Jeep History At A Glance

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Jeep History At A Glance

Wrangler RootsJeep is one of the most recognized brands on the planet. Around the globe Jeep has become synonymous with four- wheel drives, and for good reason. Over its 70-year history the parent company of Jeep has changed hands a few times, but the core of the Jeep brand has remained loyal to its go-anywhere military roots. While the new Wrangler JK platform may seem a little ritzy on the inside, the heart of the vehicle (think solid front and rear axles) is still the same.



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[BusaDave9]

CJ History at a glance
http://www.jeep-cj.com/forums/f7/jeep-cj-models-9098/

 

[BajaEdition]

Busa, if you read some more history on the CJ4 you see they made a lot more than 3
the army was using them for a development tool and ordered them in 3 or 4 different set ups, such as an ambulance etc, and they were delivered several test platforms in each, you see the pics and they were ugly
anyway the way I see it we are lucky to have the one in Ohio that survives, most army test vehicles are destroyed violently. and if given versions to test they would have received 5 or more of each plus spares.

 

[BusaDave9]

Busa, if you read some more history on the CJ4 you see they made a lot more than 3
the army was using them for a development tool and ordered them in 3 or 4 different set ups, such as an ambulance etc, and they were delivered several test platforms in each, you see the pics and they were ugly
anyway the way I see it we are lucky to have the one in Ohio that survives, most army test vehicles are destroyed violently. and if given versions to test they would have received 5 or more of each plus spares.

Baja, you are the expert on the older CJ's.
Feel free to add to or edit my thread www.jeep-cj.com/forums/f7/jeep-cj-models-9098/

 

[BajaEdition]

sometimes urban legend is stronger than the truth, so why fight it
like the cj means civilian jeep legend
not true
the truth is the first Willys prototype was the MA, m for Willys and A for first model ( I do not know what the Bantaam was lettered ) and when they developed it they changed it to MB, M for Willys and B again the engineering code.
Well as we know because Ford was building the exact same vshicle under the title of the GPW, G Ford, P model from Ford, W for the fact they were paying Willys a royalty for each vehicle produced. there was a race to see who would produce them post WWII, ( do you know Ford actually out produced Willeys slightly during WWII )
so the CJ AgriJeep , prerunner of the CJ2
C, third in the line, J for Jeep as they were calling it and had paperwork in to copywrite the name.
However the Public loved the misnomer Civilian Jeep, and it was the best advertising for free you could get. SO they never fought it.
and until 1986 kept the CJ legend going. After all guys still were buying upgrades of what they had run around in during the war.
So
as you can see, some things are just better left alone, as in the CJ4 myth of only 1 ever produced, however the army will tell you the M38A1 (CJ5 ) is the vehicle developed by the testing of the prototype we call the CJ4

 

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[BajaEdition]

yep quite a bit of development went on'
and I have other engineering papers with CJ4 on them somewhere
so as you can see, there were quite a few made,just never released, and all that development went into the CJ5 /6

 

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notice in this diagram, how much the CJ4 influenced so many jeeps
could a simple single vehicle have done that or would it have been a multi vehicle evolving test platform?

 

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more engineer papers with CJ4 on them

 

[diddy2003]

Thanks for all of the info on the CJ4 ! That's pretty awesome!

 

[0822]

That is a lot of great information thanks.

 

[Joe Friday]

Excellent summary on CJ4 . Sounds like you are very dedicated to the history.

In the future you mau want to credit the source... ie Derek Redmond and the CJ3b page