M306 measurements.

[Goldslinger]

Keen eye you have. I do but as you can see , I am far from finished. 42 GPW script 28106. I do have a 52 m38 that is mostly done and very original except paint.
Also my 42 g519 that I am gathering parts for. Too many projects not enough time. Yours must be really early . Looks like a flat top grill.

 

[johan willaert]

Yours must be really early . Looks like a flat top grill.

It is GPW56685, DoD 18 August 1942, actually too late for the flat top grille, but it was on it when I bought the Jeep back in 1983.
Could have been replaced or maybe it was still laying around in the factory in the summer of 1942...

Good luck on your many projects

 

[Mercian]

Hi Both,

not really a conversation for here, we can take to PM if necessary.

My first jeep was MB122530, original chassis plate, signs the glovebox plates had been recently removed (sadly), script Willys body. It also had a flat topped grill. At the time (30 years ago), I had a number of people tell me that my jeep should have been a late slat grill, and that the flat topped grill was (quote) 'some Hotchkiss thing'. There were no sign of slat grill wing air dflectors, though it did have the strip across the inside of the bonnet.

I gather it's now thought of as an early pressed grill feature?

Best Regards,

Adrian