Locker Lowdown
Timing is everything! It seems like I'm saying, I just read this tire shootout last year, every year, but some of us need repetition. I don't remember seeing a locker shootout in the last five years of reading/subscribing to the mag. I just broke the Detroit that I had in my Dana 35. Reading the article "Locker Lowdown" (Oct. '09) was the icing on the cake to replace it with the Ox Locker. Thanks for everything you do!
Todd Dellinger
Yakima, Washington
Uh, We Never Lost
It's interesting, the edition that contains a mostly-naked woman just happens to be the one that has the extra cover telling me to renew today. I don't think so! I fought this battle a few years ago with you guys and won for a few years. No, I won't be renewing until I hear you are not going to have pictures of mostly-naked women again. I don't care who submits the pictures. My 11 year old son looks at these magazines. They have to be safe for him. I can't have him seeing these pictures and I don't want my husband looking at them either. He does not want me to renew the subscription as long as there are pictures like this. Please let us know if you decide to ditch the Sideways Jeep Chix Edition page and we will renew.
Stephanie M.
Via email
Nope, we don't plan on ditching it anytime soon. Most readers seem to like it based on the number of responses and actual submissions we receive. It's none of my business how you raise your children (or husband), but the truth of the matter is we don't show anything in Jp magazine that you wouldn't see at the beach, local lake, public pool, or even in your own backyard. If you decide to hide women in swimsuits from your children that's up to you, but I personally think it's a little over the top. I believe that hiding and not addressing topics such as this can lead to much bigger problems down the road.
Keep Your Jeep Too
I read "Keep Your Jeep" (Sept. '09). What I have done in the past is taken a fuse, cut the link, and substituted it for the fuel pump fuse. This usually allows the motor to start and move the Jeep about half way out of the parking space before stalling. This attracts attention to the Jeep, which is the last thing the thief wants.
George Newell
Northport, New York
Pickup Pick-Me-Up
Yes, I would love to see you turn a Dodge Power Wagon into a Jeep truck. The Power Wagon would have been a J-truck from the beginning if the marketing retards at Chrysler had half a clue what they were doing. Just think of how many people would have bought it just because it was a Jeep-not that that means much anymore.
I heard somebody around there has a hard on for MJs. Hopefully the attached pic will contribute to their fetish. It's an '88 long bed that I built for my wife. It has a Ford 8.8 rear axle, dual transfer cases, TNT long arm suspension, electric lockers, 35-inch Mickey Thompson MTZs, LED tail light boxes, and lots of other crap that I built. Screw the whiners, you guys have a great magazine. Feel free to make fun of me all you want.
William Crawley
Kent, Washington
Ferrari Correction
Just in case you really can't sleep at night worrying about a typo. In "The Jerrari" (Sept. '09) on page 49 in Hard Facts it says the V-12 was a 368 engine. The last time I drove that Jeep, Bill told me it was a 268 engine. Just kidding, of course, I never drove it nor did I meet Bill Harrah, but I did read that it was a 268.
Mark
Salem, Virginia