Re: [gremlintime] Bantam answer

[BANTAM38@xxxx]

Hooray for Bart, the only guy awake in here and he wins a ride in my Bantam 
as soon as it's frame off restoration is complete. Actually Bantam designed 
the Jeep and built the first 2000 of them, the only time in Bantam's history 
the company operated in the black. 
The US government not only then gave the design to Willys and Ford to 
produce, it ordered that Bantam scrap all its dies for the Bantam car to help 
the war effort in scrap steel, leaving the company without a product for the 
post war era. Bantam did manufacture the army trailers for the Jeep during 
the war but was comdemed to ruin by designing the most sucessful automobile 
of all time. 
Jeeps have been made by:
Bantam
Willys and Ford during the War
Willys after the War.
Kaiser bought out Willys
AMC bought out Kaiser
Chrysler Bought out AMC
Daimler Benz Bought out Chrysler
But the Bantam Jeep idea still exists as a profitable car over 50 years 
later, ironic isn't it?

for more information check out: http://www.wmspear.com/Bantam/


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