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Jalopnik is Giving Away a Jetta

Jalopnik’s Freddy Hernandez, better known as Tavarish, is an expert on the second hand. His posts for the site feature some of the best deals you can make, but this Friday he took the value proposition to the next level.

Hernandez is giving a 2001 Volkswagen Passat manual. For free. The catch is, you don’t just get to drive it. You have to impress him with your plans. The more ludicrous the better.

“Don’t expect me to reply to ‘can i have the car lol’ with anything but the full weight of my snark,” says Hernandez in his post about the giveaway.

Despite what you might think, the car looks alright as far as 15-year-old, free cars go. It’s a manual VR6 with no recorded accidents, a clean title, no major dents or rust, and it comes with all the options available on Volkswagens a decade and a half ago. The car was running poorly and was bought as a parts car, but the cause of that problem (bad injectors), claims Hernandez, has been fixed. It won’t be winning any concourses, but it’ll move under its own steam.

Hernandez clearly wants something crazy to be done to the Jetta. A few of his suggestions include front-wheel drive snowmobile, LS swap, and Carribean-themed LeMons racer. A few of my suggestions include mid-engine Group B homage, ten-second drag car, or a modern interpretation on the dune buggy, a dune jet if you will. I’m sure that you can come up with a better, nuttier idea, though. And when you do feel free to share them in comments before you pitch them to Hernandez.

The rules are laid out pretty clearly in Hernandez’s post, but they boil down, basically, to: the car has to be a project, he will be following up and writing articles about the car, you have to fund your own project, and you have to pitch your idea by June 15.

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