They do not build vehicles to last nowadays! They're completely overpriced that Jeep brand new back then was probably less than $2,000

@@frankjgornickjr3676 even with inflation its better value

Willys Jeep engine = 294 moving parts. Tesla motor = 1 moving part, the rotor.

You can buy full replica steel body’s and new Willy’s engines new made.

Interesting to hear. Don’t worry your grammar is fine👍

Lots of good times in a jeepney. Drinking beer and going to Subic City.

The Dakota was the civilian name for Douglas DC-3, which was the C-47 Skytrain to the army Idk what a Dakota truck is, but I want one

Now they are built new from factory

@@muffinman3111 assembled in shop not factory

@@gemini0557 now jeepneys aren’t made from Jeep’s the modern jeepney is a factory built vehicle

Just Empty Every Pocket.

We spent 2 years of “evenings” and about $15k restoring our 1946 model. We did a frame-up restoration but had to use replacement body as ours was rusted beyond repair. Cost did not include our labor. Beautiful piece of history and a definite head-turner everywhere we go!

​​@@lindagammage951beond repair might be questionable, heard of Carrington serwis in Poland? Their sheat metal guy is increadible using the still good original sheat metal and fabricating the rusted away rest!!!! And they do complete restos for less money than in the west....first grade job!!! They are here on YT btw, showing their magic!

And the carburetor controls the air flow, I wonder how the gas gets to the motor ?

Too much technology. Just more to go wrong!

Unions made the American auto industry less competitive. That's not the only thing, of course, but it's probably the single biggest. Several years back, I read that the overhead from US automakers was so much higher than that of Japanese automakers (whose US-based factories are in right to work states, and not unionized) that the cost to build, on average, was $3,000.00 more per vehicle. It's probably more now, as that figure is about 15 years old. This leaves the Big Three with a choice: build a vehicle just as good as a Honda or a Toyota, but it has to be priced higher, so they won't sell as many; or cut corners and lower the build quality in order to offer it at a competitive price, but now it won't hold up as well long term. Inevitably, they went with option two, as it doesn't become apparent until a vehicle has a few years on it that it just isn't as reliable or durable as the more solidly built Japanese cars. One of the smartest things workers in the American Honda and Toyota (and other foreign-owned car makers') factories have done is consistently refused UAW's efforts to get them to unionize.

Why not? Early Jeeps had this steering wheel.