You have to love this one – the music is a perfect match for the Ad! Paul Van Dyke and the ‘Time of our Lives’
Feb 282008
Feb 262008
These are really awesome bumpers, besides their great feature set below, I think what makes these Jeep Wrangler replacement bumpers really stand out is their design. These things are designed to make the front and rear end’s of your Jeep wrangler slide off obstacles instead of bashing and pounding down on a flat surface.
photo by Mary Adams
Product Specs:
Front Bumper
- 3/16 inch steel plating with a textured powder coat finish
- 140 lb’s (vs stock bumper at 30 lb’s!)
- Winch mount
- 2 x 1″ D rings
- Recessed turn indicators and Hella fog lamps
- Tapered bumper end design allow it to slide of obstacles
Rear Bumper
- innovative “knife-edge” design – tapered bumper ends enabled the Jeep to slide off ledges
- excellent rockclearing abilities
- integrated tire carrier rated to 1,250 pounds with a locking pin
- tire carrier will handle up to a 37″ tire.
- vertical hi-lift jack mount. with same thread as the JK’s wheel lug bolts, so you can secure your hi-lift jack with matching wheel locks.
- CB antenna mount,
- two recessed 1″ D-ring mounts
- a 2″ tow receiver
From an article in 4 wheel drive and sport utility magazine. located here
Commercial for Jeep SRT8 – It’s a force of nature…..
Feb 232008
I stumbled upon this really great site about the CJ3B a Willys Universal Jeep CJ-3B built in the 1950′s and 60′s. It had flat front fenders like earlier Jeep models (such as the CJ-2A and CJ-3A), but can be distinguished by a higher hood profile.
I highly recommend this site if you are looking for detailed information about older Jeep models and their history, I know I will be perusing it often.
An excerpt from the website:
The Universal Jeep CJ-3B was introduced as a 1953 model by Willys-Overland, the company which had produced some 360,000 jeeps used during World War 2, and almost as many civilian Jeeps (CJ’s) in the seven years since the war. 1953 was also the year Willys-Overland was sold to the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, who used the Willys Motors name until 1964.
Factory photo One limitation of the wartime jeeps, and the postwar civilian models CJ-2A and CJ-3A, was the limited horsepower of the 4-cylinder L-head “Go-Devil” engine. The new F-head “Hurricane” engine, which Willys began putting in its larger vehicles in 1949, had its intake valves in the head rather than the engine block, allowing them to be larger. The first Jeep big enough for the engine was the military M38A1 in 1951. (The M38A1 was also the debut of the new “round-fender” body design that would be used for most of the Jeeps of the next five decades.) The first civilian Universal Jeep with the Hurricane engine was the new “high-hood” CJ-3B (see a post-1961 factory photo at right).
UK based magazine 4×4 and MPV Driver has named the highly acclaimed Jeep® Patriot 2.0 CRD Sport 4×4 of the Year.
According to an article in carpages.co.uk, the Patriot is newly launched into the UK market and is taking business from the incumbents Land Rover, Nissan and Honda.
The combination of being ‘off-roadable’, performance handling, fuel efficiency and low price seem to be making this an ideal family vehicle in the UK.
In the December announcement, Bob Murray, Editor of 4×4 and MPV Driver, said: “The Jeep Patriot is quicker than the Land Rover Freelander 2, more able off-road than the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV 4, pumps out less CO2 than the Nissan X-Trail and has a boot around the size of the VW Tiguan’s.”