£6,750
1953 Willys Jeep M38A1 An ideal candidate for Military Shows, Reenactment events, or period TV and Film productions
Hampson Auctions • UK • 4 May 2025
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Lowest 30% of Past Sales
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£6,750
1953 Willys Jeep M38A1 An ideal candidate for Military Shows, Reenactment events, or period TV and Film productions
UK • 4 May 2025
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This 1953 M38 Willys Jeep, nicknamed "Hot Lips," boasts a distinctive military aesthetic with its olive drab livery and service stars. Recent maintenance includes brake and fuel system overhauls, though the wiring needs upgrading for headlight use.
Condition
6
The vehicle has had extensive maintenance in the last 12 months. The vehicle exhibits the full, 1950’s military aesthetic in its matt olive drab livery complete with white painted service stars and accompanying script. The brakes have also been fully overhauled to include new shoes all round and new handbrake shoes, new master and wheel cylinders, two new drums, two new “S” lines as well as an upgrade of all brake lines to copper items. A new steel bowl fuel pump has been added as have new silicon inlet ducting, a new radiator hose and two new twin fanbelts. The vendor notes that ‘SHG 317P’ is only useable in daylight as the wiring requires upgrading to allow use of the headlamps.
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Manual
LHD
United Kingdom
SHG 317P
1953
Auction
£6,750
1953 Willys Jeep M38A1 An ideal candidate for Military Shows, Reenactment events, or period TV and Film productions
Hampson Auctions • UK • 4 May 2025
Market Position:
Lowest 30% of Past Sales
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Description
MOT – Exempt The M38 Willys Jeep is also known as the MD, or even the G-758 after its military supply catalogue designation.
The Jeep was basically an update to the war time Willys Jeep and widely supplied to the American armed services between 1952 and 1971.
‘SHG 317P’ hails from 1953 and was thought to be slated to go to the Korean war but the war had finished before ‘SHG 317P’ was built.
‘SHG 317P’ was imported to the UK in 1976 and has been enjoyed by 7 previous keepers since then.
Powered by the 2.2-litre F4-134 “Hurricane” petrol engine mated to a 3-speed Borg-Warner T-90 manual transmission, ‘SHG 317P’ has benefitted from extensive key maintenance in the last 12 months.
Classified as an Historic Vehicle based on age, ‘SHG 317P’ is MOT exempt and zero rated for road tax.
‘SHG 317P’ exhibits the full, 1950’s military aesthetic in its matt olive drab livery complete with white painted service stars and accompanying script.
The name “Hot Lips” is painted on the windscreen sur...
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£3,642
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