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    Willys Jeep....

    Well with a mountain of cash burning a hole in my pocket (been a very long time) I noticed a Willys Jeep for sale...... been looking on and off for a long time and only by mistake notice this one, well I knew its a none starter and needed to be built, I've kind of set my sights on Military Motorcycles for the future but am always looking at vehicles etc, I didn't have the space but when you get an idea in the head it seems to go off in all tangents, The price was very reasonable to others I'd seen, so I had a look today and its was still there so I handed over the cash......

    Even with my hands full and prepping to build my extension I don't think it will take too long to build.

    So a quick pic,

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    Good luck, I hear with their engine and with 0-2-0 assistance they can tow a Matchbox...wish my eyes were what they once were when I used to work on these.

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    Nice! I have a slightly larger scale version but yours is cleaner and easier to store.




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    Geoff,
    Hopefully stickers and all??
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    Geoff,
    Hopefully stickers and all??
    Yep, Transfers in the guise of the 6th Airborne Division , Normandy 1944..... or Headquarters, 4th Division US Army , Belgiumicon 1944, The wife was quite taken back when I told her I'd bought a WW2 jeep...... the silence said it all, strange women.

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    Hah, made me look! I was hoping you'd bought the Jeep off E-Bay that's carrying a (surely decommissioned!) 106RR. Price seemed reasonable, had to look up a few vids on the rifle...

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    Geoff,
    On the WW2 Model makers site you can buy rope and anything else you want to tart it up with, loads of jeeps on their in all guises.
    Great project, normally kept for long stays in hospital though. I built a sherman and a spitfire when I was in many years ago. Keeps the mind applied!!
    Incidently, a WW2 Ford Jeep from 1943 with provenance of DDAY sold for £23,300 at the HH Auctions at Duxford in December...............like good rifles the price can only go up!!
    Happy New Year mate

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    Britishicon airborne? Should probably tell the Brits that, otherwise they will never know it existed.

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    Reading your thread 7 Gil reminds me......... When I was very young, there was a small garage in the village where I lived in Shrivenham and they had a blue wishy-washy painted wartime Jeep as a general gash hack or runaround. It used to go on general breakdown etc etc as used to happen then. Across the front lower windscreen area you could read through the wishy-washy blue paint you could just read the words GUARD ROOM. The Jeep had originally been disposed of from Arnhem Camp nearby in the early 60's where it had been based since it arrived in the UKicon. Arnhem Camp was really just a few small huts and buildings with a huge landing ground where paratroopers would land when Abingdon or Weston on the Green were closed. It was also used for heavy drops...., but I digress. The civvy number on the Jeep was SHR XXX, a local Wiltshire number and coincidentally the letters of the local telephone exchange (SHRivenham of curse, so easy to remember)

    The garage eventually sold up and disposed of the Jeep locally in the mid 70's where my friend and fellow MG enthusiast Barry Radford with an MGA twin-cam sort-of restored it (plenty of scrap ones at Haynes of Challow scrap yard then). He eventually sold it on many years later and guess what..........? In the 90's this same Jeep, now living in or near Swindon regularly used to appear at local shows as......... well....., it was anything that you wanted it to be! The first vehicle ashore on D-Day, carried Monty to Berlin and Ike to Moscow. You get my drift. The bloke just wouldn't accept that I knew where it had been - and hadn't done! That's where I learned the phrase...... buy the Jeep and not the story. Or in our case, but the rifle and not the story.

    On the other hand, my brother has a 1944 Bedford QL 3 tonner 77YC16. Bog standard, lived on an RAF station all its life until demobbed in 1962 so, being RAF, never saw any action, never even been out of Cornwall. Restored over several years in the 80's, now in gloss 1955 Army deep bronze green - and he loves it to bits

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    Peter,
    Brilliant stories there. I have always been fascinated by the Range Rover Carmichael Commando TACR2 6 wheel drive fire engines which my dad used many a time in the mob.

    Would you believe it, but the RAF LUQA one came for sale in the UKicon with all its bits on it. We lived out there for 3 years when he was stationed in Malta before they kicked us out.

    Don't know why I wanted it, but it was something me and my brothers thought would be a great tribute to our dad who is no longer with us, RAF LUQA badge on the doors an all!!

    Guess what, spoke to the seller, said I would be up the next day with my brothers pay the asking price of £9995, and phoned just as we were leaving and it was sold.
    It was immaculate having been in a dry environment for many years and no salt on the roads to corrode it.
    Bugger................................I was really p****d off I can tell you. A once in a lifetime chance on buying something he probably sat in!
    The other one he spent a lot of time in was the Thornycroft Nubian what a brilliant piece of kit.
    Good luck next week Peter.
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    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA

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