David Eilers

Willys Jeep on Farm as Tractor & Plow Video

UPDATE: This video was shared in September of 2018. An oldie, but a goodie.

I saw this video for the first time yesterday. Near the end of it there are several jeeps featured doing non-farm chores. I've taken a few screen shots of them and added them below. The most interesting one to me is the red one with the extended rear (pic with guys carrying the washing machine).

We've run across these extended rears like this on a few jeeps over the years, but this is the earliest evidence of them that I have seen. The one on the back of the red jeep looks like to me like it was professionally made, leading me to wonder if it was a purchasable product.

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3 Comments

  1. Colin Peabody
    In the early 1950s, the Tucson Daily Citizen and Arizona Daily Star used blue Jeep CJs with extended beds to deliver newspapers to residents living on the outer edges of Tucson. The driver's had great arms and could toss papers while shifting gears and steering all done on what were then dirt streets! Remember, this was still the old west back then!
  2. Mike
    Delivering newspapers in a Jeep was a talent one must acquire over time. Did this for many years and was skilled enough to "Chuck" the paper over the roof of the Jeep and land on the front stoop 9 out of ten times. There is a "TRICK" to the art, timing is important. You must throw the paper a few seconds ahead of time, (before you are in front of the house) depending on wind currents, a windy day with a tail wind, you could cut down you delivery time. But if the winds were against you, reverse the route delivery. Now that newspapers are a dying enterprise, I can reveille the secrets P/S 40 years ago, there was a nasty rumor going around, that newspapers would be delivered to you by computer, and guys like me found that hard to believe.

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