Terry Marvel has some great examples of vintage 70’s Ford Broncos in ads. Some are Ford magazine ads, while some are from different companies, like Minolta.

Now this is awesome! Bigfoot and King Kong were neck and neck for the being the first official monster truck. Check out this video from the late 70’s!

Note: If you are reading this via email or Facebook, you will need to go to the Off Road Action website to see the video.

As you may be aware, the Bantam Reconnaissance Car is the original Jeep based vehicle. On July 11, 1940 the USA Army was fully involved in World War 2. They sent out a tender that was to be received by July 22, only 11 days later! Manufacturers were given 49 days to submit their first prototype and 75 days for completion of 70 test vehicles. The Army’s Ordnance Technical Committee specifications were equally demanding: the vehicle would be four-wheel drive, have a crew of three on a wheelbase of no more than 75 (later 80) inches and tracks no more than 47 inches, feature a fold-down windshield, 660 lb payload and be powered by an engine capable of 85 ft·lbf (115 N·m) of torque. The most daunting demand, however, was an empty weight of no more than 1300 lb (590 kg)…

Kind of the opposite of our article last week about the Singpore To UK In A Willys , we now have some videos about a group of two Land Rovers travelling from London to Singapore.

Last week we posted photos of the ex Rod Hall 70’s Desert Race Ford Bronco. Thanks to Classic Broncos.com member rhenrys68, we have some more! They have done a great restoration in such a short amount of time!

Here is an interesting old Jeep Gladiator truck.

After posting the article about Willys and Jeep Firetrucks, I did some looking around for more photos. Enjoy!

I have to admit that that the most popular article in April 2010 was a surprise to me! It is interesting to see some of the same articles in the list each month, but also neat to see which new ones make the list and why. Take the Scotch Tape & Willys article. It is only a few days old, but already at #5. This is because of the power of social media. A few key people, like Jeep themselves posted it on Twitter and the views exploded. What do you think?

We have located some starting line photos to follow up on our NORRA Mexican 1000 vintage off road race contingency photos we posted yesterday. Thanks to the folks at Off Road Mexico for the photos!