Feeling guilty

   Trying to get my little jeep back on track, Ive owned it for thirty years.

To make a long story short...my lil jeep is a salad...mostly. I never new what I had, till I arrived at cj2a page.

It is 17994 frame tag and running gear. Someone way back when, decided they had a rust free body and mounted it to this 1946 cj2a. Turns out it was a dj body, was one of the last dj3a bodies made in 1965. ( been in contact with the dj guys)

Here's where the quilt sets in...I bought a cj2a for parts around ten years ago, ACM 153xxx and have been robbing parts to keep the lil jeep going. The latest part was an early draglink. I think I'm robbing parts off of a mostly stock 1947 !


Believe me I am trying to title all three and I am documenting parts I have robbed.

Maybe my son or his son will have some history one day.

Anyone feel they robbed history?






Edited by blademaker - 10 Oct. 2018 at 1:35am

Like stated above - my Jeep is a salad as well. That being said, it is 90% real Willys bits. So I take some pride in that. I had fun researching what parts I did use in order to understand their origin. For example - the motor it turns out is from a Willys utility wagon. There are a few very slight differences that had me puzzled. But once I figured out the origin, it all made sense.....and I accidentally learned even more Willys history. 

nofender wrote: My goal is to someday do a 2A exactly correct. I know it will be a challenge. But I would love to use all real and original parts - just for the challenge of it.

I would love to be able to do that one day too!