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Gerald Colletz spotted this CJ-2A at the Alaska Aviation Museum and submitted it to Four Wheeler Magazine. Check out all the photos here: http://www.fourwheeler.com/how-to/tech-qa/1501-your-jeep-january-2015/
Photo by Gerald Collatz
Here’s another look from the front of the jeep. This photo was taken a few years ago when it was inside.
Is it just me or does someone else want to rotate sides with the front tires on to have the tread pointing in the opposite direction?
Very observant, I didn’t even notice until you mention it. You would think being a museum, they would get detail correct.
They likely have plane experts, but not jeep experts. I’ve seen this a far more common problem in museums than I ever expected. In this case, the museum likely has limited funds and doesn’t want to spend any of those funds on the jeep.
I’ll give the museum the benefit of the doubt and say they drive the Jeep forward as much as they do backward towing planes and this made the traction equal.
I work in a museum myself and we’ve displayed some things that people think are incorrect, but are factually proper.
http://www.classiccarmuseum.org
I’ll add your museum to our list of places to visit when we are traveling in NY next.
My initial comment was much longer and included a bit about the importance of modified jeeps as a context to certain situations, but I was running short of time for a longer comment. WWII jeeps that had field mods are a good example of mods that are I think are perfect for museums.
However, I’ve encountered CJ-2A/MB jeeps passed off as WWII jeeps that left me less than impressed. Of course, many museum visitors won’t recognize the difference, just as I am clueless for example about tanks or their mods.
That was my first thought, thank you NPD811. Farm tractor tires are typically directional, but some with four tires on a drive axle mix them up if not dedicated to pulling implements only forward. Front bucket loaders for instance.
Almost any tire usage deviating from the norm causes controversy as to it’s being effective.
Nice conversation.
John