The other day I spotted a set of 5 new Super Traxion tires and 4 all season tires mounted on four jeep rims for only $600 on Craigslist. The Traxion tires were perfect for his jeep and the four all season tires were great for Rusty, as both of us are headed to Alaska. Wade and I joined forces and bought the tires. Two days later, he and I met in Bellingham, Washington, so I could give him the tires and enjoy some Mexican food for dinner. At dinner, Wade gave me the follow sign and stickers he had printed up at his sign shop. The sign has a thick aluminum backing. It’s great! The Dispatcher Magazine shows the size of the sign and the stickers.

Thanks Wade!

1. Hugo from Uruguay share these photos of a neighbor’s M-38. He hasn’t met the owner yet.

2. He also share this link. There are a series of WWII/Present photos. You drag your cursor over the photo and it changes to the present. It includes informative captions.  In one photo there’s the front end of a jeep (can you find it?) and in a second one, are some soldiers unloading an odd mini-bike (at least I am not familiar with it).

http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday

Today, a gentleman name “Moos” from the Netherlands will be flying into Redmond, Oregon, to purchase to a Willys Truck and drive it to Kent, Washington. From there, the track will get shipped to the Netherlands, where he’ll prepare it for a trip from the Netherlands down to Dakar (Senegal) in Africa.

Hopefully, everything will go smoothly on his drive today. Moos has my number in case he has a problem along his route. If he does have a problem, I may be phoning folks along his route to serif you can help. I will be around Renton for part of the day, but then I will be heading to Bellingham to deliver some jeep tires and enjoy some dinner with Wade Smith.

I suggested this route to avoid some of the Friday traffic, but he still must drive north up Interstate-5.

And here’s the truck. If you drive by Moos, give him a wave!

Jim Allen wrote a piece on the Mahl Loader, a bit of history that Glenn Byron has been chasing.

http://www.fourwheeler.com/features/1705-the-holy-grail-of-jeep-industrial-accessories/

This post from 2016 shows a number of brochures and other information about the Mahl.

UPDATE: Jeffrey’s Data plate:

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Originally published May 01, 2017: Nick Oxender added this data plate from a Navy CJ-3A to his collection. According to him, this one was found at a flea market 5 years ago. It’s in excellent shape – the only “wear” being from the dash screws. The previous owner suspects one of the guys was out on the town and totaled the Jeep, and all that survived was the tag. Either that, or someone thought it looked nice and swiped it.

This data plate was so nice Nick was skeptical about whether it was real or not. After quite a bit of research, he found one guy that made a small run of them, but those weren’t produced within the time frame of when this one was found.

Does the CJ-3A page have a list of Navy plates? Might be an interesting this to assemble.

We didn’t have time to stop and inspect it, but Ann spotted this MB/GPW at our local Yoke’s Grocery Store parking lot. It looked in good shape.