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Originally Posted by Jacques Reed
Hi Mike,
I never knew any RHD CJ2A's were brought to Australia. I remember Jeep produced RHD vehicles in the US for the domestic market. Rural mail delivery postmen needed them to access the roadside mailboxes. Our Postie in the sixties had a RHD Wagoneer from memory.
The first vehicle I ever drove was my dad's 1946 CJ2A at about 14 years of age.
Pictured with my mom, is when it was a bit newer around 1948. I first drove it in 1964. Harvest Tan colour with factory orange wheels with pinstripes. Fancy for a Jeep!
He bought it, a demo model, from the local Jeep dealer in Reading PA around 1947. He told me they used to give demo rides over mounds of earth at the Reading Airport, Spaatz Field. I think the dealership was called Ira Freyer Jeep and they were still in business twenty years ago when I was last in Reading.
He drove Jeeps frequently during the war and loved them. Photo of him is on Goodenough Island New Guinea where he spent 3 years of WW2 in the US
Army Signal Corp.
Looking at the archive photo It has a different windscreen to my dad's. One piece instead of two. A quick search on the net makes it a CJ3A based on that. Oh! to find a RHD CJ2A or CJ3A in Australia in any case.
Cheers,
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With all of that family history Jacques, you should be into jeeps ! It is surprising how many early CJ jeeps turn up for sale on the Australian sites.... I've seen a few CJ2As, most of them are LHD. You would find a RHD CJ3A , they do surface now and then. There is a good source of information available on the Willys Australia F/B page.
Yes the original post should read: West. Aust. CJ3A jeep. More info:
https://cj3a.info/cj3a/cj2acj3a.html