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Recent content by chucksA1

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    Would you buy it?

    Pass on this one - not Mil & certainly not MB. Appears to have CJ3 windshield. Civvy CJ dash & gauges. Early CJ-5 F-head motor (not L-134 flathead as should be in MB). Real MB/GPWs will have indents on drivers side for Shovel & Axe. (If shovel & Axe are on pass side = CJ-2/3). WW-2 jeeps...
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    Replica 50 cal

    I've buit 2 MGHBs so far. I followed the plans on the G503 board (I have a '42 Willys MB). The first one was best described as a "10-footer". Looked good on my Jeep - unless you knew the weapon well or got much closer. I sold that one and made enough to buy some real parts (right-side charging...
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    willys help

    One trick you can do to get a patch panel "close" to the shape of the hole is to hold a piece of posterboard behind the hole and use some spray paint to "paint" the outline of the patch panel. Cut along the paint line. You now have a template - specific for that hole. I suggest you try to keep a...
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