Originally Posted by brndirt1

Yeah back when the History Channel actually broadcast "history" of any sort. Fortunately I taped the entire run of "Automobiles", and that was the show that had the development on the Jeep in a hour segment. There was also another section called 4x4 in the one "Modern Marvels" that had both the Jeep and Land Rover covered. Loved 'em both, taped same.

I would double that vote on lost teeth, those little buggers could really buck. When I was a kid on the farm in Montana's Hi-Line I managed to plunk my Dad's CJ2 into a pond clear up to the hood. Had the windsheild down and strapped to the hood, and so all you could see was me from the shoulders up sitting in a pond. Took me two days to get it out of there, and another two weeks to get all the water out of all the places water can get, re-lube everything, change all the ignition system parts, and make the little bugger run again.

This was where my interest in the internal combustion engine began, at age eleven. Yeah I was driving that thing then, I had my own "new" (used) 1959 CJ5 for going to school when I was 14. Over the years I rebuilt both of them a couple of times, they both still serve on the farm.