The Willys MA78621, one of approximately 45 known models in existence, is at the crux of this legacy.

FORBES: 1941 Jeep Willys at Chrysler Museum

He made a fortune out of stock options and saved other ailing car makers, such as Willys Overland and Maxwell-Chalmers.

ECONOMIST: Motor industry

For every GM, Ford and Chrysler there were dozens of Pierce Arrows, Auburns, Willys-Overlands, Stutzes, many of them market favorites in their day.

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The Willys MA78621 will be shown at the opening.

FORBES: 1941 Jeep Willys at Chrysler Museum

Harvard-educated Anand, soon to turn 56, represents the third generation of the Mahindra clan to run the family enterprise that his paternal grandfather and great-uncle founded in 1945 as a steel trader and then an assembler of Willys Jeeps.

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