Puzzle Description:

A Willy's Jeep,1st true off road vehicle.

#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Mar 11, 2013

Another great one. And a great solve, too!

dang that took me a long time. Nice

Thx Norma and Wesley,I always like it when people tell me it was a great solve,cause I know that's the most important thing for puzzle solvers,which I am not,so I'm never sure if it is or not until someone comments about it. I pretty much ignore the ratings,and I'm sure we all know why. Thx again you two.:)

Awesome puzzle, Aldege. It was indeed fun to solve. I like the rocky road too.

Thx Teresa,I've never done any off roading,but I imagine it's a lot of fun.:)

Jeep is a fun word. E.C. Segar (creator of Popeye) coined the word in 1936 for his character Eugene the Jeep. (He also created the word Goon.)

From the interwebs: Many explanations of the origin of the word jeep have proven difficult to verify. The most widely-held theory is that the military designation GP (for Government Purposes or General Purpose) was slurred into the word Jeep in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV (for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle) has become known as the humvee.

An alternative view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as "General Purpose" and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation. The Ford GPW abbreviation actually meant G for government use, P to designate its 80-inch (2,000 mm) wheelbase and W to indicate its Willys-Overland designed engine. Ermey suggests that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye cartoons created by E. C. Segar. Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's "jungle pet" and was "small, able to move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems."

Thx for the info Kristen,I've read all of this before,but it's always nice to hear about it again,because I tend to forget a lot of things,lol.:)

Awesome, once again!

Thx Jota my friend.:)

Wonderful image, very tough solve with no guessing.

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