Harrison Woodruff, 21, and his father, Buck Woodruff, 71, in Roswell, Ga., with their 1964 Army Surplus Jeep. Buck Woodruff has been buying Army Surplus Jeeps and fixing them up for nearly 60 years.

Cavalrymen eyed jeeps with scorn One bright autumn morning in 1941, about 35 men gathered around four odd-looking little vehicles and two trucks on the post at Fort Bliss.