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1943 Photo of Crated Jeeps on eBay

September 18, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Nice historical photo of crated jeeps.

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“1943 Press Photo crates of Jeep parts are lifted onto an assembly line, England. This is an original press photo. Somewhere in England — A heavy maintenance company of U.S. Army Ordnance obviously had America’s ability for automotive production in mind when it decided to set up a Jeep assembly line at a depot in England. On a trial order from Army Ordnance Chiefs for the assembling of 2,000 Jeeps they established something of a record within a fortnight — with Jeeps rolling off the assembly line at the rate of one every 3 minutes. Following pictures show how it’s done. Crates of partly assembled Jeeps, just received from the US are being lifted onto the start of the assembly line.Photo measures 9 x 7.25inches. Photo is dated 10-28-1943.

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UPDATE: Clifford F-head Headers

September 17, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: Thanks Scott for the heads up on this one. These Clifford headers have proven popular enough that Larry from Clifford Performance is doing another run of headers. Contact him via the website if you are interested. :https://cliffordperformance.net/store?olsPage=products%2F134-fl-head-jeep-headers&page=3

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Newgren Bottom Moldboard Plow Brochures

September 17, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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The following three Newgren brochures have form numbers of N-161, N-162, and N-163. All three focus on different types of moldboard plows. This first brochure shows a plow that utilizes a General Purpose base.

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This version of the plow uses a slat base.

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This version of the plow uses a Forgy base.

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October 1976 Article on Jeeps made by Volkswagen

September 17, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features, International, Magazine This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Scott directed me to an article in the October 1976 issue of South Africa’s CAR Magazine. It highlighted the jeeps that Volkswagen, having secured a license from AMC, was building in South Africa. Below is a copy from the article.  CAR Magazine still exists; you can find it on Facebook and on the Web.

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Yellow CJ-5 Glass Ashtray on eBay

September 17, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Price is $149.99 (or make offer), but I’ve never seen another one.

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“Here is a really cool vintage, Willys Jeep glass ashtray. The ashtray is in good to very good condition. There are no chips or cracks in the glass. There is a little bit of wear to the decal, it is not perfect. The ashtray measures about 5 3/4 inches long, by about 3 3/4 inches wide.”

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Newgren Stabalizer Brochure

September 16, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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As I mentioned a couple days ago, I received some Newgren brochures as part of the Jeep Equipment book I received. The brochures are numbered between Form N-160 (below) through Form N-168, with only Form N-167 missing. I cannot see a reason for them to start at N-160, but they do. I also think that there were other brochures from this line of brochures that I do not have. I will published these brochures over the coming days.

This brochure indicate that the Newgren equipment is tailored for the Monroe Hydraulic Lift.

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Risqué Matchbook Cover on eBay

September 16, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Maury spotted this unusually risqué Matchbook cover from a dealer that sold jeeps and other vehicles.

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“Vintage Unstruck Matchbook cover :
KAISER WILLYS Station Wagons & Jeep Automobiles
KOUPAL’S MOTOR SALES 8640 S. Commercial Ave Chicago IL
” Open from 9 to 9 “
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1944 Photo From the Invasion of Wakde Island on eBay

September 16, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Wakde Island is in Indonesia (At first I thought it was Wake Island misspelled).

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“Size is 7.25″ x 8.5” We always combine shipping. Please wait for our invoice before paying. The photographs are Originals taken from file archives used by different news/media agencies. They are not perfect or reprints, if they are printed at a later time we labeled them “2nd Generation Restrike” or “Vtg 2nd Gen Restrike” The photographs are in various conditions, some cut to different sizes. Some may have dates and/or descriptions written/typed/stamped on the back or the front. They could have bent corners, tears or light stains.”

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Sun Carnival Jeep Derby in El Paso, Texas

September 15, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Old News Articles, Racing This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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In the autumn of 1962, the Sun Carnival organization in El Paso, Texas, decided to add the Sun Carnival Jeep Derby, one of only four derby’s held in the US, to it’s late December events calendar (the other ‘derbies’ were held in Las Cruces, Truth or Consequences, and Denver). The grand prize was a brand new 1963 CJ-5 donated by the Willys Manufacturing Company (I think they meant Willys Motors).

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September 12, 1962, El Paso Times

Before being presented to the race winner, Carnival manage Bruce Brooks planned to use it by carnival staff to carry tickets between the four branch offices.

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December 25, 1962, El Paso Herald-Post

Ted C. Brewer of Roswell, New Mexico, went on to win the Inaugural Sun Carnival Jeep Derby.

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January 01, 1963, El Paso Times

The next year, the Sun Carnival volunteers put together another course.
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