1964 cj5

after all this, i had to have another jeep. this one was found a few miles down the road from me, sitting out in a guys yard with a plow for 500 bucks. she was in pretty good shape, a rusty, dingy red that i painted over. i never thought that i'd own a red jeep... so i wanted to go with a plain battleship grey. spent a summer again, like the dj painting her with a brush. i tried using a sort of attachment for spraycans that let you put it on the can and it had a trigger that depressed the button. alot less tiring than using a spraycan straight, but i got tired of it and didn't like the results, so i turned back to the brush. a few dozen cans of paint later i had a grey bodied jeep with a red grill. (i couldn't get away entirely from sort of liking the red somewhere in the back of my head...). she also had a homemade hardtop that i had left on. if i could have afforded a soft top at the time to replace it, i would have torn off the pop riveted mess away, but i liked it and the hard doors that even locked.
i drove this for a few summers mostly to work. she was geared so high, like all early 5's that i decided to stick to backroads where i could stick to a 40mph speed limit. the only problem that i had (after getting a set of hercules terra tracs on and the old bias plys off...) was that the t90 popped out of gear going down hills. i've heard this is a common thing with t90s and worn out synchronizers or shift rails or something that i could never wrap my mind around in that humming mystery that is a transmission. i also, completely foolishly, smoked at the time. despite the fact that she had a small pinpoint gas leak in the top seam of the tank that as you know, i was sitting on top of... it really only sloshed gas out while it was full and so i rarely filled the tank. to be young and foolish again!