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The January 1946 issue of Motor Magazine has an article about fixing the Army jeep.
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This March 1957 article from Popular Mechanics highlighted the 1957 Jeep Jamboree in Texas. A few days ago a press photo showing the photo of the DJ-3A (just the front of it) landed on eBay for sale.
The January 1944 issue of the Canadian Home Journal featured a baby and jeep on its cover. This particularly magazine was advertised for sale on Facebook.
It took a chance on this January 1957 issue of True Adventures and bought it on eBay hoping to find an article that included jeeps. But, I struck out. There was nothing but scantily clad women (not that I was complaining), fantastical stories, and silly advertisements.
These photos appeared in the February 1956 issue of Globe-trotter. I especially like the CJ-5 with the ice cream maker!
The Gypsy Rose Lee Jeep is a stripped down version of the regular jeep for airborne troops (one of a variety developed). Made of “plastic plywood”, it was almost a 1,000lbs lighter than the standard 2,200lb jeep. You might also know the jeep as the MB-L. This article, of which the Gypsy Rose Lee was a part, was published in the December 1947 issue of Willys Overland Unity Magazine.
UPDATE: The magazine Guion from Uruguay published a one-page article about the jeep, along with the cover page (shown at the bottom). My Spanish isn’t so good, so I have to guess, based on the photos, that the article discusses the problems caused by groups of young women in bikinis roving the beaches of Uruguay. Oh, what terrible problem that would be!?!?
This cover was published as part of the April 1947 issue. Thanks to Christian (via Derek Redmond) for sharing this one.
The 1947 Craftsman Annual Project Magazine contains forty-four wide ranging projects for the builder who was to try constructing everyone. Of course, there’s a battery toy jeep project among the items (directions shown below), but also included in the magazine are plans for building from scratch a welder, a battery-less telephone, a Jolly Roger boat, a hand vise, a rocket, a farm tractor (from car parts), and much more.
I believe this is a CJ-5 APU, though it could provide some other service. Either way, it’s something I’ve never run across.
“Leatherneck
Volume XLI Number 5
May 1958
in
Very Good Condition.”
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This issue probably has an article and photos of a Yakima Jeep Rodeo.
“February 1954, Vol. 2, No. 3. Vintage tabloid-size (10 x 13 inches) magazine devoted to news, entertainment, and pin-ups galore. One of a handful of mags of the 1950s seeing publication well into the 1960s, becoming a more straight-forward men’s full-nudes magazine. Cover art uncredited. Also featured: Harry Roskolenko on Australian bushmen, house fave Eve Meyer by Russ Meyer 1p, Frank Rasky on sex, 6-day bike race, dismemberment in NY, Pamplona bulls, sharks of Tahiti, Humbert Satriano on burlesque (Kalantan, Valetta & Lily St. Cyr vignettes), Jeep mud race, Fred Lyon pinup car photos, Clem Owen on Texas Rangers, ads.”
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