Pink jeep?

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   My daughter has always wanted a pink jeep.  Me... not so much. She keeps jokingly asking me to paint one of my jeeps pink but I don't really want to.  I do have one that she could drive to work (2003 Rubicon) but it's Inca gold with 17,000 miles so it's not going to change colors.  I have a few licensed, drivable 1940's jeeps and she can drive a stick, but they're not really something she would want to drive around more than a Friday night Dairy Queen cruiser so I don't really feel any desire to paint one of my jeeps pink just for her to do that.

But she is getting married this coming August and she's looking for some sort of fun, cool, classic car style vehicle to get chauffeured from the wedding venue, to the hotel a few miles away...

I have a 44 GPW that's been restored to original, but it's olive drab and that's not gonna change.

I have a tan 46 2A that isn't perfect, but it's in great shape and it looks like say a 1940's farmers family daily driver. But I JUST finished painting it over the winter so that's not going to change either.  

I also have a 46 2A that is a really cool white/rust patina that I did a frame off resto and that took me months to decide if I was going to ruin the patina with paint, but in the end I decided to leave it with the cool patina look, so that's not gonna change either.

I do have a lime green 47 2A that I did a frame off resto-mod about 15 years ago.  It could use a new paint job but it's my off roader with a full cage, 4 wheel discs, racing buckets and Terra tires.  I could put road tires on it and paint it pink for her, but this one has full lockers, is not very roadworthy, and it's a pretty "manly" jeep so I'd rather not go pink with that either.

This spring, I'm ready to start on my next project which was "going" to be a lefty 48.  Since this is my only lefty, I was thinking I'd go all original with it in its original Luzon red color.... definitely not pink. That way I'll have a:

Restored WW2 jeep (44)
Restored civilian (red 48)
"Daily driver" civilian (tan 46)
Patina civilian (white 46)
Off road toy (green 47)

Now the tan one, and the white one have recently had the tubs put back on so it would be pretty easy to pull those tubs and put on another pink tub for her day... and I do have an extra fiberglass tub, hood, fenders and grill that's never been mounted.  I could paint that fairly quick so that is a possibility...

But then I was thinking one jeep I don't have is a Surrey Gala! 

I'm not a huge fan of pink, but I'm secure enough in my masculinity to own one.  Especially if it's a Surrey those are kind of cool right?  I mean Elvis had one!

I'm thinking I could paint the fiberglass body, in the correct pink, I also have a 3A windshield frame that's in perfect shape that I could also paint in the correct color, then to make things quicker, I'd pull off one of the tubs I recently put on, either the white one or the tan one, and temporarily make it into a Surrey Gala, hopefully I'd get to the correct top, seats, and tires.  After the wedding, I could switch tubs again, but then build a dedicated Surrey drivetrain for the tub.  I could then get the correct bumpers, wheels, hub caps, etc... for it.  It wouldn't be a correct "Surry Gala" build since the tub is fiberglass, but it'd still be a cool addition to my collection and I already have 3 other parts 2A's that I could use for the drivetrain. The engines are unknown on them but I could deal with that then.

I really wanted to start on the lefty in a couple weeks, but maybe I should start on a Surrey lookalike instead.  I'm not 100% sure I could get it done in time for the wedding in August, but I got the white one done in about 6 months and that was a frame off.  (of course I didn't paint that one, but I did replace all the hat channels, floors, and patched a bunch of the sides.  My tan 46 paint job only took a few weeks.  I think I could at least get her a drivable pink jeep, just maybe not with the correct top, seats, bumpers, etc... 

She wanted to find an old classic car or something for the drive, and right now she doesn't know about this "possible" plan of mine.  I honestly don't think she even knows what a Surrey Gala jeep is, but I know she would love that look.  I'll probably ask her in the next few days and see what she says, but I'm a little afraid of what she'll say...  She already has me making copper sign frames and decorations for the wedding... not sure I can pull this one off too.  I hate having a deadline on my projects.

I don't know...
Sometimes I just need to type things out to help me make a decision. 

Does anyone here have a Surrey?

Edited by Scratch - 30 Mar. 2023 at 11:31pm