V.I.S.I.T. – Mystery Jeep Half-Cab

Peter Tanshanomi

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I ran across this Jeep CJ pickup a while back, serving as a parking lot attendents’ service vehicle. Any longer-wheelbase CJ-6 is a rare enough sighting. A CJ-6 wearing a half-cab hardtop is rarer still. This one, however, is downright bizarre: notice that the only seam between the cab and the body is the uneven crack in the white paint. That cab is not the usual bolt-on accessory top typically seen on Jeeps. Did someone (for reasons unknown) put forth the time and effort to custom weld and fill the junction between a standard CJ-6 and an aftermarket half-cab top? Or was this some type of limited-production hardtop from Kaiser, or a third party? Jeep gurus, feel free to leave your insights in the comments and let me know exactly what the heck I was looking at.

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Peter Tanshanomi

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Tanshanomi is Japanese [単車のみ] for “motorcycle(s) only.” Though primarily tasked with creating two-wheel oriented content for Hooniverse, Pete is a lover of all sorts of motorized vehicles.

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  1. Hatchtopia Avatar
    Hatchtopia

    I'm no expert, but that looks suspiciously like a postal cab top half. I'm thinking custom fabrication by someone with some time and two halves of different Jeeps in the back yard.

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  2. Batshitbox Avatar
    Batshitbox

    1964 Kaiser Jeep CJ6, in this listing from Nebraska in 2011. (And dammit! It went for under $2100!) Click the 'view original listing' link to see a PDF of the e-bay ad. So there's at least two, unless your white one is this grey one (red in the engine bay) after a repaint.
    <img src="http://media.collectorcarpricetracker.com/auction_data/2011/11/28/130605283719/1.jpg"&gt;
    http://collectorcarpricetracker.com/auctions/deta…
    Here's a whole page about Willys Jeeps with half cabs…
    http://www.ewillys.com/tag/halftop/
    …where you'll find this peach, listed on the Hudson Valley (NY) Craig's list back in 2013 as having a Kelly all steel half cab.
    <img src="http://www.ewillys.com/wp-content/uploads2/2013/09/1966-cj6-springglen-ny1.jpg"&gt;
    <img src="http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii570/tomatolane/KGrHqJHJE8FIHmbMY02BSE5EhiEi60_57_zpsb163f409.jpg&quot; width=300>

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  3. LEROOOY Avatar
    LEROOOY

    Sounds like something bodged together for airport tarmac work. Doesn't look like a luggage-cart hitch though.

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  4. engineerd™ Avatar
    engineerd™

    These were available when new from Meyers and other aftermarket sources. I'm not sure if the factory put out any half cabs, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did a short run.
    These are getting to be more popular with the CJ crowd again, and even the Wrangler guys are getting in on the half cab craziness.

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