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prototype jeep maybe?

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A bout 40 years ago I was at an auction where there was a jeep for sale. I looked under the hood and it had the 4 cyl Ford engine in it. I knew Ford made jeeps and assumed they used their engines. Years passed and I learned a little more of the jeep history and now I wonder what I was looking at. If I remember right they only made 4 or 5 of the prototypes with ford engines and I cant see them getting out to the public.??????
 
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32r2 thats what this one had,,,a Ford tract engine. I knew they put a few in prototypes but was not aware they used them in regular production. Maybe Willys was swamped for a while.
 
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The tractor engine was used in the ford gp only not the standardized Willys/gpw wwii jeep. There were about 4500 ford gp s built. I have owned one.
 
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I forget the owner but he is up in the Pacific Northwest / WA area, the story is this was a prototype jeep vehicle that was never put into production. It mostly used 151 parts.

-Dale
 

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