Jeep-Willys-News Research Archives

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1966 Boy Scout Trip

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The Smoky Mountain Jeep Club’s annual Boy Scout trip was reported on by Jeep News in 1966 through these three photos.

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Dutch Couple Drives from India to Lebanon

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In 1966 the Jeep News Magazine reported on a 14,000 mile trip by Mr. And Mrs. J. Th. van Reijsen of the Netherlands.

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A-Bomb Tests & Willys Vehicles

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This was one of several articles published about atomic tests and Willys vehicles. This article was published in the April 1955 issue of Willys News.

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1955 Jeepcade From Hemet to Borrego Springs

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The April 1955 issue of Willys News featured this report in the April 1955 issue of Willys News.

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African Veldt Modified Truck

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The April 1955 issue of Willys News published this photo. It’s a tour jeep truck for the Africa.  It seems a little too open to me. Those lions look like they could easily leap inside.

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Chicken Ranch Jeep

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The April 1955 issue of Willys News included this article and excerpt from the June 1955 issue of American Poultry Journal.

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CJ-3Bs Headed to Alaska

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The April 1955 issue of Willys News showed thirteen CJ-3Bs and one station wagon heading for Alaska. Someone was smart enough to install hardtops on them before they left, but I don’t see any high BTU heaters on the cowl.

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New Meyer Cab & Nebraska Ruff Riders

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A 1966 issue of jeep news covered the new Meyer M-III cab and highlighted the Nebraska Ruff Riders car show win.

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1964 Kaiser Jeep New Vol. 10 No. 5 on eBay

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This and nine other Jeep News magazines are for sale, but they are in Australia. This puts them out of my budget. However, there’s some pics just good enough to see the photos and headlines. For example, in just the two pages below there are variety of examples of DJ-3A dispatchers, FCs, and other jeeps sold. Check out the 22 DJs sold to the Canadian Navy. Good stuff!

View all the information on eBay

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Shriner’s Mini-Jeep

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This Shriner’s Mini-Jeep photo and caption were published in the 1955 Willys news.

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The Naming of Jeep Chee

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This 1955 July Willys News article highlights the naming of a Navajo baby named Jeep Chee. My attempts to learn more about Jeep Chee weren’t very successful. I did find this odd movie script. There is a more extensive article about Gwen and Marvin Walter in the July 1958 issue of Desert Magazine.

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Buddy Cowger: CJ-3B Uranium Hunter

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According to this story, Buddy Cowger lost the use of his legs due to cyanide poisoning. That didn’t stop him from driving the backroads of Utah in search of Uranium. He was a friend of Charlie Steen, a famous Uranium hunter out of Moab.

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1955 Testimonial to the Jeep From a Tobacco Farmer

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This testimonial was published in the July 1955 issue of Willys News.

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Melbourne’s Thomas Blamey Monument

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Field Marshall Sir Thomas Albert Blamey was memorialized in a monument in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. It shows him standing while gripping part of a jeep windshield. The way a July 1955 Willys News described it, I thought there’d be a whole jeep!

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Blamey_statue_Melbourne.jpg Blamey is mounted on a jeep instead of the traditional horse. This conveys Blamey’s role in the technological transformation of the Army that occurred during his years of service

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Jeep Trucks in Africa for TV Series

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This September 1955 Willys News article discussed the use of jeeps in Africa for the upcoming Tarzan TV series.

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Cleveland’s Animal Protective League Used Jeeps

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This September 1955 article from Willys News highlights the use of jeeps by Cleveland’s Animal Protective League.

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1955 Article About Kid-Sized Truck

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This article appeared in the September/October 1955 Issue of Willys News.

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Wash Windshields to Earn Jeep Business

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Craig forwarded this November 1959 ‘Jeep Service and Parts News’ business tip for recruiting new clients for your jeep business.

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Jeeps Dependable in Arctic Cold

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This May 1957 article from Willys News highlights the dependability of jeeps in cold weather.

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Photos from Don Pratt Sedona Jeep Tours

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The 1966 Volume 12, No. 5, issue of Jeep News featured these photos from Don Pratt’s Pink Jeep Tours from Sedona, Arizona. The company now offers tours in four Arizona locations.

According to this site, Pink Jeep Tours is the oldest continuously operating Jeep Tour Company in the United States. It was started in 1958 by a Sedona Realtor named Don Pratt, who would drive clients to see homes at Broken Arrow Estates. The Broken Arrow tour is the original Jeep tour and is still today the most popular tour in Sedona.Why did he make the jeeps pink? Mr. Pratt got the idea while visiting the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki Beach, where everything was pink.

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1966 Jeep-o-Rama outside Denver

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This article from the Volume 12, 1966, issue of Jeep News highlights nineteen year-old Donnie Beyer’s win at the Jeep-O-Rama near Denver.

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The Willys War News Vers 3, #3 **SOLD**

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UPDATE: **SOLD** was on eBay

“VTG Willys War News July 16 1945 Special Postwar Preview Edition Jeep V3 #3 N”

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Tuesday’s Updates

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Tuesday’s updates will be arriving late morning (though check out the jeep in the post that follows this one), as will answers to many emails in my inbox. In the meantime, for you early risers who have suffered eWillys withdrawals, here’s an article on FCs to string you along.

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Second Annual Jeep Derby in T or C, NM

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The May 1957 issue of Willys News covered the 2nd Annual Jeep Derby in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Among the racers were Bud Jackson from the Hemet Jeep Club and Wally Klingele and Barney Nelson from the Yakima Ridge Runners. Klingele and Nelson drove their jeeps to the event! Only 14 of the 20 entrants completed the eighty mile race.

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See Pete for a Jeep in Omaha

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This May 1957 article highlights the successful slogan the Jacobson Motor Company of Omaha, Nebraska, used to attract buyers. Pete Comley, sales manager, came up with the slogan and added it to one of the company’s wagons.

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