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The September 1957 issue of Willys News devoted a full page to Frank and Helen Schreider’s 20,000 mile trip from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America.
Thats some serious weight.
“eep Pulling Freight Car in Dakar WWII Dispatch Photo News Service
This is thin stock, put out by the Dispatch Photo News Service in New York during World War II. Measures roughly 10 3/4 x 12 1/2. Blank back. Has caption along the bottom telling about the picture. A friend told me this is offset lithography (dot pattern)”
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Here’s another one of these vintage jeep game boards on eBay.
” WW2 JEEP BOARD COMPLETE WITH THE PEGS. I HAVE DESCRIBED THIS AS NEW CONDITION. THE OUTSIDE DOES HAVE SOME WEAR AND TEAR AND A FEW SMALL TEARS, BUT INSIDE, EVERYTHING IS VERY CLEAN AND SHOWS NO SIGNS OF BEING USED. ”
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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $8000.
(06/23/2015) It’s street legal, too.
“Chevy 454, tunnel ram, roller rockers, chromolly pushrods, Isky cam, lifters, and springs, complete MSD ignition system, gear drive, Turbo 400 trans. with 2400 stall converter, narrowed 9″ Ford rear end with 5.29 gears and spool, tubed back half, Mustang II front end, wheelie bars, all Auto Meter gauges, 33 X 15.50 Mickey Thompson Pro tires on the rear, 15 X 14 Weld wheels in the rear, 15 X 3 Weld wheels up front, PRP seats with 5 point harnesses, lots more goodies!
This Jeep is street legal with current tags. Great cruising vehicle. Must see!!!”
Too bad this isn’t in color. Note the DJ-3A with the convertible top at the lower right. the photo was published in the February 1956 issue of Willys News.
On April 20, 1997, the Toledo Blade devoted an entire section of its newspaper to the jeep history, going all the way back to the construction of the Jewel sewing machine factory in 1885. While it isn’t a perfect history (for example Jeep did not copyright the name JEEP in 1946, they tried, and failed, to trademark it at that time), it’s still interesting with some photos and a historical time line.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I2oxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6687%2C7138684
In the photo above Willys MAs are rolling off the assembly line.
The Miami News reported in 1956 that wives will love driving the new FC-150. I wonder if anyone bothered to interview any wives on that topic . . .
That’s some serious mud!
“WWII Line of U.S. Jeeps Bogged Down in Mud on Ledo Road in Burma Press Photo”
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Ouch!
“1943 Press Photo A destroyed American jeep after it hit a land mine, Navy beach”
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This photo appeared in a September 06, 1943, promoting the jeep as a tractor.
A 1943 an interview with Barney Roos appeared in a Palm Beach newspaper that explored his automotive history. In the article, Roos promoted the jeep as a practical alternative to the standard tractor. Another article in the Milwaukee Journal seconded farmer’s optimism regarding the jeep (there were many articles promoting the jeep as a farm tractor. Here’s a September 06, 1943 article).
A year later, two Canadian Agricultural specialists were much less confident in the jeep’s potential, suggesting the jeep drove to fast, the transmission was not strong enough, and the jeep lacked power to be a good farm vehicle. Willys Overland must have agreed with those researchers, because they addressed those issues by installing lower gears, which both added power and slowed down the jeep. They also updated the transmission to the T-90.
I’ll begin with the 1944 Canadian article first as that is comparatively short.
