Ed's US Army GPA Amphibious Jeeps

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Woodsy,

While I don't have any civilian Aquacar's of the type posted here, here's a couple of similar ones I do have.

The Ideal GPA in light blue SP has been in my collection for many years now.

The Marx GPA in hard plastic was added to the collection just this past week and has a story to it.

 I recently learned of the Marx version while perusing back issues of Playset Magazine. It mentioned that the Marx Amphibious Jeep was quite rare. 

Then, while randomly searching for things on fleaBay I came across three separate sales that would make a complete GPA! 

The body was on auction which I won for a whopping 5$. However, it had issues: there's a chunk missing out of one side and the axle supports had been removed (what the 'you-know-what'! Who would do that?) 

Then a set of five vintage Marx wheel sets came up (always useful having extra sets on hand) and I snatched those up. Lastest, but not leastest, was the repo cannon - correct for this vehicle.

 The repos were made of resin back in the '90s so it too is now a vintage piece. For the moment - and just to show what a complete vehicle would look like - I took the photos with the wheel sets simply inserted into the bottom of the hull. 

From the right angles, it still looks good.

From Camp Las Vegas

Ed