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Cool Old Iron in your Hood

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Penetrode Offroad said:
That last pic is cool as fuck!



Is there a purpose for the high hood willys? Or was it just aesthetics?
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The CJ-3B has/had a 4 inch higher hood to make room for the then new overhead valve engine. It was a stop gap measure to fit the bigger engine into the old CJ-3A body until the M38-A1/CJ-5 body came out.

People thought they were ugly and the model was much maligned, but I really like them and would probably resto-mod one with a large engine just to drive around.

For a "rare" model, it had a long production life and was licensed to other companies as well. You could buy brand new Mitsubishi- built versions in Canada up until 1998.
 
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SoylentGreen said:
The CJ-3B has/had a 4 inch higher hood to make room for the then new overhead valve engine. It was a stop gap measure to fit the bigger engine into the old CJ-3A body until the M38-A1/CJ-5 body came out.

People thought they were ugly and the model was much aligned, but I really like them and would probably resto-mod one with a large engine just to drive around.

For a "rare" model, it had a long production life and was licensed to other companies as well. You could buy brand new Mitsubishi- built versions in Canada up until 1998.
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The Mitsus are neat, diesel 5sp. Saw one for sale last year and pondered a bit..:homer:
 
SoylentGreen said:
The CJ-3B has/had a 4 inch higher hood to make room for the then new overhead valve engine. It was a stop gap measure to fit the bigger engine into the old CJ-3A body until the M38-A1/CJ-5 body came out.

People thought they were ugly and the model was much aligned, but I really like them and would probably resto-mod one with a large engine just to drive around.

For a "rare" model, it had a long production life and was licensed to other companies as well. You could buy brand new Mitsubishi- built versions in Canada up until 1998.
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If they had raised the fenders up to match no one would have noticed.
 
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The "Crustacean" Buggy - Trail Tough

The Crustacean was our first buggy project. It is a Suzuki based buggy with duallys front rear. See the attached article when it made the cover of 4Wheel Drive & Sport Utility Magazine in 2002. We still have it and have used in competition as well as regular trail wheeling...
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The owner lives a few miles from me. Seen this thing when it was just built in Golden dale or the George rock crawl around 2001? Nicest TIG welds I had ever seen.
 
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