Gossip Friday: New Wheels

From April 1941:

When Clark Gable heads into the wilds soon on a vacation, he hopes it will be in a vehicle which literally can wade streams, glide over marshes and climb anything short of the side of a building. This isn’t one of those trick automobiles built by the prop department, nor something existing only in the imagination of a press agent. It’s the four wheel drive vehicle which was developed for military maneuvers. Gable has been testing a demonstration model all over the Metro lot and his ranch, but he may not be able to get delivery now; national defense orders come first.

The reason the actor’s so anxious to get one is because his hunting and fishing junkets are no tame trips and he carries plenty of equipment. On the last expedition, deep in Mexico’s interior he wasted two days while his overloaded car was dug out of the mud.