{"id":556,"date":"2010-12-24T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T22:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2010-12-24T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T22:59:26","slug":"ikes-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/ikes-christmas-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Ike&#8217;s Christmas Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ike got his Christmas gift a bit early this year. Joining him in the garage for the time being (until I can figure out where else to put it) is another 1950 CJ-3A!<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s not exactly a &#8220;finished&#8221; gift and instead is more of a parts donor. With two axles for backup, newly rebuilt transfer case, good transmission, great looking grille, hood, and tailgate, it&#8217;d got plenty of good source parts. Among other things, I also got a very good pair of dual vacuum wipers, a new pushrod and a second starter, a good spare radiator, era-correct replacement speedometer, locking front hubs (yay!!) and I&#8217;m sure once I get through the rest of the parts even more to use.<\/p>\n<p>The body appears to be a little more &#8220;there&#8221; than my current one, but only time will really tell. The best part is, even if the body isn&#8217;t any more usable than my current one, the price for the project was so good that with the parts I will certainly use and those that I can easily sell (like the F head engine) I won&#8217;t be any worse off. Now some pictures:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-556 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04781.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[556]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04781-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04801.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[556]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04801-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04821.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[556]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04821-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04841.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[556]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04841-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04861.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[556]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04861-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04871.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[556]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_04871-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ike got his Christmas gift a bit early this year. Joining him in the garage for the time being (until I can figure out where else to put it) is another 1950 CJ-3A! Now, it&#8217;s not exactly a &#8220;finished&#8221; gift and instead is more of a parts donor. With two axles for backup, newly rebuilt transfer case, good transmission, great looking grille, hood, and tailgate, it&#8217;d got plenty of good source parts. Among other things, I also got a very good pair of dual vacuum wipers, a new pushrod and a second starter, a good spare radiator, era-correct replacement speedometer,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/ikes-christmas-gift\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ike&#8217;s Christmas Gift<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,7,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cj-3a","category-jeep","category-new-parts","category-restoration","category-willys","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pE9Qq-8Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}