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Bill shared this article on MD Juan and some of the recent updates to their product line, along with some infrastructure updates. I know folks mock MD Juan at times, but their ability to manufacture inexpensive bodies means the company can’t invest heavily in additional equipment (chicken and egg situation). Nice to see the company continuing to support the vintage jeep community.
How many owners of other vintage vehicles with nonexistent or badly rusted/damaged bodies would love to have this option of buying a new body? Even if the MD Juan’s fitment needs some tweeking (which I understand has gotten better over the years), it sure beats doing a body’s metalwork from scratch.
Steve
Various concerns do make complete reproduction car bodies…for the ’55-57 Chevy and ’67-8 Mustang among others.
The Chevys are about $18-20k without the front clip.
The Mustang fastbacks are $18-19k.
You could repair all but the worst bodies for those prices, leading me to think they are bought by folks building high dollar restomods and customs.
But you are correct, a lot of people would love to have a source for complete bodies.
This is in addition to various sheet metal pieces available separately.
So Jeep fans do have it relatively easy in terms of parts.
If this is a duplicate, I apologize. And I’m not trying to be critical here. But are my eyes deceiving me? Am I seeing a loaded MB front clip being attached or is attached to a CJ5 tub? Look also at the sheet metal immediately above the MB grille. Along with the cowl, looks like they are building a custom Jeep. Another oddity is the MB front clip is backward, like a negative (numbers on bumper, location of reserve cooling tank), but the CJ7 behind it has the fuse box hole in the correct place. (Help me).
A foreign company makes the effort to keep the American Icon alive. That has to be appreciated. Not everybody is blessed with the skill set and tools and garage area to do a “body part replacement metal work”. What’s a few “adjustments” hurt? Just like with WILLYS, maybe MDJ builds custom assembly of various parts to “please a customer request”? Interesting to watch the production and the amount of inventory. They must be successful.
Yes Barney. I see what you see.
As far as a MB front clip on a CJ-5 tub, there was something similar here awhile back. At the time I commented that it looked like one of the CJ-4 prototypes.
Remember, they are overseas and produce parts for the global market…there are a lot of variations out there that would surprise or confuse us…or make us cringe, laugh, cry…..
Barney, you don’t need to be critical. I guess that’s my role on this topic.The MB front clip is the modified MB which is one of the 4 Jeeps the company has in their showroom, and the one they drive at the end (which appears to be 2 wheel drive). You can see the entire front clip is mirror imaged, the coolant overflow tank is on the wrong side, and the radiator ends 6 inches short of the top of the grille.
The MB and composite MB/GPW products are their best product in my opinion.
The CJ5/7 products are probably the worst.
Lets face it, you can’t compare a Mustang or Camaro body complexity to a flat panelled Jeep. MD Juan has the data, drawings, and equipment to make an exact reproduction. They have export markets other than the US that don’t care about originality. Would you pay $18–20K for a mustang or Camaro body that was an inch too short? Or couldn’t be aligned because the mounting holes were over an inch wrong, or the engine hit the firewall?
I’m impressed that they finally have some better cutting equipment and presses, but not impressed that they didn’t develop simple dies.
I did laugh when I saw they were loading bodies into crates addresses to Jeepsterman…
Oh, and other proof that the reversed MB front end is a collage, there is no leaf spring on the driver side front, nor wheel on the cart to support the axle.
JohnB – That CJ4 was what I was trying to think of when I mentioned the sheet metal “wrap” immediately above the MB grille, like they were trying to mate the CJ5 hood to the MB grille and needed a filler or spacer.
There are much better/informative MD Juan videos on youtube if you search ‘MD Juan tour’
They also have their own page.
There are some oddities going on here. Backwards video, flat fenders on a cj5/m38A1…very strange. I do admit it’s good they still make stuff for the old jeeps. Not perfect by any means but workable for sure.
There are certainly some oddities here, backwards video, flat fenders on a cj5/M38A1, but its great they are still making parts for these old girls.