Monthly Archives: February 2018

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1953 CJ-3B Lafayette, GA **SOLD**

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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $4000.

I can’t tell what type of hubs this has. Cutlas Powerlocks?

“Runs great”

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1960 M-151 Lindale, TX **Status Unknown** Was $2600

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UPDATE: **Status Unknown** Was $2600.

This could be useful for someone.

“For sale is an uncut M151A1 Mutt. Overall pretty complete vehicle with a great candidate for restoration. I purchased this vehicle because someone converted it to 12V and I needed the starter for another project (long story). The standard 24V parts are available everywhere.

Drivetrain:
Engine turns over and has been fired, I have a video to text. Transmission shifts in 3 of 5 gears.

Body/frame:
Overall decent. Rust is the front driver/passenger floorboard areas and the 2 frame ribs below them. Some on rear panel.

Early production parts on the Mutt:
Magnesium wheels
Early style hood
Adjustable seats”

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Year? Truck Mount Vernon, OR $800

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Engine runs.

“Willys pickup not sure of year, shortened wheelbase, v6 Buick, runs no title $800 ”

https://eastoregon.craigslist.org/cto/d/willys-pickup/6488231599.html

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1942 Willys MBT Trailer Farragut, TN **SOLD**

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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $1200.

This might work for someone. Axle has been swapped out.

“1942 Willy’s Military Battle Trailer (MBT)
Original data plate included.
Currently sitting on a 5×4.5 3500lb Dexter axle exactly the same width as a Jeep TJ.
Stock axle and wheels included.
Also has landing leg and parking brake handle.
Good solid trailer, I’m just in need of something different.”

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Hardtop Scranton, PA $200

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Craig spotted this hardtop. The seller says it fits a 2A, so it won’t fit a CJ-5. Looks like a Sears Deluxe model to me.

“This is a Sears winter top for aWillys Cj2a might fit Cj5 , no doors”

https://scranton.craigslist.org/pts/d/willys-cj2a-winter-top/6487184601.html

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My Father Gave Birth To a Cow … No Updates Today

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We drove to Western Washington last night to join Rob and Diana Stafford for dinner and then spend the next few days with my parents.

The Staffords took us to a new South American place in Spanaway that was excellent! By the time we finished and drove to my parents it was 9:30pm. Ann and I walked into the house to find my father was still awake. That was the first sign of trouble! Dad is usually in bed by 9pm and he’s a man of habit.

It turned out, Dad was very upset. No, upset doesn’t quite describe it. He was having a cow. Yes, a cow. I’m pretty sure I heard mooing!

You see, his watch, of the Timexy big-hand little-hand second-hand type, was running slow, too slow for his liking. And by God, if someone didn’t repair his watch then he was ‘ordering’ someone, anyone, to the store to get him a new one!! #myFatherHasLostHisFreakingMind #letsGetOuttaHere

You’d think he’d like a slower watch at age 84, as he could drag out his time on planet earth. But, no, his watch was too slow and he needed a new battery installed; mom had gotten the new one, she just couldn’t get it installed. This meant my mother was taking TOO long to replace the battery, by my father’s measure.

Of course, his attitude was just adding the frustrations felt by my mother over not being able to install the battery. I’m pretty sure she was ready to make a slow watch the least of his worries; he might no longer need a watch!

To calm the situation (after a big sigh from yours truly) I agreed to cast my readers aside for the evening in favor of bridging the divide between a man-who-needs-a-working-watch-to-go-to-bed and the woman-who-might-END-the-man-who-needs-a-working-watch-to-go-to-bed!

So, alas, there won’t be on post today. That’s the bad news.

The good news is I eventually fixed the watch and Dad shuffled off too bed as if nothing had happened ….

I have concluded that I picked a bad week to give up booze and hard drugs!!

 
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Francis ‘Jeep” Sanza Dies at Age 99

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David Tracy at Jalopnik wrote a nice piece about the death of Vernal Patton’s Driver during WWII, Francis ‘Jeep’ Sanza. It includes the following video clip and a shot of one of the vehicles Sanza drove, one with a variety of mods.

Read more here: https://jalopnik.com/general-pattons-driver-during-world-war-ii-francis-jeep-1822777372

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1942 Photo of CGs and Jeeps on eBay

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UPDATE: Here’s an original press photo used in the article at the bottom of the post.

“1942 Press Photo U.S. Coast Guardsmen in Armed Jeeps at East Coast Port. This is an original press photo. Anti-saboteur patrol “Vital war shipping must be protected on the docks as well as on the high seas,” was an official order by Vice-Admiral Russell R. Wesche, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, who equipped Coast Guardsmen with armed jeeps to protect valuable war supplies from any attempts at enemy sabotage. These armed Coast Guardsmen are shown getting their orders at an East Coast port before they start their patrol in the blitz buggies. Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches. Photo is dated 10-20-1942.”

View all the information on eBay

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(From a March 20, 2015 post) These Coast Guard men are protecting the ships and shipyards from saboteurs. The photo was published in the October, 22, 1942 issue of the Spokesman-Review.

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1946 CJ-2A San Clemente, CA **SOLD**

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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $19,900.

(02/07/2018) So much beautiful work here, yet the parking lights and brake lights were NOT brought back to stock?

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1947 CJ-2A Winnetka, CA $3500

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Lots of updates.

“1947 Willy cj
Engine: Chevy 5.0
Transmission: Chevy sm465 4 speed manual
Dana 300 transfer case
Dana 44 front and rear deferential
Full roll cage
Soft top and doors
Runs and drives
Tags are current
Tire size: 35/15.6/15”

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/cto/d/1947-willy-cj/6485782862.html

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