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Post by Ryan_M on Nov 25, 2014 8:29:58 GMT -5
Have you seen what F script bolts sell for on ebay? They have lost their minds. Oil onna Piss off the Wife |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2014 11:33:05 GMT -5
Have you seen what F script bolts sell for on ebay? They have lost their minds. Oil onna Piss off the Wife Not sure about anyone else's wife, but my wife thinks a jeep is a jeep. No difference between my gpw or mb. She's just pissed that she has to walk through the rain to get in her car while the jeeps hibernate in the garage. |
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Post by Haines Garage on Nov 25, 2014 16:31:19 GMT -5
Giant
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I can go on and on!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2014 17:50:59 GMT -5
MB: Modified Bantam?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2014 18:32:22 GMT -5
Sir Oilleaker, If we didn't bite, it would sure ruin your day, maybe a week!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2014 19:30:05 GMT -5
I 've told you before: GENERAL PURPOSE WILLLLLEEEESSSSEEE! It was the sub standard model to a true Willys. That's why my MB is better. Unfortunately mine has a few "F" marked parts. That muddys the water a bit. You know, like a perfect set of seats etc. Oil
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Post by Haines Garage on Nov 25, 2014 20:31:46 GMT -5
I 've told you before: GENERAL PURPOSE WILLLLLEEEESSSSEEE! It was the sub standard model to a true Willys. That's why my MB is better. Unfortunately mine has a few "F" marked parts. That muddys the water a bit. You know, like a perfect set of seats etc. Oil Hahahahahahaha!!! Too Funny !!! Let you in on a little secret... GPWs are .........cool? I just like rousing the Moosester and his gaggle of F script worshipping buddies Love them Whilhems the Best!!! |
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Post by Haines Garage on Nov 25, 2014 20:34:16 GMT -5
Awwwwww Shut Up Ford Boy!! Go home with that weak ass stuff!! Modified Bantam my butt!! It stands for Manley Beotch!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 6:00:26 GMT -5
Brake fluid does indeed have paint removing abilities! Funny how air through a line will whip it around to a different direction you originally pointed it. I once was walking down Broadway St. in Denver Colo. and stopped at a fenced in specialty car lot. As I was looking at the expensive lineup I noticed funny looking blobs on the hoods. Someone had thrown paint stripper over the fence. I left pronto! Oil
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 11:04:23 GMT -5
The reason for the "F" script parts is simple. Henry Ford was a genius who could see ahead of his time. He realized that the GPW was an inferior vehicle that would never hack it off-road like an actual jeep so Henry decided to go after the "trailer queen" market. He was able to foresee that if he put an "F" script on all his parts, it would drive up their value. In the future, collectors would fight over them, spend ridiculous sums of money for them, and then baby them for the rest of their days thereby increasing the GPW's collectability and at the same time, hide its inadequacies on the trail. BRILLIANT I tell you!
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Post by Haines Garage on Nov 26, 2014 11:39:39 GMT -5
After I cleaned up the mess from spitting my coffee out!!!   and caught my breath from LMAO! I have to say Sir Jeff those are some very insightful comments!!! I think this forum is rubbing off on you.  The Moose is going to cry next, and have some incredibly insightful thing to say. Don't me wrong, some of my Best Friends Are GPW Lovers.... I'm Just never seen with them......  |
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Post by Haines Garage on Nov 26, 2014 11:51:26 GMT -5
Awwwww Heck!!! I can't help myself!! I try to control it....I can't!!!    And Just for Bo Bo!  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 12:09:11 GMT -5
I love GPWs too! They are some of the best vehicles I've ever seen in any garage or on any trailer  |
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Post by Haines Garage on Nov 26, 2014 13:47:34 GMT -5
Great Parade Wagon Say it with me now.....
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Post by surveypunk on Nov 26, 2014 14:50:47 GMT -5
BRILLIANT I tell you! And Ford pronounced it Will-is!  JB |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 15:22:24 GMT -5
Well, I have been trying to draw out Lee who has a Ford GPW. JeffC, aka, split personality did mighty fine with his on the FCT. I had to hustle to keep up with him a few times. I would like to have one if you guys want to throw one away! Oil
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 16:20:02 GMT -5
I love GPWs too! They are some of the best vehicles I've ever seen in any garage or on any trailer Oops! Had a Zookie moment... Might need a new iphone... |
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Post by WW on Nov 26, 2014 19:08:41 GMT -5
GPW, Germans Pronounce it Wilhelm
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Post by Haines Garage on Nov 26, 2014 19:29:46 GMT -5
GPW, Germans Pronounce it Wilhelm So.... Germans Pronounce it Wilhelm That is FANTASTIC!!! Love it Love It Love IT!! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 19:37:52 GMT -5
Have you seen what F script bolts sell for on ebay? They have lost their minds. Oil onna Piss off the Wife This is definitely what GPW means!! I was on ebay watching a sale of F script bolts, the guy had a few hundred of assorted size of bolts. His high bid with 3 days left was $300.00 so about that time my wife walks up and say $300.00 for all those bolts not bad. What are you going to bid? I said I am going to offer $1500.00. Man o Man you think I forgot to put down the toilet seat. Are you nuts? $1500.00 for those bolts. No matter how hard I tried to explain its for the GPW. I even told her it would make the Jeep worth more. To her relief they sold for $3000.00 I was just a little short, and my wife thinks I am nuts. I happy she didn't see what I paid for the transmission.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2014 7:40:58 GMT -5
Might as well buy the Willys MA for 85,000.00 and save some bucks! Or General Eisenhower's Jeep for 750,000.00. I like my 1400.00 '48 2A and it will go where those other ones will. I can set my beer on the hood and lean on it. I still want a GPW though. Just can't find one in a ranchers draw or barn that grandpa bought in '46-------------YET! Oil
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Post by Haines Garage on Apr 11, 2015 19:24:56 GMT -5
Found a Vintage GPW pic.  Notice the mis matched tires as well! |
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Post by Haines Garage on Apr 11, 2015 19:29:02 GMT -5
One account of the origin of the term "jeep" begins when the prototypes were being proven at military bases. The term "jeep" was used by Army mechanics for any untried or untested vehicles.[8]
Although most likely due to a bastardization of the acronym "GP" used to designate the vehicle, another likely factor in the popularization of the jeep name came from the fact that the vehicle made quite an impression on soldiers at the time, so much so that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye comic strip and cartoons created by E. C. Segar as early as mid-March 1936. Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's "jungle pet" and was "small, able to move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems."
In early 1941, Willys-Overland staged a press event in Washington, D.C., having the car demonstrate its prowess by driving up the Capitol steps. Irving "Red" Hausmann, a test driver on the Willys development team who had accompanied the car for its testing at Camp Holabird, had heard soldiers there referring to it as a jeep. He was enlisted to go to the event and give a demonstration ride to a group of dignitaries, including Katherine Hillyer, a reporter for the Washington Daily News. When asked by the reporter, Hausmann said "it's a Jeep". Hillyer's article appeared in the newspaper on February 20, 1941, with a photo showing a jeep going up the Capitol steps and a caption including the term 'jeep'. This is believed to be the most likely cause of the term being fixed in public awareness. Even though Hausmann did not create or invent the word Jeep, he very well could be the one most responsible for its first news media usage.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2015 22:05:41 GMT -5
Sure looks good!! flyin in the Air like that!! Makes a guy want 2 GPWs
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 7:23:13 GMT -5
Now that I own one: GPW stands for: Great Personal Wealth! Just think what you could sell all those bolts and F marked parts for! Oil
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