The April 1955 issue of Willys News published this photo. It’s a tour jeep truck for the Africa. It seems a little too open to me. Those lions look like they could easily leap inside.
Jeep-Willys-News Research Archives
Chicken Ranch Jeep
The April 1955 issue of Willys News included this article and excerpt from the June 1955 issue of American Poultry Journal.
CJ-3Bs Headed to Alaska
The April 1955 issue of Willys News showed thirteen CJ-3Bs and one station wagon heading for Alaska. Someone was smart enough to install hardtops on them before they left, but I don’t see any high BTU heaters on the cowl.
New Meyer Cab & Nebraska Ruff Riders
A 1966 issue of jeep news covered the new Meyer M-III cab and highlighted the Nebraska Ruff Riders car show win.
1964 Kaiser Jeep New Vol. 10 No. 5 on eBay
This and nine other Jeep News magazines are for sale, but they are in Australia. This puts them out of my budget. However, there’s some pics just good enough to see the photos and headlines. For example, in just the two pages below there are variety of examples of DJ-3A dispatchers, FCs, and other jeeps sold. Check out the 22 DJs sold to the Canadian Navy. Good stuff!
Shriner’s Mini-Jeep
The Naming of Jeep Chee
This 1955 July Willys News article highlights the naming of a Navajo baby named Jeep Chee. My attempts to learn more about Jeep Chee weren’t very successful. I did find this odd movie script. There is a more extensive article about Gwen and Marvin Walter in the July 1958 issue of Desert Magazine.
Buddy Cowger: CJ-3B Uranium Hunter
According to this story, Buddy Cowger lost the use of his legs due to cyanide poisoning. That didn’t stop him from driving the backroads of Utah in search of Uranium. He was a friend of Charlie Steen, a famous Uranium hunter out of Moab.
1955 Testimonial to the Jeep From a Tobacco Farmer
Melbourne’s Thomas Blamey Monument
Field Marshall Sir Thomas Albert Blamey was memorialized in a monument in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. It shows him standing while gripping part of a jeep windshield. The way a July 1955 Willys News described it, I thought there’d be a whole jeep!
Jeep Trucks in Africa for TV Series
This September 1955 Willys News article discussed the use of jeeps in Africa for the upcoming Tarzan TV series.
Cleveland’s Animal Protective League Used Jeeps
This September 1955 article from Willys News highlights the use of jeeps by Cleveland’s Animal Protective League.
























