1953 Jeep

The story begins in 1973 when my older brother and dad bought a 1953 M38A1 military Jeep. Dad and I got the Jeep road legal in Ohio then my older brother drove it for his last two years of high school and then joined the Army. Then I drove it for my last two years of high school and then I joined the Army. Dad filled the engine cylinders with oil and the Jeep sat in the barn for the next 34 years and disintegrated. In January of 2010, I completed building my first ever work shop and started the Jeep restoration. I fabricated a rotisserie that I mounted to my lift so I could rotate the Jeep tub I then spent a year of weekends replacing metal. I overhauled the engine so it could burn unleaded fuel. Total time bring the Jeep back to life was six years of weekends. I did something on the Jeep project every weekend no matter how small because I had seen other people get half way through a large project like this and then stop for one reason or another and never get back to it and I did not want that to happen to me. I have worked on helicopters all my life but never have done a 100% tear down of a vehicle until now.