This eight page Jeep News volume 10, number 3, begins with the news that 53 Wagoneers were in daily use around the 1964 World’s Fair in New York. The paper also reported the presentation of a WWII jeep to the Smithsonian Institution for display. Pages 2-5 also cover the World’s Fair.
Page six introduces the CJ-5 and CJ-6 Tuxedo Park Mark IV models. Page seven covers the World’s Fair, again. Page eight covers international news, including an Amsterdam show featuring a van-like custom body on an FC-170 chassis.
Francis Cardinal Spellman is shown standing next to a Jeep Wagoneer being used as a curtesy car by the Vatican. I never thought of the Wagoneer as a “POPEMOBILE.” Live & learn. (front page)
In 1964 I was 14 years old, and what I remember about attending the NY Worlds Fair was the many FC-170’s used as fair support vehicles, green pickups and red fire engines.
To me as a 14 year old, the hourly presentation Of “ROCKET MAN”, a guy with jet packs strapped to his back, who flew through the air for a few seconds. Upon landing, a FC-170 fire engine was standing by just in case of fire.
Interesting article about a MB being found in an Army depot and given to the Smithsonian.
Wonder if they still have it?
About the Cardinal and a Wagoneer…didn’t the “Singing Nun” drive a CJ-5 or 6…in the movie anyway?