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Does anyone make a model of a CJ-5 jeep? It would have to have standard tires instead of those big bulky ones and prefferably a hard top option.
Most squadron commanders on our base in S.E.A. used them and sometimes we were given a couple to fill in while our 151s were in motorpool. They were uncomfortable, hard to get in and out of with a web belt radio and ammo and if you sat in the passenger seat there was always the risk of the seat leaving the vehicle during a sharp turn. But I needone for my A.F. Security Police collection.
The military version of the CJ-5 was the M38A1 jeep. AFV Club does a very nice model of one. They have both the standard M38A1 and an M38A1C which mounts a 106mm recoilless rifle. There is no soft or hard top available for them.
If you want to convert it back to a civilian CJ-5, Accurate Armour makes a conversion set since the IDF used civilian ones.
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Thanks for the info. Since the A.F. used the civilian versions I'll follow your advice and get the conversion kit too.
Monogram made a "Mork and Mindy" 1/24 CJ-7 that sounds like it's really a CJ-5.
OOP and expensive, no roof.
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GMorrisonMonogram made a "Mork and Mindy" 1/24 CJ-7 that sounds like it's really a CJ-5.
Nope, the 1/24 Monogram CJ-7 is a CJ-7 with the longer door opening. The CJ-5 had a curved door opening since it was a shorter body.
CJ-5/M38A1
CJ-7
Another thing too, is that in 1972 the CJ-5 hood, fenders, and cowl were stretched 5 inches, and the wheelbase went from 80" to 83". I believe that any of the 1/24/25 kits are based on the 72+ models so they would not be accurate scale wise for a 55-71 CJ-5.
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What a mess that Mono kit looks to be. Yes I can see, there's no filler on the side and the door opening is not a CJ-5. But it's not really too much like the other one either. If anyone had that kit, what's the actual wheelbase?
GMorrison What a mess that Mono kit looks to be. Yes I can see, there's no filler on the side and the door opening is not a CJ-5. But it's not really too much like the other one either. If anyone had that kit, what's the actual wheelbase?
It is a CJ-7 with the square door opening. The CJ-7 has a 93" WB whereas the old CJ-5 was 80, and the newer was 83". In 1972 with the new body, AMC also changed the the gas filler but left the indentation.
One of my tours of duty in the Navy was on the staff of Naval Beach Group 2 in Little Creek, Virginia. We had around six M38 jeeps and I was assigned one for driving around the base and over to the main Naval base at Norfolk. They were the same as HeavyArty posted picture except they had a winch mounted behind the fron bumper and of course were painted Haze Gray.
So here's an obs. and I'll leave it at that. The Monogram looks to me like it has a shorter wheel base than 93". But it sort of has a CJ-7 door opening. I wonder if they took a CJ-5 chassis from some older kit and made up a CJ-7 ish body to get to the subject?
I think they used a CJ-5 body mold and just re-did the door opening to make it resemble the CJ-7.
Which is Ed Zachary what you just said, G.
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Maybe they used the molds from the Daisy Duke Jeep by AMT...
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I doubt it. AMTs was an actual CJ-5 and pretty accurate.
I think Monogram just hosed up the shape of the door opening. The rest of the profile is correct for a CJ-7 (longer front fender behind the front wheel, longer in the door area, correct line around the back area, etc.).
There you go, Ikar
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