May jeep

[Steffen]

Hi.
A friend of mine has a GPW.(D.O.D 5-11-42

I need advice what parts will be correct on his jeep.
Like early gear box, rubber parts, steering wheel etc

[Frank]

Early Gearbox, Green Sheeler steering wheel and most of the rubber parts.

[Tommy 40]

According to the GPW judging standards steering wheel should be black.
Tom.

http://wiki.g503.com/index.php/8.6.1_Steering_wheel

[GI jeeps]

According to the GPW judging standards steering wheel should be black.

JS might be wrong on that.
I can put up 3 Apr - May GPWs that all had green shellers.

[Ronnie Guin]

My GPW 2956 DOD 3-10-42 has a green sheller steering wheel.

[Tommy 40]

GI jeeps, The Info I wrote was from the judging standards and was from the archives of the ford records researched by Jim Gilmore. I would agree with him as I have had three original unrestored jeeps two around sn# 20,000 with black and one around sn# 86,000 and it was green.


8.6.1 Steering wheel

Types of steering wheels used in GPW production were as follows:

TABLE 5. Period employed Steering wheel type
Start of production thru approx. late June ‘42 Solid molded black hard rubber
6/2/42a thru approx. Nov. ‘42 Solid molded Green hard rubber (“Tenite”)“SHELLER” marked
Approx November ‘42 thru end of production Wire spoked with green hard rubber rim

a. Per J.Gilmore archival research.


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[Dan S]

My March of 1942 GPW has a black steering wheel.

[lowbonnet]

My june 42 had a black sheller.

[Richard MacKenzie]

My original condition May 17, 1942 GPW had a green sheller steering wheel with metal spokes.

[gstone]

Steffen,
My GPW has a dod of 5/11/42...what is your friends SN?

mine is 20995

regards,
gstone

[Chuck Lutz]

I think the post about what the factory records show in this instance is a much better source of the change dates for BLACK to GREEN to SPOKED.
As can be seen from the posts so far, it doesn't make a difference what your jeep had on it at the end of WWII, it might not have been what it was built with at that point and 62 years after the war ended, what guys find on their jeeps isn't conclusive evidence....since the posts here contradict each other.....

Go with the GPW JS until someone else researches something more convincing (actual factory records or dated factory photos that weren't staged).

[karl oliver]

For everyone with their "original condition" jeeps, I think it would be fair to say that one of the early production models could have undergone a steering wheel change at some point. A change would explain the green sheller wheel replacement for the black. One would have to agree on the earlier models being correct with the black wheel.