Flat be the fenders
I’m old, but even through the brain fog of age I remember getting close to a flatfender for the first time. It was my grandfather’s ’51 CJ-3A and it grabbed and held my attention. My grandfather, Billie B. Brubaker, served in the U.S. Army as a motor pool sergeant and this took him to the Philippines and Japan. In 1946, after returning from Army service, he began working at a Cities Service station (it later became a Citgo) in Rockford, Illinois, and he eventually purchased the station. In a newspaper story published when he left the business after 26 years, he noted that he purchased the 3A in 1951. “From 1946 to 1951 we shoveled tons of snow by hand,” he recalled. “Then, in 1951, I bought the first snowplow-equipped Jeep…
