From the Missoulian, a newspaper in Missoula, Mt, comes this picture. A friend of mine spotted in the Sunday paper and thought of us (she’s a historian, not a jeep person — good to have friends all over 🙂 ).
The caption with the picture: In another photograph from the end of a successful hunt, Eddie Churchwell displays his bull moose in front of Missoula’s Fire Station 1 in 1955. The moose was taken from the Lolo Creek area and brought home on a Willys Jeep.
A hood orniment one can eat???….what option button do you push? That’s cheweee!
So that’s how all those hood got dented!
What does Moose taste like? Chicken?
Now we know what the wood slats on the hood are for.
I think this guy took the 1/4 ton rating a little to far!
Now I know why so many NW Jeeps have wooden strips on the hood…