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Giant Flatfender Jeep in Abu Dhabi

June 2, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Artists/Drawings, Features, Monuments/Statues, Museums This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: Vince shared an article from autoblog.com that provides more information on the Rainbow Sheikh (Sheigh Hamad bin Hamdan) who built the world’s largest running jeep. It had been many years since my last post on the subject, so it was time to update this post.

In 2010, reports were that Guinness Book of World Records had recognized the jeep as the largest running jeep in the world; however, I could not verify the record through the Guinness web site. Recently, a huge CJ-5 built by the same Shiekh for his offload museum may have surpassed the flat fender.

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/05/31/worlds-largest-working-jeep/

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Published in April of 2009:  I thought it was just a fake keep prop of some kind, but apparently it’s being built on the framework of a large quarry mining truck. 

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1948 CJ-2A American Fork, UT $3000

June 2, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ-2A This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Could be worth a look.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/266400874724094/

“Willys Jeep for sale, 1948 clean title. When we purchased it still was running then. We had plans to do a Jeep build but are still not ready to do it. It has been sitting out side for 3 years now. We just would like to sell it and make space. I can also tow it to your place! Let me know if your interested”

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1946 CJ-2A Lebanon, OR $500

June 2, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ-2A This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Not sure how much value is here.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/259830901901100/

“L head straight 4 cylinder, has motor, no transmission. Pan and frame is no good but a lot of parts are there (axels, seat frame, gauges, grill, windshield frame, etc.). Don’t need the parts anymore. This is not a vehicle you can get back on the road. It’s main purpose would be for parts. We are not interested in parting out the Jeep. We want someone to take the entire Jeep.”

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1941 Article: Frank Fenn was the Real Jeep Father

June 1, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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On June 24, 1941, a syndicated article claimed that friends of Ward Canaday said he was the father of the jeep:

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The Windsor Star out of Ontario, Canada, published this article blurb on June 24, 1941.

This news didn’t sit well with friends and former employees of Frank H. Fenn, President of the American Bantam Car Co. They wasted no time, quickly countering the notion that Canaday was the jeep’s father by explaining via telegrams why Fenn was the real father of the “Jeep”.

On June 27th, 1941, the Press and Sun-Bulletin published the responses in the following column.

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And, just for fun, here’s another example of a Bantam BRC photo, taken less than a week after it arrived at Holabird. The first Bantam Scout Car wasn’t a secret for very long!

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Published by the Seminole Producer, Seminole, Oklahoma, October 07, 1940.

 

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