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Cherokee: Lots of fun! -- a '92 Laredo and (finally) a blue '96 Country (XJs)
Wrangler: MORE fun! -- '94 Sahara YJ (Hard Top w/ BesTop soft top added later!)
I was really impressed with the "BesTop" installation video that came with the soft top that I got for the Wrangler!! This is a picture that shows our '96 Country with the other two Jeeps! This one is a long story! The '94 Wrangler was supposed to be the 'dark metallic blue' Cherokee, but someone in Chrysler decided to drop that color the year we were ready to buy!! Finally, my wife has gotten her 'dark blue Cherokee'!!
The first civilian Jeep CJ-2A model rolled off the assembly line July 17, 1945.
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Where did the name "Jeep" come from anyway?
Good Question. Some experts swear it came from slurring the acronym G.P. (for General-Purpose). Others say it was first used in the Oklahoma oil fields in 1934 to refer to trucks with special equipment for drilling oil wells.
However, many historians trace its origin to, of all things, Popeye. In 1936, Popeye's creator, E.C. Segar, introduced a small, impish character named Eugene the Jeep. It was a friendly but strange little creature of indeterminate sex who got its name because all it could say was "Jeep!" Despite this verbal handicap, Eugene could go everywhere and work miracles. In fact, it could even travel back and forth between time dimensions. This versitility, according to many, is what inspired test-driver Sergeant James O'Brien to call one of the early models a "Jeep." The name stuck.
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