Here’s a nicely done video about Jeepneys from the Daily Motion website.
Jeepney Video
April 26, 2009 • CATEGORIES: Unusual, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Video — History Channel Modern Marvels, The Jeep
February 27, 2009 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, videos • TAGS: Stock. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
The history channel series Modern Marvels did a fine show on the history of the jeep. There’s some great bits of info, pictures and videos. I think it’s worth watching, even just to watch the video of the experimental ‘jeep helicopter’. The youtube version of this episode is divided up into 5 sections. The nice feature is that once you start watching the first one, each successive video will be launched automatically.
My only contention with the show is that one narrator suggests that Willys invented four wheel drive. Actually, four wheel drive had been around for about 50 years. I wrote the following several months ago (though didn’t post it):
“A four wheel drive system for vehicles was patented 48 years before the development of Bantam’s BRC (Bantam Recon Car aka Mark I), the very first jeep (followed by 69 prototype BRC-60s aka Mark II), the precursor to the jeep and the decision behind the military to issue a call for prototype 1/4 vehicles (to which three companies responded: Ford (Pygmy), Bantam (BRC-40) and Willys (Quad). Porsche developed a four wheel drive electric car prototype in 1900, 2 Dutch brothers built a four wheel drive Spyker race car in 1904 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyker). The Four Wheel Drive Auto company of Wisconsin built 20,000 four-wheel drive trucks for the British and American Armies during World War I.”
Now, maybe Bantam invented the modern transfer case. Of this, I’m less sure. I haven’t found any evidence that certifies the inventor of the transfer case.
Other links:
Dana 20 with Dana 18 gears rebuild
The video is hardly a complete document on how to rebuild a transfercase properly. Clearly, I won’t be quitting my day job to go into TV! However, I hope it’s educational and a little amusing.
A few related links:
- Article on rebuilding the Dana 20 with Dana 18 gears
- Novak’s Master Rebuild Kit for the Dana 20 $178
- Bronco Dana 20 Rear Sliding Gear from Bronco Graveyard
- Dana Transfer Case History
This is a low resolution video, but is still 49mb. It runs approx a half hour.
The Meeker Trail aka the Naches Trail
April 1, 2008 • CATEGORIES: Features, News, videos • TAGS: Yakima Ridge Runners. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Jeeping 1 (Click link and scroll down to Jeeping 1)
This DVD features 3 episodes:
1. The Meeker Trail: "Join this spine-rattling trip with the Yakima Ridge Runners Jeep Club as they retrace the oldest route across the Cascades: Naches Pass. Filmed in black-and-white in 1965, it is based on Ezra Meeker's book "Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound", which recounts traversing this old Indian trail with the first immigrant wagon train of 148 people in 1853."
2. The Doe Run: "The female members of the Seattle Jeep Club leave their families at home and enjoy a weekend 'Doe Run' on the rugged backcountry roads of the Cle Elum and Salmon La Sac area in the Cascade Mountains." (The WWJC club did something similar about this time – my mom and grandma went)
3. The Mud Race: " Yakima Ridge Runners Jeep Club race their specially-equipped jeeps through a mud-hole track in central Washington."
The Desert Races DVD (Click link and scroll down to Desert Races)
This DVD features 3 episodes
1. Mattawa 100: "The 1975 Mattawa 100 features 750 dirt bikes racing across 100 miles of sand and sagebrush near the eastern Washington town of Mattawa. Aerial and slow-motion photography offers an exciting view along with comments by contestants. The Everett Highriders Jeep Club and the Stump Jumpers Motorcycle Club assisted in the event". (I think I was at this race. Our jeep club was helping run a checkpoint. Guys were coming to the checkpoint bloody from falling. Very memorable).
2. The Sunfair 300: "Sponsored by the Washington Off-Road Racing Association, the Sunfair 300 is a desert race with 4-wheel-drive vehicles and rails (dune buggies) on a 225-mile course near Yakima that ranks as one of the toughest in the nation! Members of the Yakima Ridge Runners staff the race course check points." (I believe this was what my original racing jeep — that I purchased for $600 — was built to compete in).
3. A retrospective of the life of the host, Don McCune.