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MarkE's Military CJ-5

I first obtained the Jeep in March 2005, as shown above. It was originally the prize for a raffle at the War and Peace show in Beltring UK, but for various reasons this did not happen so the Jeep went into storage, I bought the Jeep along with some garbled history of it being from the Swiss Army via a stint in the Dutch army as the chap who sprayed it "British olive drab" said there were black squares with white NL on it (have not seen them yet), any way eventually got the Jeep home and started to tart it up for the coming rally season, so I carried out some work on the brakes, cooling system, seats (re-packed with foam) and purchased some stencils from a nice bloke called Rick Larson who you will probably know, and stuck some proper tyres on the finished Jeep for now looked like this

Once the season had finished for me in 2005 I went to work on stripping the thing down as there was a big doubt as to what this really was, first it's an M38A1, then it's an M606A2/3 or it's this or that, so the only thing to do was find the number and as there were no original plates left onto the chassis it was, and after some searching and elbow grease there it was and another and another, having long discussions with people on this web forum (my thanks to Sparky who was probably getting a little miffed dealing with me) I have sort of come to the conclusion that the Jeep is probably/maybe an early 50's export model (editor's note, the VIN indicates a 1959 model year CJ-5 Jeep) as supplied to the Swiss military because of the price difference between an M38A1 and a M606A2/3, anyway below are a few pics of the stage I am at now with my rebuild and had a surprise along the way to find out that my gearbox and transfer box is marked GPW which as I am told is from the flat fender Jeeps of WWII fame! Oh well can't have everything original can we (does this mean it's rare or just a mismatch of a Jeep)? Who cares it's mine and a wicked thing to drive.

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