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This popped up on my local CL over the weekend

Runs, Drives, and the guy is looking to trade for an old motorcycle. which I have.

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/bar/1075885595.html

Yes.

It may be the unloved bastard of the Jeep world, but I've been craving one of these as a "farm truck" for years. A motorcycle fits inside with the passenger seat removed. The back door swings open nicely for carrying engines and other large objects. The inline-6 is the favored version of these as it is a better engine. The transmissions is a little funky unit, but it's pretty sound. I say go for it. If he was closer I'd consider trading my old bike for it.

Lots of rust in the rear. How available are patch panels? Down here they are available whithout the rust option. I just saw one for sale for $500.00 that wasnt rusty. May be worth a trip to the sunny south if you realy want one.

can take CJ parts to be 4x4. Four wheeler did a article on it a long time ago.

I want one....but I would tube frame it, and race it...

porksboy wrote: Lots of rust in the rear. How available are patch panels? Down here they are available whithout the rust option. I just saw one for sale for $500.00 that wasnt rusty. May be worth a trip to the sunny south if you realy want one.

It's all flat and right angles....

Patch panels are as nearby as your local metal-roofed barn.

93celicaGT2 wrote: It's all flat and right angles.... Patch panels are as nearby as your local metal-roofed barn.

Exactly what I was thinking

I think they have something like a 4.10 ratio in the rear, maybe even a Dana 44.

from the CL listing: "It has been idol for about last 4 or 5 years" Does that mean its was an idol for 4 or 5 years, because it might have spirits trapt in it.

It means it sings pretty.

Oh hell yeah. I even have an old motorcycle around here someplace....

Okay, if it's something you'll never use on the road. My father drove these for years for work and said they were flaming piles of excrement to drive. And this is coming from a man who drover a Willys Jeep to work every day. They are slow, extremely tippy and have no creature comforts to speak of. Best of all, they are cursed with a number of unique parts and the Jeep dealer can't help you.

I think they are kind of neat myself, but it would definatly be something I would be more inclined to use the body with updated mechanicals.

Can they be retrofitted to left hand drive?

mad_machine wrote: Can they be retrofitted to left hand drive?

I'd want it because it's right hand drive

right hand drive is a hoot.

left has drive is easy

http://www.fourwheeler.com/featuredvehicles/129_0605_1975_jeep_dj_5d/index.html Project Jeep for Cheap as I mentioned earlier.

BABE. You could deliver mail from NYC to NO.

And if you picked up empty bottles on the way you'd return to Michigan a rich man. And a hero since no one has ever pulled off the Michigan bottle scam.

I remember a 4x4 magazine article on them from years ago. They went and made one into a real off-road vehicle.

Like ddavidv was saying, lots of special parts that you can't get easily, extremely weak on performance, and just generally not a very good vehicle. As I recall, the article ended with them questioning the wisdom of their venture.

Does RHD make it mad-tyte JDM? Put a fart can and wing on it, and cruise with the kiddies.

foxtrapper wrote: I remember a 4x4 magazine article on them from years ago. They went and made one into a real off-road vehicle. Like ddavidv was saying, lots of special parts that you can't get easily, extremely weak on performance, and just generally not a very good vehicle. As I recall, the article ended with them questioning the wisdom of their venture.

see my post above for that article.

I think I'd just about kill myself laughing if I ever saw one of those doing a wheelie down the quarter mile. With that wheelbase you wouldn't even need too much power. Just some big sticky meats.

I'm just saying.

Heh, why do people keep posting things like this here and asking "should I?" Are you seriously expecting a no?

J

We're the board full of enablers. Don't blow our cover!

I dunno, a buddy had one of those things many years ago, IIRC it had a Chevy 4 cyl and Powerglide? He thought it was a 'real Jeep' and managed to roll the crap out of it while going up a incline near the Broad River in Columbia. He fell out and only got scratches and bruises (being drunk has its advantages!), the DJ didn't survive.

Jensenman wrote: I dunno, a buddy had one of those things many years ago, IIRC it had a Chevy 4 cyl and Powerglide? He thought it was a 'real Jeep' and managed to roll the crap out of it while going up a incline near the Broad River in Columbia. He fell out and only got scratches and bruises (being drunk has its advantages!), the DJ didn't survive.

I love stories like this!