Jeep Windscreen, Windblocker,
Windstop & Wind Deflectors
With the best Jeep windscreen available, enjoy the best of top-down driving. Whether you're talking on your cell phone, enjoying your stereo, or carrying on a conversation with your passenger, this windblocker will deliver a much quieter, more comfortable, and wind-free cockpit.
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Customer Reviews (read all customer reviews):
1-10-08
I received the windscreen
today and it looks fantastic. I am very
satisfied with it. You will be
recommended highly by me. Thank you.
Roger Byerly
Memphis, TN
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January 12, 2007
I got two different compliments on my
screen while I was in the mall parking
lot today. It made me proud to won such
a neat thing. It seems like convertible
drivers all notice it and want one. You
really should send me some business
cards so I can start passing them out
for you when I get compliments.
- Jim Ellis
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History of the Jeep
The first jeep prototype (the Bantam BRC) was built for the Department of the
Army by American Bantam in Butler, Pennsylvania, followed by two other competing
prototypes produced by Ford and Willys-Overland. The American Bantam Car Company
actually built and designed the vehicle that first met the Army's criteria, but
its engine did not meet the Army's torque requirements. Plus, the Army felt that
the company was too small to supply the number needed and it allowed Willys and
Ford to make second attempts on their designs after seeing Bantam's vehicle in
action. Some people believe that Ford and Willys also had access to Bantam's
technical paperwork.
Quantities (1,500) of each of the three models were then extensively field
tested. During the bidding process for 16,000 "jeeps," Willys-Overland offered
the lowest bid and won the initial contract. Willys thus designed what would
become the standardized jeep, designating it a model MB military vehicle
and building it at their plant in Toledo, Ohio.
Like American Bantam, Willys-Overland was a small company and, likewise, the
military was concerned about their ability to produce large quantities of jeeps.
The military was also concerned that Willys-Overland had only one manufacturing
facility: something that would make the supply of jeeps more susceptible to
sabotage or production stoppages.
Based on these two concerns, the U.S. government required that jeeps also be
built by the Ford Motor Company, who designated the vehicle as model
GPW (G = governmental vehicle, P showed the
wheelbase,
and W = the Willys design). Willys and Ford, under the direction of
Charles E. Soresen (Vice-President of Ford during World War II), produced more
than 600,000 jeeps containing their cost slightly above 300 dollars per unit,
due to its mass-production system economy. Besides just being a "truck" the jeep
was used for many other purposes.
The jeep was widely copied around the world, including in France by Hotchkiss
et Cie (after 1954, Hotchkiss manufactured Jeeps under licence from Willys), and
in Japan by Mitsubishi Motors. There were several versions created,
including a railway jeep and an amphibious jeep. As part of the war effort,
Jeeps were also supplied to the Soviet Red Army during World War II.During the
jeep's service in Korea the name was referred to as "Just Enough Essential
Parts" by the troops due to the very basic design.
In the United States military, the jeep has been supplanted by a number of
vehicles (e.g. Ford's M151 MUTT) of which the latest is the High Mobility
Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle)(HMMWV or "Humvee"). (Information from
Wikipedia.)
