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for the Jeep Hunters Field Guide this is the Ford Motor Company's 1941 Ford GP

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the 1941 Ford GP there are four thousand four hundred and fifty-eight of these

built it used a Ford 9N tractor engine as a four cylinder L head motor

it had 45 horsepower and 84 foot-pounds of torque and this is the only one that

was a hand cranking motor the Ford GP has a Spicer 25 front axle

it has a rectangular front crossmember and a one-piece steering rod the grille

is a slat grille with the headlights actually inside the grill you can see

that the transmission and the parking brake are in the same area on the

floorboard the bucket seats are metal with canvas cushions and as a rear

tubular backseat you can also see the protruding machine gun mount which will

be standard on the later MB's and the GPW's for world war ii all of this is

on an 80 inch wheelbase and a kerb weight of two thousand one hundred and

fifty pounds it has a two-speed Spicer 18 transfercase and a three-speed Ford

GP 7000 transmission there's the pintle hook and the bumperettes another thing

that I thought was interesting is that as a protruding rear blackout light the

GP has a Spicer 23 - 2 rear axle with a 4.88 gear ratio and leaf spring

suspension this is a ford script jeep because of this embossing right here

and it does have 16-inch solid state wheels and NDT tires the storage bins

are in the rear wheel wells of the Ford GP and you can see that the lids are the

emboss type which will later be used in the GPWS

on the dash of the GP you can see the Ford truck instrument cluster that used

and the data plates the foot pedals are round and the steering column bracket

sticks out a lot further than most of the other prototypes under the left hand

side of the 4gp you can see that it has a long rectangular skid plate leaf

spring suspension and there's the steering gearbox

and lastly it does have a two-piece forward pivoting windshield with one

manual hand wiper at the top