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Photos of the Yeck Vehicle Auction

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

Brian and his father attended the April 27th, 2013, auction in Michigan. They took these photos. They captured some prices with certain jeeps, but weren’t able to match them all up. Here are the auction prices of several jeeps. I’ve matched other prices with the jeeps below.

#9 $7000 w/ 50 cal.
#11 missed
#12 missed
#13 $3600
#14 $2400
#15 $8000
#16 $3000
#18 $5500
#19 $4200
#21 $5750
#22 $6750
#23 $6750

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#17 $5500 1952 M-38A1 Civ. Defense Fire Truck Jeep

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#8 $3900 1944 GPW Desert Rat Jeep
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#10 $5000 1942 MB Armored
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Some Random Seep Photos

• CATEGORIES: Features, GPA (SEEP), Old Images, Women & Jeeps This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Here are a few SEEP photos I found today.

1) This was posted at zeelandnet.nl . The link includes photos of a GPA restoration.

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2) This one is from Photobucketseep-military-women

 

3) This one is from the World War II Database. The caption reads: Canadian Prime Minister King and General Harry Foster walking by a Ford GPA amphibious Jeep, England, UK, 18 May 1944

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Jeep Station Wagon Ambulances

• CATEGORIES: Features, Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles, Willys Wagons This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: Note this toy jeep I found at the Snook Museum.

I just ran across this neat little story from indianamilitary.org. According to the story, in 1950 the Army bought 1000 Jeep Station Wagons and outfitted them for testing at Army Hospitals all over the country. The were painted Olive Drab and given government data plates. You can read the entire history and see all the pics here.

The 1951 Wagon below ended up at Camp Atterbury. It was sold in 1954 and then used and parked until it was restored. It sell has the original government data plate.

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V-7 Body Works out of Chicago

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

UPDATE II: I’ve added these two very rare photos from FB posted by Martin Sturm showing his grandmother next to a CJ-2A equipped with a V-7 Bodyworks hardtop.

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UPDATE: Thanks to Jennifer, the granddaughter of the creator Sam Sevin of the V-7 hardtops, we now know who created them. There are newspaper clippings that indicate the company operated for a short time, roughly from 1948-1949. The company was formed by Sam and his brother Sol Sevin. Unfortunately, it appears the company didn’t not get the orders they’d hoped and was forced out of business.

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Originally Posted April 28, 2013: V-7 Body Works in Chicago offered these two different woody tops, a half-top and a wagon model, for CJ-2As in 1948. I tired to find out more information the company, but had no luck.

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Amerio Refridgerated Body Option

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Amerio Refrigerating Equipment Company was based in Union City, New Jersey. They made a variety of different truck bodies for different vehicles. As the brochure below demonstrates, they also made them for CJ-2As. I’ve yet to come across one that still exists.

 

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As a side note, a New Jersey Company called Delicious Ice Cream is creating a business around restored ice cream trucks. They will bring them to corporate parties, birthday parties, etc. http://www.deliciousicecreamllc.com/services

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