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Article Excerpt
Copper Range's flagship
by Chad Elmore
In the 1970s, a mining company developed a line of utility vehicles.
General Eisenhower said the jeep, that humble quarter-ton utility vehicle, was one of the tools that helped the Allies win World War II.
Dressed in civilian clothes, the Willys Jeep easily found work. Marketed as an industrial workhorse (as compared to today's Jeep, that fun-loving sport-utility vehicle), the Jeep stayed true to its roots, performing a wide array of different jobs, often aided by attachments and modifications. For several decades following the first civilian model, the CJ-2A, new Jeeps could be found working on farms, construction sites and airport runways.
It made sense, then, as underground mining methods moved toward wheeled equipment and supervisors grew tired of walking, that modified Jeeps would get some attention. Compact and four-wheel-drive, they could easily...
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