Re: [MV] MB Body Work
MORGAN BLANCHARD (bmorgan@ns.net)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 21:31:10 -0700 (PDT)
Mike:
I was in far worse shape when I started the body work on my GPW, the
only origional parts still in the mix is the dash section, to the bottem of
the upper firewall. I have bought or made all the other parts of the body.
Let me tell you at the start that this is a hard row to hoe and if you are
not dead serious about getting it as close to stock as you can, I would
find a buyer for the origional pannels and buy a complete repro body. I am
still working on mine, I hope to have it done in the next few weeks, knock
on wood. Having said that here are the sources for parts I used.
George at Army Jeep parts (AJP), (215)788-6012, supplied the wheel
wells and tool box bottems as an assembly as well as a repro rear floor and
floor riser. Now, I had them shipped out seperatly but he advertises that
they can be sent as an assembled unit. These are American made parts and
they are quite nice, requireing a minimum of fooling to get them together.
unfortuneatly he couldn't supply tool box tops for some reason but I got
them from John Geesink of New Zealand and they are top notch. I understand
that he does very large assemblys, if not whole bodys and if the shipping
were less I would have tried to get everything from him. The other down
side is, no offence to John, he is getting rather old by what I have been
told and is les inclined to do larger projects, but boy what nice work!
John Geesink
524 Hereford Street
Christchurch 8001
New Zealand
This left only the outer skin, R/L quarter pannels and rear pannel, The
only ones I found arround were Philipine, which I am less than happy with.
They have proved to be a lot of work to get anywhere near stock and a big
pain to fit. I actualy looked at several suppliers before I bought them
and I went with the ones that George (AJP) had. Now, I have had people
tell me that there is only one Philipine supplier but you couldn't prove it
by the product as there is a world of difference between the pannels
supplied by AJP and the ones from Archer Bros. in Hayward, CA,
(510)537-9587, who do a large ammount of the importing of philipine parts,
so do some looking before you buy
Well thats what I have on the subject of body work, good luck.
Morgan Blanchard
O/C, D Troop, 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron, CHS
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