More shots of the "bubba" made panels!

Here they´re:

Natxo keep on working!

Buf! This time, he has managed to recover the panel sheet of the transmission floor, just over the bell housing...and he has reproduced the rest of the floor!!! Look at these incredible pics!

Man, I take off my brain!

TheOutliner

TheOutliner

This same weekend I have started to sandblast too my chassis frame!!!! Man, it was cool! Except the mask...argh! It seems as a NASA cosmonaut or at Dr. Strangelove laboratory!!!!

But now it looks as something real...

I found what it looks as the old serial number of the chassis frame, stamped at the left front, before where it was the "bubba" bumper gusset. But unfortunately, it´s where the previous owner have cut the frame and welded again. I saw only 2 digits: G 1 .

Rebirth of a bodytub!

Well, this could be the tittle for a chapter of a Willys jeep TV series!!! Special guest star: Willys Overland MB, circa 1942!! As much as Natxo knows about his gemn, he´s convinced she´s a slat grille model, or a real early MB. That´s real good luck!

So, here you have more pics of the new cargo area panel and from the old bodytub.

Time for a rest...

...in which my friend Raul Rivera, owner of an US M38 "project" ( http://jeeperfever.blogspot.com/ ) , did a trip to a local surplus dealer, situated at Bayonne, a "petit village" of the French Basque country. There we bought several spare parts: shafts for Natxo´s MB, brake pipes, bolts "U" for the springs, etc.

Really, we had a great day, as we meet another fellow jeeper, Gilles, who own a CJ3A model. And we saw what it look as a Willys-Hotchkiss M201, the French "clone" of the MB.

My "Frankenjeep" CJ3A !!!

Or a mixture of CJ2A plus CJ3A parts...more or less! Last September Sunday, my friend Txus Esteban has helped me taking out the "bubba" upper bumper gussets and straighten out the rear of the chassis frame.

Also, I have noticed that the left front of my frame has been welded after have been cut off probably due to an impact...argh!

After dissasembling the frontal axle of his Willys MB, Natxo has found that one of the shaft is damaged.

Well, and he has managed to get a 200 liters boiler! Cool!

Now, making the bodytub

Natxo has been working the last week of September making the bodytub cargo area of his Willys MB. He has bought several scale plans from the http://www.jeepdraw.com , get a spot welder machine and fellow jeepers as Ed Campion (from Canada) he has started this ardous work! Check the pics, and the new cover for the rear shock absorbers!