Matthew Hallett has restored Willys MBs, Ford GPWs and a host of military motorcycles but always hankered after a T82 Kűbelwagen




In the late 1970s, unable to afford a Jeep, Matthew Hallett stencilled a white star on the bonnet of an olive painted - and at £100, a much more affordable - Land Rover Series One 80in. Setting aside his treasured Dinky toys, which included a Kűbelwagen, Matthew began building and collecting real military motorcycles. He had been gathering a miscellany of militaria from around the age of nine and through his late teens had been glued to every episode of M*A*S*H, paying particular attention to the various models of Jeep the cast drove.