The VIN commonly associated with modern vehicles does not exist for the CJ3. These older vehicles only had serial numbers and some other manufacturing data. There is a data plate mounted on the right side of the firewall an inch or so below the edge of the cowl.
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Willys Jeep Truck was created in 1947.
The seventeen digit VIN was not used until 1981. The serial number is all there is on a 1958.
Depends on what you mean by "willys", if you mean the Willys Jeep, I'm sure at one time or another a girl has owned one...
the jeep as we americans know it was produced first by the Willys car co.
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Bantam had the original design but was too small a company and their engine did not have the required torque so they lost the contract. Willys-Overland was awarded the contract to build the Jeep but Ford was also awarded a contract to build the Jeep. Willys built the model MB and Ford built the model GPW. Together Willys and Ford built 640,000 Jeeps during WW2.
The Willys Jeep Station Wagon, introduced in 1946 by Willys Overland Motors is the first mass market all steal station wagon designed and built as a passenger vehicle and is arguably the world's first popular sport utility vehicle or SUV. The steel body was efficienty to mass-priduce, as easy to maintain and safer than the real wood-bodied station wagon versions at the time which is the most succesful fo Willys Jeep Truck.
The Jeep was invented in 1941 for the U.S. Military by The American Bantam car company. The final production was awarded to Willys as the military felt Bantam was too small a company to produce the necessary numbers needed. Ford also built the Jeep for the military using the Willys plans. Bantam, which was the inventor, produced only trailers for the Army and never made the Jeep. Willys called their Jeep the Model MB and Ford called theirs the Model GPW. Jeep was never a name the military used. It was only a nickname in the beginning.
Derek Place has written: 'The VW Beetle and Willys jeep'
Jeep Willys pickup from 1946 to 1964
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