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While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Off-Road Across America in a Flatfender Jeep

Posted August 11, 2008 2:24 PM by dstrohl

Why is it that people decide to make cross-country runs in some of the most brutal, uncomfortable vehicles around? Maybe it's the challenge. Or maybe we just don't pay attention to the folks who make the trip in Imperials or Cadillacs. Paul and Evan, a couple Virginia-based flatfender Jeep guys, decided they'd take on the challenge, but they'd throw in a twist. They both started the restoration of their flatties in December of last year with the goal of turning their maiden voyages in the Jeeps into a cross-continent tour starting last month.

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08/12/2008 8:44 AM

Maybe it hearkens back to the days when a cross-country run really WAS an adventure? Back in the days before WWI when the road system was mainly a mule wagon mud track from one farming village to the next, and those flat fendered Jeeps would have been the next best thing on the road to a mule?

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