FrankUSMC

Southdave
The jeeps you are talking about, we called them "super jeeps". The ones the Marines had were all just hand built by the Marines, no billion dallar contract to make them, just Marines.
The ones I saw, all had lead pipe for the roll bars, again, no billion dallar contract. The ones again I saw had stuff like the dash mount machine gun, the mount was made by cutting the top off a jeep machine gun mount and welding it to a steel plate, then bolting it to the dash. Every one of them had the guns mounted were the crew wanted them.
They were very cool looking, and save the tax payers alot of $$$$$$
One of the few, Frank USMC RET