You'll Never Guess Who the Challenger Judge at the $2019 Challenge Will Be

Jim thwaite 

John brown

Patrick said:

John brown

But what does "quasi no judge" even mean?

(I have no hard feelings for jb. Only I've never shared post challenge beers and I think it's a shame)

You should see what i did to the rsvp card for his wedding, that was late, because I didn’t want to waste their stamp.  

mazdeuce - Seth said:

Knowing that Tom is still all Gridlife Yo! and that Adam Jabay is a former Challenge winner I'm putting two and two together and figure that somehow Tom has convinced Adam to come. 

While I want for nothing more than for Tom to have convinced Adam to come.. There' no way in hell he did.. Adam is trying to not die while putting on gridlife and maintaining his job and family. 

Mike Guido?

Johnny pruitt because he’s retired to valve cover racing

burn

Ok guys, I'll admit it.  It's not me. 

Is it me? That would be foolish but I've done worse things...

I hope it is Al

Denny Crabill would be awesome

Guido?

Dallas james. 

I was wondering why he agreed to join me. 

Or nonack. He was looking for a room.

Sleepyhead?

I hope it is Wayne, the Canexican. 

I hope he brings fire. 

Tony or anyone from The Autox Jeep?

Luke or anyone from Team Gutty?

Both some great past "legends" 

Ben?

Patrick said:

Jim thwaite 

I like this.  Misfit Toys Judging.  If it is true, I hope he brings the wide-body Yugo

In reply to JoeyM :

Jim doesn’t own the wide body Yugo any more. 

He sold it to me. I brought it to the Challenge. After a few years, I sold it back to him. He has since sold it to someone else. 

I was kinda hoping for Guido or Crabill...even though either would pretty much seal our doom.

berkeley. Is Guido ALIVE??? I've started to ask a whole bunch of times, but if the answer is "no," I don't want to know.

John Welsh said:

I hope it is Wayne, the Canexican. 

I hope he brings fire. 

You don't want that. You think you want that, but you don't want that. Nobody wants that.

poopshovel again said:

I was kinda hoping for Guido or Crabill...even though either would pretty much seal our doom.

berkeley. Is Guido ALIVE??? I've started to ask a whole bunch of times, but if the answer is "no," I don't want to know.

Guido was in attendance a few years ago

Ok, I'll tell: Our super special judge will be...

Jonny Pruitt!!!! As we wrote a few years ago: "Back in 1999, a young man named Jonny Pruitt called our office to ask about the $1500 Challenge. At that very moment, we realized something: People were actually going to attend this thing. Jonny drove in from Texas for that first event, and he’s been a fixture ever since. He has mixed and matched bodies and drivelines in the years since, but it all started with that red Yugo."

Today, Jonny is the only person outside of our own staff that's been to every single running of the Challenge. That makes him perfectly qualified to judge the event, and we can't wait to see him again.

Patrick said:

Johnny pruitt because he’s retired to valve cover racing

 

burn

You won the cookie.

Gimme my damn cookie tom

But make it pumpkin spice!

Johnny has been there EVERY year???