Happy Thanksgiving 2022

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Today is Thanksgiving Day. Family members throughout the USA and Canada gather to feast on turkey and potatoes, bread stuffing and pumpkin pie. Have you made the traditional trip to the turkey farm and pumpkin patch this year? Or is that now a thing of the past, with supermarkets providing everything you need, plus more besides?

This picture makes one wonder if those two women ever made it back home from the sea of turkeys they're stranded in. Their car is a Jeepster Commando with four cylinders and four-wheel drive. It was available in a number of variants, marketed as the ‘family of fun cars’ at the time. This one is the convertible, making it a niche vehicle like no other: ‘A sleek spunky beauty with the adventure and safety of Jeep four-wheel drive’, according to the marketing men. All the advertisements show women behind the wheel.

Were there any other 4x4 convertibles like this at all in 1966? The International Scout and Ford Bronco were rather more rugged than the Jeepster, with its two-tone body colours, Continental spare at the back and white interior... It might not be your typical off-road Jeep, we don't think it would look at all bad in a Thanksgiving Parade.

Words Jeroen Booij, picture Kaiser-Jeep PR

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