From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sun Feb 12 2006 - 05:41:57 PST
I saw an old CJ5 body turned on its side yesterday. Do they have any value
to HMV collectors that anyone knows of? I believe it was about to be
crushed. At first I thought it was an M38A1 so I backed up and checked to
see that it was a CJ5.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:04 AM
Subject: [MV] 12 Feb 1953 supposed to be 50th anniversary of "jeep"
> It seems to upset folks when I post history of military vehicles, I do
> hope this one will not bring too many flames for my "new improved" shields
> to handle
>
> To relieve stress on folks that do not care about history perhaps you that
> want to see military vehicle history would send me a note off line and I
> will only send history only to folks that care about what made history.
>
> Everette
>
> Here is post about "jeeps" -- according to my source
>
>
> February 12
>
> 1953 Willys-Overland's 50th Anniversary
> The Willys-Overland Company, which brought America the Jeep, celebrated
> its golden anniversary. The original design for an all-terrain troop
> transport vehicle--featuring four-wheel drive, masked fender-mount
> headlights, and a rifle rack under the dash--was submitted to the U.S.
> Armed Forces by the American Bantam Car Company in 1939. The Army loved
> Bantam's design, but the production contract was ultimately given to
> Willys-Overland on the basis of its similar design and superior production
> capabilities. Mass production of the Willys Jeep began after the U.S.
> declaration of war in 1941. By 1945, 600,000 Jeeps had rolled off the
> assembly lines and onto battlefields in Asia, Africa, and Europe. The name
> "Jeep" is supposedly derived from the Army's request to car manufacturers
> to develop a "General Purpose" vehicle. "Gee Pee" turned to "Jeep"
> somewhere along the battle lines. The Willys Jeep became a cultural icon
> in the U.S. during World War II, as images of G.I.s in Gee Pees liberating
> Europe saturated the newsreels in movie theaters across the country.
> Unlike the Hummer of recent years, the Jeep was not a symbol of
> technological superiority but rather of the courage of the American
> spirit, a symbol cartoonist Bill Mauldin captured when he drew a weeping
> soldier firing a bullet into his broken down Willys Jeep. In 1945,
> Willys-Overland introduced the first civilian Jeep vehicle, the CJ-2A.
>
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