When I was a kid of maybe 16 (late 60’s) I had my first Jeep adventure.
A bunch of us kids from the same work location went out to the local hill climb in the bosses B model flat fender Jeep. That thing was pure stock, as I recall. 4 cylinder and the military type tires.
He loaded three or four of us in it and we ground our way to the top of this really nasty hill climb.
It went up it like it was nothing at all. I was amazed!
Then the boss says that he smells hot brakes....? Turns out he had the hand brake on all that time, but in low range 4x4 it simply walked right up that hill without a hitch!
I was impressed enough to later own a couple of CJ7’s.
They were just OK, no room for anything and there seemed to always be something that needed fixing.
My Yamaha Grizzly 700 does all the back woods travel for me now.
Most of the gussied up Jeeps I see in town now are parking lot queens......
