Project: Built from Scratch

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   Ok, so the title is a little misleading... I'm not that guy from India or wherever that built the MB clone with rocks and hammers, but technically... Scratch is my nickname (Ask me why in person...) so there is a bit of truth in the title. 

I'm not really good at documenting my builds, but since I've seen so many other threads on builds, I figured I'd start one for this jeep.  I got this 1946 CJ2A, (serial #77632) about 20 years ago somewhere in Wisconsin or Minnesota.  Paid no more than $300 for it and I didn't even get the "ran when parked" story.  I had no idea when it ran last, but it was mostly complete and the frame and body was in pretty good shape.  Here's the earliest pics I have of it.  These pics are at least 10 years old and it's been patiently waiting in my pole barn for it's turn at a rebuild.

I'm not really one for "naming" my jeeps, although I do have an 03 Rubicon that I sometimes call "Ruby" and a '48 CJ2A that I call "lefty" both for obvious reasons.  But I just call my '44 GPW... "the GPW" or "Army jeep" so I'm just not one to name my jeeps.  I guess I do have a lime green '47 that I sometimes call "Greenie" although that's what I also call a booger on the end of my finger so...
 I suppose I'm just not very creative.  When I talk to my family about my jeeps, I usually just use the year to differentiate them.  Of course I do have two 46's, so it sometimes gets confusing.  Although lets be real... I could just say "Jeep" to my family and they really wouldn't know (or care) which one I'm talking about.

...I feel the same way about her shoes.

Anyways, I guess I don't really have a name for this one yet.  Maybe one will mysteriously appear like a hemorrhoid on my ass, we'll see.

So I guess this will be the start of my build thread for this little guy.