The Story of a Ford GPW Restoration Project: Preserving and Commemorating Canadian History 

I give that Gentlemen who did the restoration on the jeep to bring it back and then set it up to the standard a big thumbs up and a long held Salute. Excellent Job Sir !!!!!

My dad had one of those after he broke his Kübelwagen, which had been "Borrowed" from the Afrika Corps. His one had been capured by the Germans and was then captured back by the Brits, he liked it and didn't manage to beak it! Obviously they were sturdy vehicles.

I love seeing the passion folks have for keeping history and its equipment alive.

Fortunately, there are people like this who are careful with WW2 heritage. Thumbs up and pluses to them.

That's just Crazy he can still pick up the voice of God on the old radio set. Wow this was a really great interview. Nice back Story.

One of my favorite cars, I have been wanting one since I was like 5.

I recently finished a 1/35 scale WW II Willy's Jeep model. It was a lot easier to put together than his Jeep, but his is way cooler. Another informative video Sofilein!

Restoring a Willy's with a ton of GPW parts was my best childhood memory.

Thanks Sofi, good find & interesting story! 🙏🙏

Another great restoration - even better reactions to duck with that crash with the pole! Thank you for this!

I love the amount of passion these folk have for restoration of these vehicles - keep it up!

good job! Allowing people to talk about what they love is what makes a video like this worthwhile

Customising Jeeps is what makes each one unique. Mine is still bare bones but will eventually take up it's own identity. It started off with a stretched chassis in a delightful baby blue with bench seats but is now stock and unlike my regular car, is going up in value but like this one is very much a 'Bitsa' 🙂

Nice piece of work girl, beautiful restoration!!

First class video Sofi. I really think the hunt for pieces and parts is more than half the fun for these folks. You should look into having automatic weapons fire in the background of all your videos. Perhaps some distant artillery fire. Really helps with the ambiance. Just saying!👍🤣👍

Thank you. Excellent video. Great to hear another person who pronounces Willys correctly. That generator was a good idea but would have been a pain in such a small vehicle. Times have certainly moved on. In NZ all our V8 Rovers were FFR at delivery. They were equipped with a powerful 24V alternator which would charge the single vehicle battery and either one pair or two pairs of 12V batteries wired in series, so as to power either one or two radios. As engineers, we quickly became proficient at fitting/removal of radio sets. Each troop commander’s vehicle typically had one radio for the squadron net and one for the brigade net, during Annual Camp. The sets were AN/PRC 77 backpack radios with batteries and battery covers removed so that each could be fitted into an AN/PRC 25 set; which was powered by a battery pair mounted in a compartment under the load area. P.S. 12 Volt batteries were introduced in continental motor vehicles in the 1920s but the Yanks seem to have held the industry back. Some people in the USA were reportedly complaining that postwar Jaguars had 12 Volt batteries🧐!

Always cool experiences!

These kind of videos are always great fun, because you can just see the passion these people have for their vehicles!

I belched out a laugh when he said. "My trusty jeep".

Great restoration... love this guys passion!

You do fine some of the best people to talk to. Great interview.

What a great story and lovely people too.

This vehicle is absolutely amazing!

That is a excellent back history on the jeep and the military suit is sharp. Thank you for the video.

You find the most fascinating people

It's well worth the effort and I really want one 😅.

A great story from pink to green ✌🏻

Great video and tank show. I saw myself and my cousin walking in the background 25 seconds in. Hehehe

Nice. Good info and stories from a nice guy and his wife. That's what its all about.

Awesome video, lunch time and watching intently. Have a great one Sofi.

Dear Sofilein, Lucky wise there are people in this world like John Carmichael who did put a lot of love in the restoration of this beautiful Ford GPW Jeep. By the way…..do you know where the word “Jeep” is coming from? I ‘ll explain it anyways. The story is that by the beginning of WW2 the company Willys started a car for General Perpose. Since the Americans are world’s number 1 in making shorts like from television TV par example, they started to call the Willys car GP. In the pronunciation that sounds like Jeep. Since that time the all terrain 4WD car of Willys got this name. Later people started to call all 4WD small army vehicles from any other factory a Jeep. It’s a story what’s denied by army specialists but without a solid substantiation, as it also applies to the story😀. Thanks anyways for sharing this and as always I look forward to your next vlog and send you love from the Netherlands

Nice Jeep mate.

I'm shocked his English? 😂 Love that he saved the hippy wagon.

Excellent story, Sofi.

Wonderful story

Sofi, I never stop being amazed that a lovely, young woman would make such a dignified military channel that gives time to eloquent gentlemen like this fellow. Thank you for showing that not all of RU-vid is a shallow cesspoool!!

Thanks!

Great presenter and vehicle

Thanks for sharing this video. :-)

Another interesting vid. I was hoping he would say what most say when asked for advice. "run the other way" (half jokingly). Military vehicle owning and restoring is a Nice hobby, you learn a lot, and you are taking care of history, but you work a lot too, and some days want to sell your toy for scrap metal. The hands on aspect makes you appreciate the maintenance guys who worked on them for a living. Also stop catching me on video, I is shy.

Great vid SOfi ! Keep up the great work ! ^^

I'm a dork, I just realized your channel is probably called "so file in" and it's not your name "Sofi Lein"!! Anyway, I really like being able to hear the back story of the certain vehicle in your videos, it makes it that much better...what a cool couple! Thanks Sofilein, I hope you have an awesome holiday!!

very cool!

Shortly after WW2 government auctions were held in Amersham, Britain and Surplus military kit was sold to the general public. It was possible to buy these Jeeps for £4 (£50 today or $64 US) It was possible to even buy an unused Jeep still in its kit form packing crate as it had arrived from the states. Jeep in a box ads were seen in British newspapers and magazines. This was a very cheap vehicle compared to buying a British Morris family car. Many of these were purchased by young women who worked as land army girls on the farms during WW2 and were accustomed to driving agricultural tractors off road. It had a slight cultural revolution in offering these young girls freedom to own their own car. In 1940's Britain that was pretty rare for a working class woman. Many were also purchased by large country estates along with US wrecking trucks for forestry work, trucks like the famous Diamond T wrecker. Also Shermans were repurposed as forestry vehicles with the turret removed. I grew up on one such estate, my dad was a farm mechanic. The farm had two Willy's MB's and a British Scammell artillery tractor until the late 1980's. Landrover owes its entire existence to this amazing little vehicle. The original Landrover designer owned one, also purchased after the war and in 1948 the Landrover series one went into production. The engineering comparisons are striking. At the same time in Japan Toyota designed the original land cruiser from the WW2 Jeep in the 1950's. This little Jeep changed the world by giving us the off road leisure industry post war right up to todays SUV's and the possibility of commercial expansion in areas such as the far east and Australian jungles in the 1950's along with Land rover & Toyota. The original US military design remit stated it should last just 1000 hours of use. 80 years later many originals are still in use. As always, great video on a great subject.

WOW what a jeep. and to think the army after Korean war wanted to cut them all in half and sell them for scrap. thanks again sofi.

Hi Sofi!

The pink was used by SAS as desert camo. They used pink Land rovers and probebly som pink Jeeps. Sheck it out.

🤣😆😊 That was a delight

Recently saw a video of a team of 6 guys build a Willy's in under 5 minutes.

A 70+ year old hippie walks up and says "Dude, what have you done to my old jeep!"

Wow, restoring a communications vehicle from practically nothing?!? He will be very popular with the reinactors. :D

The background noise. Take all my +1s

reminds me of an ac/dc song

Such a pity that my grandpa didn't have this kind of Jeep. It would have been very useful for signal troops of the Red Army during the WW2

Sofi. Very good replica Jeep parts for sale in the Philippines. But be careful.

How long is this event going on?!

Its live..?

⭐⭐🌻⭐⭐

Little close to the power lines with the antenna

Willy´s Jeep 🙂But I like the Dodge WC Command more because I think they are nicer and we have 2 at home

Of COURSE you can transmit on it, silly!!! Or to be more correct, "I" can transmit on it, legally. Get your amateur radio license as I'm sure that Brit set covers at least 1 or 2 amateur bands. When I was a kid, I acquired a low VHF FM set that would have been used in one of those, but at the time I new nearly nothing of radio, or how to get the manuals for it, and I obtained it with NO tubes. BC-620 is one rendition ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pYIWy0BDcLo.html About 20 years ago I acquired a complete, working, with manuals an SCR-508, which I no longer have, used in tanks, trucks, a few jeeps and at forward command posts. Yeh I'm old, 75 now, I was first licensed in 1965 in high school

JEEP

Not strapping a pistol because its the Democratic peoples republic of Canada!!

I don't know anything about the radio station he's listening to in the United States but I didn't care about his criticism about people who believe if they don't follow what God says to do won't see heaven. That is the truth but obviously he doesn't care about religion so that's not uncommon for a socialist. I feel sorry for him. I do like his Jeep however and the work he's done.

A "slat-fronted" Jeep is one of the rarer versions! ...or bits of it.