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Post by jeffwho on Jan 27, 2015 8:11:31 GMT -5
In an honest attempt to spare you my typical "Furor loquendi"here are some facts about my jeep. I'll stick to the point, and maybe in another thread aptly titled "Spare yourself by skipping this" I can wax poetic about my inspiration for buying the damned thing and how I became enamoured with the 1/4 ton bastards in the first place.
Bo "The Jeep Whisperer" Turocy found this darling on Craigsglist in Northern North Carolina. I fired up there with another friend (TWO?! YOU LIE!) to check her out. After we talked price and all, I dropped a grand cash in on the guy and commit to buy. The rest of the story is TOO DAMNED FUNNY to not share, but that's for another time.
This is how she looked on the day a couple buddies of mine transported her from Dobson, NC to Rock Hill, SC. I picked it up from there about a month later I guess, using Bo's trailer.
 
 
You can see it was missing a lot of the detail items, but had been kept largely intact. The engine still ran, despite having no gas tank and other missing engine parts. Jack was a bit of a wizard and had hard-wired parts to make her work, and he'd driven it around his property a couple of days before we showed up. I was confident in the fact that I would be happy with the purchase price and that was that. Having the pedestal and M1919 included in the price, along with a pile of extra stuff he made me take away, helped! SHit that reminds me, I think the OTHER JEEP that came with this one is still up there. Hmmmm, road trip anyone?!
[more later]
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Post by jeffwho on Jan 27, 2015 9:21:44 GMT -5
FWIW, this photo from Zaloga's book is what I want to eventually mimic in my jeep. We are a unit that portrays the US First Division, and I realize that committing to such a unique paint scheme limits me technically (in other words, if we do an early war North Africa event, some MegaDB could walk up and say "FAR BE IT FROM ME TO SAY, but that star was not used until the Normandy invasion of 1944, much later than you purport it to be by bringing this anachronism to an early war event" ... YES some reenactors really DO talk that way ... in preparation for MegaDBSmegheads like that, I keep a WWII British style 14-man compo ration box on my jeep too, just to see if Mr. Knowitall actually knows that US troops had to choke down British 'bully beef' rations early on during Torch. To keep the douche from flowing TOO freely, I painted my box with maker's mark S&M LTD 1944 (damn, have to change that!)
ANYWAY, here is the picture. And if you don't have Zaloga's book on jeeps you should.
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Post by jeffwho on Jan 27, 2015 9:30:26 GMT -5
That's my assistant driver, Thomas - giving me the thumbs up. He told me "Even though your new roof doesn't fit and looks dumb, you need a roof Dad." I think the windscreen is not QUITE right. The guy from whom I bought the jeep had a full metal shop in his basement and I think he might have made the frame, and it just needs to be adjusted a little bit forward.
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Post by surveypunk on Jan 27, 2015 12:39:37 GMT -5
Hadt' look up Dobson, as it rang a bell. Heck fire, not too far from my ex-in laws. Next time you're up there, stop in to Mt. Airy and tell Goober I said "Hey". Beautiful machine. Wish I'd known there were decent Jeeps in that AO when I was traipsing around the neighborhood. Yep, a little too much "rake" to the windshield,  , but it do improve the aerodynamics! Best, JB |
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, but it do improve the aerodynamics!