Re: [MV] Buying '43 GPW,

From: jim gilmore (jgilmore@oeonline.com)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 01:17:10 PDT


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Chris wrote,
I've wanted a WWII jeep for years and finally had the planets line up
>....... I just left earnest money with the owner of a 1943 GPW..........
>Engine. (Yep, no engine, all other drive train intact, but no engine.)
>Serial # on frame and data plate is GPW 106272. I know engine numbers
>seldom match frame numbers, even right out of the factory...............

      Actually, the frame and data plate numbers match the motor number on
ALL GPW's. It is the number of the motor that is stamped in the frame/data
plate and not the other way round. This GPW had a motor number of GPW
106272 from the factory. The motor was built on March 19, 1943.

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