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About Quiz # 268: 1941 Ford GP (UPDATE, one letter too many...)
When we encountered this
early jeep at Hershey last October we already thought, how many people would recognise this..? We expected either a flood of answers... or the opposite. 'Nobody' spontanuously remembered the dashboard of the 1941 Ford "Jeep". Also check
rear end detailing . We said Nobody, but it was exact one competitor who simply wrote:"The car in question is a 1941 Ford GPW. Affectionately nicknamed the "jeep" by some unknown soldier, the vehicle's design was conceived by American Bantam, but Ford and Willys received the production orders during WWII. Ford's version, the GPW, used the Willys "Go-Devil" four, whose design was perfected by the great Barney Roos. Early Ford production vehicles used a "slat" style grille, making them look slightly unfamiliar without the trademark seven bar grille. The first two letters of Ford's designation stand for General Purpose, and the third stands for Willys - indicating the licensure agreement that brought about their production." Congratulations, Luke Chennell! The only one to send in the correct answer. And with two previous wins, new jury member as well. (jurymember Kit Foster added on seeing the instrument cluster:"...the clue that really "clicked" for me was the temp gauge that reads "Hot," which, as a one-time owner of several old Fords, I recognized as being a Ford characteristic. I had recently had reason to tell somebody that early Ford Jeeps used instruments and other components from Ford trucks of the period.")
UPDATES came in form Ben Stephens, Kit Foster, Alan McGuinness all provclaiming that we were wrong, that the car in fact is "....a Ford GP rather than the standard production GPW."...and..." one of the three so called pre-standardised jeeps; the others being the Willys MA, and Bantam BRC40. Around 5,756 GPs were made between February 1941 and January 1942. The standardised jeeps were, of course, the Ford GPW and Willys MB. Early MBs (not GPWs) had 'slat grills', but these were different to the GP grill." Underlining the fact that these gentlemen are right, we will show you
the ID plate. Our fault, sorry. However this doesn't change a bit on the outcome of the competition. (W)inner is Luke Chenell! More on early Jeep's to be found at
Olive-Drab and
g503.com.
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Friday, 19 February 2010
When we encountered this early jeep at Hershey last October we already thought, how many people would recognise this..? We expected either a flood of answers... or the opposite. 'Nobody' spontanuously remembered the dashboard of the 1941 Ford "Jeep". Also check rear end detailing . We said Nobody, but it was exact one competitor who simply wrote:"The car in question is a 1941 Ford GPW. Affectionately nicknamed the "jeep" by some unknown soldier, the vehicle's design was conceived by American Bantam, but Ford and Willys received the production orders during WWII. Ford's version, the GPW, used the Willys "Go-Devil" four, whose design was perfected by the great Barney Roos. Early Ford production vehicles used a "slat" style grille, making them look slightly unfamiliar without the trademark seven bar grille. The first two letters of Ford's designation stand for General Purpose, and the third stands for Willys - indicating the licensure agreement that brought about their production." Congratulations, Luke Chennell! The only one to send in the correct answer. And with two previous wins, new jury member as well. (jurymember Kit Foster added on seeing the instrument cluster:"...the clue that really "clicked" for me was the temp gauge that reads "Hot," which, as a one-time owner of several old Fords, I recognized as being a Ford characteristic. I had recently had reason to tell somebody that early Ford Jeeps used instruments and other components from Ford trucks of the period.") 
