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willysman1 
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 Topic: '48 willys please help IDPosted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 2:56am |
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looking at this jeep tomorrow, and have some questions. first the windshield appears to be a early cj5 type, 2nd the grill looks like a early mid 40's cj2, or military type and the hood still has me guessing. can anyone help id this jeep??
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Schimms15
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 3:12am |
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Jeep salad. The park lights look wrong for an mb. Hood was bent to fit the grill. Windshield welded to hold back better. Glove box isn't 2a looks more bubba. Engine is very wrong. Looks like an mb grill but those park lights look like he fit something in there the originals would be recessed. Look for a data plate but unless its an Agro jeep or something really rare 2k seems high to me. Just off all its missing , wrong engine, bubbaed up dash, looks like some possible bubba on the tranny hump. Guessing frame is too.
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Schimms15
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 3:14am |
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Lots of bondo on the back check for a tool indent possible mb or gpw but its pretty far gone and check if its got a solid rear because of welding and bondo or if it was factory.
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Lee MN
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 3:19am |
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Not an MB grill, you can see the scer holes in the face for the headlite buckets, park lites are aftermarket farm ins
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Lee MN
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 3:25am |
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WOW, must have been the class project at Bubba University, lots of modifications, and nothing wrong with that but not for me.
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 3:31am |
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i will post more tomorrow after i see it in person. i have been looking for a good project jeep for my daughter and i.. this one is local and if i can get it at a good price we can make it our own . i am very curious as to how they modded the windshield. |
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 3:36am |
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Very Scary!!!!
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Schimms15
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 3:42am |
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Lee count the amount of steel bars in the grill isn't it the wrong number for a standard 2a grill? 2a is 7 I count 9 on this one does that make it an m38? Or early. 2a
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BillF
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 4:07am |
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looks like a modified mb/gpw grill.
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1952 m38
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BillF
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 4:08am |
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also looks to be a fiberglass tub
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1952 m38
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Macgraham
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 4:16am |
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My opinion. You can find a much better Jeep for that money.
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 4:40am |
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Looks to me to be a postal Jeep tub cut down, modified, placed on CJ3A/B frame.
Not a good jeep to start with.
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 4:45am |
mmmm...not entirely fiberglass... look at the metal spots center rear..I think that is a sculpted tub with almost as much plastic in it as a fiberglass tub. Crazy amount of bondo and modified sheetmetal. Someone was doing wayyyy too many drugs when they thought up that one. Agreed, price is way off. I should sell ya my 3B project. It needs a tub and engine too but it is approximately $2000 cheaper.
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Posted: 16 Feb. 2013 at 10:48am |
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I agree on the SALAD Jeep description. Good for a rock climber, but forget about period correct resto. This one has no period to belong to.
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Posted: 17 Feb. 2013 at 2:16am |
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so i went and looked at it, the whole front end minus the grill was hand crafted. all the sheet metal is twice as thick as stock. the tub was also made from the same heavy metal, the rear tailgate section was a afterthought buy someone other than who did the body. this jeep body is serously heavy duty. the windshield and cowl section was taken from a early cj5 and molded to fit the body the guy made. all in all who ever build it did a really good job. yeah its a project needing alot of work, and year it will never be peroid correct, but its original.
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Posted: 17 Feb. 2013 at 3:56am |
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Sounds like you have something to build into a rock crawler / off road rig more then restore. Now it just depends on what you want to do with it
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Posted: 18 Feb. 2013 at 4:44pm |
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There is not a part on that Jeep that has not been customized. Looks like a Buick V6....My guess is this was a really neat Jeep back in the early to mid 1970's.
Finding parts for things like this are hard...what year is the engine? What did it come out of? Same goes for the transmission, transfer case, axles, etc. I love customized stuff, but only if know what the parts came out of so when I need a ____________, I don't have to count teeth, measure, take photos, bring to the parts store with me, only to find out it was custom hand fabricated from an airplane part!!!  This is a nightmare and a money pit that would be worthless no matter how much money you put in it. Again, I love modified vehicles, but I would never buy one already done.
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Mike S
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Posted: 18 Feb. 2013 at 10:11pm |
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The engine (entire under hood) is all wrong. What is it?
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