oh.. I dunno?

Why, I saw one the other day (11 November last year) in our remembrance day parade. Still has leather side straps for the shovel and other fittings.

We lived near any army training camp when I was young. They loved to use a hillside and quarry near our place for training exercises, so we saw quite a few. The camp had an open day around 1975 and showed how they could slow speed drop the jeep from the Hercules' ramp with driver and passenger in place while still airborne. Then around 30 seconds later they showed us how the artillery could plough the airstrip as the finale for the day.

Met a few modified ones during a mine re-opening project around 1982. They were abandoned but had been converted to battery cars for people transport in the underground coal mine. They were restored for use in the other mine at site where five were still in use.

A stock willy’s Jeep.

1975, in high school Auto Mechanics shop. Yes, back when industrial arts were in the classes.

An upper classman brought one in to as a project. I was really surprise how simple it was. The 4 cylinder engine was the size of a small wastebasket.