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Welcome to 42FordGPW.com. On this website you can find out all about WW2 jeeps and related information. Read all sorts of fascinating facts about the Ford GPW and Willys MB jeep as used by the US Army and allies during World War Two. There is also information about the Bantam BRC, Ford GP and Willys MA pre-standardized "jeeps" |
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Click on the picture (above) for photographs of a beautiful model that posed with my 1942 Ford GPW jeep, see the results of that shoot. |
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This started out as a little place for me to post some pictures and blather about my jeep...GPW 29668. The vehicle in a numerical list was officially the G503 or G-503. Over the course of time, it has developed into an opportunity to dig into those volumes of ancient Army Motors from World War Two. The Army Motors of yesteryear issued during those dark days known as World War Two not the modern version published by the MVPA.
Here you will find Sgt "Half-Mast" McCanick's wisdom on all things mechanical. Although most of the items here are going to be jeep related; his expertise covered the Army's wide arena of equipment. His wisdom would be applicable to all the jeeps, both Willys MB and Ford GPW, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945.
In the Contribution section, regular GIs wrote in with fixes, solutions, and gadgets to get the job done. Those that are jeep related are here too.
The Tips section will show you how to do things or how something was done. Like how two GIs put up a jeep top during a pouring rain or info about the "new" T-84J transmission. There's some really good stuff, look around.
The My Jeep, section actually has more than just information about my particular jeep. You will find how to work on the T-84J transmission, general jeep stats and of course my jeep's story. We look at the Bantam BRC, Ford GP, Ford GPW, Willys Quad, Willys MA, and Willys MB. The G503 is the military code designation for the 1/4-ton, 4x4, truck.
If you are interested in jeep tools, I cover that as well. Just don't do like I did and fall for the jeep tool kits. Sure many of the tools that I have look like the real thing but there not. They're just tools common to the 1940s era. Most of the tools are not marked with any jeep numbers. Friends of mine have donated pictures of the real or what is believed to be the real thing and I am incorporating those shots as well.
The Field Modification sections is one of my favorites. Here you can have some fun. If you are a jeep newbie or purist you might want to look elsewhere. Many of the mods are authorized Army. Some are field expedients that never made it to a MWO or TB but were published in the original Army Motors like the under the rear seat tool box or the field expedient muffler. Others are my own creations or those of jeepers elsewhere on the web. I have experimented with disk brakes. This is a continuing experiment that requires further refinement before the results are acceptable.
Books. I have also included a section listing some of the books I have used in working on my jeep or finding out more of the history of it. These include, Winter and the Willys MB/Ford GPW, Military Maintenance for MB/GPW Jeeps 1941-45,
BANTAM, FORD AND WILLYS—1/4-TON RECONNAISSANCE CARS and others!
And finally, there is an Other section that I use to include those subject that I hadn't figured anywhere else for them to go for now.
I hope you enjoy this site as much as I have enjoyed putting it together. I can't really say I created it because so much of the material is from other sources. If you have a constructive comment let me know. Thanks.
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