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[Casey]

Has anyone looked inside new box? Is it just h h one in retro box? that one only had half of the army parts. incomplete plow ,many org parts missing. Woody

 

Check out the video I posted in post #47, Woody. He shows the kit's contents and you can pause the video whenever you want.

[Edsel-Dan]

There was NO plow in the Hogan's Heros kit. Nor any Part of it!!
The "Plow Blade" you see is an Open Canvas Litter (Stretcher)[Think M*A*S*H]

 

I read in the review in the mag, MCM) that the plow was there, but Even in the small pic,

I could tell it wasn't. I knew the part was the Litter/Stretcher

 

Aside from Accurate Rims & tires, What military parts were missing from the previous issue??

Guns? Field radio? All there!

 

I have one of the Hogan's issue. And yes, will look at the WW2 kit too.

 

I have an Older MPC issue of this kit called Bushwacker. It claimed Rod & Military build options,

Yet, Did not include the Stock Civilian rims/tires that were original to the kit, and in the H-H re-issue.

 

That one was Incomplete. And No it did NOT have a Snow-Plow either!!!

 

Last Jeep kit I remember with one is the 72 Annual Jeepster/Commando.

I built one New!!! (and another from an "Hombre" re-issue

Wish all the re-issues Hombre, Mountain Goat, etc had been Complete copies of the original annual,

but they weren't. I still bought a few.

I was hoping for the Full Sedan/Wagon type roof, and Snow-Plow, but they were deleted.

I was lucky in that they still had the Stock Open Steel rims, and even Hubcaps, but were Lifted,

and only had Large 4x4 tires

 

From what I understand, (Saw in the video) This issue Does have the rear seat, that the H-H kit didn't.

Decals are more limited though. There aren't any for the Surrey/Taxi version this time,

Though they Were in

the H-H kit

Edited by Edsel-Dan, 09 April 2013 - 12:20 AM.

[Art Anderson]

Willys. It has the Go-Devil 4 cylinders. The wheelsand tires are incorrect for a WW2 or Korean War era military Jeep, the wheels are '47 and later, with the semi-floating rear hubs. The tires are the old Goodyear Suburbanite style snow tires.

Even the Ford-built GP Jeep used the Willys Go-Devil engine.  Ford simply built Jeeps under license from Willys-Overland, due to their inability to supply the sheer volume of Jeeps required (over 400,000), considering that Williys Overland had never produced more than about 30,000 cars in any single year.

 

Art

[Longbox55]

Art, you got me thinking about that kit, had to dig it out and do some comaprisons to 1:1 Willys MB and Ford GPW Jeeps jsut to see how it really stacks up. Going from how the kit itself is made, I will have to say that it is much closer to the Ford version as far as a WW2 Jeep goes, mainly from the frame design. The front crossmember is the main difference. The Willys used a large tubular crossmember, the Ford has an inverted U channel crossmember. The kit has a Ford style crossmember. The grille is also a Ford item which was adopted on the Willys after about 1942. The rest of the body tub it straight up post WW2 Willys CJ2, though.

[Art Anderson]

Art, you got me thinking about that kit, had to dig it out and do some comaprisons to 1:1 Willys MB and Ford GPW Jeeps jsut to see how it really stacks up. Going from how the kit itself is made, I will have to say that it is much closer to the Ford version as far as a WW2 Jeep goes, mainly from the frame design. The front crossmember is the main difference. The Willys used a large tubular crossmember, the Ford has an inverted U channel crossmember. The kit has a Ford style crossmember. The grille is also a Ford item which was adopted on the Willys after about 1942. The rest of the body tub it straight up post WW2 Willys CJ2, though.

Interesting that you say the grille is a Ford item, given that virtually all the WW-II MB and GP Jeep sheet metal was stamped by Auburn Central Manufacturing of Connersville, Indiana (the stamping plant where bodywork for Auburns and Cords was produced in the 1930's.  Given the fairly short run production orders from the War Department to both Ford and Willys-Overland (Even though nearly 400,000 Jeeps were produced 1942-45, they were ordered in batches of perhaps 15-20 thousand at a time, rather than just giving the two companies a blanket production order setting production lines in unlimited continuous production for the duration.  Incidentally, this was the same manner in which military aircraft were ordered, as well as ships, tanks, artillery and small arms).  With this in mind, it's little wonder if small variations in MB's from one batch to the next occurred (for example, in late July 1942, civilian auto and truck makers were ordered to remove all their logo's and trademarked identifiers from military vehicles).  As an example of such batch differences, the GMC CCKW 6X6 truck was produced with both GMC inline 6's and the 235cid Chevrolet truck engine, again a batch difference of sorts.  As for the Ford style front crossmember, apparently that was due to Ford's wanting to cut down the amount of fabrication, as well as Ford's being able to stamp our their own frame components, where Willys relied on an outside supplier for those--likely AO Smith, who specialized in producing frames for the auto and light truck industry.

 

A little bit more on the M38 Jeep:  When the Korean Conflict broke out in June 1950, the US Army (along with the Navy and Marine Corps) were still using left-over MB Jeeps, the newest of which were fairly long in the tooth, being at least 5 years old, and many had seen hard use.  In 1951, Willys-Overland was given an order for new military Jeeps, leading to the "militarization" of the CJ-2A bodywork--basically a return to a solid back panel in the body in place of the civilian pickup truck style tailgate and the moving of the spare tire mount back to the right side of the rear of the body (CJ's had their spare mounted high on the rear of the right side of the body in order to make way for their tailgate feature).  A new grille for the CJ-2A body moved the headlights back behind that grille panel, just as with the MB.  Military gearshift and transfer case levers came back, in place of the two lever arrangement used on civilian Jeeps, and of course, a modified instrument panel allowing for the mounting of military radio equipment.  M38 production continued for just a couple of years--and was replaced in 1954 with the M38A2 Jeep, which was the first use of a body with a wider cowling, and the rounded hood well-known to today's Jeep enthusiasts on the CJ-5.  The M38A2 remained in production into the early 1960's, given the military buildup for the Cold War, and the adoption of the M38A2 by several countries in both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).  In addition, M38A2's were supplied to several Latin American countries as well as some emerging African nations.

 

Art

Edited by Art Anderson, 22 April 2013 - 07:56 AM.

[Longbox55]

Art, this is where I got the information about the grilles http://olive-drab.co...jeeps_mbgpw.php. Seems that Willys used a fabricated slat grille on early models, when Ford started producing them, they used the stamped grille, which is similar to the grille found in the kit. Willys adopted the Ford design grille, mainly due to the military wanting full interchangability between the two variants.

[Casey]

I think the Jeep that had the trailer was the one from the Korean war and that became the CJ5 later on. I have one of the Korean Jeeps and it has the trailer. 

 

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Yep, this is the one.     Dan