{"id":2621,"date":"2005-01-26T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitfoster.com\/carport\/2005\/01\/maple-leaf-rag\/"},"modified":"2010-12-30T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T17:02:06","slug":"maple-leaf-rag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitfoster.com\/carport\/2005\/01\/maple-leaf-rag\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leaf Rag"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone recognizes this as a Jeep; the more inveterate spotters among us will call it an M38<\/a>, the military version of the CJ-3A<\/a> built by Willys-Overland. The eagle-eyed will suspect that the maple leaf flag has some significance and well it does. This a Canadian Jeep, designated M38-CDN, built for the armed forces of Canada. It is also a Ford Jeep.<\/p>\n

“Hold on!” you say. “Ford built Jeeps, yes, but that was during World War II.” Indeed so. The US Army first selected a “Truck, Utility, 1\/4 ton 4×4” designed by Karl Probst<\/a> for the American Bantam Car Company<\/a>. But when American Bantam had insufficient capacity to meet government orders, the main contract was let to Willys-Overland, a contender in the original competition. Later, Ford Motor Company, also a contender, was brought in, and for most of the war near-identical designs were built as the Willys MB<\/a> and the Ford GPW<\/a>. It’s interesting to look at Ford’s entry in the Army’s “Jeep competition”. Called the “Pygmy<\/a>,” it was powered by a 9N tractor engine and used many other off-the-shelf Ford components, particularly in the interior<\/a>. This Pygmy<\/a> was photographed at Hershey a number of years ago.<\/p>\n

This M38-CDN Jeep was indeed built by Ford – assembled by Ford Motor Company of Canada in Windsor, Ontario. Ford of Canada put together 2,135 M38-CDNs between February and November 1952. Some interesting facts about the M38-CDN can be found at the M38 page<\/a> on the Jeep Web Ring<\/a>. I snapped the M38-CDN at Hershey 2003. It was billed as “motor redone,” but the rest of the restoration was not for the faint-hearted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone recognizes this as a Jeep; the more inveterate spotters among us will call it an M38, the military version of the CJ-3A built by Willys-Overland. The eagle-eyed will suspect that the maple leaf flag has some significance and well it does. This a Canadian Jeep, designated M38-CDN, built for the armed forces of Canada.….<\/span>
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