Puppy Eugene
Military Jeep Collectibles
Like Hollywood and the t-shirt, the jeep is synonymous with American popular culture. Starting in World War 2, millions of US citizens played with toy jeeps as youngsters, fought beside them on foreign battlegrounds, and faced them continually in civilian life. In the 21st century, numerous toys, clothing and other collectibles celebrate the jeep as a commonly distinguishable icon.
Origin Of “Jeep”
What became the Willys MB and later CJ had its origins in a 1940 U.S. Military obligation for a light, go-anywhere scout auto. One year later , a Washington, D.C. Paper printed a photograph showing an early Willys-Overland model going up the Capitol steps. When a correspondent was critical of the test driver, the reply went down in history: “It’s a Jeep.”
Where the name comes from in the 1st place remains a poser. A well-liked idea has “jeep” standing for the initials G.P. Or Purpose, but a rather more interesting one takes it from the name of a personality in a comic strip. Looking like a mixture of a furry bear and a puppy, tiny Eugene the Jeep from the strip Popeye can disappear and immediately reappear anywhere it pleases, much like how World War Two’s compact jeeps appear in combat theaters as far apart as the jungles of Guadalcanal and the North African desert.
Jeep Toys: The Original Collectibles
Well before the end of World War 2, the Army jeep made its debut in the civilian marketplace as a children’s toy. Manufacturers such as Mate L and Steelcraft originally sold thousands of pedal vehicles and model jeeps in pressed steel, before competitors like Tonka and Lesney (later Matchbox) popularised die-cast construction after the war. Half a century later on online shops still advertise copies of wartime and post-war toy jeep designs, as well as lovingly saved antique examples.
Jeep toys also appear in plastic, regularly in the shape of accessories or expansion kits for established lines like G.I. Joe action figures and Lego blocks; Hasbro’s Transformers released a robot toy in the eighties named Hound, ready to transform into a missile-firing jeep. A considerably less masculine offering, painted bright pink with floral accents, comes from Barbie, complete with Barbie’s boyfriend in the passenger's seat. Countless companies produce highly-detailed scale model jeeps as do it yourself kits, as well as radio-controlled and even gasoline-powered toys.
Jeep Fashion
American factories rolled out more than 600,000 jeeps during World War Two, with thousands more built for army use in later wars. A civilian model, called the CJ till 1986, came out in 1945, with a version still free in the 21st century as the Wrangler. Enormously successful, thanks to low prices and (at the time) wide availability of parts, the jeep became part of America’s youth culture, tied to trends like the beach party craze of the sixties and the on-and-off interest in Western-themed fashion.
Today, jeep collectible clothing mix modern materials and designs with classic values. T-shirts, pullovers, sweatshirts and baseball caps carry the Jeep brand and independent jeep “tribute” labels. Each one of them easily available online, virtually as ever-present as the jeep itself.
R. Harris has owned a Jeep since he was 16 and loves writing about his zeal at Military Jeeps.
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Flying Purple Puppy Dog $6.99 One day Marty Pekar walked into the post office and the woman behind the counter said, “Hey, do you want another dog?” She knew he had dogs, they¹re always with him in the car. “No,” he said. “Absolutely not.” Then, “where is it?” That¹s how Marty acquired his third dog, Faith, the one that has been the inspiration for this project. “She’s a VERY crazy-active border collie mix. I adopted her f… |
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