My Willys 3A and 3B Community
How To Join => Once You've Joined => Topic started by: Forum Master on November 04, 2019, 06:54:29 AM
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Welcome to the CJ DJ 3A 3B Willys Community Forum patrickt!
Tell us more about you and your Willys!
We love pics so don't be afraid to post pics of your Willys.
Here we like any kind of them!
You will find a lots of smart people here that are willing to help.
Enjoy your stay,
Pascal and all forum members
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Hello Everyone! I'm from the city of Manila, Philippines. I have owned a flat fender Japanese version of the CJ3B, a Mitsubishi-Willys, for about 13 years now. I don't have an exact date on it though, because of all the apparent modifications it has been through all these decades (probably 1950's, more info for another post). I basically am an old car person, but never owned a jeep. It was also about 13 years ago, when my dad asked me if I cared for some old jeep that was not being used anymore for pulling some water tank. I was intrigued and accepted of course !
I then seeked out advice from a guy who was about 25 years my senior. He was more than happy to help, and toured me around his jeep collection, mainly military ones, e.g. mb, m38, a mighty mite, etc.. As time passed, it/him/her just grew on me (my jeep of course 😀). Maybe it helps that I was born in 1963, and have always enjoyed old war movies and just old hollywood movies in general. That's it for now. Thanks again and catch you on the forum sometime. Patrick
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Patrickt,
Welcome! I saw many Mitsubishi's in Okinawa (before the internet) and had a lot of fun reading through Derek's CJ3B Page to find out more about those jeeps. Looking forward to some images on yours. I noticed your post on the g503 forum about your wheel cylinders. Perhaps cross-posting here might generate some discussion on the Mitsubishi's.
I've often wondered if the initial versions were exact copies or whether they were assembled with metric hardware from the start. I may be wrong, but would assume the later versions were all metric.
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Sorry for the late reply, just saw your post a few minutes ago. I'm not familiar at all with the mitsu-willys use of measurement standards, especially that a bunch of bolts have already been changed on my jeep. Interesting to have been in Okinawa at that time, where I imagine majority of the jeeps were Mitsu-Willys, Tall hoods galore ! May I ask if you were prior military ? Just wondering because you were in Okinawa.
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Here's a pic of my jeep.
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Well, that's just great.... Another post where I can't see the attachments. Patrick, I doubt it's on your end. I've read other threads where others clearly can see attached images but my view ends up being only the posted text. Really weird.
Yep, USAF.
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I was active duty 1987-91, Mcguirre AFB. Talk to you guys soon.
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Well, that's just great.... Another post where I can't see the attachments. Patrick, I doubt it's on your end.
Rus, i can see the attachment. Nice Willys Patrickt by the way.
Rus, which browser are you using? You might not be only the one who cannot see the pics. Are you able to see pics in other posts?
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Thanks Forum Master !
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I clicked on the picture and it blew it right up