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I’m guessing this photo was part of the 1955 CJ-5 introduction?
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“Vintage Jeep Vehicles News & Photos Press Photo KAISER JEEP CORPORATION”
Is that a truck-bed trailer?
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“Vintage Jeep Vehicles News & Photos Press Photo WILLY’S 8 X 10”
This photo captures a military test of a jeep lashed to a raft in a Los Angeles lagoon.
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“1942 Press Photo La, Calif. Army jeep on a raft in Army demonstration. Photo measures 9 x 7 inches. Photo is dated 7-3-1942.”
The price on these two identical photos is good. The photo appears to have been taken on September 20, 1950.
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“Original Korean War Press Photo dated 1950. (2 identical) Jeep unloaded from a Flying Boxcar plane at Kimpo Airport, taken by Photographer Stanley Tretick. 7X9″ the image itself is a bit grainy but theyre in great shape.”
On pages 48-29 of the August 15, 1942, Saturday Evening post featured an ad by the United State Rubber Company titled “Here’s Where Your Rubber is Going”. The ad included a Ford GP.
Farrell Fox shared this photo of what I call a “Sedan-Jeep” on Facebook. There was no year or caption. I loosely define a sedan-jeep as one which has had some kind of custom top and/or fenders, added that make the jeep a little more car-like.
This photo appeared in the February 03, 1945, issue of the Saturday evening Post, page 18.
This article was published on June 29, 1944, in the Sotoyome Scimitar newspaper out of Healdsburg, California. Mario shared it on Facebook.
These pics were part of an article in the November 11, 1945, issue of Colliers.
Steve Bovee just contacted me about the upcoming 70th anniversary of the De Anza Jeep Cavalcade, aka Hemet-Borrego Jeep Cavalcade.
He writes, “Willys Jeeps and Flat Fenders Welcome … Next month will be the 70th anniversary of the De Anza Jeep Cavalcade aka Hemet-Borrego Jeep Cavalcade. Some 400 vehicles, mostly Willys Jeeps, went on this epic off-roading event April 2, 1949.
To celebrate the anniversary a few flat fenders will be getting together on April 6th and will be retracing the original route, as much as possible. There might be several starting points, but the main one will be in Hemet and as in the first run we will travel south through Battista Canyon, stop in Anza for a snack and photo shoot and then head out to Coyote Canyon. Coyote Canyon part of the trail is for the brave at heart and there is only one way in and one way out so I’m sure some of us will stop there.”
You can read more about the original Cavalcade in this July 1979 article from Desert Magazine (below), which can also be found on Archive.org.
