![]() ![]() The Canadian-built snowplow Jeep, painted in mid-sixties Sierra Blue, has oversize tires introduced by Tonka in the late sixties. ![]() Note that the only prototype Jeeps with white windshields were the blue and green versions of the DJ-3A Surrey, which lends some credence to the theory that the Tonka was inspired by the DJ-3A (see The Original Tonka Surreys.) The windshield, like most early Tonkas, is white. The Tonka "Dispatcher" is painted in a colour similar to the Peacock Blue used by Willys from 1959-62, and has whitewall tires of realistic stock size. The rest of the pictures on this page show two of the many variations of this 10-inch (250 cm) long toy, both of them made by Tonka Canada. And my friend Frank made up an oversize Tonka sticker that really makes my Jeep look like the toy. My friend Doug agreed with the findings, and couldn't resist giving me a Tonka Jeep in a metallic green that happens to match my 1959 Fountain Green CJ-3B very closely. Apparently the reason this fact has not previously come to light, is simply the status of the CJ-3B in North America as the "overlooked Jeep" or, as some would say, the "ugly Jeep". New Study Reveals Tonka Jeeps Are CJ-3Bs!Ī recent study (by me) showed that the design of the classic Tonka pressed steel toy Jeep of the 1960s is in fact based on the Willys CJ-3B Universal Jeep.
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