Craigs Pic of the Week Research Archives

Craig from the FCConnection shares a great picture from old Willys News or Jeeps News issues.

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Craig’s Pic of the Week: Trucks in TV Commercials

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Craig found these two pics from a 1964 issue of Jeep News.

Guy provided additional information:
“The top picture with the caption underneath “MOUNTAINS IN COLORADO….” would have been taken on the east side of the Garden Of The Gods in Colorado Springs. The shot is looking west. Appears it could have been made from the present site of the Garden Of The Gods Visitor and Nature Center. See this Google Map link: http://goo.gl/maps/alpDj

The area to the west and north of the Garden Of The Gods is where the devastating Waldo Canyon wildfire swept into Colorado Springs last summer.

The Garden Of The Gods is a spectacular sight. Hiking is allowed, but no jeeping.

Garden Of The Gods images search link

Trucks in commercial

3 Wagoneer Commercial

 
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Craig’s Pic of the Week: Sahara CJ-3B

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Craig scanned this from a June 1957 issue of Willys News.

Sahara-cj3b-lores

 
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Craig’s Pic of the Week: Winter Time

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This pic seemed appropriate given dark and snowy weather around me. Craig says this was in the June 1957 issue of Willys News.

V plow Pickup

 
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Craig’s Pic of the Week: “Need Traction. Ask Red.”

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Craig found this photo from the August 1956 issue of Willys News

1956 August issue Tow Truck

 
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Craig’s PIc of the Week: How to Stoke a Fire with a Jeep

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Here’s a bonus pic of the week from Craig.  This crazy was of stoking a fire is from the August 1956 Issue of Willys News.

1956 August issue Jeep Breeze

 
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Craig’s Pic of the Week: Unusual Jeep Train

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For his Pic of the Week, Craig forwarded this unusual train built on a jeep platform that was featured in a 1964 issue of Jeep News.

I found an example of the above train-jeep being used at Africa, USA, though the details were slightly different.  These pictures come from cardcow.com.

I’m wondering if this jeep train out of St. Augustine, FL, isn’t a custom version of the above platform.  You can see the older St. Augustine Jeep Trains here.

 
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Craig’s Pic of the Week

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Craig from the FCConnection has offered to send a few non-FC pics our way from old editions of Jeep News and Willys News. After a minute of great deliberation and exhaustive thinking, I decided to call his weekly feature ‘Craig’s Pic of the Week’. Brilliant, yeah? Today’s pic comes from a 1964 issue of Jeep News.

In March of 2012, Mike was trying to track down the one pictured here.  It sure looks like it could have been one of the trucks shown above.