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SCJEEPER'S Build to Now!

Had a great Easter weekend with the family. Saturday night I get a call from my dad saying that he has some questions. He starts riddling me about CJ5's and buick motors and on and on and I asked him what he was doing. He proceeded to tell me that him and my step mom had been on a sunset cruise in the mountains and ran up on a CJ5 for sale on the side of the road. It had been completely redone inside and out and he was interested in buying it. He has been toying with the idea of getting another jeep with a not so souped up motor in it as he says he can't afford to drive his CJ7 with a hopped up 304 to work because of gas prices. So he ended up getting the 5 and she is a beauty for sure. Poor guy that was selling it due to his wife falling on bad health and just had to get rid of it.

Specs:
71 CJ5 original body
Newish "Pearl" Base Coat/Clear Coat Paint (BEAUTIFUL COLOR)
New Bestop Soft top w/ 2 piece doors
Bikini Top
Full Jeep Cover
New Eagle Allow Polished Bullet Holes
New Cooper Discovery MT's 33x12.50
New Winch
New Gauges
Rebuilt Dauntless V6 w/ Headers and Dual Exhaust
New Seats front and rear
Roll Cage
more and more.....
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My dad being goofy like a little girl with a new toy
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So now the CJ7 that we were working on will be primarily be my other project since he is working 6 days a week and doesn't have time to mess with it like he intended. It will be a slow build since it is for my son and he just turned 14 months old. It will not be his first car but Lord willing maybe after he gets out of school I can give him the keys to a nice classic Jeep that should be worth a penny or two. I will be driving it some when I want to make some noise though you can count on that.
 
Yes my dad gets called Wolf Blitzer all the time! It is kind of scary how much they look alike.
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Well I went to dad's house yesterday after church all siked up to get my wheels painted. I called him to let him know I was coming over and tell him what I was doing and he disagreed with me. Needless to say since I already have the spare painted I swapped it out and polished the rear one on the same side to get a view of what they would look like. Dad says Im stupid to paint my wheels but then when I put the white one on he said that they both looked great he just preferred the polished. IM SOOOOO TORN!! I think that the white looks really cool but when the polished is clean and bright it looks good too. Soooo...I didn' get anything painted yesterday like I wanted because I'm up in the air again. I think I'm going to start a poll to collect the popular vote.
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If you're looking for votes/input.... I agree with Dad. Polished!
 
Drivers side white / You see this side.

Passenger side polished / He sees this side. :shrug:

Hope this helped?.............
 
SCJeeper said:
Well here are some pics from the Ride last Saturday. Sorry it took so long i have been out of town on business.
Some Pics of the tire swing back on first.
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My cousin Sammy (literally 3 days back from the sandbox for over a year) and his wife, me and Jess in the middle, and my sis Julie and her step son on the right
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Looks like some of these pictures are in Helen, Georgia. I live about 10 miles from Helen. Great area for driving the Jeep on Forest Service roads.
 
The Poll results were unanimous! Polished wins until I get a new set of rims then I will probably get chrome unless I find a cool polished wheel. Those pics were in Helen, we had a club ride there this fall. Had a great time that day. I put the last decals on last night. The White JEEP letters on the stamp above the rocker panel. Now it looks finished finally on the outside. Got a big cruise in Friday for my town. It is called the Azalea Festival. If you are close enough you should come check in out. It will be a solid 1 mile long main street closed for a car show Friday night from seven until whenever. Our club in showing up pretty strong riding in together. Anyone that would like to come its free and will be a good time. If anyone would like to come and ride in with us I can give you specifics of where we are meeting and what not.
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SCJeeper said:
The Poll results were unanimous! Polished wins until I get a new set of rims then I will probably get chrome unless I find a cool polished wheel. Those pics were in Helen, we had a club ride there this fall. Had a great time that day. I put the last decals on last night. The White JEEP letters on the stamp above the rocker panel. Now it looks finished finally on the outside. Got a big cruise in Friday for my town. It is called the Azalea Festival. If you are close enough you should come check in out. It will be a solid 1 mile long main street closed for a car show Friday night from seven until whenever. Our club in showing up pretty strong riding in together. Anyone that would like to come its free and will be a good time. If anyone would like to come and ride in with us I can give you specifics of where we are meeting and what not.
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Cool. Let me know if your club ever comes back to Helen and I will meet up with you guys. I am only 12 minutes from Helen. ---Bryan
 
One of the most important accessories to be put on the jeep.....an ORIGINAL HINKLES JEEP BADGE that the man himself Larry Hinkle gave me last summer at the town jeep cruis in. This little jewel has been in his personal storage of parts left over from the Hinkle's Jeep Glory days back in the seventies and eighties. As far of NOS stuff goes this man probably has more than anyone from when he closed the dealership. It is quite an honor for him to give it to me. This is where they were mostly all installed on the jeeps as they left the dealership.
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Had a great time Friday night. We had 48 Jeeps that turned out to ride in together and all parke together. The weather was perfect, the food was good and there were some decent bands there too. I posted the photo slide show in another thread but I'll post here too. Now I met a guy that has had some softtop work done by a local shop and he said that if I could take my top to the guy it would be pretty reasonable for him to replicate it. Fingers crossed I am calling the guy today and seeing what he can do. The Lime Green Franken Jeep in rolling on 46's!

http://www.upstatelegendsjeepclub.com/azalea-festival-4-20-12.html
 
Hey everybody....the club sponsored a fund raiser along with one of the local jeep dealerships and Clemson 4Wheel Drive this weekend for a charity called Mary's House. Its a home for battered women and children. We got a lot of stuff to stock their pantries with along with tooth brushes, paper towels, tp, childrens cloths and on and on. The boys from Clemson 4x4 brought out the RTI ramp just for fun so me and a few others gave it a try. I didn't even disconnect my front sway bar since I literally had to do it then leave for a bday party right after. I wish that I would have had more time. No one else in my club.....of mostly CJ's......would do it. Since I was big into wheeling before I had no doudt that 8 was going to stretch her legs! One of the guys that works at Clemson 4x4 did it first in his TJ then I followed him up then a kid in a JKU did it then the last one that I saw was a stock JKU Rubicon that was not nearly as impressive as I thought it would be with the discos undone. All in all we had a great time and had good outcome for the fundraiser so it was a success. Here are a couple of videos that i took and a link to the website for you guys to check out the pictures. My Jeep made the front page since I was the only one to go up it.
http://www.upstatelegendsjeepclub.com
http://www.upstatelegendsjeepclub.com/lake-keowee-jeep-5-12-12.html
 
Well it has been a long time since I have had anything to respond or add to the build thread. Still nothing really exciting but i have started the process of stripping both sets of my steel doors to get them ready for paint. I still wont have the funds to finish the full doors for while but i at least want to get them painted then i can add seals/handles/gaskets as i can afford them. The half steel doors will be able to be used after paint fairly easily they just need body work before I can paint them and since i need to paint them at the same time that is what has held me up. i have a bad itch for a full hard top that I can't scratch right now financially due to feeding the family and the other stuff that takes jeep money. :-) I'll try to get some pics of the non exciting door project. i am actually getting a set of 2 piece soft doors that i ran across on Craigslist that was too good of a deal to pass up. I am planning on using them with my half hard top even thought they won't seal correctly. The soft top is to the point that you cannot see out of it with the windows down so it is time to make a change. I had a local company called Bucket Stitch look at putting new windows in it and they said it would be around 150.00 per large window to sew in new plastic. Kind of hard to spend that kind of money on a temporary fix.
 
Well this weekend was pretty productive. I installed an irrigation system for an old friend Saturday and finished it up about 3:00, came home cut grass then stripped all the soft top hardware off the jeep to get ready to put the hard top on. That was enough for Saturday so after Church yesterday we went to lunch with the in-laws and then I met my dad to help me get the hard top on the jeep. After cleaning it up it looked like new money and went on without a problem so now I just have to take the back seat out and move my rear speakers back in the cab. i test fit my buddies best top soft doors and like everyone said they won't fit with the hard top so that was the kick the pants that i needed to get serious about finishing my doors which I should have already done. This is the first time that the hard top has been on since the repaint and I think that it looks great. The only thing is that i am sad that we cant ride as a family anymore until I get a full hardtop or a new soft top. TIME TO START SAVING!!!!!!!
Progress Pictures
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