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FOUND: The 1947 Movie “Revolution in Pleasantville”

April 29, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: Barry Thomas managed to hunt down a copy of the movie in Paris. He is hoping to share it at a couple of jeep events this spring.  Learn more at his farm jeep.com website: https://www.farmjeep.com/revolution-in-farming-and-in-pleasentville/

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Original Post Dec. 14, 2012: An issue of the “American Farm Youth” (1947 Volumes 13-14 Page 34) mentioned this movie.

Revolution in Pleasantville, a motion picture describing the role of the Jeep in farm mechanization, has just been produced and made available for showing to farm groups. The revolution depicted in the film is one taking place all over the . . .

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“Bless This Mess” FC-170

April 29, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Jeff spotted this FC-170 lurking in the background of the TV show “Bless This Mess“. The premise of the show is, “Newlyweds Rio and Mike make the decision to change the course of their life together and move from the relentless pace of big city New York to what they think will be a more relaxed existence in rural Nebraska.”

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Large Two-sided Jeep Sign Saint Joseph, MO eBay

April 29, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Maury spotted this sign on eBay. The neon has been removed, but still a neat sign. The seller believe this was a temporary sign created just after WWII, but given the post WWII signs I’ve seen, I’d guess early 1950s or later would be more likely.

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“Vintage Jeep Willys Sales Service Auto Dealer Neon Sign 1940s 1950s USA . Condition is Used. This is a truly authentic, post-war Willys Jeep dealership sign that was was created fresh after the end of WWII. This sign is hand painted, not porcelain and was more than likely used for the dealership here in St. Joseph for a short time right after the war as a ‘fill-in’ then shortly retired. I say this because the paint is remarkably bright and not faded.
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Year? Photo of DJ-3As on eBay

April 28, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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The seller listed this as a 1950 photo, but that’s clearly wrong. Perhaps it is 1960.

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“1950 Willys Jeep Press Photo. Original.
Pages: 1
Details: W 10 x H 8 x D 0.1 Weight 1”

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1957 Coffee and ‘Jeep’ Vehicles Brochure

April 27, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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This August of 1957 Coffee and ‘Jeep’ Vehicles brochure was one I didn’t know existed until it appeared on eBay two weeks ago. That CJ-2A dump jeep is pretty interesting.
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The next three pages foldout into a single page. But, I’ve separated them for easier reading:

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1944 Photo of MPs Rounding Up Nazi Soldiers w/ Jeep

April 27, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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This photo and caption appears in the June 02, 1944, issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

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Be Your Own Inspector M-38/M-38A1 Booklet

April 26, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Books, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: You can now download a high resolution PDF here (25mb):

http://www.deilers.com/be-your-own-inspector-m38-m38a1-booklet.pdf

One reader asked about a donation in exchange for the PDF.  You are welcome to download it for free, but If you want, you can donate a few bucks via PayPal: payment@ewillys.com. The money goes toward the purchase of more brochures (and the documentation/sharing of them).

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Original Post April 26, 2019: Here’s the booklet I won off of eBay.

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Early Station Wagon Ad

April 25, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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This youtube video for the jeep station wagon has been around for more than a decade, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it.

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BOOK: The Last American CEO

April 25, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Books, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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I just finished reading The Last American CEO, a book about the transition of ‘Jeep’ from Kaiser-Jeep, to AMC, to Chrysler. The principal character and source of most of the material was Joe Cappy, who was the final AMC CEO before AMC was bought by Chrysler.

Among the book’s more interesting revelations, it argues that if it weren’t for an assassination, that Chrysler might never have purchased AMC.

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1946 Cartoon “Impasse in the Night”

April 25, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Artists/Drawings, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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This cartoon was published in the November 02, 1946, issue of the Saturday Evening Post, page 112.

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