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Bob took some photos of this beautiful GP the weekend.
“Saw this nice ford gp at the ragersville, Ohio car and power show today. Guy has owned it for 30 years. It came out of Colorado. Still has the right engine and drivetrain. Nicely restored by the owner.”
Nice piece of history, would like to see it in person. I did not know that the GP had hinged headlights, was Willys or Ford the first with that design?
Looks great and in the care of one owner for 30 years, its part of the family.
Mark S, Ford came up with the hinged headlights. On the “pigmy” prototype they used rear door hinges off a 1940 four door sedan for the headlight hinges. Willys and Bantam both had “frog-eyed” headlights. The army liked the protection provided by the headlights behind the grill as well as the hinged feature and wrote these into the specs for the standardized jeep.
I can not come up with a value of this thing. With GPA going for $75-100K. How many GP’s were made?
Jamie,
$25,000 to $35,000 if in good to very good condition is where I think. Here’s one for sale at the upper end of that: http://www.ewillys.com/2014/08/09/1941-ford-gp-minneapolis-mn-no-price/
Here’s more info on production numbers (about 4500):
http://www.ewillys.com/2014/08/09/1941-ford-gp-minneapolis-mn-no-price/
– Dave
GPs are the least expensive of the three pre-production “jeeps” even though Dave’s estimate is a little low in my book. They made more GPs plus more survived due to the fact that parts are more available to keep them running (9N engine, model A tranny, etc.) Bantam BRCs are next up the money ladder and Willys MAs are at the top.