Craigslist find...

[Petescj]

Saw this while searching for Scramblers and immediatly thought of one of our members here. Shipping to Az. will probably kill the deal though.

1978 Ford Bronco Custom

351M-NP435-NP205-Dana 44 Front Axle-Ford Nine inch Rear Axle. All the good stuff, needs restoration or great chassis swap. I was going to mount a Jeep Scrambler CJ8 on it, but I have to many unfinished projects. Make me an offer.

 

[Old Dog]

I bet it's already on it's way there.

 

[Hedgehog]

Okay I'll play....

Looks familiar, but I couldn't WAIT to get rid of the one I worked on constantly for the 192,000 I owned it. ..... But rather than modifying the heck out of a jeep so it could take the ford parts, it would be cheaper and probably work better to strip the Ford body off and add jeep tin to it. Honestly it wouldn't be the vehicle for me, but if I were inclined to do one thing why wouldn't I be inclined to do the other. ......

 

[Petescj]

I knew you could take a joke. It is an interesting idea to take a Scrambler body and use everything else from the Ford. Just not for me. That is a pretty solid drivetrain he mentioned though.

Okay I'll play....

Looks familiar, but I couldn't WAIT to get rid of the one I worked on constantly for the 192,000 I owned it. ..... But rather than modifying the heck out of a jeep so it could take the ford parts, it would be cheaper and probably work better to strip the Ford body off and add jeep tin to it. Honestly it wouldn't be the vehicle for me, but if I were inclined to do one thing why wouldn't I be inclined to do the other. ......

 

[mtnwhlr]

1981 Jeep Scrambler
Here is another one on craigslist here Pete

 

[Old Dog]

To me putting a jeep body on a different frame such as that bronco just wouldn't be right. I'm not sure what you would even call it.
But I have no problem with up-grading my jeep with better parts from some other truck, to me it's still a jeep, just a jeep with better parts than it came with. It's not my fault that jeep used a lot of weak parts that need to be up-graded to have a better jeep.
Just my thinking.

 

[Hedgehog]

Okay so a poster says I love my jeep it's finally perfect. At first the motor was under powered so I installed a great chevy/ford/dodge v8 with a great automatic Transmission . The stock electronic ignition is legendary so it was used. Naturally the cooling system needed upgrading too. The frame was weak so I found a great deal on a short chevy/ford/dodge frame. It needed to be shortened a little and was a little wide so we cut it down some. The jeeps frame mounts and the frame were modified some, now it fits like a glove. The new power showed all the weaknesses of the stock Dana 44 and Dana 30 so I found a set of super tough axles. They came with great springs so the frame was modified for the new springs and now along with a 6" lift the 36" tires that were on the axles fit nicely. As we all know the steering in an intermediate jeep sucks so a chevy tilt wheel was added. My perfect jeep was nearly there so a soft comfortable set of seats and a state of the art sound system was added. With the jeep finally finished I can say that I love my CJ jeep.

I'm sort of a 5 string banjo player. The holly grail of banjo's is the one the later great Earl Scruggs played. It is a heavily played 1934 Granada. There are players out there that have the same banjo and they are loved. Sure the neck was broken and replaced in 1953. It's o bad the original tuners gave out and replaced shortly after in 1955. The tone ring and tail piece was replaced in 1960 and in 1970 the whole banjo was refinished. But, they will talk about how wonderful it is to play a stock 1934 Granada, just like Earls. but virtually nothing is left of the original '34.

To me it's practically the same story. I love my jeep................

 

[Kane]

I actually saw a scrambler body on a ford frame before. At first glance it just looks like a beefy jeep but then you notice the very heavy front frame and not flat section in front of the grill. I admired the work it took to make that vehicle but it did bother me a bit and the funky frame sticking out front looked wrong to me. I bet it was a very stout vehicle though.

 

[Hedgehog]

Now that is kinda cool. It's to bad you didn't get any pictures. You would think that someone who went to the trouble to make everything fit would have made the front look stock or at least stick a winch plate along with a nice big winch up front.

Edit: Whow now that does make it cooler, I just hit the link you supplied and the whole thread makes even more sense. A scrambler body..... Nice! IF I were to attempt such a project it would not be with a stock Scrambler. Scramblers carry to much love for that. I'd contact the jeep body company up in the North West that makes those beautiful steel replica bodies. Being a purist I'd have them leave all jeep markings/stampings off the sheet metal. Maybe make up my own logo. Now that would be the ultimate jeep type vehicle.

 

[Neuner]

Funny. Never thought I'd see a heavy discussion/joke carry over so much.



Isn't that similar to what ICON 4x4 is doing? Has the look and appeal but with their own label (and price tag).