This is the only one of these I've ever seen. I wonder how common overseas forces plates are-I always thought they had to be returned when one left their overseas post, either leaving the car behind or importing it to the States.
Anyway, this one's appended to an old Porsche.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Jeep
A late Motorcar Monday entry (sorry!). We all know what a Jeep is-a bare bones off-road machine. And they don't come more bare-bones than a military Jeep. Originally developed by American Bantam in an amazing 49 days, the original Jeep is better known as a Willys product, as the military felt that Bantam wasn't a large enough company to supply enough vehicles. Eventually Ford produced Jeeps, during the war, and postwar Delahaye and Hotchkiss in France, as well as Mitsubishi and Toyota in Japan cranked them out as well.
Fun fact-for many years, you'd see ads for ex-military Jeeps "still in the crate", having been found in some backwater base in the desert Southwest, or rescued from a long forgotten supply depot on a tiny Pacific island. In fact, for a long time there were ads from collectors wanting to buy WW2 Jeeps still in their crates.
Jeeps never shipped in crates.
Fun fact-for many years, you'd see ads for ex-military Jeeps "still in the crate", having been found in some backwater base in the desert Southwest, or rescued from a long forgotten supply depot on a tiny Pacific island. In fact, for a long time there were ads from collectors wanting to buy WW2 Jeeps still in their crates.
Jeeps never shipped in crates.
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