Dublin Peanut Festival Pics Live!

Some of you may have noticed that we have a new events system. Woo hoo! Let us know what you think. We’re planning to add comments soon, and then next year we’re gonna turn it over to CarDomain members so you guys can upload your own events. In meantime, though, if you have new event pics you want published, shoot me an e-mail and if they’re good, I’ll get ‘em up. Thanks to Jeff Douglass for these pics from the Dublin Peanut Festival.

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A new commercial, titled “Reignition” is a great start, but you really can’t run a luxury division with three body styles of what are essentially the same car, and an upscale clone of a Chevrolet crossover. The two-seat XLR sports car will be discontinued shortly, as will the STS and the DTS. The Escalade will live on though as pointless as it may be seen by many because America can’t seem to get enough of these rolling excesses. It has, over the last decade, been a very successful product in terms of sales for what was once the Standard of the World. But does it send the right message? Read more of my article at Automotive Traveler, and see if you agree with me.

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The CJ-3B was the first civilian Jeep to used the F-head Hurricane engine that replaced the little “Go-Devil” flattie four banger that had been powering Jeeps for years. The Go-Devil, while reliable, was a wimpy engine, not suited to meet the demands of a power hungry public. The valve-in-head Hurricane filled that bill but required some cosmetic changes.

Due to the increase in height with respect to the engine, these Jeeps have a higher hood line than previous models. The little CJ-3B was kind of lost in the mix when CJ-5 and CJ-6 models hit the sales floors, but production trooped along until 1967 with nearly 200,000 of the little toughies built.

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