photo upload test

[Howitser]

    Just seeing if   http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/howitserphoto/CJ-3A/Jeep1a.jpg    this works        

[Howitser]

I guess this is better than nothing, is there a way to get the photo in the topic?

[Carls_jeep]

Yes, click on the bottom link in photobucket and that copies it. Then in the box your putting the post in hold Ctrl and hit the V key. That will put a photo in the post.

[Howitser]

Groovy!!!




Boy, it's ugly cute

[rocketeer]

What kind of locking hubs are on there?  Kinda looks like Selectro but the center appears recessed in the pic.

Larry

[macrisel]

Wow!  I think Frankenjeep is a very acurate description.    While it might be challenging to bring it back to original, I bet it would be a blast to drive it as is!  Throw on some flat black paint and make it into a rat rod!  

[Carls_jeep]

Or Olive Drab. It looks like a driver to me and the more you restore it the less you will want to drive it every day or in the woods rough and tumble.

[Weedhopper]

Is that a fuel tank filler neck on the right side?

[mud pie]

I'd lose the front bumper, if anything.

What I'd like to know is; how'd they mount a CJ5 body on a CJ3A frame ?

[Howitser]

Mornin',

Thanks for the lively remarks about the old bomb. �I hope to "frame off" clean (it is a project after all) and make dependable but no plans for a serious restoration. May get a new 3a body for it, I do love the flat fender look, but I plan to hone my sheet metal skills with this one for now.

Larry, those are Warn locking hubs...have no idea of the origin but they are there for sure.

Weedhopper, It is a tank fill on the right side and there is one on the left too, it has 2 tanks. One under each seat.

Mr. Pie, The bumper is going for sure, I'm thinking of a tasteful, simple tube brush guard to match the one that will be on the rear. There is nothing on the back now.

As to how ol' Bill put the 5 body on a 3a frame...I'll have to ask him when I see him. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a cj5 frame too. That is to be determined. �Bob W needs to know if it has a round or square cross front cross member on the front of the frame to solve this very quandry.

What ever it is, we'll show it all the love the lil mixed-up morph deserves. �Who knows, maybe all it really wants is that coat of flat black paint and to be run!!! �:)

[Carls_jeep]

I kind of like that front bumper. It says GET OUT OF MY WAY, NOW! and means it. Yes, it looks like an everyday driver to me. Just knock out the dents and paint it and drive it.

[rocketeer]

Larry, those are Warn locking hubs...have no idea of the origin but they are there for sure.

They look like the Lock-O-Matic type. Any chance of a nice close-up pic? �:)

Larry

[Howitser]

Here ya go,

Bob, the front crossmember is round, arched higher in the center than at the frame rails and under the Grill/radiator area.

[Bob W]

Sounds like it is a CJ-3A frame then. The wheelbase of an early CJ-5 is one inch longer than a CJ-3A so they must have made some sort of modification to make the body fit so well.

[mud pie]

And who knew Cheng Shin made NDT's !!