How did the Jeep get it's name ?

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The JEEP name!
Where did the name "Jeep" come from anyway?

Good Question. Some experts swear it came from slurring the acronym G.P. (for General-Purpose). Others say it was first used in the Oklahoma oil fields in 1934 to refer to trucks with special equipment for drilling oil wells.

However, many historians trace its origin to, of all things, Popeye. In 1936, Popeye's creator, E.C. Segar, introduced a small, impish character named Eugene the Jeep. It was a friendly but strange little creature of indeterminate sex who got its name because all it could say was "Jeep!" Despite this verbal handicap, Eugene could go everywhere and work miracles. In fact, it could even travel back and forth between time dimensions. This versitility, according to many, is what inspired test-driver Sergeant James O'Brien to call one of the early models a "Jeep." The name stuck.

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