Jeff,>

If I'm not mistaken, that's an M715, built by Kaiser Jeep in the late> '50s - early '60s.>

Still lots of good parts on it. Is the Jeep for sale, or is it> abandoned on public land? There is probably a collector somewhere who> would want it, you know. If you know it's abandoned, or if you can buy> it real cheap, you could probably make a few bucks selling things like> the winch, the electrical parts, and gages and composite lights.>

You might want to go to <www.G503.com> and post a link to one of the> pics in one of the forums there. Lots of helpful Jeep folks there.>

Gord Richmond

I've got a kind of interesting long term project going on, that in the > end makes no difference but it's fun. Many years ago, back in the Red > Lobster days when I was driving around in my Hawk there was a place we > used to go to party. It was a neat place, you would turn off of the > main road, go past a graveyard, through the streets of a subdivision > with no houses, and then through the woods on a dirt track. After > driving through the woods a ways a trail led down onto the wooded > floodplain by the Neuse River. On the other side of the river there was > a HUGE rock, the thing must have been 4 or 5 stories tall. One time I > drove out there in my Mom's Datsun B-210 and managed to get it stuck in > the mud up the the floorboards. The next morning I went back out there > and got it unstuck (the ground and the mud had frozen overnight), but it > was unstuck on the wrong side of the mud, so of course I got it just as > stuck again only this time pointed in the other direction! Got a friend > of mine to come out with his Studebaker Champ pickup and pull the thing > out of the mud (got to love those Studes!). It's funny that I got Mom's > Datsun stuck in there but never got my Hawk (with about 4" of ground > clearance) stuck.>

I often wanted to try to find that place back, but it's complicated by a > couple of things, one is that about 30 years have past, the other is > that floodplain is now the bottom of Falls Lake. I did some hunting > using Microsoft's Terraserver site and thought I found a couple of > likely spots, and Saturday drove out there in the truck (of course). > Well, I burned about a third a tank of gas driving around on a beautiful > Saturday afternoon and didn't find it. However I did visit Falls Dam > for the first time, and also Blue Jay Point county park. I ought to be > able to find the rock using a topographical map, and the graveyard > should still be there (unless they moved it for the lake). There is a > listing of old Wake County graveyards available online, but there are a > LOT of them and it will take a while to work through the list. Like I > said, it's not a big deal, but a fun little project that gives me an > excuse to do some research on the web and ride around northern Wake County.>

This afternoon I drove out to a nearby state forest Murphy and I like to > visit, partly for a nice walk in the woods and partly to take some > pictures of an unusual Jeep I found in the woods. If anyone is > interested here are a few pictures...>

http://community.we­bshots.com/album/324­748565IrbGEE>

I put about 300 miles on that old truck this weekend, once I do > something about that seat I want to go on a real road trip!>

Jeff DeWitt>