JP
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> From: GIjeeps@aol.com
> To: mitymite@juno.com; Mil-veh@skylee.com
> Cc: GIjeeps@aol.com
> Subject: Re: [MV] Roll Call
> Date: Sunday, May 11, 1997 11:57 PM
>
> From what has gone around the web it looks like there are between 5 and
10
> thousand jeeps left of the MB/GPW type. But as I mentioned you never know
how
> many of these will actually be jeeps again. For example I have a slat
grill
> body and frame with one fender and the hood. Now if I took a Ford front
and
> rear axle, an MB transmission, and a CJ Engine and put them all
together
> and made them run, painted it green and put white stars on it, what have
I
> created? A Slat Grill Willys? I think not. Situations like this probably
> account for 1/3 of what is still out there and hardly count as a jeep in
my
> opinion. But what if I swear I'm gonna fix it up later? It must count as
> something don't you think?
> If every restorable WW II jeep was restored right now by magic or
miracle
> I'll bet there wouldn't be many more than 7,500 of them. I mean I've got
12
> jeeps here now, of which 9 really deserve to be counted as jeeps and the
> other three could probably be fixed with serious effort, but most folks
> would call them parts jeeps. Among all my friends and associates who are
> jeeps nuts we only know of 10 or 11 other WWII jeeps in Nebraska in
anything
> like restorable condition. That means I have almost half of all the known
> WWII jeeps in Nebraska! Now if we are generous and assume that there are
> still at least 12 out there that no one has discovered it still leaves me
> with around 1/3rd of all the known WWII jeeps in this state. I guess we
can
> safely assume that there are around 40 WWII jeeps in Nebraska. (Many of
them
> I have imported from other states.) Now if we take it one step further
and
> assume that there are 40 jeeps in each of the fifty states that's only
2000
> jeeps in the US!!! Now some states will have more and some will have
fewer so
> lets go even further and assume that each state has an average of fifty
> jeeps, that's still only 2500!! Think back to the past MVPA conventions,
how
> many WWII jeeps show up generally? 10 or 15 at most of them I suppose.
And
> that's from a multi-state area. Now assume that for every restored jeep
at
> the convention there are 10 unrestored ones in that area. 150 maybe 200.
> Thats not many.
> So, in conclusion, I guess what I am saying is that it does seem
possible
> that you could own nearly 2/10ths of a percent of all the WWII jeeps
> surviving worldwide!
> Kinda' sad isn't it? Take good care of them.
>
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