Mike Gardner

hey guys been busting my a$$ on my willys. here is the album page and the walk around of what i did yesterday and today:
http://mikegardner.myphotoalbum.com/...album13&page=5
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mikeg576
i have decided to shoot to for total completeion by the snowshoe jeep jamboree. i alos i'm not allowing myself to do anymods to the jk till the willys is done..............hurry, hurry, hurry, lol.
thanks for looking

mgaspard

I love swiss cheese.

Mike Gardner

mmmmm cheese

ChevyM14

Nice work! keep at it and you will be doing 45MPH with the windshield down befor your know it! that is a very early 45 tub because it has the axe and shiveal cut outs like on the MB (WWII JEEP). I wish I had the time and skill to take my tub off and reweld all the bad parts, but I dont think I can spend that kind of time away for driveing my Jeep!

this is my 44 MB

Mike Gardner

thanks it's ser# 11713 or cj # 1,713. it's no easy job taking the tub off. i've had my 2a going on 4 years now. got the pas floor in today. i love your mb! i would give a left nut for one.

tgrt

That's awesome. I wish I had the space to do a restoration. Skill might help too.

Mike Gardner

thanks dude, this is the first time i've ever tried this. i'm a welder/fabricator but i do heavy stuff. this jeep is the 1st sheet metal welding/fabing i've ever done.

also did more work on the floors today, (pics in album). i formed the drivers side into the trans tunnel and did a little more welding on it. i'm wating on a few pannels to come in so i can finish the pass side.

guinness

Looking @ the red tub reminds me of the jeep my grandfather used to have, post WWII era 52 or 54, believe it or not I learned to drive on one of them @ age 10! 3spd on the floor. Its been 24 years, but I do remember it would go anywhere, and if it got stuck a few old men (i was ten) could pick up the back fairly easily no need for a winch and God help anyone sitting in the jump seats, thats what my dad called them or was I just sitting on the wheel wells

Mike Gardner

if the red tub your talking about is the one in my album that's the tub i'm working on now. i never thought it was as bad as it is.
thanks

guinness

I talked w/ my Dad today about the red jeep and apparently it was supposed to be tan but was mostly rustoleum red/rust he also reminded me that when I first drove it I was one of the few people that could put any weight on the floorboards without falling through.
I look forward to following this thread throughout the resto goodluck.