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For a while I've had this idea for a '60's-style show rod based on a Willys MB, and just recently finished it up. 

The body is a modified MPC jeep piece, set up on a Barris Ice Cream Truck chassis. The wheels and tires came from a Revell Thunderbolt, and the engine is a supercharged Ford Y-Block from the Revell '57 Ford stock car. I used the Edelbrock valve covers from the drag version of the wagon, and modified Rat Roaster exhaust. The Jerry can now serves as the fuel tank and the spare tire is from a Jeepster Commando. 

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I like this a LOT! I've wanted to do a Jeep Rod for a couple decades now, but wasn't sure quite how to pull it off. You've given me several good ideas! B)

The only way yours could be better is if you had painted it Pontiac Verdoro Green, which I've always thought of as "Metallic Olive Drab." B)

Very well done, and model on!

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Really diggin' this one too!  I always enjoy your builds, but your Honda drag car and now this one are at a new elevation of awesome.  Once again, this feels like something that truly could have been created for the sixties show circuit.

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Wow! Nice going, Chuck! That is really creative design work. I like how you put the front wheels forward and ran the headers out the stock front wheel wells. I would never have thought of that! Great work!

Sam

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We searched every Army Post in the area for a different shade of OD when we had to repaint a vehicle, but you found the Motherload!

Very cool! 

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