Been a while-need help

Been quite a while since we saw any posts here, so let me pose a question to you ... I got this from one of the guys I used to work with. DB had a heart attack a couple months ago and a quad-bypass, but he still restores old Jeeps (MB's etc) So this kinda took me by surprise when he asked me - Make a note here ... I don't have an answer (me - nothing to answer with? I'm losing it!!) Need help

I am back at work. About 3 weeks now. So far so good, all things considered.
Hope you are well.

One of the fellows in the North Yard drug what he believes is a CJ2A "out of the woods" with the intent of getting it back on the road. He said it had a clamshell hood.

Any idea how to read this s/n 452-GBI 25432

Thanks, DB

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Originally Posted by jeepsr4ever

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OK, besides the eyeballs - - I can't think of a single Jeep that looks like a CJ2, 3,4,5,6,7,8 MB, or M-anything like 38's or 715's, or anything else Jeep/Kaiser that EVER had a hinged-in-the-middle hood (aka the old Dodges and Fords).
I've asked DB to see if he can get some pics. I'm thinking it was a bastard-alteration by somebody because the body looks like an early CJ??

Mudrat

Is there any way you can get us some pics?

A guy has a CJ3A here in Denver with a hood like that. He made it himself. It's pretty easy, since the hoods had a factory seam down the middle. Just split the seam, weld in a piano hinge. He made a bracket for each end of the new hinge, and used factory latches. Except for the ridge left by the hinge, it doesn't even look modified.

Bob
tufcj

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Originally Posted by JeepsAndGuns

Is there any way you can get us some pics?

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I've asked - we'll see if I can get some.

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Originally Posted by tufcj

A guy has a CJ3A here in Denver with a hood like that. He made it himself. It's pretty easy, since the hoods had a factory seam down the middle. Just split the seam, weld in a piano hinge. He made a bracket for each end of the new hinge, and used factory latches. Except for the ridge left by the hinge, it doesn't even look modified.

Bob
tufcj

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Thanks Bob. Still have to ask "Why"?? Though?

is it possible that it's something completely different? Like a Mahindra&Mahindra, or ancient toyota or something?

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Originally Posted by Soylent_Green

is it possible that it's something completely different? Like a Mahindra&Mahindra, or ancient toyota or something?

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Good call!!
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Hummmm .. don't know. Went looking for pics to pass to DB this AM to see if his buddy could recognize it and found they are having a sale (with cash back) on their 4x4 tractors =D>

Couldn't find any 40's-50's pics of them. Do you know a site? The ones I found were all solid hood like any CJ??

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A lot of those old Mihandra's and such have been butchered soo much over the years (although they started out bastardized to begin with) that who knows anymore. I have yet to see one stateside, though. As for the clamshell hood and why someone would do that - why do people put 22"s on Rubicons? Cause for some reason to them it looks cool. #-o Hopefully we can get some pics up and diasect it!!