What have you done to your JEEP today

[HoveringHMMWV]

Nice. How is the seatbelt attached?

I wasn’t ready to drill any holes just yet, so using the seat back hinge point. That’s also why I called it a ”retention” belt as it won’t be strong enough as a true seatbelt mount point.

 

[HoveringHMMWV]

Test drove the M38 and must have done an ok job on the brake adjustment. The pedal felt good and no pulling to either side during a stop. Hub temps stayed quite cool according to the laser temp gauge thingy. Couldn’t pass up on a photo op with a newer generation truck. It was also great weather for riding around in an open cockpit.

 

[HoveringHMMWV]

Found out that Saturday SEC football, M38 maintenance, and a lil Buffalo Trace go good together. My sweet and thoughtful wife set us up.

 

[HoveringHMMWV]

Officially started a full restoration by stripping off ancillary items to allow tub removal. This is gonna take a few months.
Found white paint underneath components. Any idea what organization/department/branch would’ve painted their M38’s white? Second pic shows an indication of the original green paint too. The third pic shows evidence of some red primer and I’m assuming that was not original.

 

[Tracer]

A Fire Dept. had mine, there is plenty of red paint everywhere.

 

[Mullaney]

Officially started a full restoration by stripping off ancillary items to allow tub removal. This is gonna take a few months.
Found white paint underneath components. Any idea what organization/department/branch would’ve painted their M38’s white? Second pic shows an indication of the original green paint too. The third pic shows evidence of some red primer and I’m assuming that was not original.

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Could be UN painted...
White was their choice of color.

 

[DeetFreek]

Also could have been Civil Defense. If you happen to uncover some blue, that'd be an almost sure case of CD use.

 

[flyfishtrailer]

Officially started a full restoration by stripping off ancillary items to allow tub removal. This is gonna take a few months.
Found white paint underneath components. Any idea what organization/department/branch would’ve painted their M38’s white? Second pic shows an indication of the original green paint too. The third pic shows evidence of some red primer and I’m assuming that was not original.

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Red zinc oxide primer was used on all the military vehicles. All of them also started out OD green. If a unit was in a branch with a different color scheme, the green would get painted over (like strata blue jeeps used by the Air Force). Not sure about white, but I think others above have addressed that.

 

[JEB]

My GUESS is white means a past Civil Defense assignment.
I'm not sure if U.S. Army vehicles were painted for UN work. Often times, the UN peacekeepers were from countries like Canada or Sweden, not the U.S. (for political..to look more "independent" .) Now if it were a Canadian M38A1, that could be a real possibility.

Also, it could be from a post Federal government ownership...given to a county or city. Police, sheriff...I've even seen white fire trucks.

Blue would probably mean Air Force or later Civil Air Patrol use. My guess is the CAP possibly utilized more Jeeps than the active duty Air Force ever did, getting them from Army or National Guard (as well as Air Force) surplus.

 

[DeetFreek]

Now let's throw yellow and white in to the CD mix! I've got these on another thread in here somewhere. This is a '55 I got to do some work on last year. Really wanted to keep this one once I heard the intended plan for it.