Working Jeeps

The CJ-2A (214,760, 1945–49) with its power take-off and lift, the CJ-3A (131,843, 1949–53) and the high-bonnet CJ-3B (1953–68) on farms, oil leases and construction sites; Willys’s implement line and the Farm Jeep of 1950–51 with a hydraulic lift as standard; surplus MBs alongside them.

The FC-150 and FC-170 of 1957–65 for utilities, municipalities, tow-truck operators and fire departments, with stake, dump and tow bodies on the dual-rear-wheel chassis; the CJ-5 and CJ-6 of Kaiser Jeep in the same fleets.

CJ-5s and CJ-6s as fire patrol and crew vehicles of the Forest Service and state agencies, J-trucks with slip-on pump units, Wagoneers and Cherokee Chiefs as ranger and sheriff’s vehicles, and the CJ-7 of county road departments in the 1970s.

Mahindra’s CJ-3B and its MM 540 successor as the rural taxi, police vehicle and farm truck of India; VIASA and Ebro Jeeps on Spanish farms and with the Guardia Civil; Ford do Brasil’s Jeeps on Brazilian ranches.

The Cherokee XJ with the AHB police package (1989–2001), pursuit-rated by the Michigan State Police tests, with the US Border Patrol and forces from Alaska to Vermont; the Wrangler TJ, JK and JL with beach patrols, park rangers, ski patrols, mountain rescue teams and the Border Patrol; the Gladiator JT as a brush fire unit.