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UPDATE: MVPA Route 66 2017 Convoy

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Joe-in-Mesa joined the MVPA last weekend (You can track the convoy’s progress here) while they were camped in Williams, Arizona.  He filed this report with photos!:

“I trailered my ’42 GPW up Friday to join in the festivities thru Sunday morning. She ran pretty well, despite not liking cold morning air and me forgetting to tighten the points adjustment securing screw (oops). I understand 47 MVPA vehicles rode into Williams, and our Phoenix area clubs brought up another half dozen-ish. Our AMVCC club treated them to breakfast Saturday morning at the vehicle parking encampment. It was truly a perfect weekend: the vehicles, venue, weather, and so many great people!”

I’ve attached about 14 of the many pics I took, focusing on the jeeps. My GPW shows up at least 5 times since I wanted to include the Rt 66 and Grand Canyon RR images that were the backdrop to the whole event.

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Kaiser Willys News Vs. Willys News

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Not too long after Kaiser acquired Willys-Overland the company introduced a dealer news periodical. What I learned recently is that initially the periodical was called Kaiser Willys News. It wasn’t until March of 1955 that the Kaiser name was dropped and it was renamed Willys News. Apparently, it was felt that the jeep dealers needed different information and support from that of the auto dealers? I don’t know for sure, but it makes sense.

Here are examples of each periodical.

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WWII Vet and His Ford GPW

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UPDATE: Yep, I fell for the story and didn’t check the “Willys MB” close enough. Thanks for correcting me guys!

Joe shared this story from the Wall Street Journal about a WWII vet who restored a 1942 GPW.

https://www.wsj.com/article_email/from-world-war-ii-to-today-a-veteran-and-his-restored-jeep-1507641024-lMyQjAxMTI3NjE0MDQxNjA2Wj/

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CREDIT: VFW Post 430 in Canyon, Texas, where this 1942 Jeep resides, and where Mr. Foran is a member.DELLA MOYER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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Heinz History Center Blog: Jeep as a Lady

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Check out this article from the Heinz History Center. It’s even pretty accurate (I have my quibbles, but you can’t explain everything in a short blog article). Thanks to Mike for pointing me toward the article.

http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/see-the-jeep-as-a-lady

Here’s a neat magazine cover that I hadn’t seen previously:

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This one you may have seen. It was going around Facebook:

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These two pages from a 1946 magazine ad are likely for sale, since it appears the image came from here: http://www.thejumpingfrog.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=1088408&keyword=tomboy&searchby=title&offset=0&fs=1

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1950s Jeep-A-Drill Brochure

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UPDATE: Heres a photo showing a CJ-3A with a Mobile Drill, before it was branded a “Jeep-A-Drill”:

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A page from Dave Antram’s collection.

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Originally posted October 2017: Mobile Drilling, Inc., produced this brochure about their Jeep-A-Drill product. there were there models (100-A, 100-b, 200), two powered by hydraulics and the cheapest one, the 100-A, powered by a hand crank.

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Unusual Ambulance Jeep

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UPDATE II: It’s now red and for sale again: http://www.ewillys.com/2022/12/25/1950-modified-cj-3a-celestine-in-10000/

UPDATE: It appears this jeep has been re-themed into a resort vehicle.

This unusual ambulance jeep was shared on Facebook. I’ve tracked down an additional photo that shows it’s got a standard gas inlet on the side, so I think this may have been a CJ-3A.

This vehicle is located in Vincennes, Indiana (still there??). I’d really like some better photos of this. I’ll offer an Alaska Or Rust T-shirt and my everlasting gratitude if someone could get some more pics of this unusual rig.

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