Seems like a useful build for one of those old 1/24th scale Jeep kits.
An average jeep could do only 50 or so miles per hour. Several military police (MP) patrols had chased one of our jeeps into a Navy base near Apra Harbor on Guam. This jeep was amazingly faster than most. I don’t recall when, where, or who finally captured it, but it was impounded at an equipment storage yard near Asan where I had to pull guard duty on too many occasions. Finally, a look under the hood revealed this particular jeep’s secret—some enterprising sailor had installed a Ford V-8 in the Willys!
https://www.militarytrader.com/mv-101/gi-jeep-tale-belcher
When he was stationed in the Phillipines at the end of and after WWII Wally Parks, co-founder
of
Hot Rod and
Motor Trend magazines, founder of the NHRA (National Hot Rod Association)
the original drag-racing sanctioning body, hot-rodded a
Bantam BRC-40 Ford GP with a 136 ci
Ford V8-60 Flathead from a captured Japanese vehicle. Love the shiny beauty rings on the
wheels. The name has been commonly been translated as 'Follow Me', however another Tagalog
to English translation is 'C'mon do it'.
The
BRC-40 Ford GP was a limited production version of
Bantam's Ford's competitor for the GP
competition that was won by Willys, even though Ford got the big production contracts for the
Willys MB.
Edited due to corrected information about the vehicle, it's a Ford GP rather than a Bantam.