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This and nine other Jeep News magazines are for sale, but they are in Australia. This puts them out of my budget. However, there’s some pics just good enough to see the photos and headlines. For example, in just the two pages below there are variety of examples of DJ-3A dispatchers, FCs, and other jeeps sold. Check out the 22 DJs sold to the Canadian Navy. Good stuff!
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Steve Elkins filed this report from Portola’s Railroad Days.
Portola, California, is rich with railroad history, as the town grew up around the WP Railroad yard. It’s the home of the Western Pacific RR active from 1903 until 1983 when WP merged with Union Pacific. WP was the last major railroad completed into California, eventually running from Salt Lake City, Utah to Oakland, CA. The significance of this location is that their tracks cross the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range at the lowest point, near Beckwourth Pass (5,200′). There’s less climbing for the trains, and there’s less snow to hinder the railroad in Winter; unlike the Southern Pacific RR route, crossing the mountains further South near Lake Tahoe (7,100′). Western Pacific is known as the “Feather River” Route, following the Feather River West of Portola into the Sacramento Valley, then turns toward the San Francisco Bay Area.
In celebration of the railroad town’s heritage, Portola held their annual Railroad Days last weekend. There were three days of activities, including a car show and shine, and a parade. Here are photos of the three Willys that participated, two traveling from Nevada.
Mellouise owns that nice M-38. She and her husband enjoys visiting the e-Willys website and driving the M-38 as her summer car around town for general transportation. “Mel” and two of her friends joined the parade in her well kept Jeep.
Mel is looking for a rear seat for her M-38. If you know of one, contact me at willys57@sbcglobal.net and I will pass the information on to her.
That’s one nice early 1950 Sedan Delivery, my favorite kind of Willys (I just bought another Parkway last week.) And that’s a beautiful pickup, apparently owned by the same family. I didn’t get a chance to meet them. I know that’s unlike me, but I had trains on the brain, spending most of the weekend at the RR Museum; a live museum with lots of action this weekend. I had just enough time to enjoy talking with Mel about her Jeep, then take a few snapshots and run off to the activities.
Murilee Martin photographed and wrote about this 1956 wagon that will be heading to the crusher soon. It was published yesterday on Autoweek.
http://autoweek.com/article/junkyard-treasures/junkyard-treasure-1956-willys-jeep-station-wagon
Photo Credit: Murilee Martin
This Shriner’s Mini-Jeep photo and caption were published in the 1955 Willys news.
I wish the photo showed the whole wrecker.
“1945- U.S. troops sit in the “jeep wrecker” they created and with which they tow in jeeps that have run into trouble on the Western Front.”
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What are the strips on the hood designed to do?
“1944- U.S. Marines and jeeps move along a road lined with ammunition cases as they advance to front lines on Saipan.”
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Thanks to John for forwarding this article on the Omix-Ada Jeep Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. I’m looking forward to reaching Atlanta and seeing this in person, but still don’t a southeastern trip planned yet.
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/08/21/behind-the-scenes-at-omix-adas-jeep-museum/?refer=news
Willys MA, Bantam BRC 40, and a Ford GP. Just a few of the Omix-Ada jeeps.
These three photographs can be found at University of Washington’s digital archives. There are a few other jeep photos there as well.
According to the photos, the driver is Sgt. Ruby Chase. She was possibly recruiting young Hispanic women in June of 1944 to help sell bonds.
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/social/id/7826/rec/35
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/social/id/7822/rec/34
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/social/id/7831/rec/33
I’ve seen it called a lot of things, but never “Gnat Tank” (see caption).
“WWII Bantam No. 1 Jeep Prototype Blitz Buggy Tested at Camp Holabird Press Photo”
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