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IRQVET 
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 Topic: The Official Bubbification ThreadPosted: 16 Nov. 2022 at 2:30pm |
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Since most of us have torn into our Willys, many of us have found that Bubba had their way with our rig. So this thread it dedicated to Bubba, and all the fine work he has done to these rigs over the years that we have all had to correct and make right.
So if it pleases the court, I’ll start us off. I submit peoples exibit A: Bubba created an entire cab corner out of Bondo which I had to cut out and reweld sheet metal in.   |
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Bruce W
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2022 at 3:07pm |
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Do you need a corner?
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It is NOT a Jeep Willys! It is a Willys jeep.
Happy Trails! Good-bye, Good Luck, and May the Good Lord Take a Likin' to You! We Have Miles to Jeep, Before We Sleep. |
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Ron D
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2022 at 5:53pm |
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Does that really qualify as "Bubba"? If there was beer cans underneath, ok, I'd agree. Where's the Bubba Judging Standards book?  Edited by Ron D - 16 Nov. 2022 at 5:54pm |
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IRQVET
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2022 at 5:53pm |
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No sir, its been fixed. Just sharing some of Bubba’s fine work for the good of the order. I’m sure others have some gems out there to share, lol.
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Dean
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Ron D
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2022 at 5:58pm |
Back in the day when they were made of tin and you needed a church key to open them.
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2022 at 6:57pm |
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I'm afraid to find out how much filler there is in the corner of my jeep. Currently, there are no holes where the spare tire carrier went, and the rim around the top is about an inch thick
I'll have to post some pictures of my reinforced front bumper that was welded on upside down by the previous owners |
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Bruce W
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2022 at 8:21pm |
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There were different kinds of Bubba. This one did the best he could with what he had at hand to make the jeep look right. Some didn’t care, and only welded what he wanted wherever he wanted, or drilled holes willy-nilly.
Bondo-sculpting almost became an art form before it fell into disfavor. I once watched a guy repairing a bad dent in the left quarter panel of a ‘69 Impala 2-door. He made no effort whatsoever at pulling the dent. He emptied a new gallon can of filler on a piece of cardboard and squeezed the contents of the activator tube onto it. He mixed it with a stick. Then he put a coat of filler in the bottom of the dent. Next he smashed the empty can and stuck it in the dent, covered it over with filler until he ran out, and left it until the next day when he finished it out. LOL. Tall tale? You decide. As they say today, you couldn’t make this up! BW
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It is NOT a Jeep Willys! It is a Willys jeep.
Happy Trails! Good-bye, Good Luck, and May the Good Lord Take a Likin' to You! We Have Miles to Jeep, Before We Sleep. |
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2022 at 10:11pm |
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I tell this story often...
I went to auto body school back in 1988-1990. Towards the end of my time there, we were hanging out in the shop around lunch time. One of the students there who had started around the same time as I did, was working on his car... not HIS car, but the car that he was working on. (These cars were owned by random people who wanted their smashed up car fixed for cheap, knew it was going to be fixed by students, and knew it was probably going to take a while) There were about 5-6 of us students sitting by his car eating lunch. He was working on the car on and off while eating his sandwich. At that point he was mixing and applying body filler. There was a 3-4" rust hole in the rear quarter panel that he still needed to cut out and patch in at some point. I'm not sure if he didn't like his sandwich or not, but he stuffed the rest of his sandwich in the rust hole and covered it with bondo. We sat there in disbelief for about 10 seconds before we all burst out laughing. I can't remember his name, but it was probably Bubba. Edited by Scratch - 16 Nov. 2022 at 10:12pm |
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2022 at 10:15pm |
That seems like an odd place for a repair . . not likely to be rust. I bet that was a shocker when you started grinding into it.
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Posted: 17 Nov. 2022 at 12:05am |
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Knew a guy a long time ago. We had went to school together, and after we had finished school he moved down into south Georgia. He started showing up at my place periodically a number of years after we had finished school. He would show up and stay in town a few days, then leave and I would not hear from him for a good while.
One time he was in town for about a week, and he bought a fairly new Chevy pickup truck, a nice truck, then he left and we didn't hear from him again for about a year. Next time he showed up he was driving that same truck, but it had big hand sized holes all over the body that looked like they had been cut out with a chisel. I asked "George, what happened to your truck?" He went into a rambling story which ended up with him being in Atlanta, and a cop spitting at him, and the story stopped there. So, I said "But George, that doesn't explain those big holes in your truck". He said "Oh, I know that but that made me so mad that when I got home I shot my truck with a shotgun." and again the story stopped. I looked at the truck and said "George, those holes weren't made by a shotgun", to which he replied "I know, that is how I fixed it". I am not making this up, this is the conversation I had with the man, and it was my first inkling that he was crazy as a sh*t house rat.
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Posted: 17 Nov. 2022 at 2:11am |
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Those dents on the fender ribbing? I have those. What do you think caused it?
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Posted: 17 Nov. 2022 at 7:44am |
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30+ years ago I had a 1966 CJ5 that had Bondo nearly a quarter of an inch thick at the deepest point above and behind both rear tires. I got tired of looking at the cracks one day and started chipping it out. Both sides had big, shallow dents that looked better without the Bondo than they did without because the dents were nowhere near a quarter inch deep. I was broke and in Tucson, AZ at the time so I sanded out what was left and shot some rattle can gray primer on it. It may still be that way today.
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Posted: 17 Nov. 2022 at 7:57am |
 I too had a bondo sculpture on that corner, as well as the entire silk beneath the doors, the transmission hump, the 4” torch cut tail light holes. That one in the corner where the tire support baffle was had another 1/2” over the entire panel. Almost the entire jeep had at least a coat of it. I had quite the dusty mess after wire wheeling the entire outside of it. All the rust has now been cut away and I’m about halfway through welding in patches. 44 patches in total. I’m naming it patches as a result.   Another fun one is I only had the bottoms of the original seat frames because bubba thought cutting the backs off and bolting on pinto seats was more comfortable. Still looking for a drivers side non repro for that one. I was gonna bend conduit to repair them but I can’t get bends tight enough.
Edited by Agas46cj - 17 Nov. 2022 at 8:15am |
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Posted: 17 Nov. 2022 at 9:23am |
My CJ3A has a similar problem. Seat frames were cut to accommodate captain’s seats from a van. It currently has nothing on the right side and the driver’s seat is an old clamp on boat seat I welded to the frame. I kinda like the boat seat. It’s reasonably comfortable and it swivels making it a little easier to get in and out. I will eventually get around to doing something else but I doubt I ever bring the seats back to an original appearance unless I win the lottery. My CJ2A has an aluminum fuel tank just sitting in the back. The seat frames are there but no cushions. The seat itself is a wide plank about twice the width of the original cushions.
Edited by Jeff J - 17 Nov. 2022 at 9:26am |
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Posted: 17 Nov. 2022 at 9:55am |
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On the other hand, Bubba has in the past kept many flatfenders on the road when repair parts were much harder to locate. Keeping them on the road kept many of them from hitting the scrap yard. This likely contributed to the number of rigs available for repair or restoration today. While dubious repairs to steering and brakes can't be condoned because of safety concerns, cosmetic Bubbafication is usually harmless and is for the most part reparable. The internet has made parts much easier to locate than back in the day when often time Bubba had to make do with what he could find to keep his jeep on the road.
The modern Bubba is represented as the amazing number of parts available in the aftermarket that do no fit the application that it was intended for or require modification in order to make the part fit. That is Bubba in the marketplace and it is happening today... |
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Posted: 17 Nov. 2022 at 10:16am |
Aside from having a completely worn out driveline and steering system it’s the one area I’m glad to say nothing was modified or repaired in a questionable way.
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Posted: 17 Nov. 2022 at 10:37am |
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i thought my build thread was the "official bubbification thread."
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Posted: 17 Nov. 2022 at 11:32am |
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