First 4WD station wagon to be marketed in Oz? - Page 4

2nd September 2008, 10:50 AM

"Knobdoodle" <knobdoodle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "the_dawggie" <the_dawggie@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'd say Suby, I could be wrong, however that's my perpective.
> I was not born before 1966.
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> Bzzt; the correct answer is "who gives a shit"?
> Lumping a Subaru Touring Wagon in with a Range-Rover, an early Landrover
> and drawings of a Jeep just 'cause they all have 4 driven wheels and a
> covered rear is just stupid.
> Does anyone REALLY think that one was the pioneer and the rest copied?
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> Knob

Yes I do and it was I who researched the drawings of the Jeep wagon so
thanks for your ****ing support.....NOT!

Roger

2nd September 2008, 10:50 AM

"Kwyjibo" <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote in message
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> "Noddy" <me@home.com> wrote in message
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>> "Knobdoodle" <knobdoodle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> Does anyone REALLY think that one was the pioneer and the rest copied?
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>> Pretty much.
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>> The WWII jeep was the world's first mass produced 4wd.
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> 'Mass produced' doesn't make it a pioneer.
> The jeep itself was an almost direct development of the Bantam, which was
> itself based on lessons learned with an old converted half tonne ford
> truck.

ERR! The "Bantam" was actually a Jeep.

http://www.2and2.net/files/48bc6410554e7.jpg
Bantam Number One, as delivered to Camp Holabird, MD on 23 September 1940.

The rest including Ford followed this prototype.

Roger

2nd September 2008, 10:51 AM

"RogerM" <rogerm@justrucks.com.au> wrote in message
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> The rest including Ford followed this prototype.

Only after the US Army handed the Bantam prototype over to Ford and Willys
so they could copy it

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Regards,
Noddy.