4Wheel & Off-Road Editor Testing His Rebuild Skills

Another classic Jeep owner sets out on an interesting rebuild and off-road challenge.

Looks like our fellow Jeep lover David Tracy at Jalopnik has started a trend of sorts.

Find one of the most seemingly-impossible-to-fix old Jeeps that you can, then make a commitment to get it back up and running. Sure, the concept of repairing an old Jeep is about as old as the American nameplate. Nothing new there. But heavy exposure is what sets David Tracy’s Jalopnik Jeep apart. And that’s what Rick Péwé, Editor-in-Chief of 4Wheel & Off-Road, is also attempting to do.

His opening pitch?

“How bad is it that I have a fleet of Jeeps, and none of them work? Sure they ‘work’ in one way or another, but none of the Jeeps I have work correctly, as in enough stuff works on any one Jeep to go on an event or trail ride.”

CHECK OUT: What Forum Members Are Saying About Péwé’s efforts

Hmm…sound familiar?

Now, don’t get us wrong, we actually love when people share their Jeep rebuild stories. And there’s some very obvious differences here between David’s adventures with his Jeep project and the one being proposed by Rick. Namely, that the 4Wheel & Off-Road editor has a lot to choose from among his own stock of personal vintage Jeeps, including a 1945 GPW, his Ultimate Adventure M38-A1, a CJ-2A, and a CJ-3A.

David, on the other hand, has always been forced to take basically whatever he could find for his adventure projects.

That said, it doesn’t make Rick’s project any less interesting. We’ll certainly be following along!