Thread: things to do with a jeep.

one day I'm going to get (another) CJ as a project vehicle. (probably not the thing to say on a Landy forum )
Dad bought his first Jeep around '72 ( a Wagoneer) and my first car was a CJ6, and later had a J3000 as my work truck. Dear old Dad still can't believe I'm now driving a Landy...

The big difference with the modern jeep as against, say, a disco is when you crunch one. I used to visit the Fowles auctions every fortnight and have to say there were a number of jeeps- totalled, that werent badly damaged but were distorted when you examine them. Particularly the model they trashed. Notably the tailgate was the first thing to go in that video, its fibreglass
Back in 11 weeks guys
David

Originally Posted by Reads90

AAAHHH this was a place around the corner from i used to Live in the Uk called Andover(around the corner I mean 30 k's away). It was a bomb hole from the ww2. Is a great place to play . But those hills you see them drive up and down are very very steep.
It is a place where some sorts of people do go and dump cars

Isnt Andover near the Sailsbury plain somewhere over there..tank land

And here I was thinking this thread would give me new options for my boat's anchor

Originally Posted by DirtyDawg

Isnt Andover near the Sailsbury plain somewhere over there..tank land

Well... It's not too far from Sailsbury Plain. It's approx 25k to the east of it.

M

Originally Posted by camel_landy

Hey... Don't forget that the Jeep was the original 4x4. The Original Series I was a blatant copy of a Jeep. (snip)

M

And don't forget the first Jeep was an almost exact copy of the Bantam - far closer than the S1 was to the Jeep.
John

IIRC, the Bantam was the best of the vehicles tendered, but they had FA manufacturing capacity and it was underpowered, so the contract was awarded to Willys as they had the best engine, etc. I think there were a few different Willys prototypes, then the MA, (very small numbers) then the definitive WWII Jeep was the MB. When Willys ran out of manufacturing capacity Ford started making the GPW which was exactly the same, (supposeedly GPW meant General Purpose-Willys) including the Willys engine (there were a few small detail differences, eg. Ford script on bolt heads, fromt cross member different (one was tubular, the other U section, etc)

Pretty close I think - I seem to have heard that Ford were not amused by being told to make Willys engines. But I believe that Both Ford and Willys were selected from the start - the Willys design having been selected as the best, but it in turn was copied largely from the Bantam as the Army had given one of the Bantams to Willys with instructions to "make yours as good as this". There were several thousand Bantams built, and as these were handed to Britain under lend-lease, they probably were the first Jeeps to see combat (in North Africa). Bantam lost out as you say mainly because they had basically no mass production capability. They were primarily an importer - the Jeep concept started from the Austin Seven they were importing - and they were negotiating with the Checker Cab company to produce Jeeps. This of course fell through when they failed to win a production contract. From the army's point of view, they clearly made the best decision, but it was a bit rough on Bantam, and they seem to have been a bit cavalier about Bantam's intellectual property.
John