just the right ticket to fun, in sand or snow (see how I didn't complete the obvious rhyme? You're welcome!)

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/12/jeep-cherokee-1975.html

such a good looking truck

https://www.hagerty.com/media/market-trends/hagerty-insider/7-off-roaders-of-the-70s-for-under-40000/

I just learned the origin of the Land Cruiser was the same as the Range Rover... the WW2 Jeep

After the war, the Jeep lived on in Japan in two different forms. 

In the early ‘50s, Toyota produced a version called the Jeep BJ with the intention of selling it to the US military then embroiled in the Korean War. Instead, Toyota ended up selling it to the Japanese National Police Agency thanks to a stunt that involved driving a BJ up Mt. Fuji. 

In an effort to differentiate their Jeep, it was later renamed “Land Cruiser,” which soon became its own line of original, Japanese-designed off-road vehicles. 

The Land Cruiser would also become the first major overseas sales success for Toyota, despite only selling exactly one of them during their first year of operation in the United States.

https://www.zimmerit.moe/the-cars-of-yasuo-otsuka/

eye catching colors in the Mopar booth (and FINALLY a 2 door Charger, about damn time)

I love that they went 80s, and took it far enough to get an 80s car phone

 

Great photo

Here's something odd... Capt. Belin's cool Jeep had 3 cartoon characters of art, there a lot of photos of, and they even got the back of it when it was towing a trailer!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michael-ann/3781920993/

XXII Corps 67th Signal Battalion Head Quarters - 3rd vehicle
XXII Corps arrived overseas on 30 December 1944 and served to the end of the war

I first came across this Jeep in June of 2020, and here's more photos of it... https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-memphis-belle-jeep-with-great.html 

it's the Memphis Belle, and I still haven't figured out what is going on with the huge curved front bumper to grill piece with the nose art  

Or the two bottles of wine

the 644th Ordnance Depot salvaged everything needed to make a “winter-proof” enclosure, a plastic top, windshield wipers, a spotlight and a windshield defroster.

I swear, a book of the ingenuity of the WW2 soldiers would sell really good... 

https://www.ewillys.com/2016/07/31/1945-photo-of-the-winter-proof-top-on-ebay

I can't recall if I ever posted this before, a Jeep used for fueling prop planes, probably in Nam

 

https://in.pinterest.com/pin/840343611744709272/

https://www.ewillys.com/2016/12/13/standard-oil-modified-cj-2a-for-aviation-refills/

when it positively absolutely has to be delivered on time - drop it in

Handley Page Hastings being used to air drop a Jeep

two versions from different sources so it's easier to make out the jeeo, and the guy in the door.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572306392513

https://www.facebook.com/Airbornealliance/photos/pb.100064818905705.-2207520000/2278082235667276/?type=3

the original on base "don't drink and drive" example (for all of you that weren't in the military, it was nearly one new smashed vehicle a week staged near the main gate of the base, to reinforce the "don't drink and drive, you young morons, here's what happened")

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122149761224743546&set=a.122098216622743546

By the way, A Daily Dose of Willys, is STILL blogging! They started 7 months before I did

https://www.ewillys.com/

made of wire, by Shi Jindian, who studied at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and currently lives and works in Chengdu.

Shi Jindian’s works are based on destruction and reconstruction of real objects. His works, such as “Beijing Jeep BJ-212”, are based on industrial products with particular significance in social, political and cultural life, as well as symbols of the times.

https://are2.tumblr.com/post/22202927120
https://shijindian.wordpress.com/page/2/

mired in the mud of Germany in 1944, getting help from, left to right - Cpl Cook, Detroit, Mi, Pvt Holmquist, NJ, and Sgt Block, Indiana. The driver is Sgt Newman (165th Signal Photo Company), Los Angeles, California.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1310201041142420&set=a.637760145053183

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10233304613382862&set=gm.1546806356497195&idorvanity=319578812553295

It's not uncommon to come across one of these Jeep Wagoneers, but, I've never noticed these locking hubs before, on anything. They are named Dualmatic!

Very cool to see this old camera on the dash

Here's how the Dualmatic works (thank you Steve! https://robwolfe10.tripod.com/dualmatic_hubs.htm )

here's a page about them getting restored https://www.cj3apage.com/index/My_1950/restoring_dualmatic_hubs.htm

nice assortment of vintage camping stuff

great Jeep truck!

I never heard of this epic awesome stunt until now... the sub that swiped a Jeep off the piers at Pearl, and hauled it to some South pacific island, then sold it for 3 gallons of ice cream! THAT story got used as an ice cream ad! You CAN'T make this up! Thank you Raymond!

https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/asleep_in_the_deep_with_a_jeep

Back when cut and paste was a paper toy thing to do

https://www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta/albums/72157601156433867/with/3121803906

https://www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta/1105848374/in/album-72157601156433867