| Heedless Horseman | 11 Jan 2022 3:05 a.m. PST |
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 ArmymenRGreat  | 11 Jan 2022 5:04 a.m. PST |
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| skipper John | 11 Jan 2022 6:08 a.m. PST |
Well… I got lost there for almost an hour! |
| 79thPA | 11 Jan 2022 7:18 a.m. PST |
Silly me thought they were shipped assembled and ready to go. |
 Mserafin | 11 Jan 2022 8:10 a.m. PST |
I remember when I was a kid, there were always ads in the back of Popular Mechanics for Jeep's that had been packed but never shipped. Really cheap, you just had to put it together. Kind of like buying a car from IKEA. |
| Legion 4 | 11 Jan 2022 9:56 a.m. PST |
I have heard the same. Most were shipped in the crates. My friend told me when he was a kid. A neighbor bought a surplus one as Mserafin mentioned. And he watched how the Cosmolin was removed/cleaned off many of the parts, etc. And it was assembled like a model car kit. |
| Stryderg | 11 Jan 2022 1:49 p.m. PST |
I recently watched something on youtube that said most vehicles were shipped from the US in crates to be assembled in Europe. They figured out that a crated up jeep took up less room in the cargo hold than a fully assembled one, so they could ship more each run. |
| Stryderg | 11 Jan 2022 1:55 p.m. PST |
Man! I almost got lost scrolling through the other pictures found on that site. |
| Zephyr1 | 11 Jan 2022 8:39 p.m. PST |
There's probably a few still around, sitting in crates, in some US gov't warehouse… ;-) |
| AussieAndy | 12 Jan 2022 11:16 a.m. PST |
I can remember reading about how some folk made fortunes after WW2 by helping themselves to the vast quantities of US supplies still in crates that were abandoned on various Pacific Islands. |
| Legion 4 | 12 Jan 2022 1:20 p.m. PST |
Amazing how much the USA left behind … even today … |
finds bridges to match the river sets.
