New Horse in the Stable!!!

[Crazy Horse]

If it wasn't for Dick Cepek it would have been very hard to find accessories back in the mid to late 70's. Half the time I called out there with a question Dick would answer the phone himself. I still have one of the books Cepek probably sold thousands of called "The Off-Road Handbook" with back country travel tips published in 75. I remember when I ordered the grill guard for my 74 Bronco, they called them "cactus crushers" back in those days. It was real 3/8" side plates and the tubes were pretty thick walled similar to boiler tube. They had some nice 2 piece bolt together HD Clamps you could hang on the bars and mount fog or driving lights to. Those Tru-Tracs were a good all around tire as long as you aired them down between 5 and 10 pounds of air. They would actually flex and squeeze the mud out to clean the tread. I remember the advertisement they did driving a 4x over a piece of paper laid out on the ground, drive over it, and it actually grabbed the paper and brought it all the way around in rotation. The good old days when all the old logging roads and service roads on National Forest lands were open to off-road travel if you had the rig.

 

[Bob4x4]

The good old days....I drove into Dick Cepeks origional South Gate store many times,it was the only place to get flotation tires back in the day

 

[p-Bar]

Norseman tires they still around?

 

[Crazy Horse]

I had a set of Norsemans on my 83 Toyota around 1985 and that's the last I have ever seen them. Got them in Anchorage no less.

 

[Crazy Horse]

Got the new 79 up on the rack and someone really put some time, new parts, and allot of money into this one. What a find!
All it needs is a rear main seal (seep) and it's 1/2 done and dripping overnight. Front to back underneath.

 

[Crazy Horse]

2nd batch:

 

[Crazy Horse]

2 more you'll like one of them. The shop helper gets around.

:-laf:-laf:-laf

 

[Wayne M.]

Lots to look at there!!

 

[fest3er]

Shop helper needs to get around more. Looks like she's cobwebs on her.

 

[Crazy Horse]

Shop helper needs to get around more. Looks like she's cobwebs on her.

Believe me Neal, There would not be any cobwebs anywhere on that!:-laf:-laf

 

[crispyboy]

Where in the world did you find such a clean CJ? That machine is beautiful!!

Our family has a 1974 CJ-5 that I would like to restore some day. We are the second owners and bought it back in 1983. Body is shot but the frame is great.