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1943 Jeepers Creepers Christmas Card on eBay

• CATEGORIES: Artists/Drawings, Features, Postcards This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This may be sold soon, as there was a note from eBay that someone had this in their cart, but it could be a ‘make offer’ situation. No matter, still an unusual card with a jeep. It is currently priced at $18.95.

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“Postcard with corner and edge wear. Also has some creasing in left corners.”

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1941 Postcard Camp Croft and Jeep on eBay

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Here’s a jeep postcard based on prototype jeep from Camp Croft. There were several other postcards of real prototypes related to Camp Croft that were also issued.

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“WWII Era Camp Croft South Carolina Parachute Battalion, The Jeep Patrol Vintage Postcard”

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FC Updates

• CATEGORIES: Builds, Features • TAGS: This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Some pics from this weekend’s progress. The first is the completion of the flip-down fuse box. Fuse boxes often have to be put in awkward locations, so I thought I would try a flip down box, which stays hidden most of the time, but can be dropped down with a single long pin removed (still need to make that pin, but the two small bolts do the trick for pics).

I really don’t know how well this will work, but figured it was worth a try.

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A closer look at the fuse box bracket. The hinges are some kind of cabinet door hinge (I think); Dad had a container of these hinges for some unknown purpose.

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Here are some pics of the accelerator brackets. The one on the left acts as a guide for the accelerator cable (the red/green wire is a stand-in for that. The left bracket also acts as an anchor point for the spring. The right bracket rotates, in this perspective, clockwise when the pedal is depressed. The bolt and spring acts as an adjustable stopper for fine tuning.

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Not the best pic, but this shows how the gas pedal connects to the hem joint, how it goes through the floor, and how it then connects with the cam bracket.

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May 1957 FC-170 Export Brochure

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This brochure from Canada is from CS 5-57X. There was a US domestic form CS 5-57, but it was very different.

This is the front of the flyer:

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This is the back:1959-fc-brochure-canada6-lores

The brochure opens vertically into this:

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The brochure then opens horizontally into this:

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This shows the back fully opened:

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March 1959 Maverick Canadian Brochure

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This Canadian version of Form No. 59-03 highlights the “Maverick” model, while the US Domestic version did not (see example at bottom).

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Here’s a comparison between the Canadian and US Form No. 59-03: (sorry for the poor quality of the right image .. it turns out I don’t actually have that brochure)..

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