Has anyone seen the video clip for 'By The Way' by the chili peppers?
If you have, can you help me pick the orange 4WD the other band members drive? It looks big and chunky like a F100, but its SWB and has no roof.

Any ideas?

 

Could be a chopped off old Bronco, haven't seen it so I dunno.

 

it's an early bronco

 

Was it an early Bronco? I was thinking an international scout. I only seen a small part. Need to see again. BTW anyone take offense to Alan Jackson's video "drive" where he sings about his old jeep but is driving an old bronco.

 

Yeah it wouldnt be so bad if they didnt zoom right in on "Bronco" across the side of it.

 

Yes, but think about it...how many words does Bronco rhyme with??

 

I have heard of the old broncos being called jeeps many times in many places. When I asked why I was told it was because the old timers refered to every small 4x4 as a jeep because the jeep was actually a Ford and a *****'s. The brand name Jeep didn't come about untill after the war.

This is just how I understand it from aking why people do what they do.


dj

 

>I have heard of the old broncos being called jeeps many
>times in many places. When I asked why I was told it was
>because the old timers refered to every small 4x4 as a jeep
>because the jeep was actually a Ford and a *****'s. The
>brand name Jeep didn't come about untill after the war.
>



the "jeep" was originaly called "the blitz buggy" and was created by the Overland company. Overland beat both ford and *****'s for the gov. contract but it was such a small company, it couldnt produce enough to meet demand. the gov. was so in love with the thing that they gave ford and *****'s the right to mass produce the "jeep". the Overland Co. was eventualy bought out by ****** and became the *****'s-overland co., then AMC bought them, and in '85 chrysler bought AMC.

the G.I's in WWII are the ones who named it the jeep. nobody knows exactly why but for whatever reason, it stuck.

everybody(that doesnt know a thing about 4x4's) nowadays, in whatever country, calles any 4x4 a jeep. when my girlfriend and i were looking for a new vehicle, she said"i want a jeep like that one" and was pointing to an Explorer! jeep is just a generic term now.

how could anybody ever be mad at allan jackson?

 

It kinda resembles the bronco in the origanal "Gone in 60 Seconds".
If anyone wants to see the RHCP's video its on this site [link:www.getmusic.com/video_list/index90.html|www.getmusic.com/video_list/index90.html] There is a free membership needed to view videos.

 

> the G.I's in WWII are the ones who named it the jeep.
>nobody knows exactly why but for whatever reason, it stuck.

I had read that the army called it a "general purpose" vehicle. The G.I's called it a G.P. for short and it evolved into the "jeep". Makes sense to me.

 

> the G.I's in WWII are the ones who named it the jeep.
>nobody knows exactly why but for whatever reason, it stuck.

According to the history channel, GI's in WWII called new people/things a "Jeep"/"Jeeps", so the name stuck with the Jeep.

 

the Bantam Motor Company designed and produced the first jeeps for testing by the Army. They did not have the production capacity that the ******/overland (sp) company did so the government gave the contract to ******. later it became apparent more production was needed so ford was authorized to produce a licensed copy. a neat thing about the ford jeeps was that all the bolt heads had ford stamped in them.

BROKEBRONCO

 

your right.....it was bantam not overland. my apologies, its been a while since i really cared about jeep history. my first vehicle was a CJ-7.


when i said nobody knows exactly why it was called the jeep, that part is true. the G.P. is one of a few reasons.

 

I just asked my dad to identify it from the video, and he is guessing around a 74' Bronco. From what I can gather, it has a rollbar, beefy off-road tires, and possibly a lift, but doubtful. If anyone is interested, I can take a screen capture from the video and post it on here.