I was going through eBay and found these jeeps on slides for sale.

1. DJ-3A Gala on St. Thomas:
   
2. Circus CJ-5 Jeep with half-cab helping unload a circus wagon
   
3. Truck with canopy pulling trailer parked at campsite among beach dunes
   
4. Red GPW with suicide wood(?) door and soft top with boy seated in driver’s seat
   
5. CJ-6 Fire Jeep from Shenango Township, which I think is in Pennsylvania
   
6. DJ-3A Galas with tall roof and a DJ-5 Gala at Las Brisas Resort
   
7. M-38A1 Fire Jeep from Delaware pulling boat. This has been available since 2020.
   
   
8. CJ-2A with snowplow sporting a Worman Jeecab hardtop
   

Bill shared this Hagerty article about the jeep history: https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/the-appeal-of-the-willys-jeep-knows-no-borders-no-barriers/

As a general history it isn’t too bad, though the author mistakes patents for trademarks in several cases. One photo caught my eye that I don’t remember seeing was taken in 1944 in Paris France. In the photo, a jeep is parked in front of Restaurant L’Ambassade.

After some sleuthing, I figured out the address is 18 rue Norvins, 75018 Paris France.  The restaurant changed names at some point to Restaurant Le Consulat. It’s located in the heart of France in the Montmartre area, not far from Moulin Rouge and the Arc de Triomphe. Google Earth wouldn’t let me get positioned where I wanted, but I got fairly close to the original camera angle.

You don’t get the sense from this photo, but the location is at a juncture of several roads. Here’s an overhead screen shot.

Happy Father’s Day everyone. Blaine shared this photo and information about his father. The image shows his father shortly after the purchase of his brand new 1959 CJ-5.

Blaine adds, “My Dad is Leon Higginson, a Pearl Harbor survivor (service info and obituary). He was not on a ship at the time of the bombing, although he was on Ford Island.

The CJ5 was the replacement for a Ford GPW, which went on to a new owner who used it later to tow a parade float and overheated the engine during the parade. I don’t know what parade. 

I don’t think I remember ever being in the Jeep as I was 3 years old when he bought a new 1962 Scout. Maybe “Jeep” was ingrained in my memory unknowingly by that time. I remember going to the dealership to pick up the Scout (and to say again, 3 years old).”

Jan Shafer shared this flashback photo from the Iowa Highway Patrol. Those look like two well-maintained M-38s.