Poll: Military tribute or original?

"...and probably 90% of folks don't know the difference."

Make that 99.999%, the only ones that will know are other flatfender owners. At least half of them won't say anything about it, but there is always a few who can't stand to keep quiet and will call you on it. don't pay attention to them. It is yours to do what you want.

Using 99.999% as an example, out of 100,000 people only 10 would know the difference anyway. Only 5 would make a big deal about it. Go for it.

Ol' Unreliable: Not sure I'd bet that CJ2As are rarer today than MBs. I'd reckon that in the U.S., more of the roughly 214K 2As produced still exist than do MBs and GPWs, even though more of the latter were made. Most wartime jeeps were shipped overseas and did not return to the States. Scores of those jeeps not destroyed in combat or otherwise totaled/not repairable were scrapped or (as was common in the Pacific theater) dumped into the sea. Early post-war CJs suffered no combat attrition. As an MB owner friend tells me, if you want to find WW2 jeeps, go to France or Britain. Having said that, recently while driving in rural Arizona I saw an MB or GPW sitting next to a barn on a small farm.                                                     

I dropped a V8 into a Porsche 914 and the Porsche people went batsh*t crazy. I'm ready for the Jeep Police.

All I'm saying with a CJ done up like a military rig, an argument could be made for stolen valor . . . but I can also see the argument of its your Jeep so build what you want. Personally, I couldn't do it. It would just feel wrong.

Edited by IRQVET - 26 Feb. 2020 at 5:18am

With respect I submit that I am building a Jeep that is to be a tribute for my uncle Cecil Wayne Norman, a highly decorated veteran who fought in the "Battle of The Bulge" on through the end of the war, and then served with the US Constabulatory (Sixth Cavalry) until he retired from the Army in 1952. He joined the Army in 1932, and entered WW2 while in his mid thirties, so was an "old man" in his unit, yet he was awarded the Silver Star in a battle where his unit suffered 75% loss. He was credited with saving the lives of "countless men" under direct fire without regard to his own saftey. 

Edited by Oldpappy - 26 Feb. 2020 at 1:44pm

Damn, I should have picked a topic a little less controversial, like politics or religion.

As for "stolen valor", nobody is trying to be a wannabe warrior. It's simply a tribute to those who served, both men and machines. BTW, I'm a Viet Nam Marine. Does that give me permission?

Edited by Cheapsnake - 26 Feb. 2020 at 2:02pm

athawk11 wrote: I think it's crazy to militarize a civilian Jeep.

RICKG wrote: athawk11 wrote: I think it's crazy to militarize a civilian Jeep.