Inappropriate use of Jeep name?

My dad used one of those in WWII they called them "mud ducks", they would run on the road and then right out into the water.

Well, I give them a slight pass as they are English, and when I was there I heard a number of strange words, which seemed to be English - almost- but like Eliza Doolittle's cockney accent, in "My Fair Lady," known only to those who live there.

We say aluminum, they say aluminium. We say potato, they say potahto. We say tomato, they say tomahto. Let's call the whole thing off.

"> I'd like one of those 2 seat Lotus Super 7 clones to play with though. :-)

I'm going to build one at work after the two Formula 2 cars are done.

We don't say potahto !

Quite like the tracked vehicle 1/2 way down this page:

Dave

Is this a picture of a mud duck??

You mean like these?

Looks like it would be a lot of fun!

Jeff DeWitt

abomb69 wrote:

Your dad used the Ford GPA:

And a GPA next to a DUKW, for comparison: A nice try at the concept, but they didn't do well in practice. They didn't have much freeboard and tended to swamp, and didn't have much ground clearance and tended to high-center on embankments.

And then there was the n> My dad used one of those in WWII they called them "mud ducks", they would

-- "We began to realize, as we plowed on with the destruction of New Jersey, that the extent of our American lunatic fringe had been underestimated." Orson Wells on the reaction to the _War Of The Worlds_ broadcast.

The Caterham is a good one for traditionalists, if you want to really kick corvette butt, build a Turbo Rotus.

Stupendous Man proclaimed:

Is hokay, we can't spell it.

Dave Milne proclaimed:

I doubt he is talking about drag racing, a sport not taken seriously outside the US (I know, Santa Pod and all that....riiiiight), and one for which post-1962 Corvettes with their IRS are poorly suited.

LaMans?

Yeah, in a line that cost Ken Miles the world championship because Ford brass made them, in their British Lola built GT40s with Italian transaxles, British brakes and German suspension. The next year Ferrari was there, where was Ford?

Henry Ford II with ten times the money bought that race. For Ferrari racing was everything: for Ford it was a whim to impress his Italian wife.

Ford was never a serious player in any form of road racing with any US-derived product. They paid Cosworth to build the DFV, and the inline fours in US Ford products are derivatives of Brit and German engines to this day.

Enzo Ferrari was the greatest racing car constructor in the world. I don't know if he ever even set foot in the U.S.

You mean the rest of the world where Ford stomped Ferrari, one, two, three in '65 LaMans?

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LaMans?

Ow, ow, ow.

I subscribe to this groupo because we are now retired , in the Sierra Nevada, with two Jeeps.

But I once owned Jaguars, XK-140 and E-Type and went around Laguna Seca, and was passed, really fast, by Ferraris.

I used to know something about this stuff, and seemed to remember that Ford wanted to buy Ferrari, and Enzio said something really bad ( so bad that I have forgotten) but Ford II spent a lot of money (if I remember it was $250K per car, which is nothing today, but big bucks then) and won the race.

Ferrari then invented the 330P4, which beat the Ford cars, and everything else.

I remember thinking that I could have purchased a Ford GT40. Well, not really, but close. There is a replica for sale, you can look them up.

But a Ferrari 330P4? Absolutely priceless. But Bob Norwood, in Dallas, will build a replica for only $350K.

This is a Jeepo groupo, so I spare you all the cites, but the history is interesting.