Joined: Feb 28, 2011 Posts: 148 Location: Escondido, CA
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:31 am Post subject: enough pictures for you?
Good grief - do you think they included enough pictures: http://tinyurl.com/3es4rff (ebay sale of a "restored" M38) It just looks so wrong in gloss yellow . . . _________________ Jim M.
1952 M38 son-father project
Discovering more worn out parts, one assembly at a time
Joined: Aug 31, 2010 Posts: 1744 Location: SO IDAHO
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:43 am Post subject:
KINDA REMINDS ME OF "BIG BIRD" ON SESAME ST.
PERHAPS IT WAS A "DESERTER" THUS "YELLOW".. _________________ keep 'em rollin'
RICKG MC 51986 DOD 01-52, '50 CJ3a
What is it? With painting old jeeps Yellow? When my brother found the M38 that I now own it was painted Yellow too. _________________ Tropical Veteran
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Joined: Jul 18, 2008 Posts: 645 Location: Melrose, MA and Santa Fe, NM
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 5:52 am Post subject:
OK, so he calls it a FJ when it's clearly not a Japenese Jeep knock-off. He painted it bright yellow and waxed it. But what gets me is all the misspellings and missing words. He's touting a business with this?
It does look nice that the frame and axles are painted black while the body is yellow. Looks pretty, but does it run? Remember Donald Sutherland in the "Dirty Dozen"? Pretty but can they fight?
Waste of an M38. There are plenty of CJ's out there...which are nice to have...why butcher an M series? I am looking at a CJ2 now and am seeing it with a JD green paint job with yellow wheels.... (smile)
I had a fellow looking at My M38 several years back telling me how it would be... "better...all jacked up, painted red, with big tars and a chevy V-8 in it." He wanted to know if I would let him.. "take it off my hands for a couple hundred dollars 'cause no-body wanted them old army jeeps 'cause they are so #@$%@ ugly and slow."
Joined: Feb 28, 2011 Posts: 148 Location: Escondido, CA
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:32 am Post subject:
Cacti_Ken wrote:
Went all that trouble and painted it Yellow. ugh!
What is it? With painting old jeeps Yellow? When my brother found the M38 that I now own it was painted Yellow too.
Beats me. I saw another M38 on eBay in Oregon not too long ago that was "restored" bright yellow just like this one. _________________ Jim M.
1952 M38 son-father project
Discovering more worn out parts, one assembly at a time
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