something a bit exciting, and hot rod, in the Easter Jeep Safari concept called "Quicksand", as in, sand drags (a Southern California thing)

the front bumper mounted Moon tank hides a winch? You gotta be kiddin me.. that is the coolest thing I've seen all week!

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/2018-jeep-wrangler-grille-hides-plain-sight-easter-jeep-safari-concepts/





The Wrangler-based Quicksand is what happens when hot-rodders go off-roading. Power comes from a HEMI 392 V8, hooked to a six-speed manual gearbox feeding power to all four wheels. Unlike the specially-shortened Safari, the Quicksand runs with a longer wheelbase and short body which, coupled with the chopped top and open windows, make for a more classic hot-rodding silhouette.

This is the brand's first concept to run on staggered tires, with 32-inch rubber up front and 37-inch tires down back.

The rims are reminiscent of Halibrand Bonnevilles

http://newatlas.com/easter-jeep-safari-concept-wrangler-cherokee/48702/

Skip to the 1:50 mark to start... and check out a very rare ol Jeep, a US Navy jet aircraft starter

the find, rebuild, and gallery thread: http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/time-capsule-navy-cj3a-by-valentine-apu_topic37074_page1.html

the owner points out at the 4:27 mark that this Jeep has an "rpm gauge"... notice, he calls it what he reads on it. He either is too young to know what a tachometer is, or, in the part of the country he lives in, people call tachs an "arpeum gauge" (shake my head... young people, good grief"

http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/time-capsule-navy-cj3a-by-valentine-apu_topic37074_page3.html

APU jeeps in action, Korean War carrier ops. Front wheel drive, rear wheel steer

I had forgotten that these were basically 3 wheelers

I was in the Navy from 1989 to 99, and never saw the military give away a vehicle, I just wasn't in that line of work... but the paperwork looks like this

http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/time-capsule-navy-cj3a-by-valentine-apu_topic37074_page4.html

I did a much more complete post last fall http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/08/yellow-gear-jeep-assisting-with-grumman.html

I just like this photo... a rebuild in progress

http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/time-capsule-navy-cj3a-by-valentine-apu_topic37074_page2.html

Where would the military be without a Jeep to get them there?

http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/time-capsule-navy-cj3a-by-valentine-apu_topic37074_page2.html

this early release of what the 2018 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Unlimited looks like mike just make someone's day... so, boom! There you are

some of the changes compared to the current JKU Rubicon:

Solid frame, fixed roll cage in roughly the same location as current sport bar
Fully removable roof
Fully removable doors
Overall vehicle and windows/windshield appear taller above the belt line (more headroom and better visibility?)
Turns signal on side mirrors which are attached higher on the doors (within new window moldings) than current JKU.

the rest of the list of changes are at http://www.jlwranglerforums.com/here-is-the-real-2018-jeep-wrangler-unlimited-rubicon/

But... lemme tell you something as a guy that photographs Wranglers for a living... yup, I work at a Dodge Jeep dealership, and I'm in the new stuff every mon-friday... this really isn't very different than the 2017 stuff we have right now.

But no one takes the doors and tops off of them in town, so... heck, I've never seen one with all the panels removed...

http://www.jlwranglerforums.com/renderings-new-jeep-wrangler-jlu-comes-to-life/

They pulled out that Jeep from the Cape Cod half buried in sand garage

You probably recall that I posted the whole story a month ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/02/an-old-jeep-wagoneer-buried-in.html

An old Jeep Wagoneer buried in a partially collapsed garage at Cape Cod for 40 years to be removed

in the above photo, the house to the left? Yup, that one with all the additions in behind it. Well the small dark shrub covered dune to the left of the telephone and light pole, that is the other side of this collapsed and partially sand dune covered garage where the Wagoneer has been for decades

"I remember it being in the garage," said Graham whose home is near the buried Jeep "It's like a white Wagoneer."

As the town begins this spring to allow the shifting dune near the Musnuff's property to cover beach parking spaces, the time was right to ask the family to move the Jeep too, the town Manager Rae Ann Palmer said. "It should be moved for environmental concerns,"

The family had wanted to get the Jeep out of the garage for years, but the town wouldn't let them move the sand, "Now they (the town) want it out," Basil Musnuff's mother owns the property. He says he began visiting in the 1970s and has never seen the Jeep driven.

Today, the weathered cottage at the center of the issue sits precariously on a dune between the present parking lot and the beach.

When the owners of this cottage were asked what they planned to do, they replied, “We’ll just wait for it to fall in.”

On Feb. 10 the town conservation commission issued an order of conditions for the move, scheduled for Friday, weather permitting.

The family's house and a horse barn-turned-shed, both built before 1895 according to town historical records, sit atop a grassy dune with the garage half-encased in sand at the toe. The garage's crushed roof nearly obscures the Jeep inside.

Friday, a contractor hired by the family will take the roof off the garage and pull the Jeep out. The garage will then be filled back up with sand.

Emily Beebe with the town’s conservation committee said, "Literally, a couple of days later the town will be pulling parking lot up and then doing the same thing, letting the dune restore itself in that area which it hasn't been able to do for decades because of the parking lot."


https://www.facebook.com/capecodtimes/
http://capeandislands.org/post/history-lesson-ballston-beach-tides-unearth-building-pieces-long-buried#stream/0
http://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/Entombed-Jeep-Stuck-in-Cape-Cod-Sand-Dune-to-be-Unearthed-414432093.html
http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20170219/jeep-buried-in-truro-dune-for-40-years-to-be-removed

Roy wasn't messing around, he was Jeeping around, and that inspired him to put a Jeep on his tv show

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1088515334628415/

One of the most memorable characters on the Roy Rogers TV show that ran from 1951 through 1957 was neither Roy, Dale, Trigger, Buttermilk or even Bullet - or for that matter even made of flesh and blood. It was a TV icon manufactured from good old American steel and named Nellybelle, a 1946 Willys CJ-2A Jeep with some very innovative bodywork.

Roy Rogers chose to include a Jeep into the program because he noticed that after WWII, Jeeps were very popular, especially with children. Rogers himself owned a Jeep which he used for hunting, off road cruising and travel to and from his studio. (the above black and white photo)

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/nellybelle-5338180-details.aspx

like a boss