# Jeep that dripped “flaming fireballs” as it strained beyond its capacity to push vehicles on board ship

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**Created:** [April 15, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-that-dripped-flaming-fireballs-as-it-strained-beyond-its-capacity-to-push-vehicles-on-board-ship/199892 "2025-04-15T17:15:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robert-Gift](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/robert-gift/32/356_2.png) [@Robert-Gift](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Robert-Gift)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-that-dripped-flaming-fireballs-as-it-strained-beyond-its-capacity-to-push-vehicles-on-board-ship/199892/1 "2025-04-15T17:15:34Z")

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[https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/cargo-ship-deadly-fire-ntsb-findings-port-newark-july-2023/507-139b60ff-d25b-406e-8c46-2d4e0035fa77](https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/cargo-ship-deadly-fire-ntsb-findings-port-newark-july-2023/507-139b60ff-d25b-406e-8c46-2d4e0035fa77)

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**Author:** ![ledhed75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@ledhed75](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ledhed75)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-that-dripped-flaming-fireballs-as-it-strained-beyond-its-capacity-to-push-vehicles-on-board-ship/199892/2 "2025-04-15T17:53:39Z")

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Clearly it’s a Jeep thing we’ll never understand.

No mention in the article of whether the Jeep had an LED light bar. Clearly if it had been equipped with such a light, there wouldn’t have been so much darkness. I bet a red spare gas can mounted to the side would have been useful too, as well as matching tow hooks.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-that-dripped-flaming-fireballs-as-it-strained-beyond-its-capacity-to-push-vehicles-on-board-ship/199892/3 "2025-04-15T18:50:55Z")

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> [@ledhed75](#):
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> I bet a red spare gas can mounted to the side would have been useful too, as well as matching tow hooks.

Don’t forget the intake snorkel!