[Rollbar]

Cool

[SoilantGreen]

This jeep was not actually found in the box in that condition but restored, knocked down, and put in the box as a display at a MVPA convention a few years ago by the Georgia chapter of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association. I believe that they won an award for it; I vaguely remember the chapter's members posed around it in a photo in Army Motors, one of the two MVPA publications.

There used to be a pretty hefty reward for anyone who actually could produce a jeep still in its shipping crate in CKD condition (Complete Knock Down). NOBODY every claimed it despite the fact that everyone you know claims that a girlfriend's aunt's brother's cousin's friend has "three of them in his barn".

[Jim B]

Check out the huts in the background. My neighbor has 4 of them in his back yard full of military vehicles.

[Rollbar]

Jim, which Jeep are U driving.

[Jim B]

The first Army Jeep was this 1940 Willys-Overland Quad. The concept was originated by American Bantam, but the Willys Quad design was selected over Bantam's Blitz Buggy and Ford's Pigmy, also competitors.

Willys also won rights to the Jeep trademark after the war. The name "Jeep" apparently was derived from GP, Army for "General Purpose." Or it might have been named for a character in the Popeye comic strip popular at that time.

The Willys "Quad" name had been used on the first four-wheel-drive built by Jeffery, which became Nash, during World War I.

[SoilantGreen]

Jim B, on May 30 2006, 07:25 AM, said:

The first Army Jeep was this 1940 Willys-Overland Quad. The concept was originated by American Bantam, but the Willys Quad design was selected over Bantam's Blitz Buggy and Ford's Pigmy, also competitors.

Willys also won rights to the Jeep trademark after the war. The name "Jeep" apparently was derived from GP, Army for "General Purpose." Or it might have been named for a character in the Popeye comic strip popular at that time.

The Willys "Quad" name had been used on the first four-wheel-drive built by Jeffery, which became Nash, during World War I.

'Gotta comment on this one too. GP was Ford's jeep that preceded the GPW. In Ford's internal nomenclature, G stood for Government project and P stood for 80 inch wheelbase reconnaissance car. General purpose is commonly mistaken as the term that GP was short for. Stop the madness!
American Bantam in Butler, PA built the first vehicle in a design contest that eventually resulted in the vehicle we know today as the jeep. Willys-Overland got into the competition later, just like Ford. Checker, the cab company, (and possibly Chevrolet) tried to get into this act, but their efforts were stillborn and info on these two makers' involvement is just now coming to light.

[Jim B]

Miami Beach Landing.

[Jim B]

[Rollbar]

Looks like you driving, TheMajor in the passenger seat & Joe hanging on for dear life.

[Sky6]

Rollbar, on Jul 21 2006, 09:31 AM, said:

Looks like you driving, TheMajor in the passenger seat & Joe hanging on for dear life.

Yep, that's me... after the landing I tested their helmets with the entrenching tool.

[Jim B]

I've seen some collectors also sport German vehicles such as the ones here for WWII reenactments. Does anyone know who was manufacturing these back then?



This German soldier is very cautious, he obviously does not want to stick his head out of the trench.

[Rollbar]

I think the MFG for the vehicles were German .

I think the optics were browning??

But I didn't check on the net to be sure.

[Jim B]

Name that Tank... and model.

[Rollbar]

Sherman

[Jim B]

Rollbar, on Aug 29 2006, 03:08 PM, said:

Sherman

I know how you got that.... but what's the model

[Sky6]

Jim B, on Aug 20 2006, 12:08 PM, said:

I've seen some collectors also sport German vehicles such as the ones here for WWII reenactments.  Does anyone know who was manufacturing these back then?

They were Mercedes, BMW, OPAL and Fiat...
maybe others...

The Sherman tanks were also known as "Widow Maker", "Death Trap" and what ever else described almost certain death... the Panzer's ate them like candy. Our tank rounds would bounce off the Tiger Tanks.. (this is what I've heard)

The guy with the periscope is smart... It was almost certain death to show your head above the trench during the day time.
I used them in Korea as well but for other reasons.

[Rollbar]

Jim B, on Aug 30 2006, 09:07 AM, said:

Rollbar, on Aug 29 2006, 03:08 PM, said:

Sherman 

I know how you got that.... but what's the model

Model number M-170?

[Rambo]

[Sky6]

Wow. I do like that. Mix of internal/external roll system integrated into the shell... Where'd you find that? Any more pics or write-up?

[Jim B]

It looks real nice the way the did this.

I have to tell you though that the only thing I see vintage is the grill a part of the hood. Please tell me there is something else.

[SoilantGreen]

Jim B, on Aug 29 2006, 02:06 PM, said:

Name that Tank... and model.

I know it's a M4 but I'm guessing you want us to be even more specific so I'm guessing M4A1E8. The "Easy Eight" was the subject of a nice write up in Army Motors a few years ago. On my Phone/PDA the pic is kinda small, so I can't get much detail but it also looks like this model has the cast hull and glacis plate rather than the riveted version.

Get some! Oooooorah!

[Jim B]

Trying to convince my buddy to bring his Duck to the Southeast JeepFest on the 2nd.

[Rollbar]

If he does I want a pic w/me in it. Hey how bout the pic U took @ the show up here w/me next to the <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>BIG</span> tank.

[Jim B]

Rollbar, on Nov 23 2006, 07:18 PM, said:

If he does I want a pic w/me in it. Hey how bout the pic U took @ the show up here w/me next to the <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>BIG</span> tank.

I don't remember which one you are talking about. I looked at the album for that event and I don't see any.

Are you sure it was not you taking it with the donated -2 megapixel camera and the lighter for the flash on that day?

[Rollbar]

Jim B, on Nov 24 2006, 12:47 PM, said:

Are you sure it was not you taking it with the donated -2 megapixel camera and the lighter for the flash on that day?

Might have been,

[Rollbar]

Cool Gun. Does anyone know what it is besides me? :sneak:

[Rollbar]

M-151A2 set up as TOW missle platform. In this configuration it is called an M-825.


This photo was taken in 1941 at New River, North Carolina during testing of the Bantam BRC-40 jeep, the forerunner of the Willys MB and Ford GPW jeeps that became the World War II standard. This photo of the Bantam has all four wheels off the ground (six if you count the towed 37mm Antitank gun), the inspiration for the "Flying Jeep" poster and similar depictions.

Original caption: "Bantam car in mid-air."

[Jim B]

Very sweet ... ahh that 37mm anti tank gun... one day.

[Rollbar]

Can U image when they landed what was said or even how the Jeep reacted. Look @ the air time.

[Jim B]

I'm sure that some of those guys left the Jeep on the landing... they had to.