MOSCOW -- A jeep apparently struck by lightning ... has rapidly become a major fad in Russia -- the use of dashboard-mounted video cameras. Motorists use these dash cams as a tool to help fight ...

Not only does the hood narrowly miss the filming car, it also comes within inches of striking a Jeep. While no one was injured by the flying piece of metal, things could have been much worse.

As we started to add sensors to the AMC engine, we remembered that the speedometer was the only stock gauge on the dash that still worked. We, like many fullsize Jeep owners, had the triple-gauge ...