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Atlanta Auto Show

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Jay shared pics of this modified Jeepster Commando that appeared at this year’s Atlanta Auto Show.

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1949 CJ-3A Creswell, OR No Price

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UPDATE: Still Available. Seller considering a new price.

Has diamond plate on the hood.

“Very nice condition, original drivetrain. Always garage kept. Hasn’t been driven in 10 years. Starts but need some TLC. $9500 obo. Serious inquiries only.”

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1946 CJ-2A Phoenix, AZ $5500

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Only the one pic. May have a VEC body.

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/cto/d/phoenix-1946-willys-jeep/6847659563.html

“1946 Willyʼs Jeep. Runs strong. Very few miles on newly rebuilt engine. Restored by previous owner. I just donʼt have time to enjoy it. $5500 OBO. Clean title.”

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1955 CJ-5 Sunapee, NH $6950

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Travis shared this one. I’d guess, based on the large gas inlet, that this is an M-38 rear body melded to a CJ-5 cowl and front clip.

https://nh.craigslist.org/cto/d/guild-1955-jeep-willys/6847226626.html

“New OEM tires(5). Engine runs great. Body solid, no rust, a few wear holes in floor.”

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1951 M-38 Pinon Hills, CA $3299

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Appears to have potential.

https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/cto/d/pinon-hills-1951-jeep-willys/6848972160.html

“Jeep Willy’s project. 327 Chevy, 350 auto transmission, Warn locking hubs on all 4 wheels, winch. Needs tires. Must be trailered, not drivable.”

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1946 CJ-2A Camarillo, CA **SOLD**

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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $4000.

(07/10/2018) Has a variety of mods.

“Front Axle Dana 30, Rear Axle AMC 20
Transfer case Dana 20(twin stick),Transmission Four Speed w/granny (7:1)
Engine 283 Chevy, Performer Four barrel Carb (New)
New top/Doors, New wind shield
New wipers w/motors, New Turn signals
Tow Bar, Trailer hitch/Lights w/hook up
Side Steps, New mufflers
Two Fuel tanks 7/12
Metal Half Doors
Back Seat Frame”

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1948 CJ-2A Antelope Valley, CA $7900

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Has updates.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/ant/cto/d/canyon-country-1948-cj2a/6846836827.html

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“1948 Cj2A with a B134 Hurricane motor. I have installed an electric power steering system with a Toyota saginaw steering box. brand new T-90 3 speed installed less than 6 mon ago. I am regretfully letting her go. Runs and drives well for a 70 year old.
Show me a trade of equal or Value. Rat rod, convertible, fast V8??? no smog please..
I don’t need to sell it however if the price is right.
I don’t need a car broker either,”

 

 
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1958 Truck Hever, AZ eBay

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UPDATE: This is now on eBay.

(02/08/2019) Something different. The interior nees a little finishing.

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“’58 Willy’s 4×4 Truck
Custom built Crew Cab (4 door)
350 GM motor & 4L60 automatic transmission
373 limited slip rear axle
Drum brakes rear, disk brakes front
Manual 4×4 shifter
Stereo, heater, Tilt steering
’95 GM chassis, suspension, wiring, fuel lines, steering, brakes
Stake bed with backup flood lights
Stake bed with small compartment box (rear right-side)
Tires – 265/70 R16, Cooper Discover ATR
Wheels – 16″, 6 lug, MR2 Motoring.
4×4 works
Runs, Drives, requires some attention
Interior requires attention.”

 

 
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1942 MB Enumclaw, WA $2850

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UPDATE: Price dropped to $2850.

(01/30/2019) There could be some value here. Needs more pics.

https://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/d/enumclaw-1942-jeep/6847382221.html

“1942 willy’s / Ford GPW started out as a project, now no time… Rebuilt flat head, and transmission. Dana 41 in rear with a built 44 waiting to go in. Needs work, Not in a hurry to sell so serious people only.”

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1973 DJ-5 Fresno, CA $2500

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UPDATE: Back up for sale with some improvements.

https://fresno.craigslist.org/cto/d/tollhouse-1973-postal-jeep-for-sale-or/6839570529.html

“I have own it for 2 to3 year an was driving it daily when I lived in la ca but when I moved I non op it this year cause I was planning to restore it but plans changed runs an drive as well as 46 year old unrestored can needs work to be a daily or anything more then ranch truck right now 2500 obo or trade for pre 75 truck or car or bronco 2 or a boat so tell me what you have if it not a car or a vehicle I’m not interested sorry pleasee email an ask questions about the jeep”

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1953 CJ-3A Colton, OR $15,000

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UPDATE: Still Available.

Lots of updates on this Flattie that looks to be built for offroad adventure.

https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/cto/d/colton-1953-cj3a/6849582360.html

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“I have decided to sale my Jeep I purchased with the sole purpose of running the Rubicon as it was on my bucket list. Which I did in 2016.
Below are most of the upgrades done to the Jeep to make it happen and a few pictures of the jeep on the trail. Since the Rubicon trip the jeep has pretty much sat in the garage and its time for it to make room for my next bucket list project. (Which is to rebuild my first new vehicle I purchased in 1980. A 1980 CJ7.)
Here are the stats:
1. 1953 CJ3a very little rust and surface only.
2. V6 Dauntless with distributor upgraded to electronic. The was professional rebuilt and only a few thousand on it since. Come bring a compression tester or use mine. This is a nice motor.
3. SM420 4 speed with the nice 7 to 1 granny first. Rebuilt but only had 50k on it when I purchased it. Continue reading

 
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1953 CJ-3B Sacramento, CA **SOLD**

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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $9999.

(12/23/2018) Lots of updates.

https://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/d/newcastle-jeep-willys-high-hood/6846521901.html

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“Street legal Totally custom rock crawler
383 Chevy
465 trani
4/1 t case
44 full floater with Detroit rear
44 w/ arb in front
Has full top and bikini top
Winch
Frame boxed and strapped
Custom bumpers/ cross member and lift bar
best offer takes it”

 

 
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1951 CJ-3A Wickenburg, AZ $1700

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UPDATE: Price dropped to $1700.

(12/09/2018) Has rear floating hubs. There might be some value.

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/cto/d/wickenburg-willys-jeep-cj3a/6845732444.html

“1951 cj3a no motor, transmission or t-case. Full float rear axle with matching front and rear hubs. Power loc in the front with 5.38 gears. Rear axle has lock-right with 5.38 gears. Has Saginaw power steering gear. Tow bar included.”

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Next Updates Monday

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Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful condolences. We are in pretty good shape here, but I am going to take the weekend off anyway (and may even get in some more march madness games). I’ll have new updates starting Monday.

Thanks again!

 
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RIP Karl Emrich Eilers 1933-2019

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My father passed away yesterday at the age of 85 after a week of family hospice care at his home of fifty-five years. He’d had a good, full life. The Navy veteran, long time Boeing Engineer, and, after retirement, Home Depot employee, struggled physically after his stroke in 2002, but it never dampened his will or drive.

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I took this pic just as the first basketball game started on Thursday. I had no idea it would be the last pic.

Before he passed on Thursday, Dad and I did something we’d never done. We turned on the March Madness basketball tournament at 9:30am and began watching March Madness together. I love basketball, so I thought I could share this with him (and I had control of the remotes). Though he likes sports, he always preferred football more.

Dad could no longer see the TV too well, so I ran the play-by-play scores by him and explained who was playing. He seemed to enjoy it. It was mostly just he and I as we rooted for the underdog teams as we juggled multiple games and channels. But, what he was really looking forward to was the 4pm game, which featured #1 seed Gonzaga, as that was his college Alma Mater.

Gonzaga is a Catholic school, but dad was no Catholic. In fact, I’d only learned the day before that while at Gonzaga, he got As and Bs in everything, except for the Ds he received in the religious classes. That sounded about right to me.

Just after 2pm on Thursday he decided, with his usual certainty and determination, that he was going to stand again and do a couple “pushups” (knee-bends using his walker). He hadn’t been out of bed in a week and a half, so we knew he was pretty week to be attempting this. His heart was only pushing about 20% of normal, due to heart failure, but, as he put it, “Goddammit”, he was going to do it. So, my wife, my mother and I helped him. He proceeded, with our help, to push himself off the bed twice.

By the second push, he was pretty tired, so we put him back into the bed. He immediately asked for my hand. That’s when I knew something was wrong, as he wasn’t one to hold my hand. Then, his breathing started to increase and a concern flashed across his eyes. While we soothed him, we could tell something had happened. He, of course, knew it, too.

The end came quickly and he suffered little. If he hadn’t been in the middle of dying, I am certain he would have appreciated the irony that a little exercise led to his passing, as loved to exercise, mostly lifting weights. Exercise made him feel alive most of his life, but in the end it led to his passing. I doubt he would have wanted it any other way.

We will miss him, but we are universally happy in his death. Between his stroke and increasing heart failure, he was a shell of his former self. At the end, he went out quickly and with dignity at home knowing he was loved (and with some gallows humor about the exercise). He was a good man and got what he deserved: PEACE.

PS…. for the record, Dad and I did share the Gonzaga game, though he showed little emotion as the Zags crushed their opponent, remaining pretty stiff throughout. It was only after the game that the funeral home came for the body. (I’m pretty sure dad is smiling, but shaking his head at me by this point).

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Summer of 1981. Dad and I at Milk Lake in the Cascade Mountains jeeping with our Jeep Club

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Dad and I in 2013.

 

 
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Liftmobile Patent

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This Liftmobile patent was filed by Schultz Kurt-Gunnar on January 16, 1960. This seems to be the only patent related to the jeep that he filed. I can find no evidence that this

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According to the patent, “The present invention aims at providing an improved elevator-type motor truck or liftmobile, repowered, equipped and counterbalanced for faster transportation of the load under care, to more distant places, even off the road, where they may be urgently needed under adverse conditions, as after accidents, during strikes, rebellions, forest fires, etc.

More particularly, the present invention aims at adapting a motor vehicle or truck, for example, a commercially available vehicle such as a Jeep, by appropriate modification and reconstruction thereof to quickly pick up the load at a depot from the ground or from a lorrys platform, for instance, canned food and refreshments, packed in boxes, first-aid material, barbed wire spools, bundled on pallets, and various other auxiliary and protective articles, to expeditiously travel with the load at the usual convoy speed, about 25-30 m.p.h., even over rough ground and in roadless country, and to promptly deposit the load in dangerous places under fire from rebels, at dark, by dumping, i.e., without necessity of stopping the vehicle for purposes of unloading.”

 
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Han-D-Crane by the Construction Machinery Company

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Anyone ever run across one of these cranes. It was manufactured by the Construction Machinery Company out of Waterloo, Iowa.

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2 1950 Photos of Unloading Jeep in Korea on eBay

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The price on these two identical photos is good. The photo appears to have been taken on September 20, 1950.

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“Original Korean War Press Photo dated 1950. (2 identical) Jeep unloaded from a Flying Boxcar plane at Kimpo Airport, taken by Photographer Stanley Tretick. 7X9″ the image itself is a bit grainy but theyre in great shape.”

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1948 CJ-2A Lake Don Pedro, CA $5900

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Has some updates.

https://modesto.craigslist.org/cto/d/la-grange-jeep-willys/6846183790.html

“1948 partial restored Jeep Willy. 4 cylinder flat head. 2 extra front and rear differentials. New tires, rims, shocks.
$6350 obo reduced! $5900”

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1952 CJ-3A? Fresno, CA $2000

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No pics provided.

https://fresno.craigslist.org/cto/d/fresno-1952-willys-jeep/6846475900.html

“1952 Willys Jeep. V6 4X4 stick shift. Running great. Built in tow bar to tow it with you anywhere. Hydraulic winch. Title in hand, on non-op”

 

 
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1946 CJ-2A Roseville, CA **SOLD**

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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $5000.

Project.

“46 Willys Flat Fender 4×4 Jeep.
Custom built 327
4×4
Tilt wheel
Power steering
Parked it 4 years ago now im not able to finish. Has a custom built 327 c.i. engine. Needs gas tank, brakes, radiator maybe a few other things. No major rust or body damage whatsoever. Super fast & fun.”

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Year? CJ-2A? Priest River, ID **SOLD**

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UPDATE: *SOLD** Was $2500.

Price dropped Not sure how much value is here.

“flat fender willys
block is cracked
call for details
76,000 made
have id title
no answering machine keep calling”

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1954 M-170 Eugene, OR **SOLD**

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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $2000.

(03/02/2015) It doesn’t run.

“1954 front line combat ambulance, have original top, correct tail gate, 2 replacement front fenders, mostly complete, no litters, not running, has been converted to 12 volt.”

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1942 Saturday Evening Post with A Ford GP

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On pages 48-29 of the August 15, 1942, Saturday Evening post featured an ad by the United State Rubber Company titled “Here’s Where Your Rubber is Going”. The ad included a Ford GP.

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WWII Airman Compass

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You never know what will pop up around my parents’ house. The other day my sister found this tiny compass set, given to my grandfather for my father and his brothers. The set contains a small magnet, what I believe to be a magnetized arrow that can balance on the magnet, a 1925 coin (unsure what type of metal), and a small leather pouch. All of this was stored in a small envelope with a note to my grandfather.

The letter mentions four items. The fourth may have been a small leather pouch, which somehow I forgot to photograph. The coin was in the leather pouch. The arrow and magnet were in the tiny envelope shown in the photo below. Both the leather pouch and the small envelope were inside the large enveloped with the writing.

I tried to find more info online, but didn’t have any luck. Anyone know some history about this? Is the magnet and arrow supposed to be used with the coin?

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