1969 Jeep (Hunting Vehicle)

[swsmailman]

My stepdad bought this as is for $500 with tires that would not stay inflated. It was a old post office jeep that the previous owner turned into a hunting vehicle also.

It currently has some old Ford Focus tires on it so it is low to the ground and has hardly any traction in wet grass. It is really fun to drive around the back roads where my parents live and is pretty fun to get it stuck in the pasture even though you need earplugs since it is so noisy.

We plan on repainting it and doing some exterior work to it along with redoing the wiring and adding some off road lights to the top of it, Possible add some off road tires to it to give it a some height and so it can go through rougher stuff. This is mainly going to be a mess around in and hog hunting vehicle.

Anyone have some ideas that would be helpful?

A friend gave me the idea to paint it like a jeep from WWII

(Yes that is a 65 Mustang Fastback with a 302 built for drag racing on the left in the garage in the second picture. My future project car!)

 

[Dcav]

That Jeep definetly has potential! Keep us update to what to do to it.

 

[Jason]

Paint it MASH style!!!

Two inch lift, K&N air filter (so it can be reused and better performance) cheaper CD player with a USB input so you can use a flash drive, marine speakers or cheap indoor/outdoor ones, bedliner the interior including headliner, new exhaust (safety and noise reasons), maybe some new shocks from a 4wd Jeep...

 

[swsmailman]

MASH style would be sweet.

and bedlining the interior was something I thought about. Ill just have to see about what all I can do. going to start with the main things. Lights and Tires for now.

 

[Dcav]

Is it a 2wd model? If it was me and I had the cash i would change out the body, swap in a 4wd setup and and and lol

 

[swsmailman]

It is the 2wd drive model, probably why it has the winch on the front. I really don't have any thing around my property that really demands 4wd except a small stream but I went through it a couple of times without any problems.

 

[M. Sage]

Paint it MASH style!!!

Two inch lift, K&N air filter (so it can be reused and better performance) cheaper CD player with a USB input so you can use a flash drive, marine speakers or cheap indoor/outdoor ones, bedliner the interior including headliner, new exhaust (safety and noise reasons), maybe some new shocks from a 4wd Jeep...

Don't do the K&N. You won't see any real performance gains, and they don't filter for shit.

I don't think that regular Jeep parts will fit this. Mail "jeeps" are quite different.

 

[country_boy]

Jeeps make good hunting vehicles. I got a 72' cj5 4x4 with a amc 232 I-6. Didnt know that regular jeep parts wouldnt fit a mail jeep? Ill have to research that. Paint it mash style. I dont think you should put lots of money into it if its just a hunting vehicle. Definitely get better tires. If its a 69' then its still going to have that Dauntless 225 buick engine or it could have a chevy250 with a one barrel.

 

[Jason]

Don't do the K&N. You won't see any real performance gains, and they don't filter for shit.

I don't think that regular Jeep parts will fit this. Mail "jeeps" are quite different.

I figure the shocks might require some ingenuity... but with a small lift I don't see it as being too hard... I think it's called a DJ5 which should share some mounting points with a CJ...

The K&N was more for it being reusuable if it gets muddy often...

 

[country_boy]

Anything is possible with a small fork lift. I wish I had one. Im constantly using the ones at work.

 

[M. Sage]

The K&N was more for it being reusuable if it gets muddy often...

Not worth the money. Too much crap gets through them.

 

[Jason]

Anything is possible with a small fork lift. I wish I had one. Im constantly using the ones at work.

I was talking about a small "lift kit" on the Jeep, not a way to get it in the air to work on...

 

[Neren]

Nice jeep

 

[dobarker]

For parts, dont cut out the local junk yards. Though most people have had old mail jeeps crushed for scrap value (around $350). I've seen mail jeeps with all kinds of retro-fitted parts, even seen a anti-freeze jug temporarily converted into a radiator, didn't last long, but it got back to where it could be worked on.