Seeing that World War II was coming and that they were going to need a new vehicle to get around on muddy, off road battlefields, in July 1940, Karl Probst, a freelance auto designer in Detroit submitted the BRC or Bantam Reconnaissance Car, which could be built with mostly off the shelf parts. The Army loved the design, but didn’t think the company who originally pitched the idea could handle production. So they asked Toledo’s Willys Overland and the Ford Motor Company to work on the design.
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