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long_tom
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2019 - 10:47 AM UTC
I noticed in several postwar Tintin stories that Jeeps are featured in several stories. Unless Herge had been getting kickbacks from Willys Overland, I assume Jeeps must have been common in the postwar world. What is the story?
WarrenD
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2019 - 10:56 AM UTC
There were lots of them for sale at the end of the war and they were cheap.
RobinNilsson
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2019 - 11:23 AM UTC
Some even found their way to Sweden.
A lot were bought by the Swedish armed forces and many ended up in private hands as well.
/ Robin
A lot were bought by the Swedish armed forces and many ended up in private hands as well.
/ Robin
Frenchy
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2019 - 08:48 PM UTC
TAFFY3
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2019 - 10:50 PM UTC
I remember ads from when I was a kid. They ran in the back of magazines and comic books. They were for Jeeps, supposedly still in their crates, offered at a ridiculously low price. 
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Posted: Monday, January 21, 2019 - 11:29 PM UTC
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I remember ads from when I was a kid. They ran in the back of magazines and comic books. They were for Jeeps, supposedly still in their crates, offered at a ridiculously low price.
When I was a kid in the '70s a neighbour a few doors down got one of those crated surplus jeeps (in NY) and built it up! IIRC production figures were massive even by US standards, so they were indeed used everywhere for ages after WW2. And it wasn't worth the cost to ship any home from overseas.
long_tom
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Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 12:17 AM UTC
I was thinking of the fact that they couldn't all have been World War Two surplus, since so many of those were junked or worn out by war's end. Also, the design itself would have been old by the 1950's, since the US military was issued the next version then.
Frenchy
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Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 01:19 AM UTC
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I was thinking of the fact that they couldn't all have been World War Two surplus, since so many of those were junked or worn out by war's end.
The licence-built Hotchkiss M201 (more than 25000 built in France between 1955 and 1966) was visually very close to the WW2 Jeep...
http://www.cherokee-fr.com/~jeepfamily/Europe/France/Hotchkiss/M201/HotchkissM201.htm
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I remember ads from when I was a kid. They ran in the back of magazines and comic books. They were for Jeeps, supposedly still in their crates, offered at a ridiculously low price
http://wwiijeepparts.com/Archives/WW2JeepsInCrates.html
H.P.
RobinNilsson
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Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 01:34 AM UTC
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I was thinking of the fact that they couldn't all have been World War Two surplus, since so many of those were junked or worn out by war's end. Also, the design itself would have been old by the 1950's, since the US military was issued the next version then.
The production was running and jeeps were on board ships headed east across the Atlantic when the war ended so a lot of Jeeps destined for Europe arrived after the war ended. Some Jeeps went to war weeks or maybe months before the war ended.
I think the Jeep was durable enough to survive driving maybe two or three times the distance from France to Germany.
Those that got shot or blown to pieces were obviously junk but a lot of them didn't have so many miles on them.
Those that were still on their way from the factory to a US port were probably never taken onboard a ship.
Almost 650000 Jeeps were built from autumn 1941 to September 1945.
The Swedish armed forces had the WW II surplus Jeeps in the inventory at least until 1966. Those stored for mobilisation purposes could have spent 20 years in storage and when they were auctioned off in the 70-ies they would still only have a few miles on them or maybe even brand new.
/ Robin
HeavyArty
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Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 01:37 AM UTC
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I remember ads from when I was a kid. They ran in the back of magazines and comic books. They were for Jeeps, supposedly still in their crates, offered at a ridiculously low price
My version of one.
long_tom
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Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - 02:44 PM UTC
What prompted me to ask the question, BTW: https://www.amazon.com/Land-Black-Gold-Adventures-Tintin/dp/0316358444/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0316358444&pd_rd_r=ed46ebaa-2437-11e9-bd5b-dfbc5f26256b&pd_rd_w=M8AZQ&pd_rd_wg=VqetB&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=WBMWAHXPG18XTXTDFGQR&psc=1&refRID=WBMWAHXPG18XTXTDFGQR
TAFFY3
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Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - 03:35 PM UTC
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Quoted TextI remember ads from when I was a kid. They ran in the back of magazines and comic books. They were for Jeeps, supposedly still in their crates, offered at a ridiculously low price
My version of one.
Nice one!
Al
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