In 1940, after World War II had broken out, the US general staff bought various factories to develop a light multi-purpose automobile with all-wheel drive. The American Bantam Company, Willys Overland, and Ford Motor Co. competed together. Willys prototype ended up being chosen, which, after an initial run of 1500 cars, went into mass manufacturing at the beginning of 1941 and reached a complete production of 640.000 devices out of which 277.000 pieces were generated by Ford under a licensing contract. CONTAINS TWO FAST ASSEMBLY MODELS
