I’ll admit that I’ve seen the John Wayne movie Hatari! one time too many. If you’ve never seen it, go rent it, unless CJ-6s running down rhinos and getting driven so hard you can hear the stuntmen’s spines snapping doesn’t seem cool to you. While I don’t plan on copying the Jeeps used in the movie completely, I do want to make a fun wheeler out of it - with or without a Zebra catching seat on the front fender. It’ll have small tires, stock springs, and we’ll even keep the Dana 27 for a while. Link >>
While the CJ6 world is small enough that the JP Magazine build-up of a 1971 CJ6 is probably well-known to any visitor here, it struck me that I never linked to it.
Owner Christian Hazel is doing a nice mild “resto-mod” of a former Border Patrol half-cab CJ6. While I let my JP subscription drop due to the increasing focus on all-out modified Jeeps and rock buggys, this buildup has me buying a an issue here and there again.
And I guess I need to rent the movie!
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