Ford GTB "burma Jeep" G 622
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The guy I was at yesterday has a couple. He just sold one to Texas and maybe the other to Belgium. He's building a COE out of the one he's keeping. Might have more I will ask. I had never seen one before. Drop dead freaking awesome....
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about 12 years ago i was at my friends shop and he had 3 of them, he told me the story about them how they were made by ford in 1942-43 and there was a batch made in 1945, as time went by there odd design grew on me,
in 2006 i bought 4, and it snowballed from there, now i have 8 and another that i parted out. they only made around 15.000 of them. robert (bob) brown of michigan worked on burmas during WWII, and in later years he started a registry for them, last time i talked to him was in 2006/7 i heard he passed away. the military didnt give it the nick name burma jeep, it was the drivers that drove them that did, and the name stuck. they came as bomb carriers and cargo trucks, a total of 50 were made as tow trucks and no one in the burma jeep crowd has ever seen one as a military tow truck. who knows where they went during or after the war. maybe with the lend lease program, perhaps korea who knows. hope this was interesting to someone.
in 2006 i bought 4, and it snowballed from there, now i have 8 and another that i parted out. they only made around 15.000 of them. robert (bob) brown of michigan worked on burmas during WWII, and in later years he started a registry for them, last time i talked to him was in 2006/7 i heard he passed away. the military didnt give it the nick name burma jeep, it was the drivers that drove them that did, and the name stuck. they came as bomb carriers and cargo trucks, a total of 50 were made as tow trucks and no one in the burma jeep crowd has ever seen one as a military tow truck. who knows where they went during or after the war. maybe with the lend lease program, perhaps korea who knows. hope this was interesting to someone.
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about 12 years ago i was at my friends shop and he had 3 of them, he told me the story about them how they were made by ford in 1942-43 and there was a batch made in 1945, as time went by there odd design grew on me,
in 2006 i bought 4, and it snowballed from there, now i have 8 and another that i parted out. they only made around 15.000 of them. robert (bob) brown of michigan worked on burmas during WWII, and in later years he started a registry for them, last time i talked to him was in 2006/7 i heard he passed away. the military didnt give it the nick name burma jeep, it was the drivers that drove them that did, and the name stuck. they came as bomb carriers and cargo trucks, a total of 50 were made as tow trucks and no one in the burma jeep crowd has ever seen one as a military tow truck. who knows where they went during or after the war. maybe with the lend lease program, perhaps korea who knows. hope this was interesting to someone.
in 2006 i bought 4, and it snowballed from there, now i have 8 and another that i parted out. they only made around 15.000 of them. robert (bob) brown of michigan worked on burmas during WWII, and in later years he started a registry for them, last time i talked to him was in 2006/7 i heard he passed away. the military didnt give it the nick name burma jeep, it was the drivers that drove them that did, and the name stuck. they came as bomb carriers and cargo trucks, a total of 50 were made as tow trucks and no one in the burma jeep crowd has ever seen one as a military tow truck. who knows where they went during or after the war. maybe with the lend lease program, perhaps korea who knows. hope this was interesting to someone.
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This guy had a bomb carrier. What a beautiful and curvaceous thing that arch is . He plans to keep that part intact when he puts the '47 cab-over cab on it. I think I would keep it stock, but he plows snow with them and it gets real cold East of the Cascades.
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I have been planning to do that with my other fords aswell, i have just never took the time to do the photo gallery thing.
Look at the dist they were using on the 226 cu engine from what i have found this style was only used on the GTB engines, 1942-43 & 45
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don't hold the larks against me Bill, those are my sons cars, LOL, i remember pres saying something about the lark, i had told him that my son collected them back when i bought his used inventory of ford truck parts,
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It belonged to an admiral & it was used on his farm till he died, then left out. I've got a pic of the placard but not sure if legible. The restored bomb/torpedo cart is pretty cool too. Will work on re-sizing them when I get home.
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Do you have any parts available ? restoring a burma bomb truck that was a basket case.