17-2-28 Garand Picture of the Day

[Bob Womack]

Bill, do you know anything about the Navy 24 volt Jeeps? We restored one back in the '70s and converted it to 12 volt but I'd always wondered about them.

Bob

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[Bill Hollinger]

Bill, do you know anything about the Navy 24 volt Jeeps? We restored one back in the '70s and converted it to 12 volt but I'd always wondered about them.

Bob

Flat fender? If so, an M38. If it had the CJ5 look then an M38A1. Lots of 24 volt systems were converted to 12 as were 6 volt to 12.

M38


M38A1

[Bob Womack]

Flat fender? If so, an M38. If it had the CJ5 look then an M38A1. Lots of 24 volt systems were converted to 12 as were 6 volt to 12.

M38
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It was an m38 bought as-is, where-is from surplus. We went out to recover it and found it axle- and floor-pan-deep in dried mud with dry-rotted tires. It had to be pickaxed out and winched onto a flat-bed. We had to rebuild the engine completely and the front-end transfer box was pretty much locked up engaged so we put twist-hubs on the front axles to allow us to engage the front drive. Its official use was to pull a research boat on its trailer. Wearing my fatigues or 1505 tan uniform, I used to ride it to Civil Air Patrol meetings back during Vietnam years and get some nasty stares, ugly comments, and was even spat at in the uniform. An ugly time but a great memory.

Bob