New guy..

[Hill, Bill E.]

New to the forum, but not to Vintage Iron!

I have a '53 PW civilian that my dad bought back in '67. It's been stored inside since he built his polebarn in '72, and has less than 60K original miles on it. It's in great shape, but needs some TLC and a little work to be back to original. It got a dumpbox on it somewhere along the line before my dad picked it up, but we have a box for it, though it needs some serious work and fenders. My dad paid $600 for it back then!







The cab support on the front driver side needs some work, and there's some old lead body filler on the cab, but she's still as solid as the day it was made!

I also am into Jeeps, having done a complete frame off 'resto mod' on my '80 CJ7, and right now, my dad and I are working on a '46 CJ2A. I wish it was in as good of shape as the PW!

Be a while before I tackle the restoration of it, but I'm looking forward to reading/researching here!

Randy

[Hill, Bill E.]

I almost forgot! We also have a '44 PW, well, what's left of it. My dad bought it back in the early '80s. It was just the running gear, with an International cab set on it (not even bolted down)

Turned it into a skidder, and it's worked great! It has the single speed T-case, and had a car motor in it when we got it. We used the Braden winch from the '53 for the boom. That will eventually go back onto the '53.

[Cheyenne Dave]

Welcome to the fold! Looks like you have a transmission from an M-37 in your '53...

C.D.

[Bruce]

Quite A Collection

Welcome Hill!

[Hill, Bill E.]

Thanks for the welcomes! I got lucky, although my dad wouldn't let me have the '53 until recently (I'm 43 now), he was afraid I'd butcher it and make a wheeler out of it! (he was probably right, I wanted it back in '83, when he semi-retired it from plow duty)He now knows that my interest is in restoring it.

Welcome to the fold! Looks like you have a transmission from an M-37 in your '53...

C.D.

Good eye CD! The original tranny from the '53 got swapped into the 'skidder', in order to run the PTO and Braden winch.

During restoration, it will be swapped back in, along with the winch.

Probably convert the 'skidder' to 12V, and run an electric winch on it. Now that our cabin is built, the only skidding duty it sees is for firewood, about 3 cords a year.

We were told the skidder was a '44, but I don't believe my dad recieved a title, so I'm not positive on that.

Definately Military, has combat rims, and the 'flatter' piece over the radiator.