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Same Jeep?
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Posted: Friday, January 09, 2009 - 03:14 AM UTC
Dear friends,

I am totally new to american trucks and ailled veh......Is this AFV club jeep below the same as the Tamiya 1/4 ton Willys Jeep?

https://www.unitoyzone.com/images/AFV-35S17.jpg

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Posted: Friday, January 09, 2009 - 03:23 AM UTC
Different Jeep, the M38 family didn't appear until the early 1950s while Tamiya's is a WW2-era vehicle.

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Posted: Friday, January 09, 2009 - 01:33 PM UTC
Thanks, how about the Italeri offer, did it appear in WWII say ETO? Is this the same as Willys? or was it a ford?

http://www.italeri.com/product.aspx?item=6468S

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Posted: Friday, January 09, 2009 - 02:06 PM UTC
The Italeri will work for WW2 and Korea.
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Posted: Friday, January 09, 2009 - 04:50 PM UTC
Both the Italeri and Tamiya jeeps are WWII and Korean war-era Willis MBs. No one makes a kit of the Ford GPW.
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Posted: Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 10:46 AM UTC
Miniart from Russia is now producing a 1/4 ton truck of the first series,, I believe it's a Bantam.
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Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 03:49 AM UTC

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Miniart from Russia is now producing a 1/4 ton truck of the first series,, I believe it's a Bantam.


That is correct. The Bantam 40 was the original design that was approved for production. Bantam couldn't produce enough of them quickly enough, so Ford and Willys were contracted to make them. Ford changed the grill from the Bantam design to make production easier. Willys changed a few other small items and the Willys and Ford designs became the standard that everyone knows. The US didn't use very many Bantams. Most went to the USSR and Britain as Lend-Lease vehicles.
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Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 04:59 AM UTC
A few of my favorite things:

Bantam

Original Willys

Original Ford

And the little known... Checker Cab Company version.
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Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 05:04 AM UTC
Checker Cab made one??? I learned something new today!!!!!!!!

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Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 05:21 AM UTC
Hey, I didn't know that about Checker either, thanks. I guess they didn't choose it because it stood out on the battlefield too much with that bright yellow and those checkered bands? :-)
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Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 05:24 AM UTC

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I learned something new today!!!!!!!!


So did I!!! I never knew of the Bantam and Checker Cab models!

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Posted: Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 05:59 AM UTC
Rob,
I knew about Bantam, but Checker?? I heard about it but didn't know till I saw the photo. Grumpyoldman has enlighted us yet again.

Bantam was the orig. winner of the design, but Willy's Overland got the production nod because the government didn't think Bantam could keep up with production demands. Even Willy's had a hard time with production, that why you had the Ford version.
Ford was better suited for production and didn't have to retool as much.
The total number of Jeeps turned out by Willy's was almost as many as Ford.
I'll have to check on that one.
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