Willyslancs Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Shame its not a full picture...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 nice pic . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Wonder if it was issue or unit mod? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Rimmer Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Almost certainly a local mod,USAAF units especially had a tendency for such creations,just look at the various hard tops fitted to Jeeps by Eighth Air Force units. Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Umm, giving me ideas ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted November 26, 2011 Author Share Posted November 26, 2011 another with an interesting roof set up . Bill Roseberry at motor pool ,Ansbach-Katterbach AFB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted November 26, 2011 Author Share Posted November 26, 2011 Doesnt beat this one tho :bow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 I wonder what they did to the frame to get that to fit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavy8 Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 Depending on the individuals skill level or craftiness it could be fabricated from what was laying around, or they could have retrofitted a convertible top from a civilian car, which is what it looks like to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 (edited) just noticed the tyre on the back is not a jeep tyre. there also seems to be a bonnet catch next to the windscreen Edited November 26, 2011 by MHillyard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted November 26, 2011 Author Share Posted November 26, 2011 love this post war example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted November 26, 2011 Author Share Posted November 26, 2011 just noticed the tyre on the back is not a jeep tyre. there also seems to be a bonnet catch next to the windscreen seen a few wartime pics of the extra bonnet catches there , stops it flapping (works on ours)........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 seen a few wartime pics of the extra bonnet catches there , stops it flapping (works on ours)........ It does flap a lot there, quite a good idea what do you think about this one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavy8 Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 love this post war example That there is quite a bit of beautiful coachwork. I wonder who the coach-builder was, surely something like that would've at least been done in small numbers. Just look too clean to be a one-off or a garage job.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted November 26, 2011 Author Share Posted November 26, 2011 oh my god !!! (men from the 478th Air Service Squadron with their “streamlined Jeep,” the product of spare time, a wrecked Jeep and a couple crashed airplanes. “They made a racer type body from the cowling of a C-46 engine, fashioned fenders out of emergency gas tanks and wound up with a speedy little runabout,”)....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted November 26, 2011 Author Share Posted November 26, 2011 love this post war example While some boys out in the Pacific decided to rebody their Jeeps using aircraft drop tanks, Wally Cohn came up with a different approach. Much like Brooks Stevens with the Victory Car, Cohn envisioned a somewhat more refined automobile body to go atop the Jeep four-wheel-drive chassis to create a new offering for the post-war economy. Unlike Brooks Stevens, however, he didn't have access to the head honchos in Toledo; instead, he was serving with the U.S. occupation forces (possibly with the Army Air Force) in Germany just after the war. Also unlike Brooks Stevens (unless you count the Jeepster or the Willys station wagon), Cohn saw his vision to fruition. He found a workspace, apparently hired some German craftsmen, then cut apart a late 1930s Opel Olympia to merge its body with a Willys MB grille, chassis and drivetrain. Walter Sanders, a photographer for LIFE magazine, discovered Cohn and his Jeep in December 1946 and took plenty of pictures of the well-finished hybrid, along with pictures of Cohn's workshops, and filed them with LIFE shortly after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 how about this, picture was described as a jeep and it looks like one. I knew some had armour but ive never seen the double Bazooka attachment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted November 26, 2011 Author Share Posted November 26, 2011 how about this, picture was described as a jeep and it looks like one. I knew some had armour but ive never seen the double Bazooka attachment yes seen that before there is a frontal pic too ........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 you've probably seen this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels v Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 the first one looks like a mercedes has donated some body panels to it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted November 27, 2011 Author Share Posted November 27, 2011 interesting looking cab on a jeep in an interesting looking yard ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 just found this, looks like a jeep but a strange top. Also the bonnet mounted tyre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willyslancs Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 just found this, looks like a jeep but a strange top. Also the bonnet mounted tyre marine corp ambulance mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 marine corp ambulance mate Never seen those before, strange things. Not very streamlined Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Doesnt beat this one tho :bow: Just been looking around, could this be the Nuffield Airborne Tractor? They had a strange top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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