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Offline Ddouble

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Any owners of older Jeeps?
« on: June 18, 2017, 07:17:21 PM »
I just picked up a 1951 M38 any other old Jeep owners on here?

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2017, 07:19:32 PM »
Yep that's old!!!!!  :tup:
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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2017, 07:47:45 PM »
51 Willys PU

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2017, 07:50:20 PM »
Is that Straddeline mud drags?  I have a trophy from racing there few years back.
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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2017, 07:56:10 PM »

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2017, 08:09:54 PM »
Is that Straddeline mud drags?  I have a trophy from racing there few years back.
My son at the Longview mud bogs last fall

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2017, 08:56:20 PM »
my daughter and I are working on a 1944 GPW/1951 Willys. 

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2017, 10:48:51 PM »
I've got an original 74 CJ 5. Doesn't hold a candle to that M38!  That thing is a real working piece of American history!

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2017, 10:52:35 PM »
I owned a Willys, they are kind of like boats.  The best day of my life was when I got it.  Second best day was when we got rid of it.  I enjoyed every second of driving it, but man was that thing a mechanical nightmare.

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2017, 11:02:01 PM »
It has a cool story I obviously don't know how much of it is true... apparently it was an air force vehicle in Germany, some bored  Air Force mechanics rescued it from the scrap heap and rebuilt it with a Small Block 283 Chevy. They then shipped it back to the US. It then had big fuel tank added to the back and it was driven across the country. It spent 30yrs in a Barn and the last guy had it for about 3 yrs and then suffered a back injury and can't drive it anymore. He was using it as his daily driver! I drove it from Anacortes to Lynnwood without an issue it sure was interesting!

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2017, 08:45:19 AM »
If it has old military numbers or dataplates some history can be verified. A restoration forum called Steel Soldiers has lots of good info and one member has some access to some databases.

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2017, 10:59:39 AM »
If it has old military numbers or dataplates some history can be verified. A restoration forum called Steel Soldiers has lots of good info and one member has some access to some databases.

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Thanks, I have been looking at that site, amazed by the amount of information and parts that are available. It still has part of its German tag on the front bumper and a window sticker pass for Fairchild Af base from the 70s.

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2017, 11:04:25 AM »
I'm not sure on your rig but often times there is a stamp/data plate on the front of the frame

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2017, 12:22:44 PM »
If it has old military numbers or dataplates some history can be verified. A restoration forum called Steel Soldiers has lots of good info and one member has some access to some databases.

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Thanks, I have been looking at that site, amazed by the amount of information and parts that are available. It still has part of its German tag on the front bumper and a window sticker pass for Fairchild Af base from the 70s.
Any more info you've scrounged up on your rig?

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Re: Any owners of older Jeeps?
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2017, 03:27:11 PM »
I've been to busy driving it !

 


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