A Post-War Jeep Ad

 


Cool vehicle. Looks like a "Woodie," but the body is all steel. Uses for the vehicle, printed  on ad:







Here's one for sale that brought $15,000 at auction in 2023:

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It had 86,000 miles on it, and was from Virginia. 

Jeep also made mail trucks for the U.S. Postal Service. I owned one back in the '70s. The post office doesn't even sell them any more, they simply scrap them to prevent impersonation. 

These trucks do wind up in civilian hands now and then, but it's very rare, and, if you really want to buy one for some reason, you'll have to settle for an old one. 

Here is an article about that:

https://carbuzz.com/driving-decommissioned-mail-trucks/

I had one back in to '70s. My dad, a postal employee, got for $100, and it was my first vehicle. It had a four cylinder, but only got about 10 miles per gallon. I don't even know how that was physically possible, but gas was only a quarter a gallon, so it was no big deal. Dad and I spent close to $1,000 trying to perform its performance, including a transmission rebuild from AAMCO Transmission. Buy, they must have seen us coming. We finally dumped it, but I have many fond memories of that truck, including camping trips, and even being stopped by the police for going to slow, because the truck could never get much beyond 45 mph except going down hills, and we were creating quite a traffic backup on our way to Mineral Point on Highway 151 with limited passing lanes.



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