@@TFLclassicsyou discussed payload in the video, I've had 1500 pounds in the bed of mine and the engine had no issues moving that around. Leaf springs were a little disgruntled
@@TFLclassics Apparently there is a real skill in setting up the steering boxes in these Jeeps, but once they are correctly aligned and adjusted, they steer beautifully ..... I have a battle scarred original unrestored 43 Ford pacific theatre one I'll get round to getting on the road some day....At least I'm hoping .....
The jeeps that the Americans left in the Philippines after the war were modified into a longer civilian vehicle. Which eventually became the famous “Jeepney” that’s still in use today as public transport.
the thing is all jeepneys on the Philippines used Japanese truck engines on their jeeps bc the original american one like the CJ-5 or 7 parts on the Philippines is hard to find and expensive to manage so they have to use old Japanese closed van engines such as Mistubishi's 4BA1, 4BC2 or larger like 4DR5 bc Mitsubishi literally copied Jeep after war on 1953
The word Jeepney was a corruption of Jeep and Jitney. Thanks to that Prima Donna General who rained Manila with bombs and Artillery shells (!55mm and 8") to get those 20,000 Fanatic enemies. Mass transportation in the city were Street Cars and was never repaired. Truman may have said " You are now an independent country and gave Rescission Act of 1946. It took Ike to rectify that Shameful American "LAW"
Love this! My grandfather is in the History Channel’s documentary on the Jeep, driving one in the Pacific island’s shirtless. When we asked him what was wrong with the passengers, he said they were hungover officers returning from the nurses’ tent. On a more serious note, he earned several bronze stars, and represented the state of Ohio at the dedication of the WWII memorial in Washington, DC.
Jeep saved dad's life good Fri 1945. ETO..mail run in Germany a,bushed by waffen SS JERKED WHEEL AND CARGO TOOK ROUNDS FROM BURP GUN KEPT FOR WEEK THEN SAVED BU THIRD ARMY..HAD THERMITE GRENADE RIGHED TO JEEO PULLED PIN BURNT. IT TO DENY TO JERRIES
I was stationed in South Korea in the late 80s as an MP. We still used the WwII early Korean War M38 style jeeps. We had humvees but there were a lot of streets and roads to narrow for humvees. I broke my foot and was temporarily assigned as company clerk and mail clerk so I had my assigned jeep. It was a relic with og bullet holes. It was sent to Soul and rehabbed. In 4 weeks it came back with a new paint job, transmission was as tight as a new on, roll cage with soft top.and side nets. It was really sharp. Unfortunately my ex wife got all my pictures .
Apologies for asking if you don't want to answer, but how come your ex wife got your pictures? I find it odd that a judge would give such specific items such as pictures of your overseas army days to your wife. I don't know enough about the American divorce contracts, but I know it would be very difficult for a partner to get their hands on pictures only featuring you during your army days (I presume she wasn't on the pictures) in the Belgian system even with the system that ensures almost all property is mutually owned. It's not like you lost or threw away a receipt to a furniture item and your wife could claim she's the actual owner of it for example wit the judge believing her. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. I am just curious how she got such personal items as pictures of your army days.
That small leather "chin strap" actually goes over the front bill of the helmet. It's a strap to keep the inner liner attached to the outer shell of the helmet The old History Channel beat you in the "odd vehicles through drive thrus" category. They took a Sherman tank through a McD's in the 90s
The M1 helmet has an inner liner and an outer steel pot. Both have chin straps because the liner was often worn by itself as a safety helmet when you weren't under fire. The leather inner strap would normally be stowed over the bill as you said. The cotton strap for the pot often wasn't used at all because soldiers preferred a strong impact to knock the helmet off.
so i was active duty Marines just before we switched to the humvee .... i was stationed at camp pendletion (north county san diego) my gunny told me to get my "war gear" and check out a weapon and a jeep at the motor pool and go to miramar ( where top gun used to be at )...just as i was walking out my gunny's office, he said "oh yeah, you might want to take you cold weather gear too"... that suggestion was kinda odd cause it was spring time in san diego ... well, got to top gun and reported in as ordered and sat down in the ready room as ordered... next thing i know, they loaded my jeep on a c130 plane and ordered me to get on the plane as well.... well, i was on that plane for the next 3 days ( i think ) and flew to north carolina, then to washington state, then to alaska, then to japan, and finally was ordered off the plane in korea ... anyway, that jeep took me half way across the world but the 30 mile drive down interstate 5 wasn't that bad...
Did get a Landrover and told to drive out to Richmond Air Base to emplane onto a C130 for the short hop to Williamtown air base to deplane and drive up country to a large hill (we don't have mountains in AUS; place is flat ) for a comms exercise !
@@zephrancochrane7271 i did get to be one of the first to "test out" the humvee but i couldn't tell you which model it was... it wasn't till about a year or so later that the first humvees started to hit the fleet and we started to faze out the jeeps and for a few months it was kinda of a mesh of jeeps and humvees... by the time that i got out it was pretty much all humvees and a couple of gmc diesel long bed trucks ... the jeeps got around a lot better but the humvees carry more and are totally a lot more adaptable for multiple applications/configurations ... on a different note, i bought an old 48 issue jeep when i was 12 for a $100 and an old military indian scout motopsycho that i had (i had to hide the jeep from my folks) and i traded it off for an old 56 chevy sidestep truck later on... but the jeep i remember fondly (it still had that gas tank goo liner which was breaking down into the gas tank and then clog up my gas line... but it could climb mountains)... up into the late 70s, you could still buy military crated (and unassemblied) jeeps from military warehouses... edit... yes, the ones i tested had cloth doors and cloth "cabs"
Drove a 1943 GPW to school and work in 1966. My brother did the same a couple years later. Drove it everywhere in LA and Orange counties. We traversed four wheel drive trails in the Sierras with on our fishing vacations and my dad used it in hunting season. We drove to Fresno and into the Sierras, my mom drove the whole way while my dad pulled a travel trailer behind our Mercury Montclair. Great adventures in that machine for all of us.
Grandpa said those Jeeps would advance at like 35-40 and retreat at 50. Not having seat belts makes me wonder how men stayed in the lil machine but by adrenaline alone. Grandpa passed when I was a little kid in the early 90s. He joined army at age 20 when Japan hit Pearl Harbor 7 December '41. I was born in mid 80s and miss hearing old ppl talk when i was a lil kid in early 90s. Power coming to rural America, roads becoming paved, depression ending, men coming home from war, the jobs. Thanks for reminding me of my grandparents
My dad wasn't a vet but drove a few through his life in the Sierra Nevada mountains working on grading. He said you could drive up steep slopes through brush on them, if you could hang on.
“Does In-N-Out have a Drive-Thru?” In-N-Out’s namesake and history of having pioneered the adoption of Drive-Thrus at Fast Food restaurants: “Am I a joke to you?”
My 48 CJ-2A Willys is my everyday driver unless I'm going on a highway. No radio, no distractions. so nice to unwind, especially after a long day at work.
I wonder why they couldn't figure out from the name "In-N-Out" that "drive thru" wasn't something they needed to wonder about? Then, there was Tommy complaining about In-N-Out fries..... They literally slice a spud into uncooked fries then cook them. Always fresh, never frozen......
Salute that jeep because that's the war vehicle of the WW2 veterans.. That gave you a freedom you are enjoy right now especially you are giving a tribute driving to that icon jeep..
Watching this brought back memories of my dad, James Henry Ross Sr. He was a WWII veteran who served in the 605 AAA. He used to tell some interesting stories of when he was assigned to the motor pool. He was certified to drive anything which had wheels for steering.. He wasn't certified to drive a fully tracked vehicle like a tank, but he could drive a half track. A lot of his stories were about the Jeep. He was stationed in Boston before being sent overseas, and they had one particular jeep that he despised. He loved the Jeep in general, but one had a hole in the midle of the drivvers seat. It was winter, and if it rained during the day the water would soak into the seat and that night it would freeze into a solid block of ice! He would drive anything in the motor pool that was available but that one jeep. He only drove that one when there was absolutely nothing else available! Another incident involved a General or some hign ranking officer who asked to be driven to a place downt5own. There was a circle around a large fountain in the middle of the square. As he started around the fountain he hit a patch of ice and the jeep skidded sideways,, then hiit a patch of clear pavement. This caused it to shoot straight across the sidewalk and toward the fountain.. He got stopped just before landing in the water and sending him and the officer swimming! This was in the jeep with the ice cube seat! Haha!
Thing about this vehicle is that slow honda, or slow mazda, will get pissed off people.. but slow ford model T, a Ford Model A, or these old Jeeps are loved, and people will go around, or will slow down to protect it.. It's kinda amazing.
@@bldontmatter5319 ive got a 90s geo tracker and its dangerously slow but still gets to 70 and will cruise there, HOWEVER, a modern car like a mitsubishi mirage struggling to do 40MPH is DANGEROUS
Yeah I think its mostly due to the fact most people know that these type of cars won't go that fast. So its relatively safe because people are aware of it unless they texting then it won't matter if its a lambo or a ww2 jeep u gonna get hit. Also unless its modded u can usually tell its modded but depends. Its not the same if a late model honda is going slow as hell that could be potentially dangerous.
I lived near Little Siagon and some of the old South Vietnam vets have restored these older jeeps and take them out in the neighborhood on weekends. Some people get upset because they drive a bit slow but they always get a thumbs up from your truly. Love seeing them take such good care of such a historically significant vehicle.
Hi tommy about the helmet. That is a US army M1 helmet Used during World War Two made in the early 1940's also used many years after the war. The second chinstrap (the brown one) is a parade strap its the chinstrap used during training to not carry around the heavy shell, During wars/at base most soldiers took the parade strap and put it over the front of the M1. the M1 helmet is made in 2 layers, The enterior liner (the helmet part with the parade chin strap) and the shell the one with the real chin strap, Great video as always tho.
If Jeep wants to sell a cheap 4x4, they should look to this. A 4 cylinder Wrangler with locking differential as small as the Jimny. Call it the Jeep Wrangler Bantam edition and reveal it in PA.
@@chasstiles7611 Oh no! Not Mahindra, Jeep's overseas nemesis. 😂 I wish theses were street legal. Then Jeep would have to build affordable Wranglers.
Hi guys. I drove the Jeep in the Swiss Army. That was around 1991. Top speed on the highway was probably around 70 - 80 km/h and it was pretty scary... 😁🥰😝
Vintage cars in California has a special category regarding Safety Requirements. In California, vehicles were required to have seat belts for all seating positions as early as January 1, 1964. Under the California Vehicle Code, vehicles older than this date are typically not required to have safety equipment installed in the vehicle. In other words, if the vehicle was not equipped with a feature(airbag, emission control, or seat belt) your legal.
Francisco Motors..also make Jeepneys in the Philippines.. other independent shops make the Owner type Jeep..such as fire bird center" in Cavite City...They also make the Replica Jeep Wrangler's..😅😊
I have been a crazy fan of Jeeps my whole life and never have owned one before, but okay, the headlights turn around to help you work on the engine..... GENIUS! 😮
Fun fact, the older mail trucks were designed around the chassis from the cj of that time… it was also built for long life and many of em have 1m+ miles and still trucking with no engine swaps
I miss my family's Willy's. Came off the line in May, 1945. We called it "Teapot" because of the sound it made. It only drove maybe 35mph-40mph, but it could probably have gone up a telephone pole if we'd have let it. Fun little vehicle.
How can you not enjoy these videos cases one of the beautifulest young men that I can see in a long time and Tommy's getting married so he's already taken so case is the only one left probably has the best body LOL we got to see it once in an episode where they went four-wheel driving on little quad runners in was stuck in a thunderstorm and had to take his shirt off and boy we got a hell of a treat that day. At least I did.
For the helmet, WWII practice/style says you should wear the liner strap (the leather one) up around the brim of the helmet. The shell chin strap (the outer one) is technically a later style, but traditionally would be left loose or, if you had the correct straps, would be wrapped around the back of the helmet. It was believed by a lot of troops that the helmet could catch explosions/shockwaves, and wearing the strap would injure your neck or just rip your head off.
In 1958 the U.S. military began taking delivery of the M151, the “jeep” that supposedly addressed some issues the military had with the original Willys, like fully independent suspension. It served through Vietnam and up until the mid 1980’s when the Humvee took over. It looks similar but is quite different. They actually made more M151’s than Willy’s’ or any other 1/4 ton, but they are rarely seen today. It would be great if you could find an M151 to compare with the Willys.
They're rarely seen because they're illegal to drive! All of them before M151A2 had big trouble with rollovers because of the bad swing axle design. DOD scrapped them instead of selling them off for liability reasons
@@LOLHAMMER45678 they don’t handle like a sports car for sure, but I’ve driven my 1966 M151A1 for 20 years and haven’t killed myself a single time. You do have to have great respect for it, keep your speed below 45 and stay aware. In 1970 the A2 model came out with a different rear suspension design that was supposed to address the handling issues. My state and my insurance company both say I can drive it legally so I do, but admittedly it mostly stays on the farm and the occasional low speed excursion to town. I also take it to car shows and the Vietnam vets love it.
This is what we need to build in Usa since the keitrucks are sorts semu legalized. Where I live its like you hear them tell people say theyre not road legal but in my county they legalize sxs. So you are at mcdonalds and see one drive by so i think people learned to dump the test into the harbor metaphorically speaking to me it makes for a dangeorus road with cybertrucks and motorcycles and semis and kei trucks but man freedom and saftey often dont mix
I love how you show both the driving of the jeep, and include the iconic history of the vehicle. I learned several new things about this jeep, and I really appreciate that. Thank you!
I grew up going to my grandpas house. He had a Willys WW2 jeep just like this and would let me drive it around and work on his property. Such fond memories. I sure wish I had one today.
Not "Willy's", just Willys and not for that matter pronounced like you might think it is. It is an alternate spelling of Willis and pronounced the same.
Growing up as a kid I remember my mum would sit on this particular old looking cushion. In my teens I asked her what was so special about this cushion. (At this point she had “wrapped” it up and put away safely.) She was 18 years old and a front line nurse during WW2 and was posted not far from Naples Italy. While travelling to another location they came upon this jeep with a soldier slumped over the steering wheel. They went to assist,but the poor chap was dead. He had been shot by a sniper.( his part of the wind screen had been shattered ) She took the cushion that was lying in the back of the jeep while others took what ever they thought they could use. She felt sadness for the young GI as he would have been around the same age as she was. I asked why she took it and she simply said to “remember him.” No more questions were answered. As time rolled on the cushion simply deteriorated. It must have been used for officers as it was stuffed with cotton.
Best WW2 jeep UA-cam vid for a long, long time. So many of your remarks were bang on. I now live on Normandy, France. Yesterday I drove my 1944 Willys MB (Will - iss not Will - eze) for over an hour for a film shoot near Pont l'Evèque and it's difficult to avoid the fast ring-road around Caen if you don't want to stay all day in the countryside. Fine on a lazy Sunday morning doing 40/45 mph when others are doing 60/70 or so but the return trip - in the rain with hand operated wipers in full traffic, trucks and all - was not a nice experience. I'm comfortable at around 42 max. These are such great cars to drive around 30 ish around town or country roads. I decided last night to never get on a fast road again. A couple of thumbs up from other users doesn't make up for idiots who still tail gate you expecting you to accelerate up a hill on the motorway. You were brave guys on that highway !
As someone who has ridden in one, "nice" is a relative term here. In reality, it's backbreaking and takes personal energy just to experience, but it'll get you there and back. That's really what mattered to the people it was built for.
All Jeeps up to 2006 are a pleasure to drive off road. After that, they fan be driven off road, but not very much without extensive modifications. The Rubicon models still can be off-roaded from the factory. But, they are severly over engineered and have a lot of useless junk on them.
@@AkioWasRightFor me, it was, "heart breaking," because I had to give it back. I had no issue with it at all. Driving home in my over engineered modern junk, I had at the time, was disgusting. I wanted the GPW back.
Reminds me of when I drove a US Army Humvee on the freeway's through downtown Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics. Scary, as you couldn't keep up with traffic, and the tire balance wouldn't allow you to go past 55. Open air, with no seatbelts!
I came off the 'production' line in '45 in Australia, the US left quite a few of these after the war, but unfortunately dumping some vehicles in the sea, I remembering driving one, a US Studebaker 4WD truck when I was drafted in '65, we had a compound full of them at our base, memories.... love these road type movies of yours!!
The Willys pronunciation reminded me of the M1 Garand. John Garand placed the stress on the first syllable (GAH-rand), but the rest of the world and history will always stressed the second syllable (gah-RAND).
Something I love about California, you're just working at the In-N-Out Drive Thru one day, and a 1945 Jeep with an army dude time traveled out of WWII and has showed up to order a burger. It's just a delightfully strange place.
My mom met my dad in 1944 in San Diego California. He was a Navy MP and was assigned one. In 1959 she bought a new red Jerp CJ 5. First gear was consrant mesh like this one. Second & 3rd had synchos. It had the junk F head 4 banger. It puked at 29.000 miles lol. Cool video boys ❤❤❤
When not being shot at in World War II Europe, there was another hazard when it came to driving the Jeeps in combat areas: Enemy forces stringing piano wire across the road that could decapitate driver/passengers in the Jeeps. You may note when looking at WW II photos of Jeeps that a rod or piece of pipe was mounted in the front of the vehicle, which was for breaking the piano wire.
My Grandfather had quite a few WW2 surplus vehicles on his Ranch, a Jeep with doors and a hard top, a "meat wagon" (ambulance), 2 1/2 ton truck and a Cat. Didn't realize at the time as a kid I was in a living auto museum lol
Idc if you’re in the biggest hurry to get some place if I saw this amazing piece of machinery rolling down the road I would slow down and just smile lol😊😊. These were made to be fixed on a battle field. Incredibly easy to change out parts with simple and very few tools. The engines were obviously very robust but SIMPLE. In this case less is more and it’s a perfect example of that. Awesome video guys the history nerd and little kid always comes out when I watch your videos!
A 4Stroke LEGEND… This is where i learned how to drive a WW2 VINTAGE JEEP OF MY UNCLE WAY BACK 1990❤🙏🇵🇭🇺🇸 Thank You for the Video sending love from Philippines 🇵🇭
In 1972, my first vehicle was a 1946 CJ-2a. I can still remember driving it like yesterday. Watching your gear shifting, searching, brought back some nostalgic memories. My current vehicle is a 2021 Rubicon 2 door. Thanks for sharing this video!
As someone who has helped rebuild these MBs and GPWs for years, i found this video enjoyable, and your commentary was excellent and well researched! Isnt it a total blast to drive?! The most fun you can have with your pants on!! Subscribed and i sincerely hope we see more videos with this wonderful vehicle!!
Hard to forget the time you spend behind the wheel of a Jeep. It is such an odd unusual vehicle, even today with all its modern amenities, you are always taken back to a different time by its iconical unchanged looks. I would call it a true model - T 2.0. I enjoyed this drive like I was riding shotgun with you guys. Good job, Thank you.
I had a '70 Postal jeep that turned into my daily driver for about a year after my '80 Malibu gave up on life. Right hand drive on the highway for 30 miles up and back.Just barely making a gut rattling 50mph. Seeing the guardrail right outside the sliding door at that speed was some kinda frightening. In a good way Lol. Awesome video. Great to see Hawkeye and B.J. having so much fun.
The one piece steering column would ram into your chest.. Life expectancy of the jeep was less than a month in the field ... Life expectancy of the drivers ... Sometimes more sometimes less.
My experience driving the jeep overseas in winter left me hating jeeps for many of the reasons you demonstrated. However after seeing how well the newer ones did off road many years later I’ve owned several and the one I have now I’ll never sell (JK with mods of course). Thanks for the video and resurrecting some (painful) memories 😎
Great video! My grandpa drove and wore out many jeeps while he was in France during WW2. He had to drive with the windshield folded down and covered to cut down on glare from the glass. The Germans knew this and would set up piano wire across the roads to decapitate the jeep drivers. My grandpa's jeep and some others had a hooked, blade welded to the front bumper to cut the wire. He said he actually heard a couple pings from the blade cutting the wire, which saved his life. Between the Ford and Willys jeeps he drove, he said the Willys jeeps were better.
Not for glare. HQ required windshields be kept folded down to prevent the occupants being hit by flying glass. A bullet is small, but a spray of glass is large. In the "rear", windshields up was OK.
I still own my Willys MB Slat Grille. Have owned it 48 years since I was a youngster. Only serious problem I had with it is it would take me places where I really didn’t need to be. But it always got me home. 😊
That vehicle is where and how I learned to drive. My Grandpa owned one, converted for civilian use though, so it has turning signals and a roof. Three gears, max of 60kph, difficult to steer, you need to pump the breaks three times before it connects. Good times. Thanks you for jolting that memory back for me. btw that jeep lasted until 1991, before it broke down and sadly parts were already unavailable so it was "retired"
Scouts Out! For us as scouts dropping the windshield minimized sun reflection. I learned to drive in the seat of one of these going up the MSR toward the DMZ in South Korea. Yes, we were still using them in the early 80s. We ran them in pairs. One sported a TOW missle system, the other an M60 machine gun. We were literally the last of Rat Patrol.
I'm in Butler Pennsylvania where the Jeep by Bantam was invented. We have the yearly Jeep festival which is a winner. Butler couldn't meet production needs so it was outsourced and we continued to make the Jeep Trailers for the war.
The steering is deliberately set up with loads of play so you can drive down bumpy tracks without every bump and rut deflecting the front wheels and so effectively turning the steering wheel sharply and uncontrollably from left and right against your grip -- which would make it pretty difficult to hold onto the steering wheel at all. My old Series 2 Land Rover is set up like this too. :0)
My dad drives one of these in traffic regularly, and I'm not sure if I'm more scared of the vehicle itself or how comfortable he is behind the wheel doing 30 in a 55
You guys definitely should have waited in the Drive-Thru line at In-N-Out!!! It's absolutely worth it! Also, as a former Executive Chauffeur here in SoCal for 5½ years, I can honestly say that you guys are unbelievably brave being on those freeways in that Jeep! Awesome video, as always, guys!
Like the way that JL stayed behind you trying to protect you from being rear ended. Until you went in the fast lane. Then even he said your on your own lol. This Willys is awesome. Cant wait to see trail videos. Remember back in the days this was made there was not many off road vehicles made so this was a beast off road for it’s day. I pronounce Willys by mixing the 2 versions.
Lol in regards to the helmet that brown chinstrap is for the liner that other chinstrap you thought was broken was for the actual helmet the M1 came in two parts
Yay!..Cool. I'm old, but never served in the military. I'm 70 presently. When I was attending college in 1971, in rural Southern Ohio,....my college buddy, bought some land down there. People were building Geodesic Dome homes, learning how to build log cabins,....there was a whole "back to nature" movement. Fellow classmates were creating Communes,....co-operative living situations. There were opportunities to buy used WW2 Jeeps, from the local communities who were using them as their municipal services vehicles. They'd run vehicle auctions, and Jeeps and other Army surplus vehicles, were sold for under $50.00 each. My friend could fix any vehicle, and he was fascinated by these old Jeeps. He bought 4 different vehicles for use on his land, all for less than $500.00, in total, at an auction. He had two that were the "split" front window versions, one that was newer and was like a short bed pickup, and a military troop carrier,....a "Lorry" of sorts, that had it's chassis shortened. One or more of Jeeps, had a PTO, ( a power take-off) connector to the transmission. This device allowed him to tap into the transmission, to power auxiliary equipment. He utilized the PTO to run a semi-portable sawmill, built in the 1940s. He ran other equipment, by backing his Jeep's rear tires, into the machines, that could be both run off leather belts, and by direct friction with the rear tires. He'd drive me around in his old Jeeps, up hilly inclines, so steep, I felt the whole Jeep could tumble over backwards. They were rugged machines and could take loads of abuse.
Jeep would be great to learn to drive for a youngster. I drove my uncles landrover as a kid but did knock over his fence post going thru a farm gate. He got a bit angry , but got over it ! When I started to drive in AUS we still had to give hand signals when turning, as not all cars had blinkers !
Loving these videos on good old classics! I think it would be really cool to try out these vehicles in different locations and different climates and terrain types to sort of reflect the enviroments they were built to operate in at the time. Also it would be really cool if perhaps you could get in touch with some of the museums and vehicle collections out there and try some of the really cool and unique vehicles they might have for you to test drive. I for one would love to see you drive an M3 Halftrack...Ive heard those things are incredibly fun to drive around!
If your still using the original engine it was designed for "leaded gas". A small amount of a lead compound was put in the gas. It made the gas burn smother and lubricated the valves. You can get "lead substitute" to put in the gas. It will help keep the valves lubricated and prevent them burning out. Also up to the mid '90s motor oil had higher zinc levels. You can buy zinc additives to replace it. It will make the bearings last longer.
My second car was a ’49 CJ2A. That was in 1970. I drove to college 4 days a week from San Rafael to Santa Rosa on Hwy 101 rain or shine at 45 mph. Had a half cab made of canvas. I remember cussing the vacuum operated windshield wipers that would nearly stop when accelerating. Used to enter in four wheel drive events, hillclimb, cross country, obstacle courses and the blind man course where the driver was blindfolded and the passenger gave directions. Great fun, sure wish I kept it.
I’m not a jeep guy, but I am a Pittsburgh history nerd and I feel the need to inform all history and Jeep lovers, that to this day there’s a thing called “Jeep Fest” that goes on every summer in Butler PA.
Another reason for the folding windshield is that the flat glass reflects sunlight like a mirror and could give away your position. Anyone who has driven even a modern Jeep has probably noticed their windshield reflecting on stop signs.
I met a guy here in the Czech Republic who still uses Jeep Willis 1944 as his ordinary car for everyday use. He bought it in 80s. And not only he is himself such a fan but his wife is also very devoted and persists such ordeal with him since the car has almost no protection against rain and weather in general not to mention heating or any comfort at all.
They were actually a mile or 2 from Disneyland. No where near LA proper. They were driving around Santa Ana, Orange and maybe outskirts or Anaheim. I was there earlier today and have a cousin from Colorado who lives near where they started so I will forgive them
By the constant squeak when clutch/breaking ,sounds like the cross shaft bushings need replaced . Sounds like the peddle is scraping the floorboard. Great vehicle!!
Your trip out onto the highway reminds me of visiting my girlfriend in San Francisco and she took me on the back of her vespa across the Golden Gate Bridge. I've never felt so exposed before or since. Definitely gets your heart rate up.
@TFLclassics Honestly a WW2 Jeep can probably handle LA Traffic just fine. Now that Model T, i'd be worried driving a Model T through LA Traffic including the Highway.
Wow! Driving an old Jeep in L.A. with a top speed of 45mph going down hill. Your nuts! Great Jeep. I had one, my year was a 1943., made by FORD, on its tail gate the Ford scripted was stamped in the tail gate. It never left the states for duty. Purchased it through military surplus, paid $65.00 in perfect condition. Mileage on the clock was 1,056 miles. Still new then… We used it on the ranch for many years. Never left us walking…
Thanks, guys. You all made my day. This is the jeep I first drove when I was 5 years old sitting on the lap of the driver. These jeeps were left over after the marines returned to the base from Burma and South East. Anybody see a parallelogram hole in the bumper. I hurt my arm once when I was a teenager trying to crank start the engine. These jeeps even had diagonal drive, they could rotate in almost the same place. Many of these jeeps had the sign "Left Hand Drive" emobossed in the back drawdoor and painted red. This was to look in the correct side of the jeep for hand signals. Allied forces had both right and left hand vehicles. Anybody has these jeeps still in action ?
Awesome vid, Tommy and Kase! Fun and informative. Can’t wait to see the old boy at the ranch.
Us too!
Compare it to a Samurai off road.
@@TFLclassicsorder in n out fries well done then add a little pepper and salt they are 10times better
@@TFLclassicsyou discussed payload in the video, I've had 1500 pounds in the bed of mine and the engine had no issues moving that around. Leaf springs were a little disgruntled
@@TFLclassics Apparently there is a real skill in setting up the steering boxes in these Jeeps, but once they are correctly aligned and adjusted, they steer beautifully ..... I have a battle scarred original unrestored 43 Ford pacific theatre one I'll get round to getting on the road some day....At least I'm hoping .....
"I don't know what the safety rating is" Well, the only way it got four stars was if Ike or Patton was in the passenger seat.
ba dum tss!
If I was in the jeep it would have a full 5 stars!
This is an underrated joke
@@TFLclassics lol have fun with that jeep, I love mine to death and ive driven it everywhere!
fun fact: there was a country that used this type of jeeps for public transportation
The jeeps that the Americans left in the Philippines after the war were modified into a longer civilian vehicle. Which eventually became the famous “Jeepney” that’s still in use today as public transport.
No wonder they're called as such. Learned something new
there is a jeep factory in your country show in a video but I dont know is true.
the thing is
all jeepneys on the Philippines used Japanese truck engines on their jeeps bc the original american one like the CJ-5 or 7 parts on the Philippines is hard to find and expensive to manage so they have to use old Japanese closed van engines such as Mistubishi's 4BA1, 4BC2 or larger like 4DR5 bc Mitsubishi literally copied Jeep after war on 1953
The word Jeepney was a corruption of Jeep and Jitney. Thanks to that Prima Donna General who rained Manila with bombs and Artillery shells (!55mm and 8") to get those 20,000 Fanatic enemies. Mass transportation in the city were Street Cars and was never repaired. Truman may have said " You are now an independent country and gave Rescission Act of 1946. It took Ike to rectify that Shameful American "LAW"
Those Jeepneys populated the streets of the world famous city of Olongapo just outside of the Subic Bay Naval station in the Philippines.
Love this! My grandfather is in the History Channel’s documentary on the Jeep, driving one in the Pacific island’s shirtless. When we asked him what was wrong with the passengers, he said they were hungover officers returning from the nurses’ tent.
On a more serious note, he earned several bronze stars, and represented the state of Ohio at the dedication of the WWII memorial in Washington, DC.
Jeep saved dad's life good Fri 1945. ETO..mail run in Germany a,bushed by waffen SS JERKED WHEEL AND CARGO TOOK ROUNDS FROM BURP GUN KEPT FOR WEEK THEN SAVED BU THIRD ARMY..HAD THERMITE GRENADE RIGHED TO JEEO PULLED PIN BURNT. IT TO DENY TO JERRIES
That’s sick respect to your gramps 🫡
That's hilarious. Do you have a link to the video on YT?
Of course he is!
Since you said History Channel, I doubt the validity of the whole documentary. They probably worked Aliens somehow into the production as well.
I was stationed in South Korea in the late 80s as an MP. We still used the WwII early Korean War M38 style jeeps. We had humvees but there were a lot of streets and roads to narrow for humvees. I broke my foot and was temporarily assigned as company clerk and mail clerk so I had my assigned jeep. It was a relic with og bullet holes. It was sent to Soul and rehabbed. In 4 weeks it came back with a new paint job, transmission was as tight as a new on, roll cage with soft top.and side nets. It was really sharp. Unfortunately my ex wife got all my pictures .
Apologies for asking if you don't want to answer, but how come your ex wife got your pictures? I find it odd that a judge would give such specific items such as pictures of your overseas army days to your wife. I don't know enough about the American divorce contracts, but I know it would be very difficult for a partner to get their hands on pictures only featuring you during your army days (I presume she wasn't on the pictures) in the Belgian system even with the system that ensures almost all property is mutually owned. It's not like you lost or threw away a receipt to a furniture item and your wife could claim she's the actual owner of it for example wit the judge believing her. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. I am just curious how she got such personal items as pictures of your army days.
@@TheShadowOfZama she probably just stole them to be a jerk.
Damn shoulda stuck with a Korean girl them shawties fine af 💀
That small leather "chin strap" actually goes over the front bill of the helmet. It's a strap to keep the inner liner attached to the outer shell of the helmet
The old History Channel beat you in the "odd vehicles through drive thrus" category. They took a Sherman tank through a McD's in the 90s
You mean when it was actually history
Now you need a Sherman to go through a drive thru in LA....
The M1 helmet has an inner liner and an outer steel pot. Both have chin straps because the liner was often worn by itself as a safety helmet when you weren't under fire. The leather inner strap would normally be stowed over the bill as you said. The cotton strap for the pot often wasn't used at all because soldiers preferred a strong impact to knock the helmet off.
It's a chin strap for the liner when you just using the liner
@@tmill2001man is scared of the drive thru
The fact that the Philippine's most iconic public transportation vehicle was inspired by the Willy's MB is amazing!!
so i was active duty Marines just before we switched to the humvee .... i was stationed at camp pendletion (north county san diego) my gunny told me to get my "war gear" and check out a weapon and a jeep at the motor pool and go to miramar ( where top gun used to be at )...just as i was walking out my gunny's office, he said "oh yeah, you might want to take you cold weather gear too"... that suggestion was kinda odd cause it was spring time in san diego ... well, got to top gun and reported in as ordered and sat down in the ready room as ordered... next thing i know, they loaded my jeep on a c130 plane and ordered me to get on the plane as well.... well, i was on that plane for the next 3 days ( i think ) and flew to north carolina, then to washington state, then to alaska, then to japan, and finally was ordered off the plane in korea ... anyway, that jeep took me half way across the world but the 30 mile drive down interstate 5 wasn't that bad...
Good times!!
Did get a Landrover and told to drive out to Richmond Air Base to emplane onto a C130 for the short hop to Williamtown air base to deplane and drive up country to a large hill (we don't have mountains in AUS; place is flat ) for a comms exercise !
@@linmal2242 landrovers are awesome vehicles... i wouldn't mind having one
Was your HMMVW the first production year model? If so, did it have the cloth doors?
@@zephrancochrane7271 i did get to be one of the first to "test out" the humvee but i couldn't tell you which model it was... it wasn't till about a year or so later that the first humvees started to hit the fleet and we started to faze out the jeeps and for a few months it was kinda of a mesh of jeeps and humvees... by the time that i got out it was pretty much all humvees and a couple of gmc diesel long bed trucks ... the jeeps got around a lot better but the humvees carry more and are totally a lot more adaptable for multiple applications/configurations ... on a different note, i bought an old 48 issue jeep when i was 12 for a $100 and an old military indian scout motopsycho that i had (i had to hide the jeep from my folks) and i traded it off for an old 56 chevy sidestep truck later on... but the jeep i remember fondly (it still had that gas tank goo liner which was breaking down into the gas tank and then clog up my gas line... but it could climb mountains)... up into the late 70s, you could still buy military crated (and unassemblied) jeeps from military warehouses... edit... yes, the ones i tested had cloth doors and cloth "cabs"
Drove a 1943 GPW to school and work in 1966. My brother did the same a couple years later. Drove it everywhere in LA and Orange counties. We traversed four wheel drive trails in the Sierras with on our fishing vacations and my dad used it in hunting season. We drove to Fresno and into the Sierras, my mom drove the whole way while my dad pulled a travel trailer behind our Mercury Montclair. Great adventures in that machine for all of us.
Grandpa said those Jeeps would advance at like 35-40 and retreat at 50. Not having seat belts makes me wonder how men stayed in the lil machine but by adrenaline alone. Grandpa passed when I was a little kid in the early 90s. He joined army at age 20 when Japan hit Pearl Harbor 7 December '41. I was born in mid 80s and miss hearing old ppl talk when i was a lil kid in early 90s. Power coming to rural America, roads becoming paved, depression ending, men coming home from war, the jobs. Thanks for reminding me of my grandparents
Foot, and hand holds, throughout.
and these 2 hammers being born .. should of lost ww-2
Amen
My dad wasn't a vet but drove a few through his life in the Sierra Nevada mountains working on grading. He said you could drive up steep slopes through brush on them, if you could hang on.
“Does In-N-Out have a Drive-Thru?”
In-N-Out’s namesake and history of having pioneered the adoption of Drive-Thrus at Fast Food restaurants: “Am I a joke to you?”
My 48 CJ-2A Willys is my everyday driver unless I'm going on a highway. No radio, no distractions. so nice to unwind, especially after a long day at work.
I also had a '48 CJ2A. Impractical as heck, but fun. :)
7:10 I love how there is a new Jeep behind you
them wondering if an In-N-Out on Orange County has a drive thru was a hell of a "you aint from around here are ya?" moment.
I wonder why they couldn't figure out from the name "In-N-Out" that "drive thru" wasn't something they needed to wonder about? Then, there was Tommy complaining about In-N-Out fries..... They literally slice a spud into uncooked fries then cook them. Always fresh, never frozen......
“There’s some traffic at the in n out and we’re not sure it’s worth it.” 😂
@@jerroldshelton9367 If Tommy was going "In-N-Out," he should check out Steak N' Shake.
Yeah, that was funny to me too.
@@jerroldshelton9367 Sometimes people complain about the fries if the oil is brand new. They seem to like it better if the oil is a little "seasoned"
Salute that jeep because that's the war vehicle of the WW2 veterans.. That gave you a freedom you are enjoy right now especially you are giving a tribute driving to that icon jeep..
I'll see 30 and 40 year old Jeeps driving around every day but 80 years old is really something to behold
Common sight in rural Nicaragua and Honduras where I used to live, still working and still delivering.
They've made it a public transportation in Philippines I've heard.
I have a manual '95 YJ. Certainly the most reliable vehicle I've every owned. I'd love to have one of these.
@@Real_OSHA_Unsafety_Engineer there's a Willys licensed factory in the philippines that makes new ones of these
Watching this brought back memories of my dad, James Henry Ross Sr. He was a WWII veteran who served in the 605 AAA. He used to tell some interesting stories of when he was assigned to the motor pool. He was certified to drive anything which had wheels for steering.. He wasn't certified to drive a fully tracked vehicle like a tank, but he could drive a half track.
A lot of his stories were about the Jeep. He was stationed in Boston before being sent overseas, and they had one particular jeep that he despised. He loved the Jeep in general, but one had a hole in the midle of the drivvers seat. It was winter, and if it rained during the day the water would soak into the seat and that night it would freeze into a solid block of ice! He would drive anything in the motor pool that was available but that one jeep. He only drove that one when there was absolutely nothing else available!
Another incident involved a General or some hign ranking officer who asked to be driven to a place downt5own. There was a circle around a large fountain in the middle of the square. As he started around the fountain he hit a patch of ice and the jeep skidded sideways,, then hiit a patch of clear pavement. This caused it to shoot straight across the sidewalk and toward the fountain.. He got stopped just before landing in the water and sending him and the officer swimming! This was in the jeep with the ice cube seat! Haha!
Thing about this vehicle is that slow honda, or slow mazda, will get pissed off people.. but slow ford model T, a Ford Model A, or these old Jeeps are loved, and people will go around, or will slow down to protect it.. It's kinda amazing.
We can forgive a piece of history, but a modern car being dangerously slow is just annoying
@@bldontmatter5319 ive got a 90s geo tracker and its dangerously slow but still gets to 70 and will cruise there, HOWEVER, a modern car like a mitsubishi mirage struggling to do 40MPH is DANGEROUS
Yeah I think its mostly due to the fact most people know that these type of cars won't go that fast. So its relatively safe because people are aware of it unless they texting then it won't matter if its a lambo or a ww2 jeep u gonna get hit. Also unless its modded u can usually tell its modded but depends. Its not the same if a late model honda is going slow as hell that could be potentially dangerous.
Goes for any oldtimer
Old Volvos too I’ve noticed
I lived near Little Siagon and some of the old South Vietnam vets have restored these older jeeps and take them out in the neighborhood on weekends. Some people get upset because they drive a bit slow but they always get a thumbs up from your truly. Love seeing them take such good care of such a historically significant vehicle.
Hi tommy about the helmet. That is a US army M1 helmet Used during World War Two made in the early 1940's also used many years after the war. The second chinstrap (the brown one) is a parade strap its the chinstrap used during training to not carry around the heavy shell, During wars/at base most soldiers took the parade strap and put it over the front of the M1. the M1 helmet is made in 2 layers, The enterior liner (the helmet part with the parade chin strap) and the shell the one with the real chin strap, Great video as always tho.
If Jeep wants to sell a cheap 4x4, they should look to this. A 4 cylinder Wrangler with locking differential as small as the Jimny. Call it the Jeep Wrangler Bantam edition and reveal it in PA.
Mahindra Roxor
Sadly the Raxor is not street legal. The cafe standards and safety requirements have ensure well never have reliable, simple automobiles ever again.
@@chasstiles7611 Oh no! Not Mahindra, Jeep's overseas nemesis. 😂 I wish theses were street legal. Then Jeep would have to build affordable Wranglers.
@@johnstonw1 That's we we can't have the Hilux here. Government sucks.
@@johnstonw1Where do you live that is so draconian and it infringes in your rights that much?
Hi guys. I drove the Jeep in the Swiss Army. That was around 1991. Top speed on the highway was probably around 70 - 80 km/h and it was pretty scary... 😁🥰😝
Keep the classics channel alive. Great video
Thanks! Will do!
I'm just amazed that no cops pulled you over to question you if that vehicle was approved for city driving!
Vintage cars in California has a special category regarding Safety Requirements. In California, vehicles were required to have seat belts for all seating positions as early as January 1, 1964. Under the California Vehicle Code, vehicles older than this date are typically not required to have safety equipment installed in the vehicle. In other words, if the vehicle was not equipped with a feature(airbag, emission control, or seat belt) your legal.
There's a factory in the Philippines that still makes these by hand. They're amazing machines.
where can i buy
where
Its used by public transport. Search SARAO company.
Also in India
Francisco Motors..also make Jeepneys in the Philippines.. other independent shops make the Owner type Jeep..such as fire bird center" in Cavite City...They also make the Replica Jeep Wrangler's..😅😊
I used to have to drive that jeep to the airport to pick up the general who love Jeeps, and it was a rather handful at high speed
I have been a crazy fan of Jeeps my whole life and never have owned one before, but okay, the headlights turn around to help you work on the engine..... GENIUS! 😮
Me too ✋️
Fun fact, the older mail trucks were designed around the chassis from the cj of that time… it was also built for long life and many of em have 1m+ miles and still trucking with no engine swaps
Very basic but super reliable
The DJ5 "Dispatcher"? They were sadly only 2-wheel drive...
I had a dj5 I bought from the Van nuys post office when they were fazing out the jeeps for vans. It was a blast to drive.
I miss my family's Willy's. Came off the line in May, 1945. We called it "Teapot" because of the sound it made. It only drove maybe 35mph-40mph, but it could probably have gone up a telephone pole if we'd have let it. Fun little vehicle.
Really enjoy these videos of Tommy and Kase driving old vehicles. The future of TFL is in good hands 🙌🏼
Glad you like them!
How can you not enjoy these videos cases one of the beautifulest young men that I can see in a long time and Tommy's getting married so he's already taken so case is the only one left probably has the best body LOL we got to see it once in an episode where they went four-wheel driving on little quad runners in was stuck in a thunderstorm and had to take his shirt off and boy we got a hell of a treat that day. At least I did.
@@dcformee123😂😂😂😂
@@dcformee123 lol can't say i was expecting thirst comments on a TFL video, but i guess nowhere on the internet is safe
@@dcformee123 Oh lord lol
For the helmet, WWII practice/style says you should wear the liner strap (the leather one) up around the brim of the helmet. The shell chin strap (the outer one) is technically a later style, but traditionally would be left loose or, if you had the correct straps, would be wrapped around the back of the helmet. It was believed by a lot of troops that the helmet could catch explosions/shockwaves, and wearing the strap would injure your neck or just rip your head off.
In 1958 the U.S. military began taking delivery of the M151, the “jeep” that supposedly addressed some issues the military had with the original Willys, like fully independent suspension. It served through Vietnam and up until the mid 1980’s when the Humvee took over. It looks similar but is quite different. They actually made more M151’s than Willy’s’ or any other 1/4 ton, but they are rarely seen today. It would be great if you could find an M151 to compare with the Willys.
M151 didn't come out tell early 60s
Ww2 jeep has 4:88 cj2a had 5:38 so a ww2 jeep will go 55 no problem but I wouldn't
They're rarely seen because they're illegal to drive! All of them before M151A2 had big trouble with rollovers because of the bad swing axle design. DOD scrapped them instead of selling them off for liability reasons
@@LOLHAMMER45678 they don’t handle like a sports car for sure, but I’ve driven my 1966 M151A1 for 20 years and haven’t killed myself a single time. You do have to have great respect for it, keep your speed below 45 and stay aware. In 1970 the A2 model came out with a different rear suspension design that was supposed to address the handling issues. My state and my insurance company both say I can drive it legally so I do, but admittedly it mostly stays on the farm and the occasional low speed excursion to town. I also take it to car shows and the Vietnam vets love it.
This is what we need to build in Usa since the keitrucks are sorts semu legalized. Where I live its like you hear them tell people say theyre not road legal but in my county they legalize sxs. So you are at mcdonalds and see one drive by so i think people learned to dump the test into the harbor metaphorically speaking to me it makes for a dangeorus road with cybertrucks and motorcycles and semis and kei trucks but man freedom and saftey often dont mix
I love how you show both the driving of the jeep, and include the iconic history of the vehicle. I learned several new things about this jeep, and I really appreciate that. Thank you!
I grew up going to my grandpas house. He had a Willys WW2 jeep just like this and would let me drive it around and work on his property. Such fond memories. I sure wish I had one today.
Not "Willy's", just Willys and not for that matter pronounced like you might think it is. It is an alternate spelling of Willis and pronounced the same.
@@Hjerte_Verke I hate autocorrect! Thanks for the correction!
Growing up as a kid I remember my mum would sit on this particular old looking cushion. In my teens I asked her what was so special about this cushion. (At this point she had “wrapped” it up and put away safely.)
She was 18 years old and a front line nurse during WW2 and was posted not far from Naples Italy. While travelling to another location they came upon this jeep with a soldier slumped over the steering wheel. They went to assist,but the poor chap was dead. He had been shot by a sniper.( his part of the wind screen had been shattered ) She took the cushion that was lying in the back of the jeep while others took what ever they thought they could use. She felt sadness for the young GI as he would have been around the same age as she was. I asked why she took it and she simply said to “remember him.” No more questions were answered.
As time rolled on the cushion simply deteriorated. It must have been used for officers as it was stuffed with cotton.
Best WW2 jeep UA-cam vid for a long, long time. So many of your remarks were bang on. I now live on Normandy, France. Yesterday I drove my 1944 Willys MB (Will - iss not Will - eze) for over an hour for a film shoot near Pont l'Evèque and it's difficult to avoid the fast ring-road around Caen if you don't want to stay all day in the countryside. Fine on a lazy Sunday morning doing 40/45 mph when others are doing 60/70 or so but the return trip - in the rain with hand operated wipers in full traffic, trucks and all - was not a nice experience. I'm comfortable at around 42 max. These are such great cars to drive around 30 ish around town or country roads. I decided last night to never get on a fast road again. A couple of thumbs up from other users doesn't make up for idiots who still tail gate you expecting you to accelerate up a hill on the motorway. You were brave guys on that highway !
This Jeep is gotta be nice to drive on some offroad long trails
Would probably be at you up pretty good... Quite bumpy with front and rear leafs.
As someone who has ridden in one, "nice" is a relative term here.
In reality, it's backbreaking and takes personal energy just to experience, but it'll get you there and back. That's really what mattered to the people it was built for.
it was powerful for it's day. they took a 35hp motor and worked it to make 60hp
All Jeeps up to 2006 are a pleasure to drive off road. After that, they fan be driven off road, but not very much without extensive modifications. The Rubicon models still can be off-roaded from the factory. But, they are severly over engineered and have a lot of useless junk on them.
@@AkioWasRightFor me, it was, "heart breaking," because I had to give it back. I had no issue with it at all. Driving home in my over engineered modern junk, I had at the time, was disgusting. I wanted the GPW back.
Reminds me of when I drove a US Army Humvee on the freeway's through downtown Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics. Scary, as you couldn't keep up with traffic, and the tire balance wouldn't allow you to go past 55. Open air, with no seatbelts!
I came off the 'production' line in '45 in Australia, the US left quite a few of these after the war, but unfortunately dumping some vehicles in the sea, I remembering driving one, a US Studebaker 4WD truck when I was drafted in '65, we had a compound full of them at our base, memories.... love these road type movies of yours!!
What's the production line?
@@MASTEROFEVIL his parents
The Willys pronunciation reminded me of the M1 Garand. John Garand placed the stress on the first syllable (GAH-rand), but the rest of the world and history will always stressed the second syllable (gah-RAND).
The new car show with younger J Leno and Tom Cruise look-alike! These videos are amazing!
Something I love about California, you're just working at the In-N-Out Drive Thru one day, and a 1945 Jeep with an army dude time traveled out of WWII and has showed up to order a burger. It's just a delightfully strange place.
My mom met my dad in 1944 in San Diego California. He was a Navy MP and was assigned one. In 1959 she bought a new red Jerp CJ 5. First gear was consrant mesh like this one. Second & 3rd had synchos. It had the junk F head 4 banger. It puked at 29.000 miles lol. Cool video boys ❤❤❤
When not being shot at in World War II Europe, there was another hazard when it came to driving the Jeeps in combat areas: Enemy forces stringing piano wire across the road that could decapitate driver/passengers in the Jeeps.
You may note when looking at WW II photos of Jeeps that a rod or piece of pipe was mounted in the front of the vehicle, which was for breaking the piano wire.
My Grandfather had quite a few WW2 surplus vehicles on his Ranch, a Jeep with doors and a hard top, a "meat wagon" (ambulance), 2 1/2 ton truck and a Cat. Didn't realize at the time as a kid I was in a living auto museum lol
Idc if you’re in the biggest hurry to get some place if I saw this amazing piece of machinery rolling down the road I would slow down and just smile lol😊😊. These were made to be fixed on a battle field. Incredibly easy to change out parts with simple and very few tools. The engines were obviously very robust but SIMPLE. In this case less is more and it’s a perfect example of that. Awesome video guys the history nerd and little kid always comes out when I watch your videos!
Y'all did a fantastic job! Thank you for the collab, keeping her in the UA-cam family and saving history! This is a fantastic video!
Our pleasure!
A 4Stroke LEGEND…
This is where i learned how to drive a WW2 VINTAGE JEEP OF MY UNCLE WAY BACK 1990❤🙏🇵🇭🇺🇸
Thank You for the Video
sending love from Philippines 🇵🇭
The sound of those squeaky pedals bring back some real memories.
In 1972, my first vehicle was a 1946 CJ-2a. I can still remember driving it like yesterday. Watching your gear shifting, searching, brought back some nostalgic memories. My current vehicle is a 2021 Rubicon 2 door. Thanks for sharing this video!
Best Tommy and Kase video yet.
It’s incredible to see such kindness and love. Thank you all!
As someone who has helped rebuild these MBs and GPWs for years, i found this video enjoyable, and your commentary was excellent and well researched! Isnt it a total blast to drive?! The most fun you can have with your pants on!!
Subscribed and i sincerely hope we see more videos with this wonderful vehicle!!
Safety strap is called a “Troop Strap” and they still use them on most military vehicles that haul personnel like LMTVs
Would love to see you guys do a test drive comparison between the Jeep and the 1915 Model T.
Hard to forget the time you spend behind the wheel of a Jeep. It is such an odd unusual vehicle, even today with all its modern amenities, you are always taken back to a different time by its iconical unchanged looks. I would call it a true model - T 2.0.
I enjoyed this drive like I was riding shotgun with you guys.
Good job, Thank you.
I had a '70 Postal jeep that turned into my daily driver for about a year after my '80 Malibu gave up on life. Right hand drive on the highway for 30 miles up and back.Just barely making a gut rattling 50mph. Seeing the guardrail right outside the sliding door at that speed was some kinda frightening. In a good way Lol. Awesome video. Great to see Hawkeye and B.J. having so much fun.
Awesome video, awesome vehicle!
Looks like it was a blast to drive. The I-5 drive looked a bit scary though.
Frankly you're making me want to buy really old used cars. These look like so much fun
An early CJ5 is the closest thing to it that won't have an exorbitant price tag. Early CJ5 is synonymous with the military M38A1.
fun? yes, expensive, yes, parts=no
Wonderful video and review of the iconic MB! I have a '46 cj2a (the first civilian jeep) that my grandfather and I fixed up when I was 12. I'm 57 now.
Thanks for sharing!
Hats off to these brave young men, risking it all without crumple zones to show us vehicles of yesteryear
The one piece steering column would ram into your chest..
Life expectancy of the jeep was less than a month in the field ... Life expectancy of the drivers ... Sometimes more sometimes less.
My experience driving the jeep overseas in winter left me hating jeeps for many of the reasons you demonstrated. However after seeing how well the newer ones did off road many years later I’ve owned several and the one I have now I’ll never sell (JK with mods of course).
Thanks for the video and resurrecting some (painful) memories 😎
Great video! My grandpa drove and wore out many jeeps while he was in France during WW2. He had to drive with the windshield folded down and covered to cut down on glare from the glass. The Germans knew this and would set up piano wire across the roads to decapitate the jeep drivers. My grandpa's jeep and some others had a hooked, blade welded to the front bumper to cut the wire. He said he actually heard a couple pings from the blade cutting the wire, which saved his life.
Between the Ford and Willys jeeps he drove, he said the Willys jeeps were better.
Not for glare. HQ required windshields be kept folded down to prevent the occupants being hit by flying glass. A bullet is small, but a spray of glass is large. In the "rear", windshields up was OK.
@@LongBinh70 I can see that too, but my grandpa said they were down and covered up to prevent from being spotted from aircraft flying above.
I still own my Willys MB Slat Grille. Have owned it 48 years since I was a youngster. Only serious problem I had with it is it would take me places where I really didn’t need to be. But it always got me home. 😊
Going down the 5 in an army jeep, hilarious! That was the funniest clip you have ever made.
That vehicle is where and how I learned to drive. My Grandpa owned one, converted for civilian use though, so it has turning signals and a roof. Three gears, max of 60kph, difficult to steer, you need to pump the breaks three times before it connects. Good times. Thanks you for jolting that memory back for me. btw that jeep lasted until 1991, before it broke down and sadly parts were already unavailable so it was "retired"
Pretty neat. About to install my freshly rebuilt l134 into my 1944MB. 😬
hope you make a youtube video of it. Maybe some channel will allow it as a link from their site. Restoration of the vehicle.
Scouts Out! For us as scouts dropping the windshield minimized sun reflection. I learned to drive in the seat of one of these going up the MSR toward the DMZ in South Korea. Yes, we were still using them in the early 80s. We ran them in pairs. One sported a TOW missle system, the other an M60 machine gun. We were literally the last of Rat Patrol.
Half the looks you got were probably "wait, that guy's too young to be Jay Leno".
I'm in Butler Pennsylvania where the Jeep by Bantam was invented. We have the yearly Jeep festival which is a winner. Butler couldn't meet production needs so it was outsourced and we continued to make the Jeep Trailers for the war.
One great thing about old jeeps is that you are exceedingly unlikely to ever get a speeding ticket.
And most people forget that slowing down traffic is also a crime
The steering is deliberately set up with loads of play so you can drive down bumpy tracks without every bump and rut deflecting the front wheels and so effectively turning the steering wheel sharply and uncontrollably from left and right against your grip -- which would make it pretty difficult to hold onto the steering wheel at all. My old Series 2 Land Rover is set up like this too. :0)
Love the fact that this 80 year old car is still considering not that old for these 2 considering what else theyve driven
Now that's what I call a 'fun ride'. Thank you for such an entertaining and informative retro motor trip tho' sunny LA..! 😄yee-haw!
My dad drives one of these in traffic regularly, and I'm not sure if I'm more scared of the vehicle itself or how comfortable he is behind the wheel doing 30 in a 55
You guys definitely should have waited in the Drive-Thru line at In-N-Out!!! It's absolutely worth it! Also, as a former Executive Chauffeur here in SoCal for 5½ years, I can honestly say that you guys are unbelievably brave being on those freeways in that Jeep! Awesome video, as always, guys!
Like the way that JL stayed behind you trying to protect you from being rear ended. Until you went in the fast lane. Then even he said your on your own lol.
This Willys is awesome. Cant wait to see trail videos. Remember back in the days this was made there was not many off road vehicles made so this was a beast off road for it’s day.
I pronounce Willys by mixing the 2 versions.
Lol in regards to the helmet that brown chinstrap is for the liner that other chinstrap you thought was broken was for the actual helmet the M1 came in two parts
Yay!..Cool. I'm old, but never served in the military. I'm 70 presently. When I was attending college in 1971, in rural Southern Ohio,....my college buddy, bought some land down there. People were building Geodesic Dome homes, learning how to build log cabins,....there was a whole "back to nature" movement. Fellow classmates were creating Communes,....co-operative living situations. There were opportunities to buy used WW2 Jeeps, from the local communities who were using them as their municipal services vehicles. They'd run vehicle auctions, and Jeeps and other Army surplus vehicles, were sold for under $50.00 each. My friend could fix any vehicle, and he was fascinated by these old Jeeps. He bought 4 different vehicles for use on his land, all for less than $500.00, in total, at an auction. He had two that were the "split" front window versions, one that was newer and was like a short bed pickup, and a military troop carrier,....a "Lorry" of sorts, that had it's chassis shortened. One or more of Jeeps, had a PTO, ( a power take-off) connector to the transmission. This device allowed him to tap into the transmission, to power auxiliary equipment. He utilized the PTO to run a semi-portable sawmill, built in the 1940s. He ran other equipment, by backing his Jeep's rear tires, into the machines, that could be both run off leather belts, and by direct friction with the rear tires. He'd drive me around in his old Jeeps, up hilly inclines, so steep, I felt the whole Jeep could tumble over backwards. They were rugged machines and could take loads of abuse.
Jeep would be great to learn to drive for a youngster. I drove my uncles landrover as a kid but did knock over his fence post going thru a farm gate. He got a bit angry , but got over it !
When I started to drive in AUS we still had to give hand signals when turning, as not all cars had blinkers !
I want to see this Jeep vs a Mahindra Roxor on the off-road course.
Loving these videos on good old classics!
I think it would be really cool to try out these vehicles in different locations and different climates and terrain types to sort of reflect the enviroments they were built to operate in at the time.
Also it would be really cool if perhaps you could get in touch with some of the museums and vehicle collections out there and try some of the really cool and unique vehicles they might have for you to test drive.
I for one would love to see you drive an M3 Halftrack...Ive heard those things are incredibly fun to drive around!
Kase, "I wish there was more traffic" says no one ever lol
That Jeep is so cool. What a gem.
If your still using the original engine it was designed for "leaded gas". A small amount of a lead compound was put in the gas. It made the gas burn smother and lubricated the valves. You can get "lead substitute" to put in the gas. It will help keep the valves lubricated and prevent them burning out. Also up to the mid '90s motor oil had higher zinc levels. You can buy zinc additives to replace it. It will make the bearings last longer.
i like how every time u stop at a red light most of the time there's another jeep behind u
Protecting the elderly 😂
@@scaleonkhan183 lol
There's a factory in the Philippines that still makes these by hand))
This is gonna be fun during a hailstorm
My second car was a ’49 CJ2A. That was in 1970. I drove to college 4 days a week from San Rafael to Santa Rosa on Hwy 101 rain or shine at 45 mph. Had a half cab made of canvas. I remember cussing the vacuum operated windshield wipers that would nearly stop when accelerating. Used to enter in four wheel drive events, hillclimb, cross country, obstacle courses and the blind man course where the driver was blindfolded and the passenger gave directions. Great fun, sure wish I kept it.
"we have our jerry can in the back. so if were rear ended we'll explode" too clever. and right onto a busy highway in a vehicle that tops at 40.
I’m not a jeep guy, but I am a Pittsburgh history nerd and I feel the need to inform all history and Jeep lovers, that to this day there’s a thing called “Jeep Fest” that goes on every summer in Butler PA.
Butler will always be famous for something else.
3:20 "That is the chin strap", that was NOT the chin strap.
Another reason for the folding windshield is that the flat glass reflects sunlight like a mirror and could give away your position. Anyone who has driven even a modern Jeep has probably noticed their windshield reflecting on stop signs.
Every windshield reflects on stop signs 😂 it’s not unique to jeeps
I met a guy here in the Czech Republic who still uses Jeep Willis 1944 as his ordinary car for everyday use. He bought it in 80s. And not only he is himself such a fan but his wife is also very devoted and persists such ordeal with him since the car has almost no protection against rain and weather in general not to mention heating or any comfort at all.
You took an iconic American war machine into a hostile foreign country, Los Angeles.
They were actually a mile or 2 from Disneyland. No where near LA proper. They were driving around Santa Ana, Orange and maybe outskirts or Anaheim.
I was there earlier today and have a cousin from Colorado who lives near where they started so I will forgive them
By the constant squeak when clutch/breaking ,sounds like the cross shaft bushings need replaced . Sounds like the peddle is scraping the floorboard. Great vehicle!!
Your trip out onto the highway reminds me of visiting my girlfriend in San Francisco and she took me on the back of her vespa across the Golden Gate Bridge. I've never felt so exposed before or since. Definitely gets your heart rate up.
@TFLclassics Honestly a WW2 Jeep can probably handle LA Traffic just fine. Now that Model T, i'd be worried driving a Model T through LA Traffic including the Highway.
Wow! Driving an old Jeep in L.A. with a top speed of 45mph going down hill. Your nuts! Great Jeep. I had one, my year was a 1943., made by FORD, on its tail gate the Ford scripted was stamped in the tail gate. It never left the states for duty. Purchased it through military surplus, paid $65.00 in perfect condition. Mileage on the clock was 1,056 miles. Still new then… We used it on the ranch for many years. Never left us walking…
Thanks, guys. You all made my day. This is the jeep I first drove when I was 5 years old sitting on the lap of the driver. These jeeps were left over after the marines returned to the base from Burma and South East. Anybody see a parallelogram hole in the bumper. I hurt my arm once when I was a teenager trying to crank start the engine. These jeeps even had diagonal drive, they could rotate in almost the same place.
Many of these jeeps had the sign "Left Hand Drive" emobossed in the back drawdoor and painted red. This was to look in the correct side of the jeep for hand signals. Allied forces had both right and left hand vehicles. Anybody has these jeeps still in action ?