1969 Jeep XJ001 Concept Car

The 1969 Jeep XJ001 Concept car has kind of a sad story. The XJ001 was going to be Jeeps attempt to revamp its look. It was a sporty looking with a  fiber-glassed body and what looked like bug eyes for headlights. The XJ001 used the existing Jeep CJ-5's chassis, the XJ001 did not have doors, the roof was made from canvas and the windshield frame was made from at the time a newly developed process that made the frame strong enough to bear the weight of the car in the event the XJ001 were to be involved in an accident.

Unfortunately right after American Motors Company (AMC) purchased Kaiser-Jeep the entire project was scrapped and to make things even sadder for XJ001 and Jeeps vision for the future, all was lost when the transporter truck carrying the XJ001 concept car flipped over caught on fire burning the XJ001 concept car to the ground.