The 6

So Dave recently found a disposable camera in his garage. We got it developed and figured this was a good place to show them.

Two years ago, Dave was driving an old CJ7. Both his daughters had long wheelbase jeeps, and in this family everything has to be equal. Rondi, with her eye for the KSL classifieds, found a rust-free CJ6 for sale and had to take her dad out to see it. The jeep was a former Forest Service jeep from Arizona. Dave bought it and several months before the Moab Easter Jeep Safari we decided to tear it down and restore it. We used the axles from the CJ7--upgrading the old drum brakes to disc, and using the Air lockers that were in the 7. The springs are wider and mounted further out on the 7, so we had to make some custom spring mounts to use them on the 6. The body was removed from the frame, and both were sandblasted to bare metal, then primed and painted. These pictures aren't the highest quality, we take for granted how much better a digital camera is than an old disposable.

In this picture you can see the spring perches that we had to build to adapt the newer style springs from the CJ7.

Kyle Layton standing in front of the jeep, the body has been mounted, along with the axles.

The frame with the axles underneath.

Here's the body, primed and ready for mounting. You can see that the underside has been painted.

Who's that sexy guy? This wasn't the last jeep that I ever cut in half.

Another pic of the body before mounting.


The finished Jeep at Moab.