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U.S. Border Patrol Jeeps & the US Border Patrol Museum

July 24, 2014 • CATEGORIES: Features, Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles, Museums, Old Images • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: Steve let me know that the US Border Patrol Museum has an updated website with more photos. Below are a few historical photos. You can view more historical photos (with cars, jeeps, horses and more) here.

ORIGINAL POST 07/27/2012:

1. A cold day for guarding the boarder.us-border-patrol-museum

2.  Border Patrol Inspector observing sign of possible illegal border crossers encountered while on Jeep patrol duty near Del Rio, Texas – March 9, 1956:

3. High lookout point overlooking the Rio Grande River, June 29, 1961. [Location is still used to overlook Rio Grande River.]

This is the CJ-2A displayed in the Museum. It looks a little green in this picture, but it’s actually more gray in person.

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1949 Photo of Joe Jackson in his Jeep Wagon on eBay

July 24, 2014 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Willys Wagons • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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The photo of Joe Jackson, Jr., below was published in several different newspapers based on this google search.  He must have had a very loving wife to live in a jeep while touring Europe!

According to the article, “Joe is wearing a 64-year-old clown costume that belonged to his late father as he tries out the jeep station wagon he will use for touring Europe. Joe, who carries on a comedy act originated by his father, will use the station wagon for a dressing room and living quarters with his wife.”

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O’Laughlin Tracked Vehicle(s)

July 18, 2014 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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I happened across this rare set of tracked jeeps made by O’Laughlin (a person or a company?), or it could just be one jeep with successive modifications. I only uncovered a few photos photos and very little information.How experiments on this related to the M-28/M-29 amphibious Weasel are not clear to me, but they appear to have been parallel projects given the Weasel research was begun in 1942.

I found this photo of the tracked jeep at a Cargo & Personnel Carrier site:
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/UnitedStates/cargo-personnel/cargo-personnel.html

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I found a thread on an argentine model site where someone constructed a look-a-like model.
http://kalkin.foros.ws/t12174/olaughlin-modified-jeep/olaughlin-tracked-jeep1-model

 

This could potentially be the same jeep as above, only it’s rear area has been altered. I can’t quite read the numbers on the hood in the top pic to know for sure. olaughlin-tracked-cargo-carrier2

Finally, there’s a page about a tracked jeep at 42FordGPW, but the page never refers to either vehicle as a Modified vehicle. Perhaps someone can add to this info?

 

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