JEEP TRACKS IN THE SNOW
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JEEP TRACKS IN THE SNOW
In the immediate post war years a new phenomenon appeared on the city (and country) streets. It was the sight of neat 600X16 Goodyear All Service tire tracks left by new CJ-2A Jeeps in freshly fallen snow. Every time I saw them I wished they would lead me to my driveway. And sometimes they did. Tire chains did not seem the rule back then, people learned to drove on show. Within a year or two the "knobby mud and snow tires appeared on Jeeps. Allstate Tires from Sears made both NDT's and knobby 600 X 16's..
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HONOR GRAD-WHEELED VEHICLE MECHANIC SCHOOL 1960 - US ARMY ORDNANCE SCHOOL(MACHINIST) ABERDEEN PG 1962 - O-1 BIRD DOG CREWCHIEF - 300,000+TROUBLE FREE M-38A1 MILES
LIFE MEMBER AM LEGION-40/8-DAV
7 MIL SPEC MAINTAINED MV'S
COL. BRUNO BROOKS (ARMY MOTORS) IS MY HERO
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