Hey look, it’s Swag Swednesday again, so it’s time for one lucky Autopian Member – maybe, no probably YOU! – to win free loot from our many years of collecting free crap from Automakers just because they were giving it away at some car show or something. You remember how and why this all works, right?
Each week (approximately, we’re going to miss some probably), we’ll kick down some sweet, sweet swag to Autopian Members, the cool-kids club for car people that you really should have joined by now. What’s the holdup? You can get in on the fun with a Cloth Tier membership for a mere seven bucks a month (or break off $50 to cover the year, and it works out to way less than five dollars a month – it’s like 14 cents a day!).
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Yes, it’s all a ploy, you see, a ploy to get more members by giving away free crap! And boy do we have some crap to give away this week! If you’re a Jeep fan, you might actually appreciate this one: a never-used 2014-vintage Jeep Media kit from the Los Angeles Auto Show!
This isn’t any normal media kit, though: Jeep calls it “Emergency Supplies” and it’s a green zip-loc bag with a Jeep bandana, bandages (in a neat little dispenser), hand sanitizer (a solid five years before COVID made that stuff ubiquitous!), and a little flashlight! It’s a mini survival kit! From Jeep! Eleven years ago!
Here’s what the package looks like:
…and here’s what’s inside:
Incredibly, the flashlight still seems to work!
Oh, and I also found this scrawled note next to the Jeep Media Pack thing:
I think it was an idea for a joke about Google Cavity Searches, as in a new feature from Google for expanded search options. Either that, or I wanted to learn more about cavity searches? I think it was just a joke idea. I hope. Anyway, if you also want that note, we can throw it in the box along with a signed letter of authenticity.
Oh, and that black furry thing on the pic is the tail of my cat, Tomato. It alarmed Pete:
I can’t throw in the tail, but maybe some shedded fur, if you ask nicely.
What about the Commodore PET?
I got my ’88 Mercedes about 4 years ago and it came with its original first-aid kit in the back “seat,” complete with unused bandages and other bits. Who wants 37-year-old gauze pads?
I’ve got to hunt down one of those bandage dispensers.
Pete’s comment made me laugh unreasonably hard.
Do we get the Commodore PET too? We had one of these in my primary school Computer Club in 1983, along with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and a BBC Model B (I’m British), a computer that Jason is already familiar with : https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/how-an-obscure-british-pc-maker-invented-arm-and-changed-the-world/
I definitely did not read that as “Flashlight” at first.
You’ve been spending too much time on Bluesky as well, I see.
May I interest you in some Alf art?
Aww, hi Tomato!! >^. .^<
Probably the strangest automotive swag I've acquired is a bag of Jeep Eagle coffee stirrers.
Chuckling over here thinking about you scrawling “google cavity search” a la Jackie Treehorn.
I saw this headline as ‘Giving Away 11-Year Old Jeep Badges!‘ and I was like, “Hell yeah, count me in.” Get into the blog post and find band aids and hand sanitizer.
Imagine my disappointment.
I just want to know how y’all wrestled this away from David. Did Torch distract him with a pair of original WWII-era Jeep headlight blackout shades while Matt did his legendary Tom Cruise Mission Impossible repelling into David’s kitchen?
So what I’m hearing is Jeep makes more reliable emergency kits than they do vehicles?
Man, how did they fit a whole Commodore PET 4016 in there??
Do we have to enter to win?
(The weekly drawing, not cavity searches.)
Hey now, some people pay extra for that
Nope! We just use an Apple II-based random number generator and reach out to people.
No, the cavity search enters _you_.
Tomato will make absolutely sure that there’s some cat hairs included. It’s a requirement under the mysterious Cat Rules that only they know and refuse to share with us…
I have a black cat, a white cat, a tabby, and a tortoiseshell cat. Doesn’t matter what color I wear, I’ve got visible cat hair on me.
We all figured visible cat hair was the very reason you went for “collect them all” re: cat coloration.