REAL WW2 DDAY jeep found in a British HEDGE, How?!!
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- It Happened, I found a real WW2 jeep in a Bush
Going to recover it over the next couple of months, see what we really have
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Make sure to Subscribe, the hedge jeep demands it! I believe the Fuel tank I found is from a Bristol F2b WW1 Aircraft, even rarer than the jeep tub!!!!
I know I'm late to the party, but it would have been cool to build a framework to properly position all the bits where they would have originally been as a show piece, kinda like wiring a dinosaur skeleton together for a museum.
As for recoverable bits, you could grab the toe board gusset to save the vehicle number. I know that you can at least usually figure out the year of manufacture by the body number.
"It was running when I parked it" "Not for sale I'm going to fix it up soon" " No low ballers, I know what I have" lol
Not much of that Jeep worth saving, pretty much scrap.
“Light dent in the front bumper, but that’s all the wear-n-tear she’s got”
"just needs a battery"
All you have to do is build a Jeep around that accelerator pedal and get the oil pressure gauge rebuilt. 😉
Good idea they do that with a Spitfire
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When I take my Jeep to the shop I just get funny looks. No one takes me to any Jeeps in hedges 🤣
Haha agreed!
That is so cool, kinda makes me jealous in a way, the US has plenty of barn finds but not many wartime jeeps that might have actual history
That’s so true
I glad you exist. I enjoyed this WWII Jeep in a hedge discovery. Please find a way to save it. It's amazing the star on the cowl survived.
Even if it's a pile of iron junk, it is living (or more like dying) history. A great earth find indeed. The tub gusset with the serial number is worth to be put on a shelf.
The farmer is a cool guy for sharing that valuable intel.
Matt, you deserve to be the fated soul taken to this MB...you live it! Thank you for taking us along, it was a fine lark.I have found a few in the states similar to her, and was there with you in spirit.
What's left of the cowl with the star could be a wall hanger. As Gary Edwards said the parts could still be used for reference. I've seen tanks in worse shape in museums.
What a great video, well done and it couldn't happen to a more deserving and coincidental person! I hope you retrieved all the identifiable parts and re-assembled them like they do in an aircraft re-construction after action crash report! Cool beans, you lucky dog!
I think the reconstruction idea is about the only feasible thiing to do. I think it deserves at least that.
I’d be happy to take that horn bracket off your hands! My MB needs one, and it would be really cool to have one from a Normandy-marked MB that was found in a hedge in England. That could be the only part of my MB that saw action in Europe. 😊
That's really amazing, and even better to recover the parts, like you say, it is toast, but if it yields up one or two reusable bits and provides references, that is all good, deserves to be saved & possibly a new life as an exhibit - Practical Classic Restoration Show springs to mind. Looking forward to seeing the recovery!Thanks for sharing, an exciting video!
Sheetmetal and bondo and having the original parts to refab from. Trace out the old parts onto the new metal, substitute the new metal for what is missing, and marry the two together. its easy work in logic but its a hell of a lot of work in actuality. It's how Cubans repair their cars, since they can't just get new parts for a 60 year old car.
Keep posting. Absolutely love the jeep in a hedge find. Even if its beyond repair, worth saving for posterity.
If you’re patient you can save dozens of small parts off that old wreck...
I can just see you mounting all those rusty bits on a clay jeep-shaped base like the recreations of homo habilus
Fabulous! Excellent 'ad lib' video. Always love rusty history. Keep 'em coming. Many thanks!!!!!!
Really cool. Thanks for climbing in the hedge to show us!
Agreed! A Jeep was playing hide and seek with us.
“Jeeps are great even when they’re dead” Couldn’t have said it better myself!
You should recover this jeep, and piece it back together to look like a jeep using some form of wire frame. A good example would be like the "Sufers, Switzerland B-17 Cockpit Restoration", Where they've taken the bits and pieces of a crashed bomber and are slowly putting them together like a puzzle to make it look like the plane once did
I’m so jealous, but living in suffolk around all the old airfields i’ve had my fair share of finds, sadly only 2 small Jeep parts
but please save whatever you can of this one, i know it’s ridiculous for the state of it but it has history and even if it gets stored or something it’s a piece of history and you are the man that can save it, even if it’s a coat of rust remover or preventer or lacquer, Itd best in your hands and knowing your knowledge you’ll keep it all together no matter how much of it yoh have to dig out.
Now time to buy a metal detector 😂
I will say i am jealous of this, but nonetheless amazing work once more and i hope whoever owns the land let’s you save all of this so you can give it a good and safe place to reside :)
You have to save it. I had one in NZ for a week. So sad to see it mistreated.
I live rusty crap! That's awesome! Could be cool to save a couple of those bits (no matter how small) and incorporate them into another project!!
Interesting and sad. Appears to have been dragged and dumped with other scrap.
Very much likes the video. Unfortunately nobody alive today that can tell the hard life story of that jeep.
If you are not using your WW2 MB as a daily driver, the farmer will not see it.
Thank you very much for the nice video.
I’m really impressed with your expertise!
This an amazing find,deserves to be preserved and displayed.(some how)
Somehow but might not be possible with the condition its in!
They say if you can recognise it you can restore it! There can't be many about like that. My register is for a very rare type of Land Rover, I keep saying no more can be out there but they still turn up! What an amazing find this is!
I know where theres a S1-80inch tub with the aluminium bulkhead..sitting on a scottish island...theres a lot more than this 'jeep'..
Amazing Matt there's a few bits you could salvage there for sure, accelerator pedal, little bits like that, if you ever start another jeep project, amazing.
Awesome find!
It's funny when things happen like that. I've been looking for years for a Ford GTB. Always missing the sale in my half of the US by hours and find one completely original and complete in my city!
That's so cool, please have a dig about for non-ferrous finds such as glass/plastic lenses
Is there any way to find out more about the history of that jeep? What led to it being abandoned post D-Day and for it to be pushed into a hedge. Surely farmerbro knows something of the history.
If you can find the ID plate you have a certified "barn find" ringer :p
Farmerbro, lol i'll see what I can dig up, I dont know why this jeep is DDay marked but didn't make it to Normandy, or did it? Did it just make its way back, who knows?! So many questions but all I can say at the moment is its a November 43 MB with DDay markings!
@@Greendot319 I think the fact it doesn't have an engine is very telling and hints towards it's demise.
Something about it’s mortal remains gradually disappearing lends this an atmosphere of reverence and excitement that just cannot be transported to a glass case in a motor museum. LTC Rolt wrote about preserving the Talyllyn Railway, he loved the the tumbledown buildings and rolling stock and the track all but disappeared under grass and moss; and was fully aware that by trying to stop it getting any worse you destroy the magic that hangs around it.
Photograph it, maybe keep a couple of souvenirs, but enjoy going to visit and having a cup of tea on a sunny day and just being in the presence of it.
I get just as excited about any rusty old scrap of a Jeep! Great video can’t wait to see you pull it out of the hedge! Subscribed!
I am in to "old rusty crap". Very cool!
That is so awesome! Howdy from texas! I have a 46 cj2a. Would love a real mb or gpw
Now that’s the kind of stuff your public LOVES mr Dot !!!!!!!
Shame the chances of you finding another are slim to zero .
Now stop grubbing about in hedges and get on with that test engine so you can find out why jeeps putt !!!!😂🤣😂 . Great post Matt 👍
A couple of weekends and a tin of WD40 and she’ll be good to go 👍🏻🇬🇧
Love ❤ the toastiness!! 👍👍👍
Amazing find, love these video... is a Jeep thing
amazing find , keep up the good work your videos are really good
Agreed!
Absolutely brilliant mate I hope it's going to be saved
I love it! lol, i have an all original 1943 dated Willys MB, i found one of the rare unused ones so its literally like i time traveled and brung a willys back to modern times, it has all the accessories and even he canvas top it's registered but i rarely take it off the property but im impressed with how tight and strong everything is on it, finally found another WW2 original Jeep driver on youtube :D
There's plenty on that Jeep that if you mixed with Joe's Motorpool Parts you could very easily make a running Jeep. I'd have asked the farmer if I could take the lot and started working on it that day.
3 weeks and no more content?
We are all sitting here desperately seeking more............
Please. More more more!
Hard to imagine much would be left after so many decades have gone by.
That was a very entertaining adventure! Thank You!😊
always enjoy these, great presentation and hope to see you again at the Revival!
If anybody should find this relic, I’m glad it was you! Way to honor the history.
(you still need to get a righteous jeep cap)
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Awesome find! Love me some GP related content!
Can't go wrong with Jeep content!
Great video. My father was in the south Pacific at the end of the war and he described equipment, including jeeps being bulldozed off of barges into the ocean.
It's been many years but I was told a story by a Army Air Force vet or perhaps second hand from a vet who was stationed in England. He said after the war ended they disposed of a bunch of jeeps on the air base by dozing a trench, driving them into it and covering it up. Given the lead based paint and depending on soil conditions, these jeeps could be in restorable condition. The person who related the story said they filled up the engines to the top to get rid of oil they had to dispose of.
I dont discount these stories. Where I live in California, the Chico air base dumped a large amount of ordinance in the City dump. I saw some of the 37 mm rounds and 50 cal recovered from there. I believe the 37mm rounds were for the air cobra cannon.
In lake Shasta in the 1970s. A drought exposed a large amount of military ordinance dumped in the lake at the end of the war.
So ask the old timers around air bases if they know of buried treasure, I mean jeeps. I doubt they were very deep and they probably laid the windshields, bows and tops down to bury them. I would suspect they buried them somewhere near the motor pool. This may have been common at many bases and not just air bases or the one mentioned. Jeeps are small and easier to bury than a deuce and a half. You might find a few harleys also mixed in with the jeeps.
Besides the disposable nature of the jeep by design, the logistics of disposing of almost half a million jeeps was daunting. While they did surplus many in the states, an added reason for destruction was to not compete with car manufacturers and willys with their new shiny CJ 2A.
My 43 GPW restored was my favorite magical auto I ever owned.
Good hunting. Hope you find them.
"One million dollar point"
There's like a motor bike spoked hub there too so amongst it maybe that Bristol though type of wheels did they have wire wheel? That faded OD is awesome to see! I'm an armour modeller so all this type of weathering paint wrx goes in to alot of model's I've just built one to specs of your jeep and your information videos
It was likely parked there to hide it from the axis, and then it was forgotten and never found again.
Fantastic!, great find!, makes myself wonder what is lying about here with several WW2 bases,!
Super jeep fun.
Really cool find!
Awesome find. Is it possible to look up the Jeep’s history from the tub number you found?
I can see Jeep restoration number three right there.....
Awesome. I love rusty iron
Down in north devon when the war ended the Americans rather then take the vehicles back they buried them in the sand and went home. This area was used as a training area for the D Day landings
We found a Matilda tank rusting away.
Hi Greendot 319, I'm a bit late to your channel and I'm now playing catch-up. Wonderful video's and boy do you know your stuff on the iconic WW2 Jeep.
I must admit I do have a longing to own a fully restored WW2 Jeep myself and can appreciate your passion for this War Horse of a vehicle.
I have a few questions about your Jeep, its about all the letters and numbers and markings on your Jeep, did you have to do a lot of research on your actual Jeep to put the actual correct markings and numbers on yours to make it original? Also what do all the numbers and markings mean?
If you have already do a video on this then please tell me which one to look for on your channel, as stated I'm playing catch-up at the moment. How much would a fully restored WW2 Jeep cost to buy today? Great videos which I really enjoy, so please keep them coming. 👍🙂👍
Put a headstone on it, mark it as the "Grave of the unknown Jeep" Say a few words and move on..... There's nothing you can do for this one.......(You've got its I.D and informed it's family)......😉
Tell Dennis Collins about this jeep he would grab it up ...lol 😆
Awesome find!
Il y a 45 ans j'avais découvert en Ardenne une jeep qui avait sauter sur une mine , les débrits et une partie de chassis se trouvait dans le bois c'est seulement en 1982 que l'on a retrouver en coupant les gros buissons , et les arbres, mais j'était un gamin...........
Every Jeepers Dream
Cool find!!
I’m looking to buy a jeep at the moment , plus I live in Somerset ! , small world eh
What did your pulse rate do when you confirmed that it actually _was_ a WWII Jeep? ;)
Looks like it got blowed up and torched!
so cool to find this type of thing
OMG. This is a place of crime...😓
Save it! Nothing is unrepairable if you can weld and turn a wrench!
😂😂😂
Think the red mark will be a directional stamp either inner or outer mark for the tread pattern love video's like this! That's true history right there! Can you find that tub number out easy enough?
"I'm not gonna sell, I'm gonna restore it one day"
At the very least you for some original parts off it. The footman loops, perhaps a wheel rim or two.
I'll bet there's a story about drunken GI's trying to get back to base after a wild night at the pub associated with this...
Collectible WW2 jeep for sale $50,000 some assembly required. No lowballers. I know what I've got.
Very cool! So could you track the Jeeps history from that number you found or is that just a number for that gusset?
Merry CHRISTmas to y'all your Family and Friends.
Thanks for the Great Vides.
Peace on Earth Good will to All.
God Bless and keep y'all safe.
Yard art for your flat!
Greendot .....Don't give up on this too soon, most that damage will buff out…
Just needs a skuff 'n spray and will be good as new.
In one of your latest pic's, you show a radio and supply set installed. When did you get this? I know you've been looking for it for sometime.
That’s a bit of hyperbole, it’s really bits and bobs of a Jeep with plenty of metal returning to its elemental form.
You should not move it. Its its place and it should stay there with all of its parts left there to rot.
Hi I am missing accelerator pedal and piece of sheet metal around gearbox levers witch looks usable on that tub you just find. It will be good to use what its left to existing projects and after make video of jeeps with parts from this find jeep. Someone maybe missing that piece with tub number and that will reincarnate this Willys again .Regards Milan.
Sadly the transmission hump is in better shape than mine!
Looks like a Bratton find.tim martins
That is AWESOME!!
@Greendot319 can you explain the ACM1 & ACM2?
Looks as though it was blown up
Where's the reg plates on your Jeep? Thought you'd need them for road use?
What if u found out they were a serial # apart…. Would be neat
Very cool , I would to own one.
Hi Green dot, been watching your videos lately and I'm learning a lot about jeeps, I would want to consult you coz I would want to build a jeep.
Couldn't you get the year from the embossing on the tire?
I wanna see a video in the mini Jeep.
A little bondo, polish, lots of elbow grease and time equity 😁🇺🇸❤️
Ah man I’m only in Dorset 😭what did you do with it?
yep fun i seek a junk mb , but ? when a boat is documented by US congress, if you build back, if you have one original bronze screw and you build to old plan it is lawfully the same boat. i guess with your ''love'', you have several parts to use that philosophy , you will have the same jeep , so get at it. we will watch. that jeep has been calling to you, finally gave up and sent an emissary. no sign of engine ?
Engine must have been removed, it's the biggest chunk of iron and would be rather obvious. Guessing the allies abandoned this one after D-day when everyone was clearing out of the south of england after being camped up for months and the farmer was left with the carcass to do with what he wanted.