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The world's oldest Jeep, manufactured in 1940 by the Bantam Motor Car Company of Butler, PA.
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Color image of the jeep on display.

Credit: On loan from the Smithsonian Institution to the Pittsburgh Regional History Center.

This Bantam "Mark II" or BRC-60, serial number "7", is the earliest surviving Jeep of any kind. Rescued from an Army junkyard and then restored, it is on loan from the Smithsonian Institution to the Pittsburgh Regional History Center.

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