Lou,
Sorry, I could not respond to your message earlier. In fact I was trying to
take a second look at the jeep and "interrogate" its owner. The jeep is a
M606 (Thanks Chance Wolf!). I scraped the plate in the engine bay and found
out that the jeep was made in 1955. The owner perhaps wanted me to think
that it was older than it really was. He admitted that the split windscreen
is not original and was replaced from an earlier model jeep.
Sad that it is not your old jeep from Eritrea.
Listers, when did the first version of this M606 (military version of the
CJ 3B) roll out?
Thanks
Anith
Sudan
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Subject: Re: [MV] WHAT COULD THIS BE?
Author: "lou" <lou@frontier.net> at WFP
Date: 30/01/2001 12:53 AM
Anith this would be too unreal to be true, but it's just farfetched
enough.
I was stationed in Asmara, Eritrea between 1967 - 1972, about
50 miles or so
East from the Sudan. When I got there I bought a jeep for $50
(but it
wasn't in a crate!). It had rolled end over end three times
off one of
those narrow mountain roads (Asmara is at 8000 ft elevation,
the Red Sea is
only twenty or so miles East). The jeep was a 1951 M38, flat
fenders and
low hood but the body was pretty smashed up. There was a CJ3B
body only
lying unused on post. Its very likely that somewhere in
Northeastern Africa
there is still an M38 with a CJ3B (high hood) body. Can you
send some
pictures?
Lou
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From: <Anith@wfp.org>
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:40 AM
Subject: [MV] WHAT COULD THIS BE?
>
> Dear List,
>
> I just came across a Willys which has very close resemblence
to CJ3B or
its
> military version (M 404 ?). It has high hood but has a split
windscreen.
> The owner claims that the windscreen is original. I
understand that the
> CJ3B or its military version had no split windscreen. The
vehicle still
> retains its original bumperettes and mil. green colors. the
owner claims
it
> is a 1951 Willys. Any idea what it could be?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Anith
> (Sudan)
> Africa
>
>
>
>
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