Olav Holst's Ford GP

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Olav Holst's Ford GP

Post by Ron Fitzpatrick » Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:36 pm

The picture was taken 2/25/17 in front of King Kamehameha’s statue in Honolulu. My jeep is GP 15581. King Kamehameha united the Hawaiian Islands and created the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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Post by JACKHAMMER » Mon Feb 27, 2017 5:15 pm

Thats the best 1941 Gp in Hawaii !
Glad to see you are having fun with her!!
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Post by gpwmke » Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:14 pm

Great looking GP Olav. Best wishes; Leo

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Post by Olav » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:06 am

Thank you Jimmy and Leo, last Sunday was a beautiful day for driving so I drove downtown and snapped some photos.

Aloha,

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Post by Brian Wolf » Mon Mar 06, 2017 1:55 pm

Been a very long road Olav. You deserve that beatiful jeep.
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Post by Olav » Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:10 pm

Thank you Ron, Jimmy, Brad, Norm, Leo, Brian, Bruce, Sandy, Robbie and so many more who gladly helped me with this almost nine year project. I am very grateful and happy to see a cool piece of American History saved from the scrap heap. I have had some great reactions to her from the public.

Aloha and Mahalo Nui Loa,

Olav

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Post by DavidA » Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:55 pm

Congrats on that fine looking GP. It would be an award winner I believe.

Olav, I was over there last September and found this photo in the FT. DeRussy museum. I knew there were GP's in Hawaii in early '41 but had little proof. There was the one parked in front of Schofield Barracks (poor photo) and now this one. Maybe there are more. Just need to search over there some more I guess. :D
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Post by Olav » Tue Mar 07, 2017 6:18 pm

Thanks David, yes that is a cool photo. Jimmy Strauss brought that to my attention when he was visiting here. I was happy to see it because until then I had only seen one photo of a GP in pre-war Hawaii. The photo I have is in a Pearl Harbor Survivor's book that has a GP parked in front of some Dodge VCs at Schofield Barracks. There seem to be a few more MA photos in pre-war Hawaii than GPs and BRCs. If any one has any GP or other prototype photos from Hawaii I would enjoy seeing them and I am sure the rest of the G would to.
Thanks again David, come visit and we can cruise through Waikiki in GP 15581.

aloha,

Olav

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Post by Rory Grenier » Wed Mar 08, 2017 2:12 pm

Olav,
Very nice GP !!!!! I am glad I got the chance to stop in at Jimmy's to look at it. Jimmy did some very nice work on it.

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