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1941 Willy's Jeep (one careful owner)

 
 
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998dave
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:32 am    Post subject: 1941 Willy's Jeep (one careful owner) Reply with quote

One less careful.



This is in the back of the barn at my girlfriends farm, a 1941 (I think) Willy's Jeep, used in France by the US Army in WWII, brought back at the end of the war and sold in 1946 to a young local farmer - my girlfriends grandfather.

He's not 90 and long since retired, and tells me the jeep was retired about 20 years ago with a damaged big end bearing shell.

There's a matching trailer, and the original shovel and pick still there, and the jeep was signed by the guys who came back in her.

Exciting times? Yes - but it's stuck behind that tractor and A35, a Zodiac and a Zephyr, and an old Wolseley... Bum...

Just thought I'd show you all, I'll hopefully get it out one day and bring it back to life...

Dave
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice find

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know you need to marry her so it can be yours one day!!
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Something proper like that with some history is worth 5 figures.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That place sounds like a candidate for Practical Classics magazine's "Rust in Peace" feature...
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ningram wrote:
That place sounds like a candidate for Practical Classics magazine's "Rust in Peace" feature...


That place is astounding, and dry so relatively little rust.

I only want the Jeep, the rest can stay there for now...
My '68 Wolseley Hornet is in that barn too, among a few other bits.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow that's an awesome find! I'm looking for a trailer for my 44 Willys MB, if the owner is interested in selling it to some one that would give it a good home, please let me know?

Congrats on such a great find!

Sam
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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2009 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Late reply I know, but I want both the Jeep and the Trailer, working on them still, will see how I do!
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PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

good luck.

my experience of that kind of thing has tended to be that a retired farmer with that sort of collection in a barn, either has a good idea what they will bring, or ( worse ) has a highly inflated idea of what they are worth.. sooner or later some enthusiast will pay up for something which may, or may not, still be worth restoring, if only for the provenance.

you can see this happening with vintage motorcycles, where bikes which have been rejected as past restoration, or past restoration at any worthwhile cost, are appearing occasionally at great expense, with substantial refabrication of parts which could have been reclaimed 20 or 30 years ago.



there is a common line of thought among 'hobby' enthusiasts, that 'if I'd known what that was going to be worth, I'd have bought one and kept it in the crate and now it'd be worth a fortune'.. actually, no, the arithmetic doesn't work that way.

I DO now regret selling for £100, a WW2 Jeep my late brother and I bought in a crate from a Cambridge surplus dealer in the early 70s, when remaining WW2 stuff was being heavily discounted to make room for faster-selling Civil Defence stuff; but the £70 we originally paid was 50% more than the same Jeep would originally have sold for in the late 1940s, and considerably more than a working, ex-Army example would have made. We could have had a Land Rover for the same money. The point being, that it was something that was being sold for far less than its 'showroom' price because there was, at that time, no market for it.

anyway, that was then and this is now. Good luck with getting this rather nice specimen back on the road, hope it is neither grossly over-priced or superficially intact but rotted to bits underneath; I'd be interested to know either way.
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