Will I make it? Jeep project!

[Lars R.]

Hey Chris & Terry,

the Frame should be O.K., it is fractured were many Jeep frames brake, especially if used as a snow plough. It is were the tube meets the side rail and it has full thickness, no rust, so, it has been repaird on other Jeeps before and should work.

That Jeep has had a long journey indeed, all they way through Canada back East, then to the US to be shipped accross the Atlantic and via 4 European countries till it finally turned up at my doorstep, but it found a good home I hope. It took over a Year though. In anticipation, I could collect many missing parts in those 12 months!

If it would have been a story about "just a Jeep", it probably would not have happened. We are spoilt rotten with mechanically very sound G503s in Europe, with many only having been sold off by Armies in the 1980s/90s and mostly well maintained! I think the Italians were the last to let some go in the early 2000s, from a Railway Engineers Battallion. But, most of these are complete salads having been rebuilt not only once, but some even three times! I have a Frence cast block (not Hotchkiss!!!), which was casted in 1989 for the French Army and assembled by them with WWII internals to a running engine in 1990!

So, if you want a fairly original 241 / 242 one, you need to look elsewhere and go the extra mile...and be prepared to take on a Challenge!