I had no idea jeeps were used as tractors...
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I've never been a jeep fan so I never knew these exsisted.....
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haha.. I used to have a 1948 willy's delivery truck. Looked like a jeep front end, milk truck rear end. Was a fun little truck though once it got going. Had a 6cyl cherokee drivetrain with waggy D44's under it, YJ suspension and 33" MT baha's.
garlicbreath
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As a matter of fact the utility side of the Jeep came in after WWII. Willy's Overland realized since they no longer had a war to fight with the Jeep they would approach the farming market and construction buisness by attaching implements on thier Jeep, which most worked well. There are alot of "extra" pieces of equipment that were intended for just such purposes. By the way, in 1969, Mopar did not own the Jeep. Oh yea, before any one says anything about this, Ford also made the Jeep during WWII, they called it the GPW. I know I'll get $hit for this but yes, I still own my 1981 CJ-5.
If I remember right, there were actually 3 "jeeps". Or at least there were 3 companies, ford, willys overland and another that were contracted to build the next military vehicle. I forget what they third was, but they were all fairly similar.
Bantam is the third one -- they made the trailers, IIRC, as well.
There is MUCH argument about the specifics and who did what first ... note that AM General evolved from the Willys of the 40's and still make the postal jeeps. The number of vertical slats in the grille is important, but only to mil-veh collectors and AMG's lawyers =))
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Yes Bantum was the 3rd one but being such a small company they couldn't meet the demands of the military so the contracts were awarded to Willy's and Ford. The Bantam car was actually the first, but it looked nothing like the GPW or the M38. I could go on and on about Jeeps and their history but this is a Chevy site, so............
I think you ment MB not M38. The M38 was post war. And the GPW and MB were the production versions. GP and MA were the prototypes. Bantam's prototype was called the brc. Willy's won the contract, not ford. Once the war was in full swing, willys couldn't keep up with demand so ford was called upon to produce jeeps as well.
Just thought I'd point that out
hunterguy86
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The history channel had a decent "Modern Marvels" episode about four wheel drives. They had all kinds of cool attachments for the jeep. Landrover had them as well, trying to keep up with Jeep but the market for em never took off like it did in Europe.
The Scout was produced to fit the same market as the Jeep and I "THINK" it had the same attachments but I'm not sure. Can anyone clarify that?
Oh and I said decent because they left out the K5 in the show. I was really pissed off.
The Scout was produced to fit the same market as the Jeep and I "THINK" it had the same attachments but I'm not sure. Can anyone clarify that?
Oh and I said decent because they left out the K5 in the show. I was really pissed off.
Ha! Garlicbreath must have done a search on April fools and brought this thread back, I'm glad he did because I had lost my file with my old avatar. Now I got's it back. Thanks.
You're Semi-correct! I think we should drink a couple of cases of Coor's Light , then talk about it!!!!!!!!!!!! What do you think???????????????I think you ment MB not M38. The M38 was post war. And the GPW and MB were the production versions. GP and MA were the prototypes. Bantam's prototype was called the brc. Willy's won the contract, not ford. Once the war was in full swing, willys couldn't keep up with demand so ford was called upon to produce jeeps as well.
Just thought I'd point that out
lol, sounds good but I'm more of a High Life man
. You ever been to the Military show/swap meet in Iola wisconsin?
