The cover of the 2025 edition of the Holy Toledo! calendar features a rare 1973 CJ-5 with the "Super Jeep" trim package. Inside the calendar, the photo shows up for March, the month when the Super Jeep was introduced in 1973. The reason the package is so rare these days is that only 300 were sold that year, and AMC then dropped it from the Jeep lineup. Quite a bit less successful than Kaiser Jeep's somewhat similar 1961-67 Tuxedo Park package.
One thing I learned from the caption on the March page is that the Super Jeep was offered not just in the white and blue versions I have seen occasionally, but also in gold, yellow, tan and green.
No CJ-3Bs this year, but the calendar is loaded with rarities and oddballs. Two more from the AMC era: a turbo diesel 1985 XJ Cherokee, and a C104 Commando with the redesigned front clip which was not well received, and again resulted in AMC dropping the model after 1973.
Other unusual Jeeps include a backhoe-equipped Forward Control FC-170, a compressor-equipped CJ-3A, a 1965 FJ-6A postal truck, and Lindsay Clark's 1960 DJ-3A Surrey in Pepsi colors, which is also featured on the Pepsi Surrey page on CJ3B.info.
World War II jeep fans will find a slat-grille Willys MB, a Ford GP, and a 6x6 Willys MT. And the roster is rounded out by a Scrambler in the snow for December, and a Station Wagon with factory winch on the July page, which turns out to be a tribute to the wagon's owner, the late Ron Hattner, who passed away just after the calendar went to print.
Each page is jammed with additional information and photos of that month's Jeep, but as in the 2024 edition of Holy Toledo! there is no extended essay at the end of the year, which used to be a bonus feature of the calendar. Presumably publishers Norris & Banonis are now saving those articles for their magazine The Dispatcher!
Holy Toledo! can be ordered online at dispatchermagazine.com where you can also subscribe to The Dispatcher. The calendar is still a bargain although the price has gone up slightly to $16.99 plus shipping. -- Derek Redmond
See also the CJ3B.info reviews of the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024 editions of the calendar. Some of those previous years are still available for purchase at a discount.
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