Military-Vehicles: Re: [MV] After Market Bodies for MBs
Re: [MV] After Market Bodies for MBs
Jeff Polidoro (willys@vgernet.net)
Sat, 12 Jul 1997 08:22:32 -0400
If you don't want to use the MB body you already have on a Ford (and I
agree you shouldn't), I can't imagine you'd want to use a repro body on a
Ford (or on anything but a woods buggy, for that matter). The differences
are so many and so obvious you can spot them a mile a way. While it might
be, theoretically, possible to swap all of the unique features of the
mid-series Ford body to the repro, the reality would probably be that
repairing even the worst Ford body you could find would be cheaper, more
accurate and (and more satisfying). But you will never get the bends and
contours of the firewall, for example, to where you can't still tell it's a
repro, unless you found some idiot-savant sheet metal worker. (Maybe
without the savant part.) If you were willing to do this you might as well
just get a junk Ford body and do it with the Willys body. Also, there
must be someone in a similar (but opposite) situation who might swap a Ford
body with you. Some of the repro bodies are so dimensionally inaccurate
that I have seen them where you have to use the repro fenders to get them
to bolt up and then the hood still over hung the stock grille by an inch
and a half. The shop had to cut an one inch section out and reweld it to
shorten the hood and the driver's footwell area was so far off the pedals
wouldn't swing freely.
Regards,
JP
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> From: Rick <rick@prospectsw.com>
> To: mil-veh@skylee.com
> Subject: [MV] After Market Bodies for MBs
> Date: Friday, July 11, 1997 5:42 PM
>
> I am new to the list, so I apologize if this question has been asked
> hundreds of times before.
>
> I am putting together a 1943 GPW. I have all of the parts to do so,
> except for the tub. (It came with a MB body on it).
> I want to look into an after market body and was wondering if any of you
> out there have had
> any experience with this. I am told that some of the companies bodies
> are made from the
> same tooling as the originals, etc. With my brief exposure to after
> market parts for MBs
> and GPWs I am less than thrilled when I here this. Having had enough
> problems with
> simple things such as Bumpers, frame pieces, bumper brackets and
> bumper-ettes.
>
> Any light that you can shed on the subject would be helpful.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Rick Perotti
>
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