My Willys 3A and 3B Community

How To Join => Once You've Joined => Topic started by: stony on July 14, 2013, 12:38:11 AM

Title: New member old owner
Post by: stony on July 14, 2013, 12:38:11 AM: Here I am, about time I joined, only had my CJ3A for 39 years LOL.ï¿½ Bought my first Jeep in "69" up in Anchorage Alaska, a practically new "56" CJ5, man what fun up there.ï¿½ Ran them in the mountains and on the tank trails of Fort Richardson (the Army post next door).ï¿½ Had a plywood top till I put it on it's side in a gravel pit, had to kick my way out.ï¿½ My buddy and I put in the first two pairs of Baja Buckets ever delivered to Alaska (so we like to think).ï¿½ Beat the heck out of them for two years then two of us (Joe had a 57) took on the Alcan highway.ï¿½ Got almost to the lower 48 and burned a hole in #4 piston.ï¿½ That blew our chance to go to California, so I bought a 55 Chevy and found a ex Navy damage control guy to weld up a hitch and my buddy headed south with his CJ5 and I headed back east to New York with the CJ in tow.ï¿½ Skip ahead about 35 years and my nephew wound up with it in Bellville IL (near St Louis MO) where it is slowly being brought back to life, helped put in brake lines a couple of weeks ago.ï¿½ Bought the CJ3A down near greenwood lakes in "74" Had tons of fun with it (but no great adventures) till I forgot to drain the water one fall and wound up with a cracked block, so it went into storage in the farm tool barn until it collapsed under the snow load about 25 years ago (only a cracked windshield).ï¿½ Stored it in a second barn until it collapsed under the snow load from Hurricane Sandy last winter.ï¿½ Ok to wrap this up, dug it out this past weekend (again no damage) and decided it was time to get it going again.ï¿½ Have a few missing parts because my late alcoholic brother in law decided to "fix" it and lost them and there is no asking him now.ï¿½ With a little luck will have it rolling in a couple of months.

Cool! Got the photo to load :)
Title: Re: New member old owner
Post by: Matto on July 14, 2013, 09:23:10 AM: Welcome to the 3A page. It looks like your 49 is in pretty decent shape to start with.
Matt
Title: Re: New member old owner
Post by: Quebec Jeep on July 14, 2013, 06:26:32 PM: Welcome! Let me know your information if you want to be into your serial database.

http://www.cj3apage.com/index/Serial_Numbers.htm
Title: Re: New member old owner
Post by: garage gnome on July 14, 2013, 07:14:21 PM: Welcome!
Title: Re: New member old owner
Post by: calvinhunt on July 14, 2013, 11:38:53 PM: Welcome!
Looking forward to watching your progress with you old friend.