 into the Google search box.\u00a0\u00a0 It took me to the Southern California Timing association website.\u00a0 I clicked on &#8220;Event schedules&#8221;\u00a0 and scrolled down to Bonneville.\u00a0 There it was,\u00a0 Speed week.\u00a0 I called up my son and told him we were going to Bonneville 2nd week of\u00a0 August, he said, &#8221; I&#8217;m in&#8221; and it was set: Our pilgrimage to the <strong>Mecca of Speed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bonneville is like no other event I&#8217;ve been to in my life. The place, the people, the cars, all just amazing!\u00a0 But, to get back to the story, I think it was on Tuesday afternoon of Speed Week&#8230; I was looking at the program, and I noticed that the record for E\/PP\u00a0 (4.3L\u00a0 Production Pickup)\u00a0 was only about 115 mph.\u00a0 Jeep had offered a 258 (4.2L) inline 6 in the J Trucks.\u00a0 The Jeep pickup was designed around 1960, so it was not as large as current full size pickups, so it should have less wind resistance.\u00a0 My son and I talked and agreed that running a truck would be way more fun that just watching.\u00a0 We also still had the J truck my son drove in High School.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/A-man-and-his-Jeep-Commanche.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[10377]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10675\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"A man and his Jeep Commanche\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/A-man-and-his-Jeep-Commanche.JPG\" alt=\"Jeep Commanche, salt flats racing, bonneville\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/A-man-and-his-Jeep-Commanche.JPG 1536w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/A-man-and-his-Jeep-Commanche-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/A-man-and-his-Jeep-Commanche-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/A-man-and-his-Jeep-Commanche-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we returned from\u00a0 Bonneville I started emailing several companies asking if they could build an engine for me, they asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s the application?&#8221;\u00a0 I would say &#8220;<strong>Land Speed Racing<\/strong>.&#8221; Lee Hurley from Hesco in Birmingham AL replied back: &#8220;We already built an engine for a Jeep Land Speed truck.&#8221;\u00a0 Huh? What? Another Jeep land speed truck?\u00a0\u00a0 What is this all about?<\/p>\n<p>Well back to the internet. After some research, I found that in 1986 An engineer at JTE\u00a0 (Jeep and Truck Engineering) came up with the idea to show the performance of\u00a0 new 4.0L engine by setting a land speed record with a Comanche Pickup, they actually ending up setting 13 records.\u00a0 They built the truck over 4-5 months and originally ran it at El Mirage as the LSR 1.\u00a0\u00a0 They destroyed the engine by overheating it.\u00a0 They then took the truck to Bonneville with a new engine and relabeled it the LSR 2.\u00a0 It was at Bonneville that they set all the records.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Original-Jeep-Engineering-Crew-at-Bonneville.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10377]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10666\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Original Jeep Engineering Crew at Bonneville\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Original-Jeep-Engineering-Crew-at-Bonneville.jpg\" alt=\"Jeep Engineering Crew, Bonneville, LSR\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Original-Jeep-Engineering-Crew-at-Bonneville.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Original-Jeep-Engineering-Crew-at-Bonneville-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Original-Jeep-Engineering-Crew-at-Bonneville-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Original-Jeep-Engineering-Crew-at-Bonneville-400x230.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During my research I was able to locate the LSR2 at the Chrysler archives in Michigan.\u00a0 My son and I were able to visit the archives and examine the truck.\u00a0 After seeing the truck, we realized that a full size Jeep Pickup land speed vehicle would be cool,\u00a0 but a Comanche (mini pickup)\u00a0 would actually have some history behind it.\u00a0\u00a0 The decision was made. The project was begun.<br \/>\nI am out of time for now.<\/p>\n<p>More in part 2.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>To be continued.<\/p>\n<p>Hechtspeed<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fland-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=Land+Racing+Jeep+Comanche%2C+Yeah%2C+You+Heard+Me%2C+A+Jeep%21\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"Land Racing Jeep Comanche, Yeah, You Heard Me, A Jeep!\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Land Racing Jeep Comanche, Yeah, You Heard Me, A Jeep!&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/land-racing-jeep-commanche-yeah-you-heard-me-a-jeep\/\" data-text=\"Land Racing Jeep Comanche, Yeah, You Heard Me, A Jeep!\" data-desc=\"Bonneville Salt Flats: Jeep Race Car This story is: \"My Ride is Me\"!\u00a0 Combine Bonneville Salt Flats Racing,\u00a0a Jeep Comanche and a father and a son.\u00a0 Perfect! 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