I stole a jeep off the Willys Factory line (sort of....)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2020
- The Willys jeep isn't finished, so don't get too excited about little details!
Its just to give you an idea of what I think a jeep would have looked like taken straight off the line in 1943 - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
In the USA I can't imagine buying a $18,000+ dollar UTV aka Side By Side for going hunting etc. I would buy an old Jeep and fix it up for sure.... The Jeep looks great!
Research the Mahindra Roxor.
Honestly, side by sides aren’t even street legal as well
@@bpeyman68 They are in the Western USA states. I have friends in rural Idaho, Utah, Nevada that all have street driven UTV's. Not in big city's but small town USA out west. The county's that are agricultural or mountain towns allow them.
Lucky-Rowe hmm interesting I’ll have to remember that when I go hunting
Yes , I bought a CJ 5 and used it many years. It's an 80 model with power steering and disk power brakes. 4cylinder iron duke. Super great utility vehicle. It's far from this flat fender Wilys , but for the price and use I've gotten from it , it's served it's purpose well. Plus it'll run the interstate speed and pass cars all day long as well as crawl around in the woods.
When I was a kid in the late 60s, early 70s in the back page of every comic book where the x-ray glasses and sea monkeys were sold they always had ads for army surplus jeeps in crates for $50 +shipping and handling. From what I have heard you needed to get 3 so you were ensured of getting all the parts to have a complete one.
I had a '42 split window CJ2A and was able to buy new parts directly from a factory in Mexico including a bell housing for the engine. These little vehicles are always going to be classic and desirable wherever you find them.
There were many manufacturers worldwide that were licensed by Willys and Kaiser to build Jeep products.
MD Juan in the Philippines still builds MB, GPW, and civilian CJ bodies and parts, Mahindra of India still builds derivatives of the 'Jeep'.
What a beautiful machine. You should be able to get another 70+ years out of that Jeep with the amount of time and money you have put into it!
I blooming well hope so, it owes me!
@@Greendot319 It's a symbiotic relationship of sorts.
I really appreciate the respect you show for history! You look great in that jeep in uniform by the way.
ha cheers!
What a lovely rebuild!
Wow, awesome! What a pleasure to see such a fine build in operation. Great color commentary. Thank you!
Thank you, very kind of you to say so.
My father used his surplus jeep for many years on the farm towing the hay and honey wagons. Farm kids like us learned driver education early with jeeps and other farm implements.
Lovely to hear, I hope seeing this one bought back some good memories!
@@Greendot319not for my dad. He was on mail run in GOOD FRI 1945. GOT AMBUSHED BY WAFFEN SS AND HELD WITH OTHER GIS FORC2 WEEKS. HE HAD A THERMITE GRENADE WIRED TO BLOCK DESTROYED JEEP TO DENY WAFFEN SS TO USE
One of the greatest vehicles, ever built! You have a very nice example there, diligently restored to original condition. I also own one of these (Ford GPW, date of delivery in Oct. 1942).
;-) you're going to have to mount the latch for the windshield the other way around, so the bend points upward.
Thank you very much!
Your commentary is second to none thank you for your thoughts on the jeeps
My Jeep is much newer (1995) and it is my preferred mode of transport. There's just something really neat about driving a Jeep.
Very nice. My grandfather was in charge of the motor pool during the war. Driving generals and such around.
Your knowledge on the GPW is exemplary and I agree with you on looking the part when you drive it! Nice job, “Yank”!🍸
My first military driver's license was for an M151 MUTT. My brother has a '46 CJ2A. Driving that is a fairly close experience to driving a wartime MB/GPW I would imagine. Amazing vehicles.
Same here. First mil driver's license was for M151, and also where I learned to drive a stick shift. Talk about baptism by fire. LOL
Excellent video , content and commentary. Never thought about footwell vs combat boots! Love all jeeps old and new. Thank you for sharing your project!
I've got some nice photos of original one's just out the creates! It's so cool the way they use the tub as stowage box and screwed alot to the top of the inside of the wood create even down to the grab handled screwed to a stowage box thing at the right front wheel and all wheels inside! It's starting to look good
Great to see you enjoying the fruits of your labor! Well Done!
Thank you!
Great video.
The stamped grille was a Ford development.
Yanks didn't call the engine a "two point two", it was a 134 cubic inch Willys 'Go Devil' engine.
We also tend to refer to that unique smell of the military canvas preservative as 'scratch and sniff'.
Have fun driving your Willys, a I'm sure you will!
Jason from Maryland here
..so perfect, (sniff) tear...
Looks great!!
Cheers!
Cheers Jason
So awesome to see your passion in the U.K. I own an early, very original cj2a, and a 61 cj3b, they are both very different but so fun! Cheers from the Pacific northwest in the U.S. mate! Take care! Oh, and I have subbed.
Thanks a lot, very kind of you to say so
I've enjoyed several of your videos! I am a big fan of jeeps. It all started when I was a young kid and my dad took me to see the John Wayne movie Hatari (filed in Africa). There was Hardy Kruger riding around in a post WWII CJ jeep. I would love to own a wwii vintage type Willys jeep. I just like their size, the flat fenders and the over-all look. The closed I have to come to owning one was a early model Toyota Land Cruiser, that is somewhat modeled after the Willys. Three speed, almost flat fenders and the Japanese version of the American Jeep. I now own a Hummer H3 which is a child of the HumV from a few decades back. Great job of your Willys Jeep and I intend to catch up with many more of your videos.
I love that sound
You have speaking skills, Sir! Beautiful Jeep. Cheers!
Cheers ;)
Once again a great video about a great project, Matt! Reminds me so much about my project in 2008/2009. Hopefully there will come one day to repeat it. Best regards from the Netherlands.
Looking good.
Thanks for the inspiration to finish my GPW.
Go for it!
Did the Ford manufactured Jeeps use Ford designed engines, or did they use the same engine (built under license, of course) that the Willy's Jeeps used?
Wow, she is fabulous... well done. I really enjoy seeing your videos. The MB is very professionally done. Superb👍👍👍👌👌👌👌
Thank you very much, very kind.
Does your jeep have the hanged headlamps? The early 1942 43 model's were cool with that to work on the engine! Should never have done away with that on later one's
Great job, Looks beautiful
very nice vehicle. great job. i have always loved the smell of GI canvas.
I love my 2019 2 door Jeep Wrangler!!!!!!!!!!
Other then the label on the fire extinguisher…I would says it right on target….great video
Hello from Forest Grove Oregon. My Grandfather had one in the 80's. (Complete with the black out light). It was a farm vehicle and many Grandchildren learned to drive counter steering to the right. My daily is a 47 2a with a 42 windshield and grill. I get pulled over about twice a year so the officer can have a good look at it.😉
That's Great, the jeep is the vehicle to teach kids to drive in! If you can drive a jeep then you can drive anything! cheers! Matt
Nice, thanks for sharing this MB 43, i hope i can buy mine soon
Good to see you back.
Dave
Cheers Dave
Congrats! That's a good amount of effort rolling around there.
Cheers, too much effort!
When I was in the Navy early 1970 you could buy a surplus Jeep, in the "crate" for a hundred bucks, wish I'd bought 10 of 'em, who knew?? Doc Mike USN 70-74
Buying a jeep in the crate for cheap was an urban myth. There were ads to be sure, but they only provided information to government auctions, and that’s it.
No jeep for you! 🍸
Excellent presentation
Very kind, thanks
The comedy in the video.
Without the windshield can see your knees above the dashboard. Never thought about that before.
Its a crazy driving position, there was a particular injury in WW2 specifically from jeep crashes due to this driving position!
@@Greendot319 I'm over six feet and drive a 'hot rodded' flatfender Jeep.
Locating the seat and pedals to optimal position and angles took quite some doing for the best compromise and I've since 'moulded myself' to the available space (including full roll bar).
When I drove a very 'stock' original CJ2A (canvas seats, no roll bar, original configuration throughout) with windshield and top folded down, I always felt more that I was riding ON the vehicle rather than in it.
Wonderful stuff, those Jeeps. Had lots of fun with them in Northern Arizona.
I highly recommend building and driving one with a built up Buick (or Kaiser 'Dauntless') 225 inch 'odd fire' V6.
Love the recessed lights!
Beautiful job, well done.
Cheers, very kind
that jeep deserves to be preserved, you won't be able to get many MB's now factory new like that, I personally would put it in a museum
She's made to be driven! I know what you mean, its strange to start driving such a 'new' jeep but its what it was made for and I wont abuse it like they used to of course!
@@Greendot319 your jeep so you do what you want to do, a part of me does like what you are doing with it especially with the markings not having them perfect, I love that touch
@@Greendot319
I missed out on buying an excellent WWII Jeep in the early 80's and a couple of 1950's (?) Jeeps, a wagon and a pickup in the late 70's and early 80's and could have recovered a couple wrecked WWII Jeeps from far North Queensland in the mid 80's and I had an opportunity to buy another really good original WWII Jeep in the late 90's, but speaking of brand-new WWII Jeeps my father was a POW at "Sandakan" in North Borneo and testified at the War Crimes Tribunals Rabaul and Tokyo
At Rabaul he bought a brand new surplus Jeep for £5 and was arranging with a ship's captain to have it brought back to Australia but the ship sailed before the Jeep could be delivered to the dock and so it was left sitting on the dock when my father left
He said the blokes at Rabaul who were disposing of the surplus equipment rode dozens of worthless Japanese "Harley Davidson" motorcycles off the jetty while swimming
After watching your videos I have come to the conclusion my Porsche Boxster will have to go so I can build one 👍😜
Nicely done mate. Keep up the great work.
Cheers, appreciate it and your long term support
Amazing condition. What a find!
Great job! Lots of info too.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A great effort, well done! It just confirms that I made the right decision and bought our Jeep ready done! I'd never have the skill and patience to achieve your fantastic result.
anyone else noticed the latch hook for the windshield is upside down?
Wind shields and weapon mounts are available in the USA... I imagine oversized shipping would be a lot, sir
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Love your videos! Keep them up!
Thank you! Will do!
So, once you finished put it together and everything is installed, u apply a final coat of o.d over it? U have to mask the instrument gauges and lights and reflector again or u installed after the final spray?
That is correct, the final coat is once everything is on.
Salute bro from India 🇮🇳
amazing video. thank you so much !
Love the videos mate and the Jeep
Lol, Clickbait!! Just kidding. You had previous pictures with stars and markings, so this must have been before that. I assume the windshield was removed for paint etc. Super super detailed restoration. Very fine jeep indeed.
The windshields off because I haven't got one yet, got to somehow find one :(
How/where did you find everything to put this together?
An inspired vehicle ever build in the history of mankind by builders.👍👍😎❤️❤️
Hats off to you for a surperb result, id love to ride in one thats in this kind of shape
Looks great. Did you use any parts from MD Juan?
No Phillipino parts on this jeep, its NOS, US made and European manufacture. That was hard enough as it was! cheers
Very nice mate!
Cheers, glad you appreciate it!
what a nice job you have done, well done! So, what next, use it or was the pleasure in the doing and you will sell it on? Great to see what you've done!
This one is for using, its not for sale, too much work! Not sure I could do it again to the same level and remain sane.
@@Greendot319 I have said the same thing time & again, I still get another project! Pleased that you will use it and enjoy it - while we still can...
Great job
When i was stationed at Clark P.I. you could go to Manila and but a WW2 jeep still in the crate for $500
Can't even hear the Dana 18 transfer case whine.
They must get louder as the gears wear in.
The Jeeps on Mash tv show was loud; probably had alot of wear.
Very good points, The case whines more the more wear it has, apparently an as new case makes little noise, wonder how long it will take to start whining?
@@Greendot319 The aftermarket offers an intermediate shaft upgrade that is supposed to last longer and be quieter.
The wear of that shaft may cause the more clearance between the gears and the whine.
Novak and other suppliers offer hardened shafts.
@@jhoncho4x4 The Warn (now Saturn) overdrive is probably the single best upgrade to an original 'Jeep'. It mounts discreetly to the PTO outlet of the T-case and splits every gear for far better on or off road capabilities.
www.advanceadapters.com/categories/saturn-overdrive/238/
@@Greendot319 Even when new, with original parts, I was told by my old timer parts man, that you should replace the intermediate shaft every 10,000 miles. They begin to show wear even before that, though. Supposedly, it's because originally, the transfer case was designed for the less powerful Bantam jeep (45hp), but it's a very heavy gear in a really spindly shaft. Post war jeeps graduated eventually to inch and a quarter shafts.
Modern transfercases and the Dana 20 the D18 evolved into, are straight drive to the rear axle and only use intermediate shafts to drive front axle while in 4x4 mode.
Alot less wear and no noise in 2wd.
The Jeep had passenger side drop drive on front and rear, with both axle pumpkins offset to passenger side to give extra obstacle clearance on driver side and be easy to line up for driver.
This offroad advantage was gradually phased out.
it sounds great.
Matt l have a Hull compass in the Naafi Van.. I seen them on jeeps before..
I drove one years ago, neat little buggy, Eck usmc
Great job Matt...Have you chosen a suitable material for your Louis'vuitton custom interior upgrade yet ?
Yes I have, its currently being worked on in Italy (no joke!)
Awesome Jeep and video. 😊👍
Cheers!
@@Greendot319 You're welcome. 😊😊
Great video as always. Like the tinning doesn’t not really see that kind of detail on them. I’ve just painted mine else would have been tempted to do the same. How much of a job was it.
Tinnings not too bad, needs to be done before you put any paint down like they did in the factory. You can cheat however and use paint on areas where the tinning is no longer important like on the fenders, no one can tell!
Greendot 319 I imagine you did yours properly. The jeep police are scary lol
@@vernonjones5418 This Tinning has been done as originally but don't be scared of masking and using metallic enamel paint if you want the look. Don't worry about the jeep police, your jeep is your jeep and if you're happy with it that's all that matters, some of the things the police think they know for a fact aren't correct anyway!
Greendot 319 I do agree with you. Everyone seems to be an expert. I’m loving your videos and Scott’s team g503. They are so helpful. Mine was in bits and missing so much as you then find out. What’s your next project or is this one a keeper.
What was your solution to the steering gear worm?
Fit a different worm from WAT in spain!
great job very well done!
Thank you very much!
Nice one!
So...A new jeep cranks just as slowly as an old one. : ) I often wondered about that.
Theyre a right pain in the butt. When the engines tight the starter has a really hard time. They used to run the engine in on an electrical motor in the factory to free them up first.
YOU WILL GO RIGHT WITH AUTO LIGHT AUTO PARTS.
SUPERB !
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You look remarkably like my mom's brother who was KIA in October of 1944 at the Hurtgen Forest. He is buried at Henri-Chapelle.
Finally! I was already starting to blame you for ruining my life by not releasing videos for my monthly jeep dose.... On a serious note, I like the tin layer for the contact points inside the bonnet. I saw the G503 videos where they scratch off the paint for the tooth washers all over the jeep. Did you put tin protection behind tooth washers as well somewhere? I guess bare metal would allow nasty future corrosion spots and I was already googling for kind of conductive grease of some sort. Putting tin behind every tooth washed is a labour intensive alternative imo. What is your opinion Matt?
No need to scratch the paint off for tooth washers, thats the whole point of them they cut through the paint themselves. This jeep has few toothed washers as its an earlier Type 1 suppression jeep but later ones had many more, they only had tinning in certain places and not behind all washers. On a modern jeep you don't really need tinning except on the important frame areas for the negative cable grounding. You can use silver paint to 'fake' the tinning for areas where grounding isn't important anymore (fender grounding, throttle choke cable grounding etc)
cheers
Amazing.
are you going to put a windshield on it? and please go with tan top
Which is best supplier of a tan top, I agree they do look better slightly tan as opposed to green.
Was tan used on green Jeeps in WWII?
So much beautiful😍
You really need my 1943 Remington Rand 1911A1 and, hmmm, a 1928 Thompson...or an M1A1 Thompson. ( I prefer the 1928 ).........
Nothing better then driving a ww2 around the English county side
Beautiful vehicle. The jeep won the War for us?
How much does a set up like that cost now. An old jeep new from the crate if there are more anyone know ?
There aren't any crated jeeps unfortunately anymore and there is some question as to whether there ever were any available to civilians after the war but this is probably as close as you will get! The answer to cost is a lot, but its worth it
I remember back in the 70’s they were advertised in the back of magazines complete in the crate.
Do you ever do the 40s weekend in Norfolk ?
Nope, would take most of my life to get the jeep to Norfolk! ;) Cheers
Greendot 319 fair enough. When I first bought my series 2a Land Rover I drove it to a camp site . Just so happened that all the jeeps and American army trucks were camping there too. Was great fun. Could see all the similarities between the series Landy and the jeeps . Can see that Morris wilks really did take a lot from it !
Hmmmmm, the windshield J hook on the drivers side looks like it is upside down
3:38 My 1942 GPW had an electrical fire out on a trail. It completely burnt the wires under the hood & under the dash
Nasty!
I was under the impression that they didn't switch to 3 data plates until late in 44'
Not that i'm aware of ;)
Negative....my 42 GPW has 3 data plates
Ford actually built more Jeeps during the first year of WW2 than Willy's. And the WW2 Jeep is more Ford prototype than the Batam that originally won the contract to make the Jeep. A look and comparison of the original prototypes submitted to the Army for testing makes it clear that Ford's Prototype is the prototype that was actually used to design the production Jeeps. The Ford bodywork and appearance combined with the Willy's Go Devil engine and spicer axles , transmission & transfer case is what went into production. Calling the original Jeep a Willy's doesn't actually make sense considering the engine is The Willy's part but the majority of the Jeep was actually Ford . The entire body including the grill , tub , hood ,fenders and windshield frame are all designed by Ford as refinements of the original Ford Prototype Jeep.
Jason where can one get one like yours Alan
Flip up headlights👍
Thanks
Thank you very much, much appreciated!
Spark plugs that look like coxal cable. To suppress rf interference. A dead giveaway for detection. By any German DF unit.
The steering wheel is the same as what was on the ford tractors
Exactly, the kind of Jeep Setup, i Wanted, no wind shield, A Guada canal Saipan Iwojima Inspired, Jeep wIllys, . they issued thousands of them in the South Pacific, for the U S Marines Mainly also in the Phillipines, the first jeep in the phillipines has no Wind shield
All 'Truck, 1/4 ton. 4X4, G503' ('Jeeps') were all supplied with windshields.
It is very simple to fold down the entire windshield frame flat to the hood or it can be removed with two bolts.
how much this jeep will cost?
👍 👍 👍!!!
The windshield holder on the dashboard is not correct
this is my bible building my own no windshield jeep
Add a windshield just for the heck of it.
They fold down completely flat n a flash and you'll need one if you mount a top.
Also, the inner frame (around the glass panes) can be opened outward for flow through ventilation when the outer frame is in the 'up' position.