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Gordon built this foldup/folddown back seat in his CJ. If someone is interested he will provide plans for $20.
Gerald forwarded this story of the Jeeper Vineyards, the full text of which is on Autoblog. The story is from spring 2011.
“To help commemorate the 60th anniversary of Jeep, vineyard Jeeper has teamed up with Delta 4×4, a company well-known in Europe for aftermarket wheels, tires and other offroad accessories, to produce a limited-edition champagne.”
Visit the Jeeper Champagne website here.
A reader had a few specific questions about the Tuxedo Park Mark IV Page related to a jeep he’s considering buying, but needs to know the following:
1. The CJ-5 is missing the chrome rear bumper. Was the rear bumper also used on any other models? How hard is it to find a replacement.
2. The column shift assembly is missing and it is the stock three speed. Where these the same ones used on the DJ or Surrey or any other models?
3. Did all Mark IV Pages have a V6 and the Emblem on the side as shown below (from the early CJ-5 Page)?
If anyone has the answers offhand, that would be great.
Here’s a cool picture from the San Diego Air and Space Museum that was posted on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49487266@N07/5685117554
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $20,000.
This combo is now for sale.
“1951 Willy’s Jeep CJ3A W/1948 Bantam Jeep Trailer, Chevy II Engine (153 c.i.), Polished & Ported Head W/Stainless Steel Valves, T.R.W. Pistons .060 Over, Polished & Shot Peened Rods, Howard Cam & Clifford Gear Drive, Engine Blueprinted & Balance, Carter A.F.B. 575 C.F.M. 4 Barrel, Duce Factory Gas Tank W/Overflow, Ford Top Loader 4-Speed Transmission Model 18 Spicer T-Case, Corvette Clutch Pressure Plate & T.O. Bearing, Lakewood Bell Housing, Hard Chrome Crank, Fr & Rr 5.38 Ring & Pinion, Pwr Locks Fr & Rr Ends, Full Floating Rear Axle Kit, Ramsey 8000 lb P.T.Q. Winch, Chevy Steering Box W/Ford Column & Turn Signals, Le Carra Steering Wheel, Kelsey Hays Wheels (15X8), B.F. Goodrich All Terrain Tires 31X 10.50, 11″ Jeep Station Wagon Brakes, Rancho Springs & Shocks, Deist Seat Belts 5 ea., Colt C.B. Radio, Stewart Warner Gauges, Stock Seats W/Custom Center Seat, Trailer Sleeps 3 on WWII Navy Bunks, It has an Attachable Tent Tarp, mounting Hook-ups for Stove, Stand, Fold up Table, Lanterns & Water Cans, Comes with Fold Up Port A Potty, the Grub Box Holds Cooking Utensils and Enough Food for Days,”
I ran across the below Collage and thought it would make an interesting post to group some of the collages I’ve run across.
From Ensarf.com comes this Bob Facklam Print. It is signed and numbered. Price is $19.85:
Tim Dolan and I were selling these. I haven’t reordered any.
This is a neat illustration I saw at the WAAAM Museum by Yasuo Ohtsuka called “The Jeep . . . A Concise History”
Here are a couple from Roberto Flores:
I ran across the cool picture below at roderblog.com during a search for collages. It was taken by Jeff Roder at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. Neither Ann nor I have been there, but I’m sure in our travels we’ll wander through there as the ‘Eilers Bar’ is in Pueblo.
From Roderblog.com:
Here is a photo of the MB that I found on Flickr. It was taken by jwm1049.
Merlin has launched a blog for people who’d like to follow Hanson Mechanical’s projects. Merlin has also moved the shop into a new garage, which looks nice.
http://hansonmechanical.wordpress.com/
Nineteen Year Old Erik and I have been tossing a few emails back and forth over the past two days. He’s another one of these young kids who has found time to rebuild multiple jeeps. He shares his story and his jeep below:
Erik writes, “I started getting interested in restoring jeeps when my neighbor got a 43 MB and convinced me to start WW2 Reenacting. I decided that I wanted to get one too and began saving to buy one, This led me to your site were I spent almost every day looking for just the right one. As I was only 17 at the time I didn’t have much of a budget to start with so I wanted to get one that wouldn’t need too much work. I ended up finding one in california and had it shipped here. When I got it I realized that the pictures didn’t reveal how much work would actually go into it.
I began going to reenactments after I got the jeep (It wasn’t restored yet so I couldn’t bring it) and saw that the majority of reenactors who had jeeps did a work as you go kind of thing, Which caused them to not look very good. This made me decide that I would do a complete frame up restoration of mine.
It took me a year to get the jeep torn down, The frame sandblasted, I Rebuilt the engine, Transmission, transfercase, and did some bodywork to the Hood, Fenders, and grill. The body ended up being replaced as I don’t have the tools to do that. It was then rebuilt, Painted the correct OD green for the time and theater of war. I ended up making the stencils by hand and painted them onto the body.
I was able to bring it to the first Reenactment in October 2011. It was an airshow in Midland TX (I live in Houston). It was there that I was asked by a fellow reenactor to help restore his GPW. He had all of the parts he needed already purchased so it was a pretty fast restore (took around 4 months) with his help. I am now working on a 43 MB for a friend.
More photos of the jeep and My reenacting unit (Able company, 502nd PIR, 101st Airborne) at our facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/#!/ablecompany502pir)”
UPDATE: Mark pointed out that Jalopnik has updated the pictures shown below with background information about how why the “Chuck Norris of the Middle East” built the world’s biggest jeep.
(Originally Published 04/10/2010) Thanks to Rich for finding this information on Jalopnik! We saw an early pic regarding this jeep, but here’s the final product. Note the other large 4x4s as well. Ahhhh, the life of a sheik .. so much money, so little time!
