These are an assortment of WWII, 1950s Sahara and Algeria, and 1980 maneuvers in Belgium.
Pics From Charles
February 1, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Old Images Research Archives
Frank and Helen Schreider in Willys News
January 31, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News, Schreiders-Tortuga-GPA. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
The September 1957 issue of Willys News devoted a full page to Frank and Helen Schreider’s 20,000 mile trip from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America.
Photo of Jeep Pulling Train Car on eBay
January 31, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Thats some serious weight.
“eep Pulling Freight Car in Dakar WWII Dispatch Photo News Service
This is thin stock, put out by the Dispatch Photo News Service in New York during World War II. Measures roughly 10 3/4 x 12 1/2. Blank back. Has caption along the bottom telling about the picture. A friend told me this is offset lithography (dot pattern)”
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Jeep Display at Grand Rapids Auto Show
January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Too bad this isn’t in color. Note the DJ-3A with the convertible top at the lower right. the photo was published in the February 1956 issue of Willys News.
1997 Story of the Jeep in the Toledo Blade
January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
On April 20, 1997, the Toledo Blade devoted an entire section of its newspaper to the jeep history, going all the way back to the construction of the Jewel sewing machine factory in 1885. While it isn’t a perfect history (for example Jeep did not copyright the name JEEP in 1946, they tried, and failed, to trademark it at that time), it’s still interesting with some photos and a historical time line.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I2oxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6687%2C7138684
In the photo above Willys MAs are rolling off the assembly line.
Wives Will Love Driving The New FC-150!
January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
The Miami News reported in 1956 that wives will love driving the new FC-150. I wonder if anyone bothered to interview any wives on that topic . . .
1944 Photo of Jeeps — Mud — Burma on eBay
January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
That’s some serious mud!
“WWII Line of U.S. Jeeps Bogged Down in Mud on Ledo Road in Burma Press Photo”
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1943 Photo of Destroyed Jeep on eBay
January 30, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Ouch!
“1943 Press Photo A destroyed American jeep after it hit a land mine, Navy beach”
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The Rescued Film Project Archive
January 27, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Buz sent me a note about the Rescued Film Project Archive. The Project finds undeveloped canisters of film and works to restore them. They have an online archives. Recently, they found thirty-one rolls from WW II. A few of those rolls include jeeps (seen below).
Check out this video about the WWII archive: http://vimeo.com/116735360
Australian Review of the 1958 CJ-3B
January 26, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, International, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
The August 11, 1958, issue of the Sydney Morning Herald featured a long review of the CJ-3B, whose parts were imported into Australia and then assembled there. You can review the article at Google news as it original appeared or read my re-arranged version (for space purposes) below. The reviewer’s biggest complaint was due to the way the jeep is converted from left to right-hand drive, leaving the gearshift to the left of the transfer case shifters.
From the August 11, 1958 issue of the Sydney Morning Herald Page 5.
388th Bomb Group Photo on eBay
January 26, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Marc spotted this photo. Can anyone interpret the markings on this jeep?
“Original WWII photo of a Jeep from the 388th Bomb Group. Has a crease on the extreme right side. Measures 4.75″ x 4″.”
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Photo of a Column of Jeeps in Sicily on eBay
January 26, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Jeep-in-a-Scoop
January 24, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Paul spotted this CJ-2A made tiny by the huge power shovel. He spotted the photo on ‘Just a Car Guy‘.
Jeeps Help Out Riding Club
January 23, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
This February 1956 explains how jeeps are used at a riding club at Iron Mountain, Michigan.
More Pics from Charles
January 23, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
1945 Photo of GIs Fixing Tipped Jeep on eBay
January 22, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: Tipped. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Another example of rolling a jeep to fix it.
“1945- U.S. soldiers tip vehicle on its side to render “first aid” to an ailing jeep in the Ormoc sector of Leyte.”
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1961 Photo of a DJ-3A Surrey on eBay
January 22, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: Surrey. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
It’s marked July 1961.
“Original Vintage Color Snapshot Photo Man w/ Pink circa 1960 Willys Jeep Surrey Gala dated 1961 Size is 3.5×5″ inches.”
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Actress Thelma Ritter in a CJ-5
January 20, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
We’ve seen a poorer quality version of this photo. Here’s a better scan of the June 1955 photo from Willys News with the caption in tact. Though the caption doesn’t mention the movie name, it probably refers to the movie released in 1956 called the Proud and Profane.
Deborah Kerr (I think) on the left and Thelma Ritter on the right. Note the lack of a rear floating hub, which suggests the jeep in the background wasn’t a MB or GPW. Brett noted it’s probably a M-38.
Obstacle Course Helps Dealer Sell Jeeps
January 19, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
A McHenry, Illinois, dealer created an obstacle course for potential buyers to test jeeps. The February 1956 issue of Willys News reported this.
Color Photos from World War II
January 19, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Both Paul and Ted spotted this color Willys MA photo. It’s part of a collection of photos. You can see them below.
Pankey Motor Company Wagon
January 17, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Pankey Motor’s Wagon was featured in this photo from the February 1956 issue of Willys News.
Photo of Bantam BRC-40 w/ Eddie Cantor on eBay
January 17, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Great photo!
“1941- Because he was the first person to buy a defense savings bond at Treasury House in Rockefeller Plaza, actor Eddie Cantor was taken for a ride in an Army jeep. Shown here on the steps of the Bowery Savings Bank on 42nd Street.”
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Photo of Stanley Smale’s Magnet-equipped Jeep on eBay
January 17, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Here’s a 1949 photo of a CJ-2A equipped with a generator powering a magnet. It was developed by a truck driver named Stanley Smale.
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1941 Bantam BRC-40 In Stream on eBay
January 17, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
The tread on the spare tire is just great.
“For auction is an 7 x9 inch original US press photo of a BRC (Bantam Recon. Car). It was issued to the press on 3/19/1941 to publicize the development of the Bantam military car.”
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1944 Photos in the Cortland Standard
January 15, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
These photos were featured with other photos that were published weekly by the Cortland Standard of Cortland, NY. I love the “Pistol Packing Mama”.
