Identification of Strange Jeep Please

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Got to agree with Anthony,
Mahindra has the scuttle mounted wipers, footwell vents, similar fuel fillers and the unusual tailgate design matches. Would have been a Pugeot (copy) diesal. The vendor may need to redo his research, but all jeeps (and clones apparently) seem to be advertised as 42/43 regerdless of fact. There was a 53(?) high bonnett that was advertised locally for over 2 years as a '43. Vendor refused to accept the fact, even when side by side with an original. Yes, it was eventually sold, with the purchaser beleiving it to be a "43........
Rich.

[Lynn Eades]

Have you met the Hotchkiss 201 fraternity that are genuine WW2? They seem to be like young kids...They all want to be older.

[oldlithgow]

It looks to be a Japanese Mitsubishi Military.

http://www.film.queensu.ca/Cj3b/Worl...nMilitary.html

Craig
Cold Lake
M38A1

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Mitsbushi jeep does not have the scuttle mounted wipers, or tailgate, so I will stick with the Mahindra.
Rich.


http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attach...40-hardtop.jpg

[malcolm erik bogaert]

whilst not claiming to be an expert on jeeps I would be prepared to swear in a court of law that its Mahindra(probably the worst vehicle I have ever driven) and have to say that some advertisers are less than honest when advertising there wares....say 1940's jeep and yopu wil get more interest and more money!dont be foolded Jared its a Mahandra...cheers from a slightly warmer north-northumberland malcolm

[Jared Archibald]

G'day everyone,

thankyou to all those that have commented on my initial post.

As I mentioned in that post, I had looked at pics on the web of each type of Jeep and Jeep clone I could think of - including the Mahindra.

Malcom's first post made me revisit this vehicle after first discounting it. I managed to find a couple of excellent pages on Mahindras released in Australia. These were buried in a site on CJ Jeeps but now I can't find them, or I would add the URL.

As Richard listed (and Anthony mentioned), the Australian released Mahindra fits the bill on each of the strange features I picked up on when I inspected the "project 42 Jeep". A couple of others are that the Mahindra has central dash mounted instruments, they have two fuel tanks (a 40l and a 20l) and that the Stockman (the base model in Australia) only came in green. This explains the now faded "factory army green" paint job.

Once again, thanks for all the responses - the pics of the RAAF "Follow Me" Jeep are excellent.

Jared

[cucvcan]

I'm no expert but that looks like a Toyota FJ