My first find

jeeps8 · Post by **jeeps8** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:41 pm

Was trying to find the hood numbers off the new Jeep. Worked slowly on one side and thought I found some that were legible. I then moved to the other side where the paint was peeling a little more. Then i actually got lucky here. Looks like it was repainted once by the Army before the civillian paint was added. The second was on the first coat.

Then the other side.

They are the same numbers on both side. Probably old hat to all here, but still got me a little excited.

I'll get this on my survey Wes along with some more for ya tomorrow.

jeeps8 · Post by **jeeps8** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:43 pm

Forgot to downsize, sorry.

Post by **wesk** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:32 pm

Sand just above them now to see if you have U.S.A. or U.S.Army.

The U.S.A. was original from Willys and the U.S.Army would be an Army repaint after 1954.

bl5211a · Post by **bl5211a** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:06 am

what method of sanding worked best for you? looks like wet sanding? what grit?

GIJOE290 · Post by **GIJOE290** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:14 am

Nice find! Congrat's!

jeeps8 · Post by **jeeps8** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:40 pm

sorry bl, missed ur reply there. Most of it was a dull razor blade as several layers of paint are chipping. lots of hours of just chipping away. there was sanding with some 600 grit and very lite apps of some paint stripper. The 1st pic is of the stripper and sanding. The jeep was actually painted twice by the Army. The second pic is the original paint and this is the part i spent an eternitity on with a razor blade.

north-shore · Post by **north-shore** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:32 am

Hi,
Wow nice find

kenperkins · Post by **kenperkins** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:25 pm

good find, now are you going to look for a star?

jeeps8 · Post by **jeeps8** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:41 pm

didn't find the star on the first layer of Army paint. I set it aside for awhile to try and get some other stuff done and regain some patcience with it. I might try and find it later, but the paint there is on pretty good. Would really like to find some unit markings.

Jeeps4Brains · Post by **Jeeps4Brains** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:54 pm

Interesting the difference in the hood numbers from one side to the other, maybe the larger numbers are the older style number? I would go with the larger style numbers myself.

Post by **wesk** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:52 pm

I think the numbers are about the same size and the camera distance/angle is what is different.

Neither of the numbers are the original style numbers installed by Willys.