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Originally Posted by David Herbert
It looks like it drew inspiration from the Dodge WC as much as from the Jeep. I really like the spare wheel on the side and the grill. The bar to stop the passenger falling out would be annoying though. I presume that those are flip up type trafficators on either side of the bulkhead
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It is sort of half a jeep and half a Dodge WC. It has a 6 cyl. Engine and single speed transfer case .
Reading the comments, the first batch of 100 were built for the US forces in Japan.
And The other Japanese jeep variant, the Mitsubishi jeep , was a much closer version of its parent , it was license built copy of the Willys CJ3B
1950 - The Korean War created demand for a military light utility vehicle. The war put a Jeep on Japan's doorstep. The United States government ordered 100 vehicles with the new Willys specs and Toyota was asked to build them.
1951 - The Toyota Jeep BJ prototype was born in January 1951. This came from the demand for military-type utility vehicles, much like the British Land Rover Series 1 that appeared in 1948. The Jeep BJ was larger than the original U.S. Jeep and more powerful thanks to its Type B 3.4-liter six-cylinder OHV Gasoline engine generated 85 hp at 3600 rpm and 215 Nm torque at 1600 rpm. It had a part-time four-wheel drive system like the Jeep. Unlike the Jeep, however, the Jeep BJ had no low-range transfer case