Roger Martin shared this tour of Jimmy Strauss’ jeep shop.
Video Tour of Jimmy Strauss Jeeps
February 9, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Features Research Archives
WWIIAfterWWII’s Post on Cleaning Up After WWII
February 9, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
While doing some research for my upcoming book, I found a wide-ranging, long post that touches on the issues surrounding the clean up after WWII. There are several photos that include jeeps, but mostly it’s about the challenges of collecting unexploded ordnance, recycling endless salvage, and repurposing made-for-war items.
https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/cleaning-up-after-wwii/
1943 Color Photo of Coast Guard Fire Fighting Group
February 8, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
How about his neat 1943 photo from the National Air and Space Museum!
The photo’s caption: “View of four U. S. Coast Guard firefighters dressed in white asbestos suits with helmets and face plates, two riding in a jeep, the other two on the high pressure water pump and hose it is towing, jeep also carries carbon dioxide fire extinguishers, Hall PH-3 in right background, water in left background, 1943.”
Starting the Morning off w/ a Bang
Tom shared this video short of 105mm Recoilless Rifle mounted to an M-38.
1946 CJ-2A Newspaper Ad
February 8, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
This “Jack of all Jobs” ad was publishing in the April 7, 1946, issue of the Sunday Star.
Escape From Burma in Ford GPs
February 7, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features, Magazine, Old Images Jeeping • TAGS: Life-Magazine. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
During a 75,000 mile adventure between 1940 and 1942 Life photographer George Rodger photographed the growing war across Africa, Europe, and Asia. During the latter part of his adventures he found himself using, then abandoning, Two Ford GPs sent to the Chinese as he and his fellow adventurers escaped Burma. He reported on these adventures, through photos, in the August 10, 1942, issue of Life Magazine.
1955 DJ-3A Postal Brochure **SOLD**
February 7, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, DJ-3A, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay
(03/20/2016) Here’s a hard-to-find single sheet brochure.
“Here I have a Single Sheet Flier for the Willys Jeep mail Dispatcher from 1955.
This has some wear and a small tear on the bottom (See Scans) but still displays Very nicely.
Will ship in a protective Sleeve with backing board.
Nice item for the Willys Jeep Collector!”
1948 Ad for the CJ-2A
February 7, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
1952 Test of an Auto Transmission in an M-38A1 on ebay
UPDATE: Still Available (and still the same $1999.99 price).
In the March 2015 Inaugural issue of The Dispatcher Magazine, Bob Westerman wrote an article about Willys-Overland’s test of an Allison Transmission in an M-38 and the failure of that transmission to meet the needs of the military. The document below depicts WO’s effort to follow up that test with a second test, using M-38A1s and a slightly more robust automatic transmission. though improved, this transmission still did not meet the needs of the military, as the below report highlights.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273768800168
1965 JA3/JA2/JA-3BC Argentina Jeep Brochures
February 6, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, International This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
UPDATE II: This brochure is reminiscent of the Argentina jeep pickup, though this one looks much more CJ-5ish. This is currently on eBay.
UPDATE: Maury found a couple related photos. That top looks kind of similar to one of the DJ-3A tops I’ve seen in pics. Nice half doors, too.
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(Original Post 02/02/2015) This is a single page unfolding brochure.
“original part color folder , 9.5 x 3.5 folded , 9.5 x 11.5 unfolded , Spanish text. Produced by Kaiser, Argentina .”
