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Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. You know, after 379 vehicles in this series, we've had just one Jeep, and that was a 2-wheel-drive mail-carrier's DJ5 ? Oh, sure, we saw this 1945 GPW 'Jeep' , but that was built by Ford! Meanwhile, we've had five IHC Scouts. What's the deal here- is Alameda's Navy-town heritage enforcing some unspoken anti-Army bias that results in old Jeeps getting vandalized? I got no idea, folks, but I knew I had to go out and find the oldest street-parked Jeep within easy walking distance of my house in town! Yeah, OK, a 24-year-old Wagoneer isn't exactly a to-die-for classic, but you don't see many of the pre-Chrysler Jeep SUVs these days- why, this thing has got actual emblems from the AMC Death Throes Era . And how about this fine, incredibly realistic-looking "wood" paneling? Is there any large SUV in the Bay...
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Some of the Down On The Street cars never move (the '82 280ZX is a good example), while others are photographed during a brief moment caught outside of the garage (such as was the case with the 1939 Chevrolet ). But most of them drive regularly, and what better way to prove my point than this blurry cellphone-camera shot of the 1945 Ford GPW Jeep parked in front of the island's Trader Joe's store? And if you look really, really hard, you can just barely make out the snout of a silver Peugeot 505 in the background.
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In keeping with our newly-enacted DOTS Truck Monday tradition, we're going with this interesting little Jeep for the last day of 2007. This former mail carrier lives on the same block as the 1966 Lancia Fulvia , and it serves as very practical (except for drive-thru lanes, thanks to right-hand drive) daily driver. A friend of mine in high school had one of these things, and I recall it being very simple and very bouncy. Avoid speed bumps or you'll spill the mail. But neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor gloom of night will stay this little green truck from its appointed rounds! 1983 was one of the last years for this vehicle; it's sad that the USPS is down to its last few DJs by now. galleryPost('DOTSDJ5', 8, 'Jeep DJ-5 Down On The Street');
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I'm pretty sure this Willys station wagon is a '56, based on the helpful info at the CJ-3B page , which states that the three-bar grille with the middle bar close to the top was used only in that year. Even if it's not a '56, it's almost certainly from the 1950s , so I'm at least close . Willys experts, now is your moment to shine! Tell us what you know about this fine vehicle. Whatever the year, this is a seriously cool machine. I've been seeing this thing around town since I was a kid, so it's an Alameda institution by now. And, just in case you couldn't tell, Willys wants you to know that it's got four wheel drive. From a distance, I though this thing might be a Land Cruiser/Rover, but up close it was clear this truck didn't come from Japan or England. Seems like there should be winch in this picture, or at least a dead deer lashed onto a fender. Wait, not deer- ducks! While Alameda is pretty urban (population density higher than San Francisco's), you still see a fair number of head...
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