Mondays with Mia: Episode 2 - Getting started

[@johndoe43]

In Kansas City when I was her age I was lucky to see three or four jeeps per year. She is very fortunate and she has a great jeep and father.

[@therealjeepgirl]

Thank you, He is the best dad i could ask for. You wouldn’t believe how many jeeps i see every day, LoL.🙂

[@roberthaas80]

That's awesome. All kids need adults like this around.

[@therealjeepgirl]

Thank you! I agree, my dad is amazing.🙂

[@-oiiio-3993]

Eventually she'll drive them all!

[@-oiiio-3993]

Subscribed.

[@crechio4205]

NICE LIFT!

[@therealjeepgirl]

Thank you.🙂

[@sprytetheemcee]

nice❤

[@therealjeepgirl]

Thank you.🙂

[@-oiiio-3993]

To the Jeep Guy; On a JeepGuy 'short', you say that the 'Jeep' was "General Purpose" and that is why they were called 'Jeep'. That is incorrect. The name 'Jeep' first appeared in print in reference to the 1/4 ton 4X4 when a Willys Quad prototype was being shown off to the press while climbing the U.S. Capitol steps in early 1941. When a magazine photographer asked the Willys Overland test driver / engineer what that thing was called, he replied "it's a Jeep". The resulting photograph was captioned thus when it arrived on newsstands on February 20, 1941: _"Lawmakers take a ride - With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel, and Representative Thomas, of New Jersey, sitting beside him, one of the Army’s new scout cars, known as “jeeps” or “quads”, climbs up the Capitol steps in a demonstration yesterday. Soldiers in the rear seat for gunners were unperturbed."_ American Bantam had been courting the U.S. Army for several years with offers to provide a light, agile, 'scout car' concept as had their predecessor, American Austin, who had provided Austins for testing. To Bantam's surprise, Ordnance put out a bid in July of 1940 to over 150 automobile manufacturers to build just such a vehicle with the addition of Spicer's new four wheel drive system. Prototypes were to be delivered within 49 days. Initially only Bantam and Willys responded. Ordnance pressured Ford to join the competition. The prototypes were: American Bantam 'Blitz Buggy' (the only one delivered on time and closest to bid specifications) Willys Overland 'Quad' Ford 'Pygmy' Ford's prototype (built October - November, 1940, delivered _after_ the Bantam and Willys entries), though coded 'GP No. 1', was referred to by Ford and by the press as 'Pygmy'. Per Ford Motor Company documentation GP was Ford's internal code for Government, 80" wheelbase (all 80" w/b Fords were coded 'P'). GP did _not_ indicate 'general purpose' and neither Ford, Willys, Bantam, nor the Ordnance Department ever referred to the vehicles as such. The Ford GP entered production in February of '41 when small contracts of 1,500 vehicles each of revised design were awarded to Bantam, Willys, and Ford to be rigorously tested and evaluated (severely beaten) in competition for the lucrative wartime contract to produce what would eventually become 'Truck, 1/4 Ton, 4X4. G503'. Bantam's and Ford's contracts were extended a bit to provide 'pre standard' vehicles to lend lease partners prior to the G503 contract being awarded to Willys Overland with Ford as subcontractor. The 'pre standard' vehicles produced for testing and evaluation were: Bantam BRC (Bantam Reconnaissance Car) Willys MA (Military, first contract) Ford GP (Government, 80" wheelbase) The G503 contract vehicles of which Willys produced about 360,000 and Ford nearly 280,000 by war's end were: Willys MB (Military, second contract) Ford GPW (Government, 80" wheelbase, Willys pattern) None of them were designated 'general purpose', though GIs may have assumed such when reading the 'GP' designation on data plates of 'pre standard' Ford 1/4 ton 4X4s. Data plates read GPW on Ford built standard G503 vehicles which were outnumbered by the Willys MB. The vast majority of GIs would never have seen a GP. The word, 'Jeep', had been applied to several prototype vehicles, weapon systems, even new recruits in Army jargon since WW1 (if not prior). General George Patton (as verified in his autobiography) always referred to the 1/4 ton 4X4 as 'Peeps' and to the larger 3/4 ton Dodge WC vehicles as 'Jeeps'.

[@therealjeepguy]

I am aware of the Jeep name history. That was just a "short" audio with someone else's opinion. I was not stating where the name came from.