Small Scale Military Headquarters

Found a GI Joe 1/6 Jeep Willys complete with everything, M2 50 cal, shovels, axes, etc, and a driver all for............get this......... 10$ !!!!!!! I found it at an antique street fair in old Folsom, and the guy who sold it to me had just sold his enormous GI Joe collection for around 20,000 dollars, and this was the only thing he had left!!!! He said hes been collecting them ever since the early fiftys!! Just thought Id let yall know!!, but unfortunetly I didnt find any old xd stuff people wanted to get rid of

-Tobin

Found a GI Joe 1/6 Jeep Willys complete with everything, M2 50 cal, shovels, axes, etc, and a driver all for............get this......... 10$

Care to share a pic of this jewel with us?? Would love to see it.

sure thing, let me get my camera ready,

give me about 15 minutes

-Tobin

Here they are, Sorry I dont have the Driver in the Picture, it wasnt the original driver that came with it even if it did im not sure, but here are some pictures I quickly took<a href="http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/25 ... iPye"><img src="http://thumb2.webshots.net/t/59/459/8/2 ... Pye_th.jpg" alt="p1030515"></a><a href="http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/29 ... Vsnz"><img src="http://thumb2.webshots.net/t/53/453/4/3 ... snz_th.jpg" alt="p1030524"></a><a href="http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/27 ... Xzkx"><img src="http://thumb2.webshots.net/t/16/16/8/37 ... zkx_th.jpg" alt="p1030526"></a>

Nice weathering on the jeep. Looks like a very good deal!

What's with the Mercedes grill on the wall?

Oh its something I found at an Antique shop over in Auburn, and I hung it up on my wall and it looks pretty cool!! But other than that Ive got plenty other cool stuff like that in my room!

-Tobin

Tobin,
The Clock on the wall in my garage is a Mercedes Hupcap with the center drilled out and a battery operated quartz movement mounted behind it! No numbers or marks on the face, just the Mercedes Star!

Thats Awesome, I love creating stuff outa vintage objects, like I have a license plate from each state, from the 60s, and the 70s, and some from the 50s, but not alot, and Im making a Map of the U.S, im not done cause its proving to be pretty hard

-Tobin

Very nice, looks real. Man, what a great deal for $10 All you need now is a 1/6th 21C Stuart tank and you've got yourself a ready made WWII Armored Cav scout/recon squad

Nice ,.. great find ! ,.. there "MigMad". ... Even though I'm not into 1/6.

Is it GI Joe or 21st?

Its GI Joe, it sais Hasbro on bottom

COOL FIND

It's GI Joe for sure. 21C never made a Jeep with front wheels changing angles. I do believe I have all the Hasbro, SOTW and 21C 1/6 Jeeps that were made.

Hasbro made a very decent Jeep. Their Ma Duece stinks but you can't have everything.

Great find for $10, especially with all the goodies.

TTT

If anyone knows the exact version I have, did it come with a driver, because I know for sure the driver that came with myne isnt original, because it was a tuskegee airmen pilot, If anyone can give me some info that would be great!!!

-Tobin

Sorry, I never keep Hasbro figures with the vehicles, they are sooo terrible I only use them in a crowd background or as a crew with "good" figures, and then I dump their clothes and redress them with 21C or DML uniforms and equipment.. Sorry I can't help.

TTT

Found this off a website, and this looks like mine!!!, {Quote}"A second version of the Hasbro Willy's jeep hit store shelves before Christmas 2002. This one was a KMart store exclusive and included everything listed above plus an exclusive WWII infantry soldier dressed in a uniform only available in this set. The uniform was similar to the Audie Murphy figure, but had more of a greenish tint and slightly wider grain to the fabric. The helmets were the same 3rd Infantry Division helmet."
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G'day All

The Jeep that MMM has got is Hasbro's Ford GPW released about in 2002-3 or so, as I recall Hasbro chose to produce the Ford version to avoid paying the license fee being demanded by Chrysler/Jeep for their copyright of the grill at the time.

To avoid paying this same licensing fee on their Jeep "Soldier’s of the World" simply made it with only seven or eight grill slots instead of the correct number of nine. 21stCT must have payed the licence as their Jeep has the correct number of slots on theirs.

The Hasbro Ford GPW like their 1/6th scale HMMWV and Zodiac where always a hard find and unlike some other Hasbro 1/6th products these three are quite accurate true 1/6th scale products.

MMM you can count yourself very lucky in the fact that you've got one at all not to mention the bargain basement price you paid for it.

Thanks, its funny, it sais on the bottom of it Daimler Chrysler Corporation on the Bottom, Spudkof did you say it should be a Ford Licensed product???

MIGMADMAVIS wrote:Thanks, its funny, it sais on the bottom of it Daimler Chrysler Corporation on the Bottom, Spudkof did you say it should be a Ford Licensed product???

MMM

No my recollection is that it was not licensed to either Ford or Chrysler but used the early style grill and some other Ford GPW features to avoid the fees for the copyrighted grill, but they may have had to pay for the use of the word Jeep.

Oh Ok, I understand now

When i was young i used to colect gi joe before i got into 1/18 scale. I still have that exact same jeep and a american halftrack that has a 75mm gun on it in marines version I will try to put pictures on

The Hasbro half-track is interesting because it was suposed to be early WW2 with the old French 75 (left over from WW1) mounted behind the big armor shields as an anti-tank gun. Quickly discarded as an anti-tank gun but Marines used it in the Pacific due to the small Japanese tanks and this version was given to the Ruskies as "Lend Lease".

As a 1/6 piece the half-track is WAY under size in the back open area of the half-track and the whole vehicle is too narrow.

Still commands high sale amounts on eBay.

BTW, sometime this year a few of our 1/6 small manufacturers are talking about making a very nice generic half-track for us to play with. The generic version can be made into any number of models of the White half-tracks. Looking for at least a few different models. I do love the White half-track....

TTT

i agree with you those are pretty cool