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Well I'm sure many of us has been in this position. Eric, a buddy of mine as well as my welding supplier, has had this sweet little 73 CJ5 for about 20 years. He bought it stock and slowly built it into one CRAZY crawlin' machine. A frame up resto net'd him a beautiful CJ and then he started modifying it. It got a soup'd up 360, T18 (wide), scout D300 w/ 4:1, Highangle CV's front and back, Scout D44s w/ Warn Shafts, CTMs, FF rear, Detroits and eventually 37" MTRs on WE beadlocks. In its splendor and ~ ahem ~ *fresh* days, it looked like this:
Complete with OBA, welder and just about anything else you could want in a CJ5. But as Eric wheeled it, and the more the fresh paint got scuffed, the more he WHEEL'd it, and sooner than later dents replaced scrapes. These pcitures are 3-4 years old and lets just say, the little red CJ isn't so *fresh* anymore. Heck, I can't remember it having a straight body panel, except maybe the grill :laughing:
So Eric contacted me about doing some 'minor' modifications. He's got a CJ8 he wants to build for 2007, but needs to 'band-aid' the CJ5 for another season of wheeling before it gets retired.
And. with that, the Band-Aid Build (so named by Eric) was born.
Complete with OBA, welder and just about anything else you could want in a CJ5. But as Eric wheeled it, and the more the fresh paint got scuffed, the more he WHEEL'd it, and sooner than later dents replaced scrapes. These pcitures are 3-4 years old and lets just say, the little red CJ isn't so *fresh* anymore. Heck, I can't remember it having a straight body panel, except maybe the grill :laughing:
So Eric contacted me about doing some 'minor' modifications. He's got a CJ8 he wants to build for 2007, but needs to 'band-aid' the CJ5 for another season of wheeling before it gets retired.
And. with that, the Band-Aid Build (so named by Eric) was born.
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