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Jeep’s New ‘Launch’ Button

• CATEGORIES: Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

John forwarded this article that highlights a new Jeep button titled ‘LAUNCH’

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/what-does-this-insanely-awesome-button-do–204659286.html

Here’s part of the article:
The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is home to perhaps one of the most appropriate buttons we’ve encountered in the What Does This Button Do? series. Mysterious buttons are rarely spelled out as clearly as the Jeep SRT8’s, or as fun to use.

By spelled out, we mean the whole word, “Launch,” appears on the button to designate the 470-horsepower, all-wheel-drive Jeep SRT8’s Launch Mode. There are no acronyms or guessing with this button. What the button does is also made clearer by the awesome depiction of a drag strip’s starting-line lights, aka a “Christmas tree.”

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1954 Mexico City Willys Motors Demo Photo on eBay

• CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Here’s an unusual 1954 press photo found by Marc. The driver is Walter Lorch of Willys Motors. The jeep was one of twelve caravan touring through Latin America.

“You are bidding on an original press photo of Willys Jeep Vertical Driving Demonstration Mexico City. Photo has light waving left edge. Photo measures 7 x 9 inches and is dated 3/30/1954.”

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1942 MB @ Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum

• CATEGORIES: Features, Museums This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Bob spotted this MB at the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. As he noted, the dents make this look a bit beat up.

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Travelphotobase.com not only had a couple of additional photos of the jeep, but it had a ton of other nice photos from the museum: http://travelphotobase.com/u/OH/OHVHA.HTM

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1944 MB (Award Winner) Sacramento, CA **SOLD**

• CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features, MB • TAGS: , This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $37,000.

(10/17/2013) This MB won 1st place at the MVPA National Convention. Just the MB is for sale, not the MA (Josh notes I mislabeled it a Bantam) next to it. Nice photo!

“1944 WILLYS MB JEEP. THIS JEEP IS FULLY RESTORED CORRECTLY WITH ITS ORIGINAL BODY AND ENGINE AND DRIVE TRAIN. THIS ORIGINAL JEEP IS RESTORED WITH ALL (NOS) NEW OLD STOCK ORIGINAL PARTS INCLUDING ORIGINAL GLASS , HEADLIGHTS , GAUGES, CAPSTAN WINCH. THE JEEP HAS A 30 CAL GUN MOUNT AND ALL THE ORIGINAL MANUALS. ALSO THE ORIGINAL TOOL KIT AND SPARE PARTS KIT IS INCLUDED. THIS JEEP WON FIRST PLACE AT THE MILITARY VEHICLE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CONVENTION. THIS JEEP IS RESTORED IN U.S.M.C. GREEN. I HAVE TEN YEARS OF RESTORATION AND OVER $58,000 IN COST TO COMPLETE. THIS MILITARY JEEP IS FOR THE COLLECTOR WITH AN EYE FOR DETAIL.”

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1942 Poster with Ford GP **SOLD**

• CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE:  **SOLD** Was on eBay.

Here’s an unusual poster.

“Original poster , 40 x 28 , folded for mailing ( has multiple folds throughout and the folded up size is 7 x 10 , which would have originally been placed in an envelope and mailed by the government to the recipient ) , overall condition is excellent with some wear at several places at the folds , shows an early Jeep with 4 soldiers wearing early style army helmets , this spectacular image was probably originally created by Walter Richards in 1941 and this poster was printed by the Division of Information , Office for Emergency Management , Washington DC in 1942 . This information was obtained from the Internet : “Walter DuBois Richards made at least two posters during World War II. Throughout his nearly century-long life and the seven decades his career expanded, he was affectionately known as Wally. His first published works as an Illustrator can be traced back as early as the mid 1920’s in Rocky River, Ohio, when he wasn’t yet 20 years of age. They were something akin to doodles throughout the pages of his High School Senior Yearbook. As far as I know, his last published work as an artist was in 1987 for a Historic Preservation stamp of Timberline Lodge in Mt. Hood, Oregon.””

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Movie Still with CJ-3B on eBay

• CATEGORIES: CJ-3B, Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

I can’t say I’ve ever seen “Cottonpicken Chickenpickers“. It’s a 1967 movie that features a CJ-3B in at least one scene.

“Cottonpicken Chickenpickers ’67 MAX SLAPSIE MAXIE ROSENBLOOM ARMY JEEP

This vintage original still shows a VERY RARE photo of (from left to right) MAX SLAPSY MAXIE ROSENBLOOM in an ARMY JEEP, DEL REEVES and HUGH X LEWIS.

Moviephoto from the movie: Cottonpicken Chickenpickers
Year of the photo: 1967
Size of the photo: Approximately 8 x 10”

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