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You’ve seen plenty of photos of guys and their jeeps- the GIs, the farmers, the ranchers, the shade tree mechanics and restorers, but its alot less common to see women in them. Well I’ve ...

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Today we come back to yet more photographs by the Willys Overland favorite, contract photographer, Milton Zink. I’ve been bringing you photos from the Toledo Lucas County Library’s onli...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/12/sunday-december-14-2014-milton-zink-and.html

And as in ‘didn’t they shoot an awful lot of press photos there?’ It seems that way, but I love this staged shot. I’ve already  talked a bit about Milton Zink and what I could find...

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Today we’ll have a short, but sweet update as I’m still working on the voluminous amount of material in the Toledo Lucas Library collection. Plus, I did promise you guys and gals an upda...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/11/sunday-november-16-2014-website-finds.html

Hi guys and welcome back to another installment of the wonderful treasure trove of images that can be found at (and are obviously the sole property of...) the Toledo-Lucas County Library co...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/11/toledo-lucas-library-images-in-time.html

Quite a few years back now I stumbled across the Toledo Lucas County Library’s  online collection of photographs and its what you’d expect of an online collection based in the hometown...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/10/sunday-october-19-2014-toledo-lucas.html

Just a short update today. I was planning on a longer article along with a short history, but that will have to wait until next week. I was battling through an early fall season cold yesterd...

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On this dreary rainy early fall day and the last day of summer I’ve decided that I needed to dip into a special folder that I’ve kept that has sorta surprisingly filled up not so slowly ...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/09/sunday-september-21-2014-little-bit-of.html

Like so many things in life and in the history of the jeep there are mysteries. This, for me is one of the big ones. The first half dozen negatives showed up on Ebay about last year or so an...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/09/sunday-september-7-2014-1950-cj3-camper.html

Happy Labor Day to everyone! I had wanted to get this up yesterday, but it was a very long day trying to squeeze as much as possible into a three day weekend. Regardless, today is more fitti...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/09/monday-september-1-2014-jeeps-on-farm.html

As August is very nearly coming to an end and as well with it, the symbolic end of summer, I want to hope that everyone has had a great summer. Not that the year should all be downhill after...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/08/sunday-august-24-2014-wrecks-and-stucks.html

Hi again everyone. Sorry about the delay over the last couple of weeks. But I’m back today with a short update for your enjoyment. There is SO much over the last couple of years that I’v...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/08/sunday-august-17-2014-website-finds.html

I’m sure that you’ve heard of the phrase that “form follows function” before. I’m a firm believer in it. The jeep is a perfect example of it. The form of the jeep was derived from ...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-jeep-and-automobile-design-at-moma.html

This is going to be the first time that I’ve written or presented anything related to the YJ at This-Old-Jeep.com. For a long time I simply didn’t like the looks of them- the new sorta f...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-new-era-yj.html

The 1980’s were a tumultuous time for the world and for Jeep. In 1985 the CJ was nearly ready to end production. At this time the CJ-5 was no more and the CJ-7 was the lone survivor in the...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-jeep-in-1985.html

Welcome back and this weekend brings us to the end of the 1982 Jeep brochures. I hope that everyone had a good Fourth of July holiday weekend. The early 1980’s were a pivotal time in the h...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/07/1982-cj-scrambler-wagoneer-and-select.html

With the large weight saving gains in 1981, the jeep lineup for the following year was largely unchanged. There were a few details here and there including the addition of a tilt steering opt...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/06/1982-jeep-pickup-and-cherokee-brochures.html

Its 1981 and as the caption on the brochure states, “The Legend Lives On...” In a time that gas prices were reaching near record highs, the jeep, that forty year old soldier was still mo...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/06/jeep-legend-lives-on-1981.html

Ah, the 1980’s... they seemed to be a continuation of previous decades in many ways, but in reality they were a wolf in sheep’s clothing, changing the landscape and subtly altering every...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/06/1980-jeep-lineup-brochure.html

The last of the 1970’s brochures is a brochure for the Wagoneer dating from 1979 and coming from Germany. Sorry, its all in German, obviously, but at least its visual enough to enjoy! And ...

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When AMC acquired Jeep in February 1970, the jeep had already evolved while under Kaiser ownership, but  this shift in ownership pushed the jeep out of the radical change 1960’s and into ...

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Like the brochure says, “We can take you to Jeep Country!” 1978 was a good year for jeep, still moving along strong with the jeep making that steady progression towards becoming less of ...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/05/1978-jeep-lineup-brochure.html

The year was 1974. The jeep in its civilian form had been trucking along for nearly 30 years. The original wagon was gone, but there was the Wagoneer, the first full sized SUV that gave birt...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/05/1976-jeep-of-canada-lineup-brochure.html

Its another beautiful Sunday in early spring (at least it still feels early....) and I find myself in the same quandry that I do when composing an update every Sunday- what to bring out? Wel...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/05/from-jets-to-jeeps.html

The concept of the jeep as a dual purpose vehicle was an idea and a selling point to Willys-Overland right from the very beginning of the first CJ. But it wasn’t an idea that truly took of...

http://this-old-jeepdotcom.blogspot.com/2014/04/sunday-april-27-2014-jeep-2-car-cars-ad.html