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“The idea simmered for eight years until Rolls decided to build it himself.”

Karl Probst was a talented American engineer, who, in 1940, designed the very first jeep vehicle, the legendary Bantam “pilot car” prototype. Duncan Rolls is a talented Australian fabricator and builder; a few years ago, he decided to build an exact recreation of the Bantam jeep prototype from the ground up, and then went on to build 15 more Bantam jeeps,

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