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1941 Fort Barry Jeep Decal on ebay

February 2, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Artists/Drawings, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

At 3.5″ x 5″ this isn’t too big, but it sure looks interesting.

“THIS IS A RARE OLD AND ORIGINAL 1941 ONE-OF-A-KIND “65TH COAST ARTILLERY” FORT BARRY, CALIFORNIA WATER-SLIDE DECAL.

GREAT ILLUSTRATION OF A DOG SOLDIER MANNING A HOOD-MOUNTED MACHINE GUN ON HIS JEEP AND TOWING A 3-INCH ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN.

THE 2ND BATTALION 65TH COAST ARTILLERY WAS STATIONED AT FORT BARRY ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE IN THE MARIN COUNTY HEADLANDS. MADE UP MAINLY OF 3-INCH ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNNERS FROM WASHINGTON, OREGON AND CALIFORNIA STATES, THEY DEVELOPED A FRONT-PEDESTAL MOUNT FOR 50 CALIBER ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUNS FOR THEIR JEEPS. MADE BY THE FAMOUS ILLUSTRATORS AT THE LACQUER GRAPH PROCESS COMPANY, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

THIS UNUSUAL BEAUTIFUL DECAL SHOWS ITS AGE, BUT DISPLAYS WELL IN EXCELLENT UNUSED CONDITION.
IT MEASURES ABOUT 3 1/2 BY 5 INCHES IN SIZE.
IT WOULD BE A NICE ASSET TO ANY 2ND BN 65TH COAST ARTILLERY REGIMENT, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA STATE OR TRAVEL DECAL COLLECTION.”

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Photo of Jeep Used as Baracade in Fulda Gap on ebay

February 2, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice the jeep! This photo was taken in Fulda Gap, Germany.

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Jeep Crossword Puzzle

February 1, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: Ooops. I forgot to make a PDF. Thankfully, Joe made a PDF and MS WORD version for us.

If the Superbowl isn’t keeping you busy today, then maybe this Jeep crossword puzzle will give you something to do. I twas published in the February 1956 issue of Willys News. I’ll publish the results on Tuesday.

This is a PDF that should print out two pages, one for the puzzle and one for the clue.

Otherwise, click on the images below and print them.

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Pics From Charles

February 1, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

These are an assortment of WWII, 1950s Sahara and Algeria, and 1980 maneuvers in Belgium.

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Frank and Helen Schreider in Willys News

January 31, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News, Schreiders-Tortuga-GPA. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

The September 1957 issue of Willys News devoted a full page to Frank and Helen Schreider’s 20,000 mile trip from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America.

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Photo of Jeep Pulling Train Car on eBay

January 31, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Thats some serious weight.

“eep Pulling Freight Car in Dakar WWII Dispatch Photo News Service
This is thin stock, put out by the Dispatch Photo News Service in New York during World War II. Measures roughly 10 3/4 x 12 1/2. Blank back. Has caption along the bottom telling about the picture. A friend told me this is offset lithography (dot pattern)”

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Jeep Board Game on eBay

January 31, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Here’s another one of these vintage jeep game boards on eBay.

” WW2 JEEP BOARD COMPLETE WITH THE PEGS. I HAVE DESCRIBED THIS AS NEW CONDITION. THE OUTSIDE DOES HAVE SOME WEAR AND TEAR AND A FEW SMALL TEARS, BUT INSIDE, EVERYTHING IS VERY CLEAN AND SHOWS NO SIGNS OF BEING USED. ”

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1952 Drag Jeep Wickenburg, AZ SOLD

January 31, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Racing • TAGS: Dash, Drag, Nice, Odd Body. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $8000.

(06/23/2015) It’s street legal, too.

“Chevy 454, tunnel ram, roller rockers, chromolly pushrods, Isky cam, lifters, and springs, complete MSD ignition system, gear drive, Turbo 400 trans. with 2400 stall converter, narrowed 9″ Ford rear end with 5.29 gears and spool, tubed back half, Mustang II front end, wheelie bars, all Auto Meter gauges, 33 X 15.50 Mickey Thompson Pro tires on the rear, 15 X 14 Weld wheels in the rear, 15 X 3 Weld wheels up front, PRP seats with 5 point harnesses, lots more goodies!
This Jeep is street legal with current tags. Great cruising vehicle. Must see!!!”

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Jeep Display at Grand Rapids Auto Show

January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Too bad this isn’t in color. Note the DJ-3A with the convertible top at the lower right. the photo was published in the February 1956 issue of Willys News.

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1997 Story of the Jeep in the Toledo Blade

January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

On April 20, 1997, the Toledo Blade devoted an entire section of its newspaper to the jeep history, going all the way back to the construction of the Jewel sewing machine factory in 1885. While it isn’t a perfect history (for example Jeep did not copyright the name JEEP in 1946, they tried, and failed, to trademark it at that time), it’s still interesting with some photos and a historical time line.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I2oxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6687%2C7138684

1997-04-20-toledo-blade-jeep-retrospective

In the photo above Willys MAs are rolling off the assembly line.

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Wives Will Love Driving The New FC-150!

January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

The Miami News reported in 1956 that wives will love driving the new FC-150. I wonder if anyone bothered to interview any wives on that topic . . .

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1944 Photo of Jeeps — Mud — Burma on eBay

January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

That’s some serious mud!

“WWII Line of U.S. Jeeps Bogged Down in Mud on Ledo Road in Burma Press Photo”

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1943 Photo of Destroyed Jeep on eBay

January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Ouch!

“1943 Press Photo A destroyed American jeep after it hit a land mine, Navy beach”

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Barney Roos Believes in the Farm Jeep; Canadian Experts Not so Sure

January 29, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This photo appeared in a September 06, 1943, promoting the jeep as a tractor.

A 1943 an interview with Barney Roos appeared in a Palm Beach newspaper that explored his automotive history. In the article, Roos promoted the jeep as a practical alternative to the standard tractor. Another article in the Milwaukee Journal seconded farmer’s optimism regarding the jeep (there were many articles promoting the jeep as a farm tractor. Here’s a September 06, 1943 article).

A year later, two Canadian Agricultural specialists were much less confident in the jeep’s potential, suggesting the jeep drove to fast, the transmission was not strong enough, and the jeep lacked power to be a good farm vehicle. Willys Overland must have agreed with those researchers, because they addressed those issues by installing lower gears, which both added power and slowed down the jeep. They also updated the transmission to the T-90.

I’ll begin with the 1944 Canadian article first as that is comparatively short.

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The Official name for the Jeep — Peep? Bantam Car? Other?

January 28, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old News Articles • TAGS: jeep-name. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

By April 1942 newspaper editors weren’t sure what to call the new fangled quarter-ton bantam-willys-ford invention. The problem was highlighted in this Sarasota-Herald-Tribune article which surveyed editors’ uses of different descriptive words. Note the naval editor’s response at the very bottom of the article.

Eventually, a decision was made. In May of 1942 newspapers announced the armored division officially named the quarter-ton command/reconnaissance car the ‘Peep’, while the half-ton armored car was called the ‘Jeep’. The Milwaukee Journal published two photos to help readers distinguish between the two.

That’s a Ford GP at the top, while at the bottom is what I believe to be an early Dodge Command Car. You can view other earlier examples like the one above at the Command Car site.

This article in the Pittsburgh Press, in May of 1942 confirms that the names “jeep” and “peep” had been transformed from slang into legitimate words that could appear in dictionaries.

As late as 1984, some WWII vets didn’t know why they called the jeep a peep. According to this article in the Spokane-Review, Patton’s 3rd Army Armored Division continued to call the jeep a peep throughout the war.

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Silver Military-Themed Charm Bracelet ABQ, NM $80

January 28, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This is interesting. I don’t know how rare it is. One of the charms is a jeep.

“Circa 1940’s-50’s military-themed silver charm bracelet
Willy’s Jeep, tank, USN symbol, plane, machine gun, paratrooper, sailor charms”

http://albuquerque.craigslist.org/clt/4864225571.html

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24th Annual Military Vehicle Show

January 27, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Event, Features, GPA (SEEP), M-38, M-38A1, MB • TAGS: Slat Grille. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Joe and his GPW attended the 24th Annual Military Vehicle Show held by the Arizona Military Vehicle Collectors Club this past weekend. It looks like he was having plenty of fun!

Here’s Joe posing with some new friends.

Here’s Joe and his GPW

Another new friend Joe?

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1957 Kaiser Willys International Ad

January 27, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

An ad printed in the December 29, 1957, issue of the Toledo Blade highlighted the number of factories and sub-assembly plants Kaiser Willys had all over the world. They also had dealerships serving 134 countries.

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The Rescued Film Project Archive

January 27, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Buz sent me a note about the Rescued Film Project Archive. The Project finds undeveloped canisters of film and works to restore them. They have an online archives. Recently, they found thirty-one rolls from WW II. A few of those rolls include jeeps (seen below).

Check out this video about the WWII archive: http://vimeo.com/116735360

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Australian Review of the 1958 CJ-3B

January 26, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, International, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

The August 11, 1958, issue of the Sydney Morning Herald featured a long review of the CJ-3B, whose parts were imported into Australia and then assembled there. You can review the article at Google news as it original appeared or read my re-arranged version (for space purposes) below. The reviewer’s biggest complaint was due to the way the jeep is converted from left to right-hand drive, leaving the gearshift to the left of the transfer case shifters.

1958-08-11-sydney-australia-cj3b-review-text

From the August 11, 1958 issue of the Sydney Morning Herald Page 5.

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388th Bomb Group Photo on eBay

January 26, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Marc spotted this photo. Can anyone interpret the markings on this jeep?

“Original WWII photo of a Jeep from the 388th Bomb Group. Has a crease on the extreme right side. Measures 4.75″ x 4″.”

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Photo of a Column of Jeeps in Sicily on eBay

January 26, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This 1943 photo was taken in Gela, Italy.

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Jeep-in-a-Scoop

January 24, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Paul spotted this CJ-2A made tiny by the huge power shovel. He spotted the photo on ‘Just a Car Guy‘.

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Heavy Duty Jeep Banner Sparta, OH $100

January 24, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

I can’t tell how big this is.

“I AM SELLING THIS JEEP BANNER.THIS IS A GIANT AND HEAVY DUTY ONE.TARP LIKE MATERIAL.$100 OBO.PHONE CALLS ONLY CASH ONLY.”

http://akroncanton.craigslist.org/clt/4859664632.html

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Jeeps Help Out Riding Club

January 23, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This February 1956 explains how jeeps are used at a riding club at Iron Mountain, Michigan.

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