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1941 Carbon Arc Searchlight Boise, ID **SOLD**

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UPDATE:  **SOLD**

Randy spotted this one.

WW2 Carbon Arc Anti-Aircraft Searchlight and Sperry Power Plant
Manufacture: Sperry Gyro Co.
Model: 1941A

This light has been restored by the Carroll Brothers who have 40 years experience in ground up restorations of vintage military equipment. Great care was taken to insure historical accuracy. This is a museum quality light.

The light has been restored to original condition. Light was completely disassembled and rebuilt. All lead base paint removed. Interior of drum repainted with heat resistant paint, exterior painted military green. Asbestos insulation removed and replaced with heat resistant insulation. Mirror is 85% to 95%.

Many NOS (new old stock) parts replace unusable parts; 
New Sperry control box
New junction box with power receptacles 
Reconditioned burner with good nose cone

Carriage has new tires and reconditioned hubs.
All old electrical wire has been removed and replaced with modern wire. Light rewired to 1940’s standards. Re-carboned light and azimuth light function. Meter and meter box restored and working well.
No broken glass, all data plates reconditioned and in place.
Sperry power plant has been fully restored as well.”

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Pics from the 2014 Great Willys Picnic

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John forwarded these pics from the 2014 Willys Picnic last weekend. Looks like a great day.

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Bantam BRC-40 Photo on eBay

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Marc forwarded this photo. Anyone know what the directional tires might be going the opposite ways on the driver’s side?

View all the information on eBay

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Another D-Day Commemoration Photo

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Andy shared this second D-Day commemoration photo from the beach of Normandy. What a unique experience it would be to travel over this beach in MB/GPW!

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Kids on Jeeps

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Charles collected a few vintage photos of kids on jeeps.

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Photos from the Reading, PA, Military Show

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John snapped these photos from the MAAM WWII Weekend in Reading, PA, this past weekend.

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1947 Photo of the American Legion on eBay

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I don’t think I’ve seen anyone redo a jeep with this paint scheme.

“1947 Press Photo Members Of Amer Legion’s Forty & Eight In Jeep At NY City Hall”

view all the information on eBay

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1955? Alfa Romeo Matta Brochure

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UPDATE: This brochure sold on eBay.

I don’t know just how rare these brochures are, but this is currently priced at $93 and there’s already a bid! The vehicles were only built between 1952 and 1954, so I’m not sure there was a 1955 brochure?

“Pages: 12 (fold out)
Language; specs in English, German, Italian, French
Print code: –
Size: 27 x21 cm (10½x8½)
Condition: good (4 out of 5, if 5 is mint new). Please notice, light miscolor on front is due to photo.
Remarks: 2 clean binder holes
Ships w/ top-quality airmail at 7$ within EU (European Union) and 11$ rest of World (including US/North America) (NEVER experienced any shipment problems). Combine with 1 or more of my other auctions, and it gets quite inexpensive. Shipment will get to you within 1 week or less. If you prefer, we can also arrange special shipping.”

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Normandy D-Day Commemoration

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Andy Brown forwarded this great photo in Normandy outside the tank museum near Carentan. Andy notes they were expecting over 200 jeeps at the event.

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Northern Ohio Flatfender Day

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On September 7, Bob Christy is hosting another Northern Ohio Flatfender day at his place in Green, Ohio. See all the info below:

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MLW-2 Article at Four Wheeler

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Jim Allen, with some help from Bob Westerman, published an article in Four Wheeler about the MLW-2 vehicle.

http://www.fourwheeler.com/product-reviews/1407-willys-overland-mlw-2-jeep-encyclopedia/

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(You can view a newspaper clipping from 1944 about the MLW-2 as well)

 
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Charles’ Pics from Europe

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GPW Holden Rebuild in the Netherlands

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Marc found this Holden rebuild story:
http://yankreenactment.nl/jeep/the-holden-jeep/original-details/

Lots and lots of photos.

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Jeepers Country Bar and Grille in Spanaway, WA

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Jeepers Bar and Grille just opened in Spanaway, Washington (map). For me it is conveniently right on the way to my sister’s house in Roy. So, we’ll be stopping by at some point. Not only does it feature a CJ-3B on the menu and logo, but there are several large vintage jeep photos around the place. My cousin Eric dropped by on Thursday and told me they enjoyed the place.

You can find them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jeeperscountrybar

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Photo from Clark Field

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This photo sold yesterday on eBay. John pointed out to me just before it sold. Neat photo!

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Biloxi Blues Play in Scottsdale, AZ

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Our own Joe Snodgrass’ GPW was used as the model for this Biloxi Blues poster. He and his GPW will also be featured at a car show to promote the play.

You can learn more about the play here: http://desertstages.org/show/biloxi-blues-39

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Matt Goode’s Electric CJ-5

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Dave spotted this article about a 19 Year Old Iowan name Matt Goode who repowered a CJ-5 with electricity for a FFA (Future Farmers of America) project. I have to say that’s a nice choice of rims (not that I’m particle or anything).

Read the entire article here. http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/news/crop/electric-conversion-brings-life-to-old-jeep/article_b2e56a84-e684-11e3-8882-0019bb2963f4.html

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Photos from Charles

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Here’s another round of photos courtesy of Charles:

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Biscuit Progress – Bump and Steer

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2014-jeep-rebuild-may-june-david-jeep1For the last few days I’ve been in Seattle taking advantage of the nice weather to get some work done on Biscuit. Fortunately there weren’t too many ‘sonny-do’ projects, so I had a chance to get right to work.

First, I tackled the custom bracket I made for the transfer case. You might remember that I installed Dana 18 gears into a Dana 20 (a good way to improve the gearing) and turned the single Dana shifter into a dual shifter. When I built the bracket, I designed it to fit alongside the TH 350. I didn’t know it wouldn’t fit right against a T-18.

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As you can see, the side of the shifter bracket tong sits against the transmission. There was no room to attach a bolt on the backside of the tong.

Since the shifter bracket is more functional then beautiful, I reused most of the parts. I simply cut off the old tongs, welded them onto a plate, and welded the plate back onto the bracket.

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Not pretty, but works.

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The ‘finished’ bracket with some primer on it. You can just see the bolt that I welded to the back side to make it simpler to bolt the shift levers into place.

Next, since the transfer case sits slightly lower than it did before, I created a new side bracket. I made a template out of aluminum. To build the bracket I took a piece of an angle I had around the garage, cut it, and bent it into the shape of the template. Again, it’s nothing pretty, but gets the job done.

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Transfercase side support with primer on it (so it would photograph better).

As I explained in a post a couple weeks ago, while I was puling apart my jeep I discovered that the powersteering was rotating slightly as I spun the steering wheel. That’s a problem! So, I dedicated the last few days to fixing that problem and changing the way the front bumper connects.

The basic problem was that the stock power steering mount unit only used three of the four holes to attach the steering unit. Therefore, I planned to add a cross piece to provide a place for a fourth bolt to attach. However, that meant I had to cut the plate on top so the bolt could be attached and removed. And, since I was doing that, I figured I would change the way the bumper attached.

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The white arrow shows how the unit was rotating to the driver’s side.

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This arrow demonstrates where the power steering needed to attach.

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Here I’ve removed the bracket from the frame to provide a better look at it. This is the stock bracket from a 1973 CJ-5.

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This shows the cross brace I made from 1/2″ steel.

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Next up was the alternation of this top piece. You can see the outlines I’ve scratched into the plate.

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Using a cutting blade and a saws-it-all I removed chunks of the plate.

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Now it’s looking a little better.

Next off came the bumper:

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The length of the bumper in from of the jeep annoyed me a little. So, I wanted to remove a couple inches.

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The frame rail on the left has been cut back so the plate can fit snuggly over the custom front shackle. The far right frame rail has not been cut back yet.

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In order to bolt the bumper on to the front of the jeep, I created a set of flat plates and drilled some initial holes into them. The plates are tall so that I can weld a cross piece on to them. The cross piece will allow me to properly position the holes in the bumper with the holes in the plates.

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I clamped the new plates with the cross bracket onto the bumper so I could drill the holes. (for the pics I removed the clamps.

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With the bumper holes drilled, I can how set threads into the brackets.

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This is another view that shows the brackets, the cross piece and the tap at the far end.

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These are the brackets cut down and tapped. I had a little problem threading the hole on the lower right, which is why it doesn’t look quite right. It works fine though. I have also ground down the sides to make it easier to weld and fill the plates to the end of the frame.

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This show the plates welded and cleaned up on the end of the frame.

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This is a top view.

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This shows the bumper attached, everything painted, and the power steering affixed to the new and improved bracket. 

With those projects out of the way I turned my attention to the engine I bought from Daryl last summer. I discovered the motor has stock bores. The pistons appeared cleaned, but never run. The engine looks like it was rebuilt, but never run. The spark plug ends are clean and shiny.

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Me checking out the motor. It came without an intake manifold.

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With the head pulled I was relieved to see clean cylinders. Then I noticed there was no build up at all on the gaskets.

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The tops of the pistons showed they weren’t new, but they appeared to have been scrubbed cleaned.

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The underside of the heads show no carbon and the plugs look unused.

Given the engine looks unused, I’m not going to attempt to rebuild it. Instead, I’m going to run it as it is and focus resources on properly rebuilding my other motor (with its new heads and updated cam) later this year. In the meantime, I can run with this motor and focus on getting the other parts I need to get Biscuit running. Since they are both Buick V6s switching out motors at some future date won’t take very long.

Lastly, I thought you might enjoy seeing the welder I’ve been using. Dad tells me he got this Montgomery Ward classic as a hand-me-down from a local jeep builder (Al Carrol) in the late 1960s. It’s still works real well.

2014-jeep-rebuild-may-june-welder1 2014-jeep-rebuild-may-june-welder22014-jeep-rebuild-may-june-welder3I hope to return later this month to complete some more work. I will be updating the front brakes to discs. Thanks to R&P for the brake kit! I’m also hoping to have all the parts to install the drive train. Here are a few more parts I’ll be adding to the mix:

  1. Holley 390 carb (i have a kenne belle intake)
  2. Clutch kit & pilot bushing
  3. Brake Calipers for the new disc brakes
  4. Brake power CJ-7 unit with proportioner
  5. Bushings for my new rear emu springs (thanks to Mitch at ARB for helping out with those)
  6. Possibly a different set of headers (am waiting to see what I can find online)

So, stay tuned!

 

 
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A Couple Illustrations by Roberto Flores

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Roberto Flores has been busy.

He writes, “This #WillysJeep #cartoon could be (and is) devoted to #jeepers as Andy BintDavid EilersRon FitzpatrickJoe JenningsMike HardestyNate BolducNatxo Alberdi RuizRommel T. JuanHarriet Langridge, etc. for mention a few of them! Keep´em rolling!!! (Facebook Link)

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He adds, “If you´re going to attend the 70th ceremonies of ‪#‎DDay‬, perhaps you´ll have the chance of found this design during the Ford GPA jeep meeting at Carentan:” (Facebook Link)

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Stolen CJ-2A from Taos

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Someone stole this CJ-2A. If you see the jeep for sale, either email me directly or contact the poster of this theft @ 5757700180. Listed as a 1942, it’s obviously a CJ-2A.

“Some lowlife took this motorless 42 Willys from Taos, Nm, sometime between Monday 5/26 and Saturday 5/31… there is a reward for information leading to its return.

Update: a witness saw a +/- 2000 1 ton red Dodge flatbed with my Willys on a fifth wheel trailer heading north out of Taos on Saturday 5/31… any and all information would be appreciated.”

http://santafe.craigslist.org/cto/4502165694.html

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2014 Great Willys Picnic June 8th

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DON’T FORGET: Drop by the 2014 Great Willys Picnic on Sunday June 8th from 9am to 4pm. It’s held in Kempton, Pennsylvania. Go here for more info: http://www.cj3a.info/picnic/

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The King Family Jeep Tour

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Jason and his family enjoyed a family jeep outing last weekend.

He writes, “Last Saturday was our 4th annual family jeep rally through Parke County, Indiana (covered bridge capital).  Attached are some photos for your use.  The trip was a 30 mile round trip that took us through Bridgeton, IN.  The Bridgeton Mill just happened to be making flour the same day.  We anticipate twice as many jeeps next year to join in the trip.  Each year we pick a different route that includes another bridge. We passed three on our trip this year.

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Rear PTO French Lake, MN $250

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Looks in good shape.

Here is a rear pto unit. great condition, not water damage, original bolts all around. Also have the pto transfer case adapter for this at 75.00 can’t find the drive shaft, will post if found”

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/csw/for/4499705568.html

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Photo of Tampa Bay Tour Jeep **SOLD**

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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.

Craig spotted this Tampa Bay CJ-6 Tour Jeep photo on eBay.

“1969 Jeep Tour Guide Ybor City Tampa FL Street Scene 1 Color Slide(s) 35mm”

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