14 Comments on “1974 CJ-5 USMC Blacksburg, VA eBay”

1. Joe in Mesa April 25, 2019 at 9:18 am

   I think I’d want to keep this as-is… clean, maybe wax or even rubbing compound in places, but try to keep this original patina, and maintain/update any mechanicals necessary for reliable operation. NICE military jeep :-).
2. David Eilers Post authorApril 25, 2019 at 9:32 am

   Joe, I agree with you.
3. Allan J. Knepper April 25, 2019 at 10:10 am

   Add me to the absolutely don’t restore list……I am slowly doing exactly what Joe describes on my green 1953 CJ3B……after transfer case leak repair and master cylinder overhaul.
4. SEEJAY SIX April 25, 2019 at 4:35 pm

   ah , its not a military jeep ,, its a 1974 cj-5 with a rattle can olive drab paint job , 24v ignition ? no , machine gun ? no , rifle carrier ? no … its a cj-5 , duh .. i’m gonna paint my cj-6 green and put a star on it ..
5. SEEJAY SIX April 25, 2019 at 4:36 pm

   hahaha , I can smog control devices on the engine , LOL
6. SEEJAY SIX April 25, 2019 at 4:38 pm

   this is what the bolivian army uses against narco-terrorists
7. David Eilers Post authorApril 25, 2019 at 5:03 pm

   Since it was used by the military, it seems to me that by definition it is a military jeep. 🙂
8. sgt carter April 25, 2019 at 8:27 pm

   ok , yer right , I see nomenclature plates at least , but wait A MINUTE ? IT HAS A TAILGATE ???
9. SEE JAY FIVE April 26, 2019 at 4:25 am

   SEEJAY SIX and sgt carter take notes and educate yourself before commenting. What David is telling you is Fact. In my long military tour I drove many civilian type vehicles purchased by military delivered straight from factory with military requested option paint or painted and equipped at base motor pool. The Navy and Air Force did this more than Army and USMC. This is a genuine, very rare Jeep. And what’s with the machine gun and riffle carrier? You got ignorant tunnel vision. Fix it!
10. sgt carter April 26, 2019 at 10:05 am

    uh , oh , I’ve started a jeep war ? — i’m going down to autozone right now for the KRYLON OLIVE DRAB SPRAY PAINT !! — then on to ebay for some k-rations and a n.o.s. jeep RIFFLE CARRIER !!
11. Wavy Gravy April 26, 2019 at 10:12 am

    p.s. — in my long hippie MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR , I helped stop the war in Vietnam , drove Nixon from office , saved the redwoods , founded the aquarian temple on haight street , partook in the SUMMER O LOVE , and owned , fixed and sold BILLION AND BILLIONS OF WILLYS OVERLAND VEHICLES !!
12. Christoph Büscher January 6, 2025 at 5:29 am

    not sure if someone still looks into this chat. But ist seems that the US army had acouple of “militarised” intermediate CJ5s 72-75 on duty. I had on myself in the 90ies in Germany, we had a lot of us military in the the region and I saw a couple of those at auctions. Many wiith a steal hard top. The one listed here looks like it had a hard top as well.
13. David Eilers Post authorJanuary 6, 2025 at 6:04 am

    Hi Christoph,

    Thanks for the added info! Given your info I would not be surprised if the US military had some of these at other bases around the world.

    – Dave
14. JohnB January 6, 2025 at 8:34 am

    I recall seeing an Air Force CJ-8 Scrambler with half hard top in the ’70s.
    Strata blue, white top. I believe it was issued to the base communications squadron.
    And if you go to the Internet Movie Car database, there is a shot of a CJ-7 with factory hard top in Strata Blue assigned to the Colorado Air National Guard in the background of a 1980s Parry Mason TV movie shot near Denver.
    In short, the military had need for non tactical 4x4s long after M38A1 production had ceased.
    Usually, they bought pickups (Dodge or Ford…I recall driving a pre-72 Dodge four door circa 1984), but sometimes “off the shelf” AMC-era Jeeps.
    The key thing to remember; these were not intended for combat use and weren’t armed in any way.