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Flatfender Ben
Member Joined: 13 July 2014 Location: Nyssa OR Status: Offline Points: 2657 |
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Posted: 15 Jan. 2017 at 7:18pm |
You know that old jeep you keep wanting to stop and ask about?
This is to motivate you to ask! Sitting in a shed I've driven passed a hundred times, is a very original early cj5. I don't have a cj5 and that seems like a good reason to get one Well I never have asked about this one.... and last time I drove by this is what I saw THE JEEP is sitting in the 2nd bay from the left UNDER that big pile of snow!!! So much for nice original sheet metal! Just wish it had been parked in the 1st bay where the stupid boat is!! ps (NO FLATFENDERS WHERE DAMAGED IN THIS SHED) |
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Flatfender Ben
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And yes I still plan on stopping to ask about.
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berettajeep
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Maybe it got lucky and did not sustain to much damage.
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Mark W.
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There is a place here where one family never threw away an automobile. now they had 18 kids in the family so not hot little 2 dr coupes they were all big 4 doors etc. But there were a few neat ones in the pile that went back to just before WWII. And for years and years people would stop and ask about buying one or two. Heck as a kid I did. And one day there was one hell of a wind storm and since they were all parked out under the oaks the wind storm messed up about half of them. And almost all those were the older neater cars.
The answer everyone got when asking about the old cars was that one day they would be worth so much more they were going to hang on to them. Well by the time they were willing to sell (wind storm and the old man passing on) no one was stopping by any more and most of them were hauled off for scrap metal. I did hear a couple of the oldest ones and a Corvair were parted out but with much of the sheet metal either rusted or bent to sh*t they got nothing compared to what they would have 10 or 20 years earlier. |
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Chug A Lug
1948 2A Body Customized 1949 3A W/S 1957 CJ5 Frame Modified Late 50's 134L 9.25"clutch T90A D18 (1.25") D44/30 flanged E-Locker D25 5.38 Since 1962 |
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Bruce W
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At one time I thought about obtaining and restoring some old horse-drawn wagons, buckboards, buggies, and wooden-framed farm equipment, to then be sold for yard-art or whatever. I thought that once I saw how they were built, I might even build some from scratch. People were paying big bucks for that stuff.
A farmer down the road a piece had a bunch of farm wagons, farm equipment, etc. lined up along the fence in a pasture, drying out, rotting, falling apart and being rubbed to pieces by cattle. I tried to buy some of them, but got the same old,"No, I'm going to fix them up myself some day." One day the pasture burned, probably started by a tossed cigarette butt from a passing motorist. I was one of the firefighters on that fire, and got to see all that stuff destroyed. I almost felt like crying. BW
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It is NOT a Jeep Willys! It is a Willys jeep.
Happy Trails! Good-bye, Good Luck, and May the Good Lord Take a Likin' to You! We Have Miles to Jeep, Before We Sleep. |
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leecarr
Member Joined: 27 Sep. 2016 Location: Massachusetts Status: Offline Points: 910 |
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That's happening a lot out here in New England, most of the old barns are gone or going because people can't afford to maintain them and the old "swamp yankees" out here hate to part with anything. I did a lot of restoration work on an almost 300 year old barn in town, while we were working there part of the foundation caved in from a heavy rain, if we hadn't already supported a lot of it, it would be in the hole.
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Ol' Unreliable
Member Joined: 25 Sep. 2016 Location: CO Springs CO Status: Offline Points: 4226 |
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What about that Corvette museum that had a sinkhole open up under it? Lots of Chevy's finest sitting in a museum and still destroyed...
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There's a reason it's called Ol' Unreliable
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Labe46
Member Joined: 12 Feb. 2017 Location: Abingdon, VA Status: Offline Points: 9 |
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My wife's grandfather just passed down number 80701, a 1946 to us. It had been in his barn in Chilhowie VA for what he figures was at least 15 years. It has 19,128 ORIGINAL miles. It has rear PTO with front weight he says he is pretty sure came on it. I am super excited and cannot wait to get her on the road!
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Joe DeYoung
Member Sponsor Member x 2 Joined: 20 July 2005 Location: Madison WI Status: Offline Points: 3354 |
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Very nice.... has a newgren 3 point and possible governor as well. Would like to see more pics of this one.
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Joe DeYoung
to many jeeps, parts, and accessories to list here, but apparently enough to keep me in trouble with my wife. |
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Flatfender Ben
Member Joined: 13 July 2014 Location: Nyssa OR Status: Offline Points: 2657 |
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Wow! Awesome looking jeep.
Definitely start a thread on this one, if you haven't already. We need lots and lots of pictures I see that you did start a thread for it. Edited by Flatfender Ben - 12 Feb. 2017 at 6:10am |
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1948willysjeeper
Member Joined: 20 Apr. 2016 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 74 |
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Not sure of your familiarity with the jeep three point lifts but they are sought after. Take inventory of what you have and possibly what your missing. Then look in the barn for the missing parts. Some dismiss all the little pieces as old junk farm equipment and scrap them. Awesome jeep!
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pilot195
Member Joined: 29 Nov. 2016 Location: Washingtonville Status: Offline Points: 116 |
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Welcome and congrats! From the manuals I've scoured on this web site, that sure looks like the front weight that was used to offset the equipment weight hanging off the back - so I'd say your grandfather was correct. Abingdon is a hike from NoVa but if my daughter gets into VT I'll have to come check up on your progress! If you get up my way, holler and we can compare notes ... yours looks like your starting with one in better shape than I am .. :) Jim
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Jim
'46 Willys Jeep CJ-2A USAF retired |
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autolite
Member Joined: 15 Apr. 2006 Location: San Mateo, Cali Status: Offline Points: 788 |
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Nice looking untouched jeep. By the way, the rear bow set up belongs installed in the sockets behind the driver and passenger seats on the wheel wells. Those are for the front.
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willys jeep
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501st
Member Joined: 03 Feb. 2017 Location: Nisula, MI Status: Offline Points: 29 |
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Know of 3 more Cj2A's within a 3 or 4 mile radius of me. One of them in use on a farm. Going to ask about all of them!
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Bob3b
Member Joined: 08 Mar. 2010 Location: Akron, Ohio Status: Offline Points: 3095 |
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That is a sweet one to find. Has lots of goodies on it. Definitely look around that barn for the arms and adjustors for that hitch. There is a discussion and some photos about that hitch here on the page that is recent, that will show you what the stuff looks like. That will save you the trouble, and the money, of trying to find those things later.
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1946 CJ2A #23881
1953 CJ3b, nice! 1949 Jeepster 1947 Empire Model 90 1985 CJ10A Spen "S" Utility trailer Kubota l3400 |
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