New color and rollbar for gardening

After some problems with storm and lightnings (new storm announced for tonight) I received my new modem and I can communicate again.
I decided to modify my Jeep to avoid the military look, I leave this to all the good amateurs with a true Willys.

I also re-fixed my roll bar, this is only 12 screws, I can move it away easily but it can be useful.

So I pained the front grill and the roll-bar. In blue. The contrast is correct and it makes a new Jeep for cheap!



The roll-bar will be used to help me to cut the trees above my neighbor's field.
Without roll-bar it is difficult to stand with the garden tools, chainsaw and a big branch cutter (Stihl 80).
It is quite heavy but it cuts well, and I have approx 1/2 mile of hays. Plum-tree mainly and thuya.

This is the plum-tree hay. Crops are on the way and tractors full of seed run on the road. They go very fast now and one lost his cargo, he rolled in the turn. Our rod is near the grain-storage house, farmers bring their crops and big trains come everyday to take it.



This is the railway for grain trains.

 

Looks cool, nice area to live I bet.

 

I definitely like the blue. Looks like beautiful land you have around there as well.

 

Is is flat... I bought a house when children were babies here because it is not far form Paris, so we could come often.
The price was correct, distance form Paris is 135km, less than 2 hours by car (1H30mn when no heavy traffic).
Nearer to Paris was more expensive, and find a house with 2 acres and a fence around was difficult.

Many friends bought a house for holidays, near the sea or in the mountains, but in fact they cannot go often or receive friends.
Now, children are adults, we are retired, and we can stay in this nice place, children can come easily.
One big problem : in 25 years, the medical system in France modified, due to economic crisis.
So there is no medical assistance around, no dentist, nothing. The governments try to find a solution, we import doctors from Romania, but as soon as they get some money and clients, the flee to a big city.
This is because we want a cheap medical system for all, this means low prices.
So doctors are not reimbursed for their transport, or working on sunday, at night, like before. So they don't work.

In Paris, or in big cities, they are every 100 meters!

 

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Alan, have you painted the rest of the Jeep blue yet?

If not, any plans to do so, or is the blue just an accent color?

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This is 'accent' color, as a test, but it is a nice one, by the way. And it was an old hammerite paint, no more now.
It was hand painted.
I underdstand that it is easy, with a good paint, to paint all a Jeep by hand.

 

naw use a roller . that's a back woods paint job . bought a few parts cars with roll on paint , serious alan spray paint with a gun

 

I have one spray paint. But I don't want to paint in blue; I would prefer the green of the origin.
Anyway, we are soon in winter, I can paint only in hot summer and I am not going back to my house before some weeks; I have already forgot that I have a Jeep.
It is the first time that I stay in Paris nearly 6 weeks without going to my country house.
Life is hard in the country, I have to get wood for heating, always work to do in the garden.
Life in a flat, there is nothing to do, except to check health problems.
No need for a car, it stays in the parking, we just walk along the Seine to see the tourists visiting the tour Eiffel.
We are tourists, too.

So, in some weeks, I'll re-discover my Jeep, good surprise.

 

A few year's back I did the walk along the Seine and ended up at the tour Eiffel during a looooooong lay over in Paris. It is a very nice walk, highly recommended. Honestly, I would be sacred s__t of driving my jeep in that city - it seems way worst than Montreal.

 

A Jeep in Paris, I did it long ago in full summer, with a Willys. No top. But it is good when we don't try to park.

 

Alan, I may be incorrect but it looks like the windscreen frame rests, the little 'handles with cloth coverings', are flipped/reversed, the only place making contact with the hood is the end and not the entire 'rest'. A hard bump and the hood might get a little dented.

 

I don't really understand, sorry.
The little handles - of the winsdshield- are in contact with the hood; This is a good flat contact.
You say that if it is touching too hard the hood, it can make a hollow - a dent- in it?
Well, let's say that the hood is very very strong, heavy, not like on moderne cars!
And the windshield is fixed, not to move. There is an elastic which is fixed on the hood.
So it never occurred to me that such thing could be possible.

But I'll check next time the surface in contact with the hood.
Next time, because I am in Paris, since octobre 8th, and i wait to meet again my Jeep; it will be in December, with cold weather now, and no chance to put the windshield down!
No chance at all.

 

I noticed that as well. Alan if you look at those brackets closely you will see one leg is longer that the other. If you mount the bracket so the longer arm/leg is to the outside then it will rest better on the hood. Will fit the curvature of the hood better.

 

Yeah, a redneck from Tennessee trying to explain it to a Frenchman, definitely lost in translation. I only noticed it because mine were reversed when I brought my CJ5 home. By the way Alan, I really like the tires you have on that old girl. In the states the late model Jeep guys call those 'pizza cutters', and I am a fan of them. Looks good!!

 

Ok, Tennessee man, and OK georgia man, I understand now. Will look at in in December. Pizza cutters yes, it is also used to cut the grass because they don't like to stay up on the surface, they like to enter deeply in the wet soil. Even with 4 WD.
But the look is very nice, we're back in the 60ties/beg of 70 - ties. Maybe a little bit bit snobish, to use this old fashion car.

 

"Pizza cutters" actually may perform better in snow, since they will dig down to the road surface. Fat tires tend to float and slide.