VEP Ford GPW owners, sn, DoD and reg no. Please add yours.
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Re: VEP Ford GPW owners, sn, DoD and reg no. Please add yours.
Ford factories used the Month/Day/Year stamping for the date of delivery...except for the Richmond, CA plant which used just the Month/Year stamping. You have a California GPW Lilly... but God only knows where it has been in the last 75 years!
While it is in Sussex, UK now..... where did you find it?
While it is in Sussex, UK now..... where did you find it?
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GPW 17963 4/24/42 Chester, PA. USA 20113473 (USA est./Tom W.)
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Re: VEP Ford GPW owners, sn, DoD and reg no. Please add yours.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply,
I have only just picked it up yesterday from a chap in Gravesend Kent
I have a few pictures but they're too large to post and i'm not sure how to minimize them
Thanks
Terry
Thanks for the reply,
I have only just picked it up yesterday from a chap in Gravesend Kent
I have a few pictures but they're too large to post and i'm not sure how to minimize them
Thanks
Terry
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Re: VEP Ford GPW owners, sn, DoD and reg no. Please add yours.
Ps: this is a VEP ( Very early production) GPW list; that's a modern denomination invented to name the Gpws from serial 1 to serial 12/15000, delivered from February to the very beginning of April, 1942 .
Looking forward to see pictures of your early GPW, but you might get a better audience starting a dedicated post on the GPW section!
Looking forward to see pictures of your early GPW, but you might get a better audience starting a dedicated post on the GPW section!
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Re: VEP Ford GPW owners, sn, DoD and reg no. Please add yours.
Hi: I have GPW serial # 275672 DOD 7-9-45. How can I find where it was assembled. I live in the SF Bay Area and I have the notion that it came from Richmond CA Plant. I'd sure like to know. Thanks Al
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Hi!
Please read the post just above
Please read the post just above
GPW #3606 “LIBBY”
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Allen....of all the Ford plants making jeeps, Richmond was unique in that they did not put the DAY in the DOD....so if yours is showing July NINTH, then it isn't a Richmond GPW.
Like this one from Richmond:
Like this one from Richmond:
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GPW 17963 4/24/42 Chester, PA. USA 20113473 (USA est./Tom W.)
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GPW 17963 4/24/42 Chester, PA. USA 20113473 (USA est./Tom W.)
Bantam T3-C 1947
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I Have GPW 20151 Ford Dearborn DOD 4-20-1942
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Hello,
Maybe just outside of what is considered VEP but ....
I have unrestored , but restorable, Ford Script:
Serial Number : 15728
Date of Delivery : 4-14-42
Marked : 4x4 on brass data plate on glove box, has all 3 plates
GVW: 2288
Manuals: 1348, 1349
Frame : GPW 15728
Engine is long gone,
likely laying about somewhere on a ranch in West Texas .
Ray
Maybe just outside of what is considered VEP but ....
I have unrestored , but restorable, Ford Script:
Serial Number : 15728
Date of Delivery : 4-14-42
Marked : 4x4 on brass data plate on glove box, has all 3 plates
GVW: 2288
Manuals: 1348, 1349
Frame : GPW 15728
Engine is long gone,
likely laying about somewhere on a ranch in West Texas .
Ray
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Re: VEP Ford GPW owners, sn, DoD and reg no. Please add yours.
I just purchased the following
1942 Ford GPW
DOD 3-19-42
SN 8053
1942 Ford GPW
DOD 3-19-42
SN 8053
1942 Ford GPW
DOD 3-19-42
SN 8053
DOD 3-19-42
SN 8053
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Welcome! You've come to the right place! I can't answer your question about Nabolts' book, there's a lot of info here and a lot of guys willing to share knowledge.
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GPW 82253 est. DOD 11-27-42 Mike Hgt. Beach Ca.
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Hi; not to be rude but this is a VEP list, not a GPW list
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Re: VEP Ford GPW owners, sn, DoD and reg no. Please add yours.
Please Help Me
I'am Brazilian, My Ford GPW Frame Number is 206134. Please what Date of Delivery. I dont original block number.
Please Help Me.
Abílio Morais
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I'am Brazilian, My Ford GPW Frame Number is 206134. Please what Date of Delivery. I dont original block number.
Please Help Me.
Abílio Morais
abiliomorais@hotmail.com
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It can be a bit clunky to work with, but try looking at this list: http://g503.com/oldsite/serial-numbers/abiliomorais wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 6:14 pmPlease Help Me
I'am Brazilian, My Ford GPW Frame Number is 206134. Please what Date of Delivery. I dont original block number.
Please Help Me.
Abílio Morais
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GPW-206033 and GPW-206195 are listed as June of 1944
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Re: VEP Ford GPW owners, sn, DoD and reg no. Please add yours.
Please excuse my ignorance but I'm relatively new to G503. Will some one give me the meaning of "VEP" as related to GPW's.
I must add that I have become quite intolerant of all the acronyms and abbreviations that are thrown out with no definition
of what they stand for.
I must add that I have become quite intolerant of all the acronyms and abbreviations that are thrown out with no definition
of what they stand for.
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