Do you guys see any thing of value here....cheap M38a1...
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 7:13 pm
This is for sale locally in my area for around $450
The owner claims its 95% complete but in pieces. From talking to him via email correspondence I think its closer to 80% complete.
What I do know is missing so far from talking to the owner via email:
Rear Seat
Black Out Light and mount
Top Bows
Transmission
Still waiting to hear back on information about the steering box and steering wheel.
The Engine does not run.
Owner says the only part that would need to be replaced on the body because of rust is a few square feet which looks to me is on the driver side of the tub.
From the looks of it this could have be an ex air-force M38a1. Notice the blue paint in some places that would require a dis-assembly to get complete coverage, some thing Bubba usually does not do.
The reason I am posting this here is because I am on the fence with its value. The jeep looks to have pretty good potential for a frame off rebuild due to the fact it looks like Bubba didn't do to many mods or cut away much of the body.
So what do you guys think? Is it worth the $450 asking price to save it from the scrapper?
Any parts any of you guys could use?
















Sorry for the editing but as I have posted before; to keep the band width use down and thus the cost of operating the web site down we must try to limit photo posting sizes to less than 150K each. The photos that were above were almost all over 500K each. I reloaded the original full size photos to linx310's personal www.willysmjeeps.com photo album on our photo album page and you can view all of these in their full size there.
http://www.willysmjeeps.com/v2/modules. ... _album.php
Thanks for your help keeping the web site costs down.
Wes K
The owner claims its 95% complete but in pieces. From talking to him via email correspondence I think its closer to 80% complete.
What I do know is missing so far from talking to the owner via email:
Rear Seat
Black Out Light and mount
Top Bows
Transmission
Still waiting to hear back on information about the steering box and steering wheel.
The Engine does not run.
Owner says the only part that would need to be replaced on the body because of rust is a few square feet which looks to me is on the driver side of the tub.
From the looks of it this could have be an ex air-force M38a1. Notice the blue paint in some places that would require a dis-assembly to get complete coverage, some thing Bubba usually does not do.
The reason I am posting this here is because I am on the fence with its value. The jeep looks to have pretty good potential for a frame off rebuild due to the fact it looks like Bubba didn't do to many mods or cut away much of the body.
So what do you guys think? Is it worth the $450 asking price to save it from the scrapper?
Any parts any of you guys could use?
Sorry for the editing but as I have posted before; to keep the band width use down and thus the cost of operating the web site down we must try to limit photo posting sizes to less than 150K each. The photos that were above were almost all over 500K each. I reloaded the original full size photos to linx310's personal www.willysmjeeps.com photo album on our photo album page and you can view all of these in their full size there.
http://www.willysmjeeps.com/v2/modules. ... _album.php
Thanks for your help keeping the web site costs down.
Wes K