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Andy shared this old trailer, possibly a Signal Corps K-38 Trailer?
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/897076532154519
“Small utility trailer. Has many compartments and access doors . Has a couple holes but still pretty solid. Need tires. 1 7/8” ball. No title or registration. Box is 50”x 46”. Total length with tongue is about 7’0”. Wheel base is 4’0”. 16 inch rims. $100.00/best offer”
Not sure how much value is here.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2835063626650719
“Engine is good. needs work.asking $2000”
This has some early Husky hubs.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1836886316776623
“Needs restoration”
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $500.
This “Good Roads Machinery Corp” snow plow was mounted to a CJ-2A. I’ve’ never heard of this model.
“Good Roads Machinery Corp snow plow. Removed from a 46 CJ2A I recently purchased. Manual hydraulic pump runs plow cylinder. Complete plow and mount. $500.00 obo located in Raton, NM”
Dan’s selling this FC that includes an Alaskan Camper.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10161527114769310
“1960 FC170 with an Alaskan camper. The truck is complete. It’s rusty and the stock 6cyl is stuck. The camper is rough but useable. The hydraulic cylinders that lift it leak but it does go up and down with a little help. The cushions have been recovered. I have a good title for it. Located in Lake Mills Iowa”
I’m not sure if there are more parts that come with it or not.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/247920128354932
“The engine is an air cooled V4 and it has four wheel independent suspension. This particular Mite was retired from the military and went to the famous Caribou Ranch recording studio in Colorado. This is a very unique, head turning project. It needs work, I bought it as a project but unexpected health issues have forced some changes. Located west of Cheyenne WY, comes with bill of sale.”
This has an early windshield. Not sure how much value is here.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1640167176758245/
“ 46 Willys ,no title good parts”
No title, but there is an extra tub and a hardtop that does not, in my opinion, look like a Sears model.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1726114654543233
“M38. Was told the engine was good when parked 20 years ago. No title It’s rough but complete. I also have an extra tub, sears hard top with doors, and a 53 cj3. Willing to make a package deal if you want it all”
UPDATE: More information on the goal of Kaiser-Jeep’s 1966 Eastern European Caravan. This article was published on page 7 of the May 14, 1966, issue of International Commerce, a US Department of Commerce Weekly magazine. In it, the Commerce Department’s ostensible goal was as an “imaginative technique to promote U.S. Exports”, as part to the U.S. Government’s continuing effort to promote East-West Trade. It’s possible the trip was underwritten in some form (cash or government favors or both) to encourage Kaiser-Jeep to participate.
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This September 1966 Four Wheeler Magazine article describes the scene when the Kaiser-Jeep sponsored Eastern European Caravan crossed into (then) Czechoslovakia, as a line of restored and refurbed jeeps awaited them. Remember, that no new parts had even available to these die-hard jeep fans since 1946, making their rebuilds even more remarkable. The Prague Jeep Club alone had more than 300 jeeps and 400 members.
The 1966 Jeep News Volume 12 Number 3 has more information.
The eight-page issue of the 1966 Jeep News Volume 12 Number 3 began with the 1966 Caravan of Jeeps organized by Kaiser Jeep to introduce the jeeps to Eastern European countries (See the next post about a story in the September 1966 issue of Four Wheeler Magazine at the surprise awaiting the caravan in Czechoslovakia).
Page two shows a photo that went viral, in today’s slang, of a Harvey Schaible in a V-8 powered jeep that flew into the air at the top of a hill climb that was part of a Play Day weekend with multiple local clubs attending the event. Page three contains various stories, including a good photo of a TWA-branded airport jeep. Pages four and five continue the story of the Eastern European Caravan.
Page six has fascinating story about the use of 2WD DJ-3As and DJ-5s RHD vehicles (the DJ-5 having been launched in 1966), some converted to automatic transmissions, for use as spay vehicles.
Page seven reports on the use of jeeps to travel a portion of the Oregon Trail between Vale and Farewell Bend, Oregon. Some of this area would be passable by I-84 in 1975, but even today some of the original trail traveled in 1966 is still evident (see this map, which shows a partial area between Vale and Farewell Bend).
Page eight has multiple stories, including a photo and short report on Mr. Diamant and his family, who were traveling in a Gladiator Camper. There’s a longer story and a map of their travels here.
