Thinking of a restoration project or hobby......

The first thing  you need to do before you buy your restoration is to think how you want to do this project and how much you want to spend, you may want a complete restoration or just a fixer uper or something that is running and just needs TLC, but all will need money spent on your project, the question is how much do you want to spend.

If you want a restoration, we always tell our customers to look for a jeep that has all the running gear and as much as a complete engine as possible first, the other items like jeep tub are secondery to the overall project, if you have most of the engine and running gear we are set, you can work on the tub later or even replace it all together, in fact you can buy everything you need for your project through a number of Jeep part supplyers or ourselves.

Another area to look for is the chassis numbers found on the front chassis arm as a plate rivited on the Willys or a number stamped on the chassis for the Ford, the other are is the glove box lid as this area has data plates on it but it is very hard to find an original matching data plate with the chassis number but you can replace the data plates as you work on your project.

Here is a jeep that was found and restored.

Look at the end result...

All these Jeeps started off as Restorations

This is a lovley example of a restoration jeep, i would guess this one is arround the 1943-44 date as i can see it has split rims that came in arround the 1943 from the solid rim and later reverted back to the solid rim we see today. also i can see the star on the side of the jeep, this was the star used before the big push in June 1944.

The Willys, Ford and Hotchkiss are all the same and the parts can be used on each jeep but there are some very small differances.