Jeep - Willys MB, AMC and Jeep Transmissions, Jeep Four Wheel Drive Systems, Industrias Kaiser Argentina, Ford Gpa, Jeep-Eagle, Jerrari (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Willys MB, AMC and Jeep transmissions, Jeep four wheel drive systems, Industrias Kaiser Argentina, Ford GPA, Jeep-Eagle, Jerrari, Kaiser Jeep, Yipao, Willys-Knight, Willys M38, Jeep trailer, Jeep SJ, Willys FAMAE Corvo. Excerpt: Jeep is an automobile marque of Chrysler. It is the oldest off-road vehicle (also sport utility vehicle-SUV) brand. It inspired a number of other military light utility vehicles, such as the Land Rover which is the second oldest 4-wheel-drive brand. The original Jeep vehicle that first appeared as the prototype Bantam BRC became the primary light 4-wheel-drive vehicle of the United States Army and Allies during World War II, as well as the postwar period. Many Jeep variants serving similar military and civilian roles have since been created in other nations. There are many explanations of the origin of the word jeep, all of which have proven difficult to verify. The most widely held theory is that the military designation of GP begat the term Jeep and holds that the vehicle bore the designation GP (for Government Purposes or General Purpose), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep. However, an alternate view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as "General Purpose" and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation. The Ford GPW abbreviation actually meant (G for government use, P to designate its 80-inch (2,000 mm) wheelbase and W to indicate its Willys-Overland designed engine). Many, including Ermey, suggest that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye cartoons created by E. C. Segar. Eugene the Jeep was...