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| Information submitted to the Registry has been placed in multiple tables. Click on the year below to see entries submitted. LAST WEB UPDATE OF REGISTRATIONS--> January 14, 2005 5:00pm CST UPDATE June 8, 2005 PLEASE NOTE:
If you don't know the delivery month or year, but do know the serial number from the plate behind the passenger seat, look to the tables to 'bracket' your delivery date. Some of the records indicate they had the passenger serial number plate and know the model year without having the dash plate for verification. These are a bit suspect if you look at the serial number column only. I have assumed the s/n's were sequential but the model years don't work. I recognize there are some inconsistencies with the information. It's what was submitted so I posted it. Some clear trends are beginning to start. The foreign models generally appear to have a serial number sequence that is very low. Quite possibly they restarted the sequence for export. The email addresses do not have direct email links. If you want to contact the owner just highlight and copy, then past it in your email address TO: box. The following was submitted by Harold West regarding numbering of certain M38A1 units. A certain number of M38A1's were foreign models. The number of "Cdn" (Canadian) models manufactured in 1953 is unknown. They just started at serial number xxxxx and went up to xxxxx then back to delivering A1's for the US military. Then in 1967, they started making the A1 for Canada again. As far as Willys is concerned, 1955 was the last year for the M38A1 production. However, in 1960 production was started again for the USMC and batches were made for them up until 1964. Then in 1967 the Cdn contract started and ended in 1971. As far as I can tell the beginning 1960 serial number picks up where the 1955 serial numbers left off - the same with the Cdn models. It should be noted that after 1955, Kaiser made the M38A1. However, Willys was still on the dataplates as late as 1962. My understanding is that Kaiser bought out Willys in 1953 but left the Willys name and the company as a whole. But by these later A1's, the company was known as Kaiser-Jeep. There was a special production of the M38A1 in I believe 1957 where there were 1000 units or so built for the Greek (?) Army. I do not have that information currently available but it comes from the Chrysler Archives. I have never seen one but understand that some were exported back to the US so some are in fact around. In summary, if it's not Cdn or the few that were built for the Greek Army, it was built for the US military. However, this is not to say that a foreign country didn't get some from our military at some point. In 1963 most, if not all, A1's went to the USMC. Some did go to the Navy which was primarily identified with yellow numbers. If the A1 has the rubber tipped wiring harness, reinforced rear crossmember and 4.27 posi-trac front and rear axle, it is probably a late model USMC M38A1. The following was submitted by Pevo Cordova regarding the Greek units. I have a M38A1 that initially belonged to the Greek army according to what the previous owner indicated. There are "plenty" of M38A1's in Greece. According to what I understood there must be a quite "important" quantity of M38A1 in the north of Greece, close to the borders with Turkey and Bulgaria (rather logical). My M38A1 was in the Air Force (old blue paint), but I have seen some painted in light green, which means that they were part of the Land Forces (now using Peugeot P4). I have seen model with both hinged and rigid front grill, which seems strange if we consider that only 1000 units were produced. Some information from Pedro Obregon of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Argentine Army had 125 M38A1's all from 1962. They also had 21 M170's from 1967. 100 Dutch NEKAF's. Many thanks must be given to Hans van Oorschot for providing a significant number of registry entries from across the pond.
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