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4th Annual FC Get-Together Aug 3-5, 2012

August 1, 2012 • CATEGORIES: Event, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Don’t forget the FC Get-Together this weekend in Tacoma, WA.

2012 NW FC Roundup Details

NW FC lovers mark your calendars.  Aug 3, 4 and 5 are the dates we are gathering in Tacoma, WA.  The address and directions of how to get here are on the enclosed link.

The times are:   Fri, Aug 3 rd, 3 pm till 7 ish;
Sat, Aug 4 th, 9 am till 7 ish;
and Sun Aug 5 th, 9 am till 1 ish.

We will have hot coffee, tea, and choc with fruit and rolls Sat and Sun am.
Fri eve, those interested can take in a local restaurant.
Sat noonish, we will have a barbecue lunch, probably turkey/pineapple burgers and beef burgers, fresh salad and potato
salad (donations for the food is appreciated).
Sat eve, for those interested, we will go to another local restaurant.

Please drive, haul, or bring photos of your FC’s and FJ Fleet Vans. If you have parts for trade, sale or donation to the raffle, please bring them.  You can arrive any time and day that’s convenient.  Your significant other is encouraged to join in.

The event will be in a company parking lot.  The lot has a tall security fence with a lockable gate.  A locked warehouse is available if anyone desires.  A covered area will provide relief from sun or rain.

If there are any questions, please email or call me at
gaylordmingo@gmail.com, 253 759 5932.

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December 1947 Unity Magazine Cover

July 31, 2012 • CATEGORIES: Features, Magazine, Women & Jeeps • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Colin forwarded this wonderful cover from the December 1947 issue of Unity Magazine, a Willys Overland Magazine.

Coling writes, “The cover shows a small girl, actually the daughter of the magazine editor, holding an Al-Toy Jeep truck and just below it, the box it came in.  The Jeep truck was to the best of our knowledge, the Christmas toy for the Willys VIPs and high volume dealers for 1947.”

 

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Ann and Kasia Team Up

July 30, 2012 • CATEGORIES: CJ5, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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I know I’m not supposed to be posting today, but Ann and Kasia, my daughter, were running errands when they spotted this CJ-5.   So, they gave chase and flagged him down.  I wonder if the guy thought he’d get jeep-jacked?  On the other hand, maybe it isn’t two often two beautiful women flag him down? Either way, they cornered their prey and shot the picture.   No wonder my beautiful bride is a permanent part of the eWillys Team!  🙂

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New York – Patagonie OU 35.000 Kilometres en Jeep

July 30, 2012 • CATEGORIES: Books, Features, International This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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For those readers, whose French is better than mine, is this 1952 book about a pair of French men, Daniel Barbey and Henri Boucher, who go to New York in 1947, purchase a brand new 1947 CJ-2A ,and take it on an adventure through the US, Central and South America.  The book was publish in 1950.  It would be a good reason to learn French.

The only copies I’ve run across are here:

http://cgi.ebay.fr/NEW-YORK-PATAGONIE-JEEP-Daniel-BARBEY-H-BOUCHER-/200637535521#ht_500wt_863

here:

http://www.amazon.com/NEW-YORK-PATAGONIE-OU-35-000-KILOMETRES-JEEP/dp/B0052OSXHQ

and here:

http://www.abebooks.com/NEW-YORK-PATAGONIE-35.000-KILOMETRES-JEEP-Barbey-Daniel/4985345657/bd

 

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Jeep Carnival Ride @ Eagle Fun Days (In Idaho)

July 30, 2012 • CATEGORIES: Event, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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At last year’s ‘Eagle Fun Days’, which is held in Eagle, ID, where I used to live.  In 2011 one of the carnival rides had had old flat fender jeeps in it.  Here is a shot of one young man enjoying himself.  His grandfather has less pleasant things to say about the event, which you can read in this blog post.

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