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GB SISSON

GB SISSON

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There is a '41-'42 flathead ford in this video. It's winter, not va lot going on and I ran across this video. It just reinforced the way I feel about driving this stuff in a more or less, 'found' condition. I got a full dose by watching about 8 minutes worth. Now I want one, a Ford of course.

https://youtu.be/FCJc2bw-nA0
 
GB SISSON said:
There is a '41-'42 flathead ford in this video. It's winter, not va lot going on and I ran across this video. It just reinforced the way I feel about driving this stuff in a more or less, 'found' condition. I got a full dose by watching about 8 minutes worth. Now I want one, a Ford of course.

https://youtu.be/FCJc2bw-nA0
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I didn’t watch it long enough to see a Ford, but I love those old Jeeps! While on Guam with the Navy back in ‘61, I bought one ($100) and had a ball with it up and down and all over the island for 8 months. (Mine was a Willys) When I sold it, it had a bent up hood from a stolen battery, (a hasp & padlock kept it closed up front), and a reworked frame that got me $125 when I sold it! What color was my Jeep? Battleship Grey, of course!
 
Looked like a fun trail. Those old flat fenders definitely don't ride as smooth as a long travel coil sprung rig. Still super cool though. Thanks for posting.
 
ford38v8 said:
I didn’t watch it long enough to see a Ford, but I love those old Jeeps! While on Guam with the Navy back in ‘61, I bought one ($100) and had a ball with it up and down and all over the island for 8 months. (Mine was a Willys) When I sold it, it had a bent up hood from a stolen battery, (a hasp & padlock kept it closed up front), and a reworked frame that got me $125 when I sold it! What color was my Jeep? Battleship Grey, of course!
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My dad was just on your heals in Guam, he was out there in 1962 and my best friends Dad & Mom was out there about the same time as you, he has a picture of his mother sitting in a WWII Willy's jeep. My brother was born out there Nov of 62 while my dad was with the Willy Victor's squadron. He had like a 53ish Plymouth he bought for $100. and painted it with a straw wisk broom with Quonset hut silver paint!!! He use to steal the av gas from the barrel from when they would check for water out of the Constellations and put it in the Plymouth.
 
I've watched a few of those jeep youtube things. Some famous ones are "grampa's jeep, and BamBam. Its amazing what they can do in those things. Most have locking differentials, but other than that its all jeep.
 
Come to find out you don't need a lift kit, giant tires or turbo diesel to have a little fun in the back country. But I think I already knew that.
 
Very cool, Thanks GB. As a 14 year old I worked at a marina on Lake Erie & often had to drive 1 of 2 Jeeps to fetch cradles trailers & such. I LOVED the Ford. Tried to buy it when I turned 16. Never happened. Oh what fun to drive. I could see a 59ab in one........I'm sick.
 
mfirth said:
Very cool, Thanks GB. As a 14 year old I worked at a marina on Lake Erie & often had to drive 1 of 2 Jeeps to fetch cradles trailers & such. I LOVED the Ford. Tried to buy it when I turned 16. Never happened. Oh what fun to drive. I could see a 59ab in one........I'm sick.
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Paralell universes....In '75 and '76 I worked for the HR Hinckley yacht yard in SW Harbor Me. I was a service dept carpenter doing repairs and alterations on the boats we dry stored at the 13 acre yard. I was given a gray jeep, no top or WS with a plywood bench seat . Tool carrier/go getter. Push-pull ignition switch. Felt like the King of Mt. Desert Island in that thing.
Don't think I havent thought about that Ford V8 in a Ford jeep.. I have the nice 221 that I took outa the woodie last year. I remember hearing about FH V8 conversions and just saw some on youtube.
 
GB SISSON said:
Paralell universes....In '75 and '76 I worked for the HR Hinckley yacht yard in SW Harbor Me. I was a service dept carpenter doing repairs and alterations on the boats we dry stored at the 13 acre yard. I was given a gray jeep, no top or WS with a plywood bench seat . Tool carrier/go getter. Push-pull ignition switch. Felt like the King of Mt. Desert Island in that thing.
Don't think I havent thought about that Ford V8 in a Ford jeep.. I have the nice 221 that I took outa the woodie last year. I remember hearing about FH V8 conversions and just saw some on youtube.
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I'm not so sure you'd need a V8 in a Jeep. They weren't intended for highway speeds over 50. With that little 4 banger and compound Low 4x4, you can climb a tree. Standard procedure if you get bogged down, rock between 1st' & reverse till you create a path out. Back then on Guam, I proved that more than a few times!
 
No, they certainly don't need V8 power. I suppose it would just be for the fun of figuring it all out and doing the installation. I always seem to have more fun building my truck projects than driving them. Like my red 47 tonner PU that I put the little genset cummins in. Never drove it much because it was so loud in the cab. Some local guy had been bugging me about selling it to him so I said 15k and he was all over it. Then I rehabbed the green one with new brakes etc and the H six. Nice and quiet.
 
Don’t recall by who, but there was an adaptor made for mating a flathead to the Willys T90. I saw one in a Willys pickup.
 
My Aunt Ibby had a '41 Ford Jeep that she used to get up logging trails in the mountains for hunting. She taught me how to drive in that Jeep but was it banned by my Mother after a near death experience sent me sailing across Route 33 West of Harrisonburg with a blown out rusty brake line. Great fun while it lasted. I have looked for one on Hemmings many times but never made the leap.
 
I've seen a few candidates, but that 15k has been put into the 'new roof' fund. Has it really been 43 years since I nailed those shingles down? Besides, the foyota has disc brakes and power steering.....so I just window shop. (for now)
 
drolston said:
My Aunt Ibby had a '41 Ford Jeep that she used to get up logging trails in the mountains for hunting. She taught me how to drive in that Jeep but was it banned by my Mother after a near death experience sent me sailing across Route 33 West of Harrisonburg with a blown out rusty brake line. Great fun while it lasted. I have looked for one on Hemmings many times but never made the leap.
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I loved this story. Aunt Ibby sounds like a fun auntie!
 
WW2 jeeps are expensive and in demand. My friend who owns Midwest Military here ships every one he gets to Europe, it seem they really like the WW2 stuff over the pond.

The later Willys cj2a, and m38's are affordable yet, but hard to find one that wasn't rode hard and put away wet. My M38 was a lucky craigslist buy, only been online for about 20 minutes when I jumped, and close to home. Same family since about 1980 and they kept it inside and never drove it. Totally rust free, original paint on the under side of the floor, the army did a fine job rebuilding the motor in 1956...she purrs like a kitten.
Not all easy peasy, I had some work to do. Brakes-tires-transfercase/transmission-paint.

Here's a before and after. It gets about 3k miles every summer
 

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Sooo Cool! You brought that thing back. When I pick something up that has aftermarket wheels I always bring a full set of proper steel wheels and tires over on the ferry so I don't have to look at it that way on the way home on my trailer. Besides, most stuff I buy has multiple flats doesn't roll.....
 
In the late 60's I bought a WW!! Jeep MB. It was a real mountain goat. It was braver than I was. It scared the Bee Jeepers outta me many times. LOL. It had the old military tires and feared no hill! I sold it to buy a Scout with a real cab and heater.
 
GB, I can fully understand, after a new toy is bought half the fun is looking at it in the mirror on the way home !!!
 
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