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Heavy Pay-Load leads to Sale

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This March 1956 from Willys News details the story of how a huge payload led to the sail of a jeep.

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3 Comments on “Heavy Pay-Load leads to Sale

  1. CraigInPA

    I’d wager that this truck probably lasted only a few years in the corrosive anthracite coal mining environment before it succumbed to fatal rust out. My nephew, who works in a coal operation about 5 miles from Hazleton, reports having to replace the floors on his 10 year old Ford F-150, which is parked in the coal mine’s parking lot (gravel with coal dust that migrates to the area as mine trucks drive through it) five days a week. And that’s a modern undercoated-at-the-factory truck!

  2. Steve Walkup

    Old George, the Sales Manager, probably caught hell for misspelling the towns name on the truck door!

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