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Roberto’s Newest Illustration

January 17, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Artists/Drawings, Features • TAGS: Roberto-Flores. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Roberto shared the following, along with his newest drawing:

“I send you one of the comics drawn for French bimontly magazine “4×4 Story Spécial Jeep”, translated to English, This is the comic published at issue 46. The subject of the comic was the employ of the jeep during the vintage of wine at France. After WW2 many army surplus vehicle were employed by civilians and of course, at the areas devoted to the well known French wines. In fact, there was at least one winery commercialised a product called “Jeep”. One video at “You Tube”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LggnPHKaFY

http://www.alexgambal.com/blog/harvest-2009/the-2009-harvest-begins.html

The magazine website is:

http://www.club4x4story.com/

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M-38 on Hawaii Five-0

January 17, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Guy spotted this M-38 on the January 14th, 2013, episode of Hawaii Five-O. He managed to grab the below picture. He also found extra links or us too (thanks!). It looks like someone has smeared dirt in places to give it that ‘rough’ look.

He reports on the right is Steve McGarrett, played by Alex O’Louglin. On the left is Chin Ho Kelly, played by Daniel Dae Kim.Link to info about this new version of Hawaii Five-0: http://www.cbs.com/shows/hawaii_five_0/about/

Here is some additional Hawaii related links and info he found, too.

Also, found a vintage Jeep pic at the Hawaii War Records Depository site: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/hwrd/HWRD_html/HWRD42b.html

See War Record #494 – Scroll halfway down the tall page.

Upon further looking around the War Records site, I found you can do a search within related sites for Jeep images and Jeeps being mentioned in communications, etc. I did not have time yet to look through it.

http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/hwrd/HWRD_html/HWRD_welcome.htm

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=008080862233246877860:cytyqbp97uk&q=jeep#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=jeep&gsc.page=1

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Vintage CJ-5 Photos

January 16, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

David sent over these two images of this vintage CJ-5 with some great extras.

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Willys Overland Standard Accounting Three Ring Binder on eBay

January 16, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Books, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Here’s an unusual binder. It’s not an industrial equipment book as advertised by the seller, but an Willys Overland Accounting book.

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1984 Jeep Cake Pan on eBay

January 16, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Unusual This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

I had no idea there was a jeep cake pan!

“Awesome find! 1984 Wilton rare Jeep cake pan. Love, love, love it. Used, normal wear and tear but great condition! Measures 16” x 9” clean, smoke free home.”

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1964 Vigilante 327 V8 Brochure on eBay

January 16, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

I thought this was only one sheet, but it is six pages.

“1964 Jeep 327 V8 Vigilante High Performance Engine Brochure. 6 pages. 6.75″ x 8.5.””

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1966 Austin Mini Moke Stratford, CT eBay

January 16, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Mini Moke • TAGS: Stock. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Here’s a rare Austin Mini Moke for sale.

“Austin Mini Moke, 1966
One of only 14,500 built in England, 1964-1968
ONLY 5,500 original miles!!!
A rare, incredibly well preserved Moke, was at Woodstock (Janis Joplin reputedly stood on the hood and sung to the crowd), EXCELLENT original condition… Absolutely rust free, very presentable original green paint, like new original seat cushions.
Runs and drives like new…wheels recently powder coated, new radials, all new brakes, new exhaust, fuel tank cleaned, carb rebuilt, full service and tune up, and new shocks. Excellent wiring, starts instantly, oil pressure light immediately goes out, no smoke, and perfect driving.”

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The Double Wide Wrangler

January 16, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Unusual This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Maury forwarded this link about the double-wide wrangler. Someone else did too, but I’ve managed to misplace that email.

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/double-wide-side-side-jeep-wrangler-puzzles-world-172326623.html

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Desert of Maine Jeep Train

January 16, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Event, Features • TAGS: Jeep-Trains. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Thanks to Warren for forwarding this lead. Perhaps it is more accurate to call these mini-jeep trains, but just outside Freeport, Maine, there is a CJ-5 and CJ-7 that still pull tourists in a tourist-trailer around the sand (which I think they call ‘narrated coach tours’). You can learn more about them here. I managed to find a few photos of them on Flickr. It looks like there are two different coaches.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_west_wing/8152632437/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7588183@N04/4858047781/?q=desert%20of%20maine%20jeep

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Fast Eddie’s Jewelry on Facebook

January 16, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Unusual This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Gerald spotted this jeep ring sold by Fast Eddie’s Jewelry. You can find them on Facebook. They will custom make all kinds of rings. Hmm .. not sure I have a category for this topic!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fast-Eddes-4×4-Jewelry/303572349674185

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Ooops … updates didn’t appear

January 14, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

I had updates scheduled to go out early on Monday morning, but they didn’t appear (related to changes I made to reduce resource use on my current server … grrrr). So, I’ve just pushed them out manually tonight.

Meanwhile, tonight my internet is down. So, I spent time researching and then playing around with the cover to my new book. Everything on the cover could change — title, subtitle, arrangement, my pseudonym, colors — I’m just working it through. Mom’s read the first draft and really enjoyed it. But, hey, it’s my mom. For fun here’s the book front cover draft, and I emphasize draft. Still lots of work left before its ready.

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M-38A1 Flower Planter at the Port of LA

January 14, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Last Ride This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Gerald spotted this M-38A1-turned-flower-planter near the Crafted Warehouse at the Port of Los Angeles. There appear to be salvageable parts left.

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June 1943: Photo of Jeep Plowing through River on Amchitka Island, Alaska

January 14, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This photo is for sale on eBay.

“You are bidding on an original 7 x 9 Press Photo of Jeep Plows Through Spring Thaw Amchitka Island Base Aleutian. Photo is dated.”

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1950s Monroe Fire Lane Plow & Pumper Unity Brochure

January 14, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Here’s another brochure from the industrial equipment book.

“Up For Bid Is A Super Nice 1950s Monroe Fire Lane Plow & Pumper Unit Sales Brochure for Willys Jeep Vehicles . This Brochure Came From A Large Collection Of Super Nice Vintage Brochures. These Are Getting Harder To Find For Jeep,Meyers Ect. Please Check Out My Other Auctions For Hard To Find Brochures. This Brochure Is Super Nice With No Rips Or Wrinkles But Does Have Holes Punched And Very Very Handling Dirt (SEE PICS). Theses Brochures Were Only Available To Dealers Only.”

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Lycoming Generator Ad on eBay

January 14, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, Industrial-Welder-Generator This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Lycoming developed a generator/starter for planes that fit in the back of a jeep. I am guessing that this ad is probably from an aviation magazine, because I found an article about the Lycoming generator in the 1952 Aviation Weekly. Unfortunately, I could only view a snippet of it in Google. There is also a discussion of it at the CJ-3B Page.

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1960s Go For Digger Brochure on eBay

January 14, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features • TAGS: Trencher. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This is a slightly different Go-For-Digger Brochure than I’ve seen. Here the two others I’ve seen: a blue version and a green version.

“A 4 page 3 hole punched Go For Digger Trenching Machine Brochure. Catalog number 8162. In fine condition. With photos, specifications and more. Circa 1960’s”

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1953 Chopped Wagon Bowie, MD SOLD

January 14, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Jeep Rods, Willys Wagons • TAGS: Nice. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.

I’d like to know how you open the back gate on this? Looks like a fun rig.

“Rare 1953 Willys, 350 motor, 4 speed muncie transmission, double hump heads! Excellent Condition!”

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1962 Economite 6×6 Amphibious Prototype Atlanta, GA, eBay

January 14, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Other 4x4s, Unusual • TAGS: 6x6. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

I’ve never heard of this M-274 replacement. Looks like an interesting project.

“6×6 Economite Amphibious Prototype
US-ARMY
Built 1962
Serial #1

All Aluminum hull, amphibious all terrain vehicle.

Tested by
U. S. Army Transportation Board
&
U. S. Army Tank-Automotive Command
during 1962-63
as mentioned several times in report

Designed to replace the M274 Mule
Will carry 800 lbs at 25mph over land and 4 mph in the water.
Don’t have time due to new business venture”

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Photos from the 2013 Pennsylvania Farm Show

January 12, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Event, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Rick wrote to share some pictures he took of the Pennsylvania Farm Show this past Wednesday. He mentions JBS Jeeps. You will want to check out the JBS Jeep’s website, as he has some neat pictures on it!

Rick writes, “Took these pictures Wednesday at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Pennsylvania does not have a summer State Fair, but does have a BIG farm show every January. We went for the antique tractors and found a really nice farm Jeep as well as a minature Jeep that ran. The farm Jeep is owned by JBS Jeeps in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and he visits ewillys every night [editorial note … cool!]. The farm Jeep had a pto ,hydraulic lift, and was really clean – believe it or not he does plow a little with it!

Thanks for the pics Rick!

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1964 Kaiser Willys Industrial Engine Brochure on eBay

January 12, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, Industrial-Welder-Generator This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This interesting brochure documents some of the uses of the Kaiser-Willys engines. This is the first document I’ve seen that shows the different ways the engine was used (though not all the ways).

“This brochure is in very nice condition for its age with very minor light wear. It is addressed to Thew Shovel Company. This piece measures 8.5″ wide by 5.5″ closed and 17″ x 11″ open.”

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1960s Kaiser Willys Export Brochure on eBay

January 12, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This is a great brochure with lots of jeeps shown.

“EXPORT Literature is RARE! This is a Willys Original Folio. Opens to approx. 16 x 23″ Folds closed for mailing.”

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Early 1960s Truck/Wagon/FJ/FC170 Brochure on eBay

January 12, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Here’s a brochure I hadn’t seen.

“I am liquidating my 45 year collection/ of original Willys literature. Almost all is perfect; Defects will be noted. Many at auction right now. This is a Willys Original Folio. Opens to approx. 17″ x 11″ Folds closed for mailing. Some red bleed down center”

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Mr. Rather and His Dogs and Jeep

January 11, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Library Collections, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Walter Hill, the director of the Horry County Museum, forwarded these pics from the Museum’s archives. Great images!

“Mr. Prather owned a service station in Myrtle Beach as well. He lived in a community on the Waccamaw River/Inter-coastal Waterway called Socastee, not far from Myrtle Beach. Anyone familiar with the area may be familiar with the Socastee Turn Bridge that allowed road traffic across the Inter-coastal Waterway and river traffic down the Inter-coastal Waterway.

Most of the pictures in this collection appear to have been taken near the end of WWII (some images in the collection show GI’s boarding the bus at the Draft office in Conway) up to the early fifties, judging by the automobiles in the pics. One picture shows a license tag on the jeep and I want to say it says 1952. Maybe better eyes can tell if I am correct or not.”

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1940s Photograph of Man on Jeep in Eustis, FL SOLD

January 11, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.

The hood numbers we can see on this are clear (20388039). It would be cool if someone owns this.

“THIS IS AN ORIGINAL VINTAGE B&W PHOTOGRAPH IN VERY GOOD USED CONDITION – CONDITION COMMENSURATE WITH AGE & USE. OVERALL MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 2.3/4″ INCHES X 4.1/2″ INCHES.”

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Cragstan’s Smokey and Sandy Bear in a Jeep SOLD

January 11, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, toys This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay

I know Smokey the Bear, but never heard of Sandy the Bear. This includes a box in poor condition.

“This is a vintage battery operated Cragstan Jeep with Flexible Smokey Bear and Sandy bendy figures in original box. Made in Hong Kong. Model # 2579-1. About 11″ long. Toy is in C9.5+ shape. I put batteries in and it worked well (the gear lever is the on and off switch) but the battery door can barely close due to poor manufacturing tolerances. Box is in C4 shape, pretty torn up as you can see in the pics.”

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