Are '67 CJ-5s Orphans?

Dec 1963aiser Jeep Acquired from Studebake the Chippewa Ave plant is South Bend IN
From the book "The Story of Jeep" by Patrik H. Foster

 

have heard of the hudson steering box swap before. you get a quicker ratio than the ross box. guessing that's why it was done, or perhaps the dealer sold studes and had a bunch of left over steering columns.

 

The factory v6 models all came with the battery tray on the firewall.

 

Bob - sorry about hijacking your post - please forgive me. BTW, i see in your avatar that your CJ has one amber, one clear lens on the parking/turn signal lamps. Strangely enough, so did mine until I went to the local Jeep boneyard and pulled another amber one for about $5.

Good call on the Hudson steering swap - the wheel looks like Hudson. Here's a close up of the center of the steering wheel, compare it with the Hudson logo at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Motor_Car_Company



Here's a shot from underneath, showing the column coming through the floorboard and into the engine compartment. You can see where the column normally comes through - a couple of inches lower and another inch or so more inboard. I put somer other related pictures in my photobucket, showing how the box mounts to the frame, etc. The other wierd thing is my tierods - the right one goes from the bellcrank to the wheel like normal, but the left one starts on the right wheel, and goes all the way over to the left.

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll280/mfsmith77





The heaters are not like any others I've had - they really just extend the cooling system. Coolant always circulates from the block through the passenger's heater core, out and over into the driver's heater core, then out and back into the block. Each has it's own electric fan - toggle switches are on the dash above the ignition. That's where I put them - I replaced the broken ones that were hung from the dash on a small panel. There is a duct on the side of the driver's heater - that's where the defroster hose connects. These are really kind of a pain in the summer - they keep your feet hot, that's for sure.

Finally, it's the fenders I really want to get figured out. They're certainly not normal, but I'm not so sure they're unique to my rig. I've been google image searching and I came up with these two other possible examples. The photos are too small and unclear to be conclusive, so I'm not yet ready to overturn the ruling on the field. But there's enough similarity to continue the search. Bith were ID'd as 67's - the OD green hardtop was listed as a CJ-5A, FWIW.