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Sebastian was kind enough to share some pics from JeepFest 2011.

He writes, "I just came back from New Castle, it was an incredible event. More than 400 Jeeps, and just a week after the Bantam Festival in Butler (just a few miles away). It seems like Western Pennsylvania in August is the right place to be!."

You can see more pics at his website: http://flatfenderclubofbutler.wordpress.com/

Sebastian's friend Esteban found these great ads.

Sebastian writes, "Here are some vintage willys ads published in Colombia during the late 40’s and early 50’s. The one showing the CJ-3B appeared on a newspaper in 1953. The other ads were published in “Revista Semana”[ed. note: That is Spanish for 'Week Magazine' - I hope I got he right web link?], one of the oldest and most prestigious magazines in Colombia. A friend of mine, actually one of the best men in my wedding (Esteban Ucros), found these pictures. For work purposes (nothing related with Willys), he was researching the old archives of “Semana” (hard copies) and ran across these ads. He sent me high resolution pictures and I just did some edits."

Below are images from Sunday's event at Bob Christy's house.  Looks like there was a good variety of jeeps there!

- Bob posted lots of  photos at his Facebook page and on Flickr as well

- Sebastian also posted some pictures at the Flatfender Club of Butler's website

- Dennis posted some photos at the CJ-2A page

Here are a few of Bob's pictures.  This photo below is of the unusual Jeepster.

Here are a few of Sebastian's photos.  Both Bob and Sebastian took a variety of photos of this chassis, but I can't tell if there is something special done to this or not.  In fact, you can see Bob with camera in hand.

Here is a link to the earlier post and comments posted before the event.

Sebastain is now one of the few people I know that owns jeeps on two continents (USA & Colombia).  He is now the proud owner of the jeep below. You can see more pics at his website.  Congrats Sebastian!

Sebastian wrote, "Hi, great news, I bought a CJ-3B to have in Pittsburgh. I still have the red 1954 CJ-3B back in Colombia, which thanks to family and friends is still in great shape. The new one is a 1953 yellow 3B, restored here in Pittsburgh by Chuck Curty, one of the founders of the “Flat Fender Club of Butler”. Chuck did an amazing job with this car, I am very lucky he let me have it. Take of look of some pics that I posted on the flat fender club blog:"

http://flatfenderclubofbutler.wordpress.com/

Originally posted Feb 3, 2010

Inspired by the Castro/Guevara video I found, Esteban went hunting for a couple more vintage pics from that era.  Sebastian has generously shared those with us below.  Esteban also found what Sebastian believes is "a very special since it could be the first Willys ad ever in Colombia. It was published before the jeeps arrived to the country. It is basically inviting people to reserve their jeeps before arrival time."

Ron Dennis spent a few days exploring southern Colorado in his M-38. Sounds like he had a great time and had some beautiful weather. Sebastian compiled Ron's photos and descriptions into a post at the Flat Fender Club of Butler's website. go there to see all the pictures and Ron's thoughts:

http://flatfenderclubofbutler.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/welcome-46/

Here's a photo of Ron at Black Bear Pass:

Benjamin Preston just published an article on Jalopnik about Colombian (that would be the country of Colombia) jeep owners and their passion for owning and using jeeps on a daily basis. He also breaks down the different type of Yipao contests.  Of course, anyone who knows Sebastian probably isn't surprised by this article at all :-)

Read the article here: http://jalopnik.com/5951074/i-found-the-biggest-jeep-fans-in-the-world-and-theyre-not-in-the-us

Here is Flickr photo of a MB by Sebastian

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebsplace/2580701104/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Sebastian has been busy touring Pennsylvania and getting to know the locals.  In these shots, his CJ-3B hob nobs with some sophisticated friends.

He writes, "Last Monday I attended the Walnut Street Invitational Car Show here in Pittsburgh with my 1953 CJ-3B. It was a great event; I was amazed by the neighbors I got at the event, a couple Lotus, a Ferrari and an Aston Martin. Take a look of the pictures at the blog (bottom 5 pictures at the link): http://flatfenderclubofbutler.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/welcome-28/

You can see Chuck Curty in one of the pictures. He is the one that restored my Willys and in a very irresponsible moment decided to sell it to me! haha. Unfortunately he left the event early because of rain and I did not have the chance to take a picture of the military jeep he took to the show.

Sebastian's dad, always on alert for jeep stuff in Colombia, emailed this picture while the site was down.  You might remember this coffee jeep from Colombia.

Sebastian added some notes for us:

"- The coffee sign, the wrong spelling in English and really no meaning in Spanish (it should be café) - The top white sign saying "minutos" which means cell phone minutes. You basically pay a fee and you can use their cell phone for a call. Look the lady using the phone for a call. - Middle white sign which offers "Mazamorra", a local dish that not everyone dares to try. Not that easy to find these days, and not really recommended if you have an afternoon full of things to do, most likely you will need a long nap after eating that. - Bottom sing "arroz con leche" which means rice pudding, sweetened to perfection.It can not be more Colombian than this!"