JEEP IN A BOX

[SubVet]

So this is how a jeep came....and I thought IKEA was rough

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[Msfitoy]

That's all you're going to say?! Is this a model? What scale? Where to buy and how much?

 

[HenryMac]

That's all you're going to say?! Is this a model? What scale? Where to buy and how much?

It's legit, kinda-sorta. ... WWII era Jeep. Some ass'y required. more here: http://wwiijeepparts.com/Archives/WW2JeepsInCrates.html

 

[Msfitoy]

It's legit, kinda-sorta. ... WWII era Jeep. Some ass'y required. more here: http://wwiijeepparts.com/Archives/WW2JeepsInCrates.html

 

[DHMag]

JC Whitney used to sell keeps in a crate.

 

[Megawatt]

Ok private, the general will be here in four hours to review the troops. You will drive him around the base in the new Jeep. I suggest you get busy.

 

[JesseS]

In 1966 we used to get some of the 1st M151 jeeps this way, not down at unit level, but in depot maintenance. The MUTT as it was called took 4 guys most of a day to assemble. Now what I want to find is a 1946 Harley 45 w/sidecar in a crate, that would be epic!

 

[Eskram]

They can be torn down quicker than that too. ?

 

[JohnnyO]

Easier to ship that way.
The oldest Jeep in existence is one of the original Bantam prototypes sitting in the lobby of the Heinz History Center here in Pittsburgh. Bantam was located in nearby Butler, PA. My son used to work there and one of his jobs was to go behind the ropes and dust it off.

 

[Fawnbuster]

So this is how a jeep came....and I thought IKEA was rough

I would get one of those if the price was right

 

[Cmar]

So this is how a jeep came....and I thought IKEA was rough

Wow I really didn't think there were any of those left anywhere.

 

[Grumpaw]

During WWll they also shipped US produced fighters in crates. They didn't have the range for overseas distances so they were broken down, crated, and shipped on cargo transports.
My dad was a flight mechanic on B-17, than B-24's in Europe, and when a shipment of fighters arrived, he would be pulled to help assemble them. He worked on P-47's and P-51's.
But, they were shipped all over the European and Pacific areas by ship.

 

[ROBERTECOX]

Wow I really didn't think there were any of those left anywhere.

where's the damper?

 

[Cmar]

where's the damper?

The men who drove those in anger didn't need no stinking damper, they were MEN.

I actually have one of those myself - not in a box though, well not for the last 80 years anyway.

All I can say is troops who fought in WW2 did braver things than just facing enemy bullets, anyone who has ever driven a WW2 Jeep on the highway will concur. People ask me what's it like to drive and I say "well the steering is approximate, and the brakes leisurely"

I did actually did daily drive it in city traffic for a several weeks in a row once when my Bronco was off the road for repair, all I can say is after the first couple of days, you adapt, lose all sense of fear, and a kind of false sense of bravado takes over, and lets you weave it in and out of traffic like it was a Porsche.

A plus is everyone waves and wants to talk to you at red lights.

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