Does anyone know if this is the real deal? Cool looking jeep with old Ca. plates. I know that Ford made tractors, but I've never seen anything like this.
1942 Ford Military Jeep

Kurt

 

I saw a history channel documentary on jeeps about a month ago. They showed that ford did make the early Jeeps for a brief time. It could be very possible.

Number Dummy could tell you much more on the subject. He is very knowledgeable in auto and military history.

 

Yes, 'tis true. ****** did not have the capacity to make enough of them, so Ford built them mostly to the ****** specification. I think they all used the ****** engine regardless.

The sad irony to all of it is Bantam 'invented' the Jeep, but were deemed too small of a company to build them. The gov't gave them a contract to build Jeep trailers as a consolation prize.

Bantam Jeep:

 

The M151 Mutt (Military Unit Tactical Truck) :: M151 Home

Ford made alot of these. It was pretty much all I ever saw or drove while in the Army from 1979 to 1983. Very basic no frill vehicle, could do 99% of the maintenance with a screw driver and an adjustable wrench.

The govt destroyed the bulk of these when they went to the Humvee. 20 years ago you could buy these but they had to be cut in half. I really wish I had one. Great little vehicle.


Tim

 

I have a 1944 Ford GPW Jeep what do you want to know?

 

Apparently ford refused to work on ******* jeeps, so ford stamped "ford" on to every single component of the jeep, even the nuts and bolts.

 

Actually all Ford GPW's had a Script "F" on all parts. The story goes that the contract required that if a parts was returned broken that they would have to replace it. Ford being the man he was said I will not replace a ***** parts so he added the script "F" to all the parts on the GPW. I have found many of the original parts have the script "F".
If you want more information on the the World War 2 jeeps go to:

G503.com is Military Vehicles, The WWII Military Jeep, Parts, Olive Drab and All Related Things.

 

What type of engine comes with the jeep? The engine you want would be the 134 Flat head, specifically the engine and the jeep should have the same serial number. The serial number should be located on the data plate on the glove box, stamped on the top of the left frame rail in the engine compartment, and on the engine above the water pump on the flat surface. If it's a Ford engine block on the right side of the block in the casting it should have 6015. These engine are getting hard to find so suck it up it it does have it. Mine has a 47-48 ****** cj2A engine, same engine a little different on the internals.

 

Is there any difference between a Ford and ****** Jeep other than the stampings? I know first hand how specific mil specs can be, so I can imagine the two were pretty similar. Is that a flat head four? Thanks.

Kurt

 

The early Ford Jeeps has a Ford Script on the back panel. The stowage lids on the fords were diffrent than the ******. Might be more but can't remember.

 

My father has a 52 ford m38

 

Original 1963 CA black plates, The first letter A designates the plates were issued in specific NorCal counties.

******-Overland was contracted by the Gov't to begin assembling Jeeps in 1941, but it soon became apparent that their Toledo OH plant could not keep up with the demand, so in 1942, Ford was also contracted to build them.

Jeeps used the ****** "Go Devil" L-head I-4, the engine dated back to the 1928 Whippet.

1941/45: ****** assembled approximately 350,000 Jeeps, Ford assembled approximately 270,000.

The Brits received the "lions share" of Jeep production initially thru FDR's Lend-Lease program.

In 1942, when General Sir Bernard Montgomery attacked General Erwin Rommel at El Alamein, he had 500 US Sherman tanks, circa 250 Jeeps.

The Brits won the battle, then pushed the hun all the way back to Tunisia. It was the beginning of the end of the Afrika Corps.

Churchill once said "Before El Alamein we never had a victory, after El Alamein, we never had a defeat."

Of the 640,000 + Jeeps assembled during WWII, the Russkies were Lend Leased 51,000, they were also Lend Leased 10's of 1000's of Studebaker trucks, aircraft, ships, and you name it.

The SOB's never repaid one cent of their multi-billion dollar war debt.

 

The same goes for the rest of countries including China. We now owe them but they have forgot how much money, equipment and men we poured into their country to free them from Japan.