Video of Jeeps in Pakistan - the second Jeep is a white CJ6 with NDT’s crossing a pretty shaky-looking bridge.

Here’s a fun Monday morning post - a vintage Jeep ad featuring a half-cab CJ6 at work. The scan is courtesy Bob Quartaroli in California.

Here it is - the project that started me down the path that had the most scope-creep, or “While I’m At It” syndrome of any project ever - Jeep, house or otherwise.

It started simple enough.  SSDutch came from Texas, and had no heater.  I wanted a heater.  So I bought a heater - a two-duct version of this Heatercraft unit.  I found one on eBay that had been purchased and never installed—so saved a few bucks.  It came with the heater, ducts, vents to mount in the dash, a switch, and some misc. connectors and fittings.

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It’s hard to even know where to start with this project page, as the redoing the dash was part of a much larger project of completely stripping the Jeeps interior, repainting, and rewiring and installing a heater.  The first photo here shows how the Jeep came to us.

The main driver for this project was wanting to install a heater.  In order to install the heater I need to install a defroster duct.  In order to install the defroster duct I need to move some gauges.  In order to move the gauges I need to layout a complete new dash.  In order to layout the complete new dash I need to figure out where the steering wheel need to be placed in order to be straight.

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Some interesting reader submissions for you today.  These photos come courtesy of Johan Wagner, manager of the AutoPavilion, VWSA Expo & Heritage Centre in South Africa.

Johan writes…

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Here’s an interesting Jeep currently for sale on eBay—it’s an intermediate era CJ6, but right-hand drive with a half cab.  It looks like the seller now understands it’s a CJ6 and not a CJ5 - but it’s interesting to look at the Jeep dash reversed and try to imagine having to shift with your left hand.  Thanks to Frank Sanborn for the heads up on this one.

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