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VEEP Brochure and Assembly Instructions

January 9, 2014 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, VEEP (VW Jeep), Scamp, Others This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Paul was kind enough to share this very rare Hadley Engineering VEEP brochure in the hopes that it helps the VEEP owners out there who struggle to find information about their vehicle. Below are photos of the basic brochure. I also have assembly instructions that I haven’t scanned yet. Great stuff! One unique item I hadn’t notice before was the stamped ‘VEEP’ in the hood. I’ve never seen that in any production VEEPs. If you ever run across a hood with VEEP stamped in it, I’d be interested to get some photos.

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Fagen Fighters WWII Museum

January 9, 2014 • CATEGORIES: Features, Museums This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Built as a tribute to his father who participated in D-Day invasion of Utah Beach in Normandy, Ron Fagen opened the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum in September of 2012 at his hometown of Granite Falls, MN,  Along with a collection of WWII airplanes, the collection also includes the GPW used by Omar Bradley during the Invasion. I’ve only found this one:

fagen-fighters-wwii-museum-jeepHere’s a neat overview of one diorama taken by Jody Phipps. The jeep isn’t shown.

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Home Made (?) Tin Toy Jeep on eBay

January 9, 2014 • CATEGORIES: Features, toys This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Marc found this unusual hand made toy jeep.

“Vintage Tin Toy US Army Jeep
Windscreen moves up and down. Metal wheels.
No visible maker’s mark. Looks handpainted and possibly handmade.
measures approximately 9.75″ long, 4.75″ wide (side mirror to side mirror)”

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Race Jeep Roseburg, OR **SOLD**

January 9, 2014 • CATEGORIES: Features, Other 4x4s, Racing • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $21,000

“Race jeep for sale. Modified wrangler chassis with lift off body. Custom aluminum floor pan. Custom full race cage. Engine Sbc 406 with many modifications est at 700 hp, dart cnc ported heads, cull roller cam, rev kit, wesmar gear drive, 2″ headers, flow master exhaus. 850 proform carb. Turbo 400/205 full manual race tranny. 4 link front and rear. 18″ travel ORI struts. Trail ready wheels. Good year tires. Psc/krc full hydro steering Custom paint. Corbeau suspension seats. Tom woods driveshafts. 32 gallon fuel cell, turning brakes, dana 44 front, dana 60 rear spooled with 40 spline dutchman axles. And much more. Willing to seperate engine & tranny from jeep. Sand tire combination available for extra fee.”

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1948 Photos of Everglades Tamiami Arch Everglades on eBay

January 8, 2014 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Anyone ever seen a grille guard quite like this one? It has kind of a Road Warrior feel to it in the first photo.

“As described in the title and shown in the scans below, this is a set of three original snapshot photos that were taken from 1948 to about 1950 of, what seems to be, the same Jeep (or similar) parked in the shade under the Collier Archway on the Tamiami Trail at the Collier County and Dade County lines in the Everglades National Park. We don’t know if the officer in the swamp prepared Willys Jeep with large police light on the front is a Park Ranger, Sheriff’s Deputy or Police Officer. He is parked on the Dade County side but they may just be because of the shade. One of the photos is marked “1948” on the back and the other two are not marked. However, one of the unmarked ones has the “Kodak Velox Paper” watermark on the back which would place at least to 1950 and the Jeep now has a radio in the front center of the roof which is not present in the other two photos. The approx. measurements range from 3.25″ x 3.5″ to 3.5″ x 5″. The photos are in bright clean condition though two have been clipped, there is photo paper curl, some scuffing and crinkle. Please view the edge to edge images below for further details on condition and image quality. The thin white vertical lines are artifacts of our scanner and not actually on the photos. If you are interested in original historic Everglades snapshots from the late 1940’s to the early 1950’s, please check our other listings as we have a few more to sell.”

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Honest Joe’s Pawn Shop (Can you see the Wagon?)

January 7, 2014 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Willys Wagons This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Dave Antram forwarded this photo of a Dallas, Texas, Pawnshop run by Rubin Goldstein from 1931 until 1972. I don’t know how the store became “Honest Joe’s”, but I do know Goldstein’s personal motto: YCDBSOYA ….. “You can’t do business sitting on your Afghanistan”.  You can learn more about Goldstein here.

Now, can you spot the Willys Wagon in this photo?

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