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Another Coffee Jeep in Colombia

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Sebastian’s dad, always on alert for jeep stuff in Colombia, emailed this picture while the site was down.  You might remember this coffee jeep from Colombia.

Sebastian added some notes for us:

– The coffee sign, the wrong spelling in English and really no meaning in Spanish (it should be café)
– The top white sign saying “minutos” which means cell phone minutes. You basically pay a fee and you can use their cell phone for a call. Look the lady using the phone for a call.
– Middle white sign which offers “Mazamorra”, a local dish that not everyone dares to try. Not that easy to find these days, and not really recommended if you have an afternoon full of things to do, most likely you will need a long nap after eating that.
– Bottom sing “arroz con leche” which means rice pudding, sweetened to perfection.
It can not be more Colombian than this!

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Crazy Jeep Train & Comic

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Taking pity on Mark’s withdrawals, I spotted this link that I never posted about Fred Kay’s Crazy Railroad.  Lots of jeeps on rails.

http://www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk/fredkayrly.html

Meanwhile, I’m going through and deleting old posts to reduce the site’s overhead while I move it over.

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Jeep Sling from the 881st Ordnance

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I spotted this article about slinging a jeep on LoanSentry.com.  Apparently, during WW2 the folks in the 881st Ordnance were slinging plenty of jeeps, enough that they created a system for it and published the results in

You can view a variety of the ordnance documents at vmpa.ordnanacereproductions.com. It looks like a cool resource.

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March 22, 1945 India-Burma Theatre Roundup Photo

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From page 1 of the India-Burma Theatre Roundup Newspaper comes this unusual photo featuring a jeep and men loading and testing rockets juxtaposed with a picture of a jeep as ambulance.

http://cbi-theater-1.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-1/roundup/roundup032245.html

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Wire Photo of Training on eBay

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John spotted this photograph.  It includes a newspaper clipping to show that it was published.

“You are bidding on an original 8 X 10 Wire Photo of US Military Jeep & Cadets At Florida Military Academy St Pete. Photo is dated 3/6/49. Photo has slight wrinkles right edge. Jeep..”

View all the information on eBay

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