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BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO JEEP

What’s Jeep and when did it start making cars?

Jeep is a strange company in that its product existed long before the company did – in June 1940 the US government put out a request for bids from 135 different carmakers to come up with a lightweight 4WD reconaissance vehicle.

The Bantam Car Company came up with a feasible proposal, but the army didn’t think it would be 

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