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UPDATE: Price dropped to $2500.
(02/10/2018) Needs work. Has rear floating hubs.
https://houston.craigslist.org/cto/d/willys-army-jeep-cj2a/6518166621.html
“1946 cj2a army jeep,started to restore no longer have time or money to finish.New tires ,has some rust but easy fix.Registered as classic so never need safety or smog check,title in hand”
Check out the wagon body sitting at the curb. Reminds me of another 1960’s automotive adventure. Back then, if you had a old junker you wanted to get rid of, just drop it off near the railroad tracks and it would magically disappear. I had a VW body I towed from the tracks with my 1960 Willys crackerbox wagon, (NJ Slang) to repair a VW BUG I owned at the time. After I finished the project, I put the body at the curb for the city wide clean up week. True story from the Mike Finegan Memory Vault.
Listen up you guys, I post these stories for your entertainment pleasure, hoping you get a few laughs or a chuckle, or even have a sarcastic comment. You all must have your own stories, let’s hear them. Life is short, enjoy it while we can.
Mike started a story, so I’ll follow up. About two weeks ago, I bought a used PTO front winch set-up combo of Ramsey 200R winch with fair lead line, Ramsey PT1J but missing shifter and pto shaft. All from a non running willys wagon, for my 3B. This cost me $350 -shipping from Minnesota somewhere. After talking to the seller about how to get it from there to Chicago, the only economical solution was to drive and pick it up. He suggested that he will be in New Richmond Wisconsin at the eve of Superbowl, last Saturday, that we meet up there. This was close to 7 hours of driving just to get there. I agreed to better meet up at the neighboring state than go another state over, not realizing its less than an hour away from Minneapolis anyways. He leaves the town in agreement at 4pm that day and I worked 3rd shift the night before and don’t get out until 6:30 am. So realistically, I have to start driving over there as soon as I get off work just to meet him up yonder on time and turn right around because if everything goes smoothly then I have 2-3 hours before I go back to work at 10 pm. I was so excited that I did not get much sleep the night before this ominous odyssey. Well the threat of non-stop heavy flurries that was forecasted for the rest of that day did not even crossed my mind because of some foolish determination to be on that winch pto like white on rice in a glass of milk, on a paper plate in a snowstorm. So I rode my rusty steed of a nissan pickup to another adventure. ‘I made the trip from Chicago to Akron Ohio just to pick up a Koenig hard top from Bob Christy with no real harm done. What could go wrong here?’ I pondered. Well 4 hours in, the snow flurried hard as advertised and there was an inch of snow around the area already. Without 4×4, my pick up will be drifting here and there but with new tires and manual gear, I’m confident I’ll be…boom, caught some patchy unsalted snow going relatively straight and my pick up started drifting left at 40+ mph. I was drifting towards the wide ditch and the two expressway was divided by about 30 yards of this openess and depth of 3 foot roughly and about 35° slope. I decided not to fight it since I was drifting at over 40 mph. After the fun was over, I was facing almost the opposite way in the ditch and the realization of being in the middle of nowhere, 4 hours away from home and possibly might not even make it into work that night. At this point, getting the pto winch was the least of my worries – ‘white on rice in a snowstorm!’ I clutch-rocked back and forth and switching my direction everytime to avoid digging an icy pit under my rear wheel drive. And as I started to get enough speed in the ditch heading the opposite way, I saw an opening in my right way lane of travel that I started to climb the slope, turning the wheel left, back into the snowy road and I “drifted” like a professional back onto the slow flow of traffic. This whole event had given me second wind and back to the adventure. It took me roughly 7 hours due to some pit and ditch stops but I got there. The cell signal was bad and gps was delayed and I missed the street to the place so I had to turn around using this unknown dead end side street. As I turned in, the snow was relatively deeper than anywhere else and this caught me off guard and I let my pickup slow momentum to a point that yuppers…I was stuck again and this time I dug a pit and created enough ice underneath that I was officially stuck. With my tail between my legs, called the seller and told him I got stuck again, a few blocks away from him and asked if he could pull me out. It took him almost 30 minutes to get to me, I don’t know why, with his big 4×4 chevy pick up. He strapped me up on the rear and yanked me back on the road quick, fast and in a hurry. Thinking back, how I got out of that snowy ditch in the middle of nowhere with no 4×4 but I got stuck in some random driveway somewhere…trying to pick up a winch… of course for my 4×4 3B. Driving home was filled with slapping my face repeatedly and with respectable force. Splashed some cold drinking water also but I made it home just in time to go back to work and try to stay up for another 8+ hours. To drag this rambling any longer…I got the front winch pto set up that I was looking for but will probably cut the pto shaft because its from a wagon, not cj. Now the hunt for rear wheel dually adapter! Well, that’s my story and I’m sliding with it.
Terry, Another EXCELLENT ADVENTURE WITH A HAPPY ENDING! Great true life story, what we guys do for the automotive loves of our lives. I enjoyed reading your story, thanks, you made my day, makes me feel more normal.
Mike, as always, thanks for another true-life-NJ story! There was no such deposit location near our train tracks.
Terry, you certainly work hard for jeep parts! But, hey, adventure is part of the fun, whether in or out of a jeep. Glad everything worked out! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Mike, your story inspired my novel, lol.
Terry, Cool, that’s good to know, something I said actually inspired somebody… and I thank you for the positive comment.
Hey Terry! That sounds like a scary trip for a PTO! Glad you came out to Ohio in Sept for my Flatfender Gathering!
And by the way, this looks like a bit of a Jeep Salad