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Both of you are welcome. Just give me some advance notice. That is, don't show up at 6:00 AM with a back seat full of beer!
Phantomfixer said:Peacoat, Next time I go down to Roane Mountain I will look you two up. I could use some pointers on the T-90 rebuild process.
bruce wayne said:Peacoat, do you know if your friend converts the axles from two-piece to one-piece?
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Charlie
Peacoat said:I don't know but I will ask him. I've never heard him mention it.
MPicciotto said:Is that the GI Joe one?
Matt
Heck, IF you ever found on still in the crate, you could put it in a building and charge admission, then retire off the people coming to see it.MPicciotto said:If you ever found one, it is my estimation that it would be worth well over 30,000 and left in it's crate. The value would be it being in it's crate. Otherwise it's just the supreme example of NOS parts
There never were any Jeeps in crates. Those ads were for companies selling government surplus listings (which could be had for free). They didn’t sell Jeeps in crates and never did. This story has been going around for decades now. The basic idea is that some folks took out ads in magazines in the 50s and 60s, which were just to get listing for surplus from the government. Still, enough people read those ads and eventually the stories got passed down until there now a generation of people who swear that their Uncle's Neighbor's College Roommate bought one new in the crate after the war. You'll never, EVER meet the person who actually bought one. It's always several people removed from the person telling you this, he'll never know where the Jeep is today or how to reach anyone who might have photos. It's an utter urban legend. Folks who own WW2 Jeeps hear this all the time. Granted, there were a very few people who did buy crated Jeeps after the war, but none of them got them for a steal. Think of it; Willys started making CJ-2 Jeep immediately after the war and got premium prices for them. Would they have been able to do that if there were a bunch of crated WW2 Jeeps lying around for bargain prices? Of course not. In fact, a well-known author on the subject has had an ongoing cash reward for even good documentation that someone bought a WW2 Jeep new in the crate. In several decades, he’s never once even had someone ask how to collect. Here are two good links on the subject:Dixon Cannon said:I remember when I was a kid, you could still order these crated Jeeps from the back of comic books! I often wonder if there are a few, still crated, in some garage somewhere. What a find that would be!
Is that Roan Mountain? Peacoat, you live in the Tr-Cities area? My folks were born and raised along Stoney Creek, outside of Elizabethton. I know the area well!Phantomfixer said:Peacoat, Next time I go down to Roane Mountain I will look you two up. I could use some pointers on the T-90 rebuild process.
I know you didn't mean it in this way, but some folks have used photos of that Jeep to support there are still WW2 Jeeps in a crate. But the Jeep here was a restored WW2 Jeep disassembled and a reproduction crate made to show what it would have looked like.Dixon Cannon said: