Some more pics and info on Brazilian variants here:

[www.angelfire.com]

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In 1947 it appeared the Sedan Delivery, a version furgão of the turkey hen, without the posterior lateral windows, with two back doors that if opened for the sides and bank only for the driver. In the following year they arrived a luxury version, the Station Sedan, and new colors. Good new features were the banks most comfortable and the option of the Lightning engine (lightning) of six cylinders on-line and 2,4 liters, with rude power of 72 cv, that it improved the performance sufficiently.

A new grating frontal was adopted in 1950. The proposal of the turkey hen, however, remained of a utilitarian espartano and it would not change with the absorption of the Willys for the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, in 1953. But details of finishing and painting in two tones ("skirt-and-blouse") would be introduced of beginning.

The new phase brought some evolutions, as the Hurricane engine (hurricane) of six cylinders and 115 cv rude ones, in 1954, that it equipped has seven years the automobiles of the Kaiser. Versions for specific ends had passed to be offered, as one of six doors, entreeixos long and three rows of banks, for services of hotels and airports. In 1960 the windscreen came in an only part and, two years after, as much the Station Wagon how much the furgão Sedan Delivery was discontinued.

Brazilian version the versatility and the robustness of the Jeep Station Wagon called the attention the Willys-Overland of Brasil s.a., established in Are Bernardo of the Field, SP in 26 of April of 1952. The company mounted since 1954 the Universal Jeep (already with high hood, had to the engine with headstock in "F") and to offer a derived turkey hen of it, keeping its qualities of resistance, would be ideal for a country with so precarious ways of traffic how much ours.

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To the ending of World War II, the Willys-Overland Company, established American company in 1907 (it knows more), searched new applications for its utilitarian celebrity Jeep. The idea was to create one would carroceria more conventional, to be mounted on the mechanics of the outside-of-road, having given origin what the announcements presented as the Victory Car, the Car of the Victory.

Diverse difficulties, however -- the greater of them, is given credit, was the great demand that the manufacturers of carrocerias badly could take care of --, they had taken the designer of the Car of the Victory, Brook Stevens, to give up the project and to look an alternative. Stevens was defined for an innovation: a turkey hen, with the maximum of common components to the Jeep and would carroceria integrally manufactured in steel. This not yet existed in the United States, where the turkey hens were elaborated with structures wooden added the silks.

Launched in 1946, the Jeep Station Wagon was mounted on a chassis of 104 pol (2,64 meters) of distance between axles and was based on lines straight lines, to simplify the stamping of would carroceria. The rectilinear mudguards were the same ones of military Jeep e, to create the impression of the carrocerias known ones wooden, the only available color was wine with the laterals in cream and panels in brown-clearly.

Simplicity, robustness and economy were its high points. It took seven passengers with a total length of 4,78 meters or, if the back banks were removed, more than 2,700 liters of load. The trunk had plain floor and the door of access divided in the horizontal line, a part if opening for top and another one for low. The wooden absence facilitated the conservation of would carroceria and the front suspension, idealized for the head of engineering Barney Ross, used a system of seven transversal blades, remembering to a project its for the Studebaker in the decade of 30.

The motor age the same of the Americar silk of before the war, four cylinders, 2,2 liters and headstock in "F" (valves of admission in the headstock and exhaust pipe in the block), subdimensionado clearly. But 63 cv and 14,5 m.kgf, both rude values, dealt with one 300 weight kg bigger in the turkey hen, taking it with the 105 effort km/h of maximum speed. The exchange of three marches soon received one overdrive, but the traction only remained back -- in 1949 4x4 would only be offered to the turkey hen, with beams of conventional half-elliptical springs in the front suspension.

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If that helps any.

Probably not.

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Clark Griswold would probably agree with that naming convention.

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Thanks for the effort, though. :)

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Well, panel vans in general.

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I saw a Rodius in person last summer. I still haven't fully recovered.

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The profile of that thing above reminds of a couple old wagons I love:

Well, it's more "every time I see an Armada", because I don't remember my last late-'50s Rambler wagon.

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Now I want to chrome the C-pillar trim cap on my '89, though.

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