Now here’s a neat find! Back in the 1950s four-wheel-drive trucks were few and far between, and usually created when one of the Big Three sent a truck to an outfitter like NAPCO to be converted. But over in one corner of the market stood ready-to-buy four-wheel-drive vehicles stood the symbol of postwar America: Jeep. Still a go-anywhere, do-anything vehicle that had little in the way of creature comforts but would work like a mule, Jeeps were sold based on their ability to work, period, and Kaiser knew how to showcase that: CJs plowing snow and a Forward Control yanking a 1950s sled out of a ditch would show television viewers that the plucky little trucks would stand ready to perform the grunt work needed to keep the country moving forward. The CJ sold simply on it’s looks and background, and the Forward Control didn’t move as well as Willys and Kaiser had hoped it would. Nowadays either model is desirable, with the FC a favorite of the BangShift staff.