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This article in a 1943 issue of the Toledo Blade is an interesting profile of Military Chaplain Leland Larson who followed the US Armed Forces from North Africa to Italy. At some point, he got hurt and was awarded a Purple Heart. After the war he moved to Phoenix and became Pastor for the Holy Trinity church in Tucson, Arizona (from 1966 newspaper article). He moved on to at least one other church. He passed away in Green Valley, AZ, in 1990.
A cool (very cool as in freezing cold) photo.
“1945 Press Photo Vintage Jeep Pulls US 9th Army Ski Patrol Soldier Germany WWII. You are bidding on an original press photo of Vintage Jeep Pulls US 9th Army Ski Patrol Soldier Germany WWII. Photo measures 6.5 x 8.5 inches and is dated 2/1/1945.”
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The Great Willys Picnic and The Bantam Festival (both in Pennsylvania) are happening today. I hope everyone has fun!
Thanks once again goes to Charles for sharing these photos.
This German soldier was 7′ 6″!
This photo is from 1944 at the Battle of the Bugle. These are some Belgian SAS members.
Blaine shared these two pics of a Topeka mower he spotted at the Ag Museum in Union Gap, Washington. This one has a little different look on the front. You can bet we’ll be stopping by and checking this one out in person.
I’m still up from last night … in fact I’m sitting in the garage typing this up, so I’ll make this short. I pulled Patterson’s engine to swap with Rusty’s engine. I’ve got most of the parts swapped. Patterson’s tranny, though dirty on the outside, looks great on the inside, so I’ll just use that. I have some details I’ll discuss later, such as the carb linkage.
UPDATE II: To me, this looks like a Scheneker All Purpose Loader. Here is the brochure for comparison:
This was posted as part of an article on loaders from FarmCollector.com.
UPDATE: Two years ago Charles shared a photo showing an unusual loader attachment on a jeep (see the photo below the updated post). At the time, a reader named Chris commented that he had the same attachment. Over the subsequent couple of years Chris has worked to turn his attachment into a working unit. He has completed the rebuild in time to showcase it at this weekend’s Willys Picnic. Here’a s sneak peak. We are still looking for information on this loader!
(ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED DEC 19, 2014) The other day Charles shared some pics of unusual jeeps. One photo (seen below) showed a CJ-2A with a rare style of loader / bucket attachment. Chris spotted that photo and mentioned he owned one just like it, but didn’t know who made it or any history behind it. Does anyone recognize this?
UPDATE: This was supposed to be published this morning, but I was so tired last night I screwed it up .. so here it is, delayed ….
I’ll have a few updates around 9am PST.
I was busy all day Wednesday on Patterson, then worked until midnight on Alaska Or Rust stuff, so updates will be delayed. Here are some brief updates on Wednesday’s work:
Kaiser Willys has organized paint chips on this page: https://www.kaiserwillys.com/willys_overland_paint_colors
The seller lists this as a January 13, 1946 photo, but the text on the photo reads 10-13-46.
“This is an original press photo. The old and the new in transportation- a jeep and a horse and buggy- are parked at a curb in Hearst, a lumbering town in Canada. The driver of the buggy had come in from his farm for a week’s supply of groceries. Canada- Series- 1946. Hearst, Canada. Photo measures10.5 x 7.75 inches. Photo is dated 1-13-1946.”
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This Desert News Magazine August 14, 1949, article titled “Knights of the Jeep” highlights the Bountiful Jeep Posse. Unfortunately, I could only find a scanned version with readable text in black and white. The scanned photos are poor. I did manage to locate a couple small colored photos of the article, so I’ve cobbled all the information together.
Here’s the link to the original article in Google News
