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Feel Good: A Group of Students Rebuild Jeep

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Bill shared this nice story about a group of students who rebuilt a family’s jeep after the owner died.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/06/jeep-mechanic-coronoa-students-porter/

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Roberto Flores’ Newest Sketches

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Roberto shared these recent sketches of a brake assembly.

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“Phantom Automobiles” Postcard

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Chris was wondering if anyone knows more about why this postcard describes these vehicles as “Phantoms”, especially when the look more like Ford GPs than Bantam prototypes?

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CJ-5 Dealer Letter

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Toby purchased a 1966 CJ-5 from an original owner and found this letter inside the owners manual. Note the last paragraph (no coverage for squeak and rattles, lol).

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10 Unreliable Post 2000 Jeeps

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Bill shared this article about some modern-day jeeps you might not want to purchase. I really can’t say how accurate most of this article is, as I’ve never owned or driven any of these.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/autos-suvs/10-unreliable-jeeps-we-wouldn-t-waste-our-money-on/ar-AA18e8tM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f47c4800ea484a36b6e4bbc8b304d09e&ei=21

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This is wrongly captioned as a 2015 Wrangler in the article.