Well I just made a heck of a deal... gonna bring home my newest little toy this weekend. 1958 Forward Control 4x4 Jeep (CF-150). She's no oil burner but with only 22K (total) on the clock with the factory F head motor, and she runs like a champ. All glass in tact too.

I'd never even seen one before today, so odd looking I just had to have it. Really oughta get a few heads to turn when i get her back on the road. She's begging for a lot of TLC, a little welding and some new paint to bring her back to factory(ish) specs. Then the fun will begin...yet another toy to bomb!

Best of all... total cost, short of a promise not to sell her off.. ZERO!

Gonna try to do a bit of photo documentation of the restoration project. Should be fun.

Dave

 

Got any pics yet?

 

They were real popular in New York years ago. Most of them were silver or gray.

 

I got curious, so I looked up CF-150 jeeps and came up with this.



http://www.film.queensu.ca/CJ3B/Fire/FireFC.html

for more info, look here.

http://www.film.queensu.ca/CJ3B/Siblings/FC.html

http://jeepfc.www5.50megs.com/index2.htm

Neat find, should make a fun project.

 

Hmmmm, that one is red

 

Shovelhead - something like that well pretty close anyhows and short of the all the FD stuff...

Haulin - sorry to disappoint you, but thinking along the lines of some grey fading to black paint scheme... thats quite a ways down the road though!

Really an odd duck, gonna be fun taking her from a rust bucket to cool. Built on the original CJ5 frame...so anything is possible, I'm thinking leaving things close to stock/dressed up a little or maybe a light mudder/rock crawler. Already got an extra tranny, xfer case, and door glass and anything else I want/need from a '59 *****'s donor with the deal.

I'll try to get some pics this weekend to post.

BTW anyone having a garage sale this weekend? I really need another garage and FAST!

Dave

 

Daker I was not encouraging you to leave it silver, just that most of them I saw were. They are a blast to drive, front vision is great off road. Lets see now, a 4bt, HX35, 4 inch exhaust, yeah.....

 

yeah dakar going to put a cummins in it??

 

Funny you should mention that... you have no idea how present that notion has been tugging at my brain all day... But it'll hold until i get the chasis pulled off and torn down. The factory motor only has 22K on it, but it's rapidly approaching 50 years old, i'll give her a real good going through and see. Although I do know where there is a an old diesel Benz with a strong motor/drivetrain setting.

This will be the first 'F' head I've played with so at worst it'll be entertaining/educational to goof with for a while. But to put a 4 popping oil burner in there would be just way too cool. If I could only remember where I planted that $$$ tree.

 

My neighbor used to own one similar to that and drove it around for years. Seemed to be a pretty bullet-proof machine.

PISTOL