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1947 Sand Drag Jeep Portland, OR $20,000

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this appears to have a later-generation bobcat fiberglass body.

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“New aluminum floors new roll cage all new motor fired one time 215 dirt aluminum heads Crower 675 lift 282 duration solid lifter cam crawler roller rockers crowder rods 11 to one Keith Black pop-up Pistons all the goodies all new 588 Ford 9-in posi rear end all new brakes new gauges ready to go very fast”

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1963 Article on Kent Frost

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As I continue my journey to organize the jeep office, I stumped upon this May 1963 Four Wheeler article about Kent Frost. You can learn more about him here: http://www.ewillys.com/2020/11/11/kent-frost-a-man-of-canyonlands/ and here http://www.ewillys.com/tag/kent-frost/.

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Sept 1950 Motor Magazine ‘Jeep Mountaineers’

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This article describes the use of the jeep in the mountain west. There are some interesting notes about salt lick placement requirements, too.

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1953 Ad Willys-Overland Motors “That’s the Story” on eBay

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I can’t remember running across the ad. It’s an unusual one. The title is “That’s the Story from Willys-Overland Motors”, but really that is pretty much the end of the story of Willys-Overland Motors, as the company assets were shortly wound into Henry Kaiser’s company. This must have been produced shortly after the introduction of the CJ-3B. The cartoonish M-38A1 is pretty unusual, too.

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