Forcing a Jeep Wrangler?shaped peg into a hot-rod-shaped hole sounds like a recipe for a casserole we wouldn’t want to eat, and yet here we are. Meet Jeep’s Quicksand concept, one of a gaggle of show rigs created for this year’s Easter Jeep Safari gathering in Moab, Utah. It is a Jeep, and it is also a hot rod. Somehow, it’s entirely awesome and still capable of playing in the dirt.
Atop a lengthened Wrangler chassis sits a rod-style chopped sedan-delivery body that lacks B-pillars, fenders, and glass save for its windshield. Equally lacking is much of a hood; an octet of polished velocity stacks proudly pokes into the driver’s forward view. Did we just say eight velocity stacks" Yes, we did. The Quicksand is powered by a 392-cubic-inch Hemi V-8 crate engine, because of course it is. Better still, the V-8 is mated to a Getrag six-speed manual transmission.
Jeep insists that the relatively low-slung Quicksand remains capable of Jeepy things beyond looking cool, although there?s no suggestion that it excels at much more than sand running. Who cares" Each corner is supported by a coil-over damper and an 18-inch vintage-look mag wheel. In front, those wheels are wrapped in massive 32-inch BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain T/A KM2 mud tires; in back, the same tires are used, but in a 37-inch diameter.

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