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UPDATE: Still Available
(11/14/2014) Nice set of turbine rims.
“Fresh 327
2 1/2″ exhaust
Factory GM manifols
New paint-flat black
New 32″ BFG mud T/A’s
New upholstery
GM power steering
All new wiring and fuse block
No rust on floors or body
Stereo, CD, ipod connection
Factory 3 speed transmission and transfer case
Factory front and rear axles
11″ brakes
LED running and tail lights”
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/esd/cto/4772433014.html
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $11,500
(09/06/2014) Nice Seabee themed jeep.
“completely restored CJ3a in Coast Guard colors. Has 12 volt system with appropriate starter. Everything new. Might consider trade for willys P/U of equal value.”
Just a few posts tonight.
This jeep is featured at a Brussels military museum (Royal Armed Forces Museum?)
Here are some miscellaneous photos:
The Austin Bantam Society shared a link to this interesting story about the use of a laser scanner by Direct Dimensions, INC, to scan what they describe as the Bantam BRC frame, but is really a BRC-60 frame according to Bill Spear. I’d read that the frame broke after heavy testing, but I don’t see any obvious breaks. I didn’t know it had been saved. It definitely has decayed.
http://www.laserdesign.com/project_news/200/
Bantam BRC original prototype frame
At the bottom of the last photo check out the jeep with the cement mixer.
View all the information on eBay
This modified jeep reminds me a great deal of Wally Cohn’s jeep. The photos was posted on G503’s Facebook page.
Photo of modified jeep from 1946 Germany
Wally Cohn’s modified sedan jeep. Kind of an original jeepster
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $1700
(11/13/2014) No pics provided.
“This a 1942 (I think) Willys MB Jeep. It appears to all military except the headlights which appear to CJ 2 A type. Needs restoring. I bought it as a project and realize I have no time. Engine turns over, but I have not run it. It has a set of wheels from an M 151 and tires that hold air.”
Blaine discovered a thread at SCALE MOTORCARS about a guy named Barry who builds scale car wreck dioramas. Included in the different dioramas is a pretty neat scale model of a jeep graveyard. Barry built it based on photographs of an actual location. The setting and condition of the jeeps look a lot like the photo I shared earlier this month from Price of Wales, Papau New Guinea.
Click here and scroll to the bottom of that page to see all the photos
UPDATE: I first published this in 2009. I thought it was worth an update, so I’ve added some better photos.
Note: Some of these photos are posted online as being at the Coolidge wreck when they are really from the nearby Million Dollar Point dump. I believe I have the photos under the correct locations, but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
1) Wreck of the SS President Coolidge. Built in 1931 as a luxury liner, the SS President Coolidge was drafted into WWII service and painted gray. While navigating the islands of the Republic of Vanuatu in the Pacific during the war, the Coolidge hit a cluster of recently deployed American mines. The ship listed to the right as more than 5,000 troops were forced to abandon it, leaving behind guns, helmet, jeeps, tanks, rations, medical supplies — all of which sank with the ship in 70-to-240 feet of water about 100 yards from shore.
This jeep is entombed in hold #2 at a depth of 110 feet:
The Yacht Lorelei Blog features these photos from 2012:
2) Million Dollar Point is another area in the Republic of Vanuatu where jeeps and other equipment was dumped. Located just off the coast of Espirito Santo Island, the area is full of “jeeps, six-wheel drive trucks, bulldozers, semi-trailers, fork lifts, tractors, bound sheets of corrugated iron, unopened boxes of clothing, and cases of Coca-Cola….” dumped by American troops as a way of disposing of the items. Learn more here. Below are two photos of jeeps:
The Yacht Lorelei Blog shared these two jeep photos from Million Dollar Point:
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on ebay
Looks like both jeeps no long have windshields.
“You are bidding on an original press photo featuring . Photo is 6” x 5” in size.”
