Calling this Jeep a CJ-5 might be a little misleading. Aside from the grille, windshield, and most likely the chassis, there’s not much Jeep actually left in this mishmash. But the Philippine license plate tells us that it’s instead something more than a garden-variety bitsa; instead, it’s a Jeepney, a staple of public transportation in […]
While some boys out in the Pacific decided to rebody their Jeeps using aircraft drop tanks, Wally Cohn came up with a different approach. Much like Brooks Stevens with the Victory Car, Cohn envisioned a somewhat more refined automobile body to go atop the Jeep four-wheel-drive chassis to create a new offering for the post-war […]
While researching the plywood cars of Ray Russell last week, I came across another unique photo from the December 1945 issue of Popular Mechanics, reproduced above, showing a couple men from the 478th Air Service Squadron with their “streamlined Jeep,” the product of spare time, a wrecked Jeep and a couple crashed airplanes. “They made […]