Cool old Jeep video short

[Flatties 4ever]

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[kah.mun.rah]

This is awesome!

 

[GRAK]

LOL @ that poor rear seat dude nearly breaking his face on those bounces

 

[Opus]

I can't decide if it's painful or funny seeing those guys getting practically launched out of the back seat...

 

[LuvHydro]

That was cool.

Ouch tho

 

[The Last Cowboy]

At 2:26, the ad for Jeep in the Peacetime World shows a father and son with what looks like an MB with tractor tires on it. The CJ2/2A must not have yet been developed when that artist made that ad.

 

[2nd 392]

At 2:26, the ad for Jeep in the Peacetime World shows a father and son with what looks like an MB with tractor tires on it. The CJ2/2A must not have yet been developed when that artist made that ad.

Good catch— promoting surplus sales? They sold a lot of them ( Uncle and fathers friend) those directional tires were common when I was young . Those old trailers were heavy, 0– 45mph in 15 minutes? (the 3A struggled pulling itself up on road road grades before the Go Devil was swapped for a still marginal Hurricane) and if you ever got it up to speed I sure hope trailer brakes existed. Our almost identical hunting trailer didn’t. Everyone swapped in larger Ford brakes. ?

 

[The Last Cowboy]

I remember seeing Ford flathead V8s swapped in too. They were tiny, so it was a good fit.

 

[Ang1Sgt]

Thanks for that Video. I still wish I had either a video I or a picture of My Aunt Testing these at Aberdeen Proving Grounds back in WWII. I look closely at everything I can find!

 

[four low]

1941-45 Jeeps had 4:88 gearing ; postwar CJs (46 on) had 5:38 gearing to help with the "Farm and Family " duties.

 

[2nd 392]

I remember seeing Ford flathead V8s swapped in too. They were tiny, so it was a good fit.

One of Dad’s friends swapped in a flathead Studebaker 6, lousy fit, too long, made a mess of it. 3B— but that’s where the Hurricane came from.?

 

[The Last Cowboy]

Ouch! I love 3Bs.

Most don’t know that no CJ got an inline/straight 6 until 1971. CJs had a V6 5 years before the AMC straight 6 came along. AMC had the lengthen the wheelbase 3” to fit that engine.

 

[flyer92]

Thanks for posting! It was this old footage that helped spur the purchase of my CJ many years ago and I never looked back. Love my JL, but there's nothing like a solid steel, no-frills, non-computerized Jeep...oh how I miss her!

 

[2nd 392]

Ouch! I love 3Bs.

Most don’t know that no CJ got an inline/straight 6 until 1971. CJs had a V6 5 years before the AMC straight 6 came along. AMC had the lengthen the wheelbase 3” to fit that engine.

Yep— and made the 6 standard with an added 2 barrel in 79, then back to a 4 banger (Chevy) 80-83 ??‍ I don’t like the added windshield slope for 76. A friend swapped the Buick V6 into his 3B, you would like that one.

 

[The Last Cowboy]

Yep, that's a good swap.

I've been looking for a clean, stock, umolested, unrestored CJ3B or Pre '75 CJ5 for awhile now. When I find one, it's always more than 100 miles away and sold before I call. I don't want someone else's idea of a restoration and I don't want a modified one unless it is modified the way I'd like it., which is rare.

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