1 posted on
11/19/2013 4:53:45 PM PST by
re_tail20
To: re_tail20
2 posted on
11/19/2013 4:58:33 PM PST by
Paladin2
To: re_tail20
Isn’t that an Italian company now?
3 posted on
11/19/2013 5:00:54 PM PST by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: re_tail20
They just took the doors off a Wrangler.
7 posted on
11/19/2013 5:11:43 PM PST by
Anoreth
(It is not moth eaten. It is superb.)
To: re_tail20
Originally designed and built by Bantam Car Works in Butler PA. Great tradition.
To: re_tail20
My late uncle (a motor vehicle maintenance officer in WWII and a Dodge/Plymouth dealer in the 1950s) would have raised his eyebrows if someone had told him that in 2014, the ghost of Chrysler - in a Fiat/US government form, no less - would be commemorating Willys-Overland's version of a military vehicle appropriated by said government from American Bantam and simultaneously produced by Ford.
Mr. niteowl77
10 posted on
11/19/2013 5:20:55 PM PST by
niteowl77
(Establishment Republicans possess fewer guts than the last gnat that hit the windshield of your car.)
To: re_tail20
I would be more impressed if they put the old straight 6 back in it.... those babies had low end torque forever... and they were indestructible.
14 posted on
11/19/2013 5:35:18 PM PST by
SouthernBoyupNorth
("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
To: re_tail20; Paladin2; niteowl77; zot; SouthernBoyupNorth
My grandfather had a Kaiser-Frazier & Willy’s dealership in 1949-53. I remember riding around in his Willy’s jeep and his Overland, that we had until the mid-50s.
19 posted on
11/19/2013 6:19:37 PM PST by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: re_tail20
In 1948, US Federal Trade Commission agreed with American Bantam, that the idea of creating the Jeep was originated and developed by the American Bantam in collaboration with some US Army officers. The commission forbade Willys from claiming directly or by implication, that it created or designed the Jeep, and allowed it only to claim, that it contributed to the development of the vehicle.[5] However, American Bantam went bankrupt by 1950, and Willys was granted the “Jeep” trademark in 1950.
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