Front floor indent POLL

wesk · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:07 am Post subject: Front floor indent POLL

There seems to be a point at which this indent on the passenger side floor disappears. The poll is to determine at about which serial this happens.

I have no photo of any M38 driver's floor with an indent.

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Bretto · Member Joined: Nov 24, 2010 Posts: 1390 Location: Orem, UT

Wes,
On your poll, you are asking 1 thing but with the 4 options, 2 of the answers would of been true in my case. I have an indent present on the pass but not on the driver. I opted to vote on the 1st option.
MC29199
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whydahdvr · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:21 am Post subject:

Mine doesn't have any of the indents, though it's possible the floor pans were replaced at some point.

RICKG · Member Joined: Aug 31, 2010 Posts: 1741 Location: SO IDAHO

MC51986 DOD 1-52 INDENT PASS SIDE ONLY.
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78670 · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:41 am Post subject:

MC56989 dod 3/52 pass side indent only
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52 M38

BobW · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:04 am Post subject:

MC 61956 pass side indent only (4-52)
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Bob W. Monticello, NY. 1952 CJ3A, 1952 M38, 1950 CJV-35/U

wesk · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:07 am Post subject:

Hello Bretto,

Let me explain:

alphonzo · Member Joined: Sep 19, 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Michigan

8/51 MC30823 pass side only.

Rick_L · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:16 am Post subject:

MC 63839 pass side indent only (4-52)

wesk · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:49 am Post subject:

Hello Bob,

Glad you posted. Did this indent stay in the CJ3A throughout production? I saw no reference to it in your 3A book.

I did a little poking around my photo files and found a 51 3A floor with it and a 53 CJ3B floor with it.
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rgmutchler · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:33 pm Post subject:

My M38 has only the passenger side indent. It is an early M38 with serial number 13282 (data plate) patent plate number 13097, which ever you care to believe. I tend to think that the patent plate is the correct number.
I also have a NOS floorboard/firewall unit that I will be installing in this M38. According to Ryan's book the NOS floorboard/firewall unit is a late M38 firewall based on the hole locations in the firewall and it also has the floor indent on the passenger side.
I don't have anyway of knowing the age of the replacement floorboard/firewall unit but would guess that it could be one that was constructed from new and old floorboard and firewall components around the time of the change over that Wes mentioned in the other posts about this topic.
Wes, I don't know if it would tell you anything but I can contact the man I purchased it from and see if he can tell me if the other NOS floorboard/firewall units he has left also have the indent in them and which firewall they have if you would like.
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rwbow1969 · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:09 pm Post subject:

Mine has the passenger side indent also, #23945 - June 1951

keats · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:04 pm Post subject:

My 49 3A, 3/52 M38 (60604) , and my mid 50's 3B all have the indent on the passenger side. I have never seen a civilian jeep or M38 with the indent on the drivers (left) side. I would like some photo evidence of any if possible. Why would CJ3B's still have it but have it discontinued on the M38 production??? Doesn't make sense to me.

rwbow1969 · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:46 pm Post subject: Indent

Could this have been a set up mark for the channels? Question

wesk · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 7:57 pm Post subject:

Keats.

No one has seen a driver's side indent. But the first post about this subject aluded to one on each side in the MB's but I have not been able to find any driver's side MB's either. I have seen two CJ3B's with it also but they were 1953 and I haven't seen any CJ5's with it. I believe the few M38's with no indent have replacement floors that came without indents.
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