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1961 Wagon Hamilton, MT $38,000

January 31, 2025 • CATEGORIES: Willys Wagons • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Tim’s selling this nicely updated wagon.

https://marketplace.jeepwillysforsale.com/listing/619875?prompt_login=true

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Quite possibly the nicest wagon it will ever find for sale.
Runs great. Chevy 350 w/ Holley Sniper fuel injection. GM 700R4 4speed Transmission. Dual reservoir brake system w/ front disc brakes. Dana 44 rear axle w/ large breaks. Extra large fuel tank. Front bucket seats. Bluetooth stereo with overhead sound bar. Four-wheel-drive with low range. Original speedometer works and is accurate but bounces a little at low speed.

I have all the Chrome trim for it, if you like that look.

Daily driver. Gets a lot of attention

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M-38 Split Windshield Frame $550

January 31, 2025 • CATEGORIES: Features, Parts • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: Buz reached out to say this is still available. He dropped the price to $550. 

Buz is selling this unique windshield frame for the M-38. He has the paper work from the Government and work order to document its origins. Contact Buz Kanzenbach via phone 757 403 9964  or email buzkan @ att.net  (remove spaces around the @).

“Split M-38 windshield excellent shape. This is a rare item! Authorized By Order of the Army, The Secretary of The Army. When it was broken during the Korean War it was transferred from a 1 piece two a 2 piece, to save glass. I know of only 2 frames in existence.”

Here are a few others from the archives that might be M-38 split windshields

1) This M-38 appears to have one: http://www.ewillys.com/2010/05/07/year-m-38-mount-vernon-wa-4000/
2) Possibly a modified one(?): http://www.ewillys.com/2014/06/03/1947-cj-2a-lexington-tx-4700/

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1951 Farm Jeep & Jeep Tractor Brochure

January 25, 2025 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: I was surprised to recently see a 1953 ad for a Farm ‘Jeep’ in the Nevada State Journal (March 05, 1953, pg 9). Remember that the Farm ‘Jeep’, along with the ‘Jeep’ Tractor, were models produced mostly in 1951 and 1952, along with a line of jeep implements.

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As you can see from this timeline reproduced below from the CJ-3A.info page, there were very few Farm ‘Jeep’s produced at all and none in 1953, though a handful of CJ-3B Farm ‘Jeep’s were made (see CJ-3B page for more info on the 3B version). So the use of the ad is curious.

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Originally Published May 12, 2020:  Each of the brochures has consecutive form numbers, from FS-514100 to FS-514105. The brochure below included extra digits at the front: FS-4 FS-514102.

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Bulletin & Mechanics Manual for Willys Supercharger

January 25, 2025 • CATEGORIES: Books, Documents, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Here’s the Willys Service Bulletin that announced the Kaiser Willys Supercharger, along with the manual and a few pics of a super charger at the bottom of the post (from a 2014 post).

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Kaiser Supercharger Manual:

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May 1954 Kaiser Willys News Vol. 1 No. 4

January 21, 2025 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, Magazine • TAGS: , , . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: I obtained a copy of this Kaiser Willys News, Volume 1, Number 4, off of ebay. Previously, all I had was a low resolution copy. This issue includes stories and photos about the Yakima Ridge Runners (last page).

Page 1 covers sales contents. Page two includes a short article about how a jeep won a road race in Las Vegas, but a search of vintage newspapers did not yield any more information. Page three is unusual in its description of the efforts to encourage wives to support their husband’s sales efforts.

Page 4 and 5 covers sales tips. Page 6 has an interesting diagram of an automatic transmission tools board, with enough detail to recreate it for a museum.

Page 7 includes a story with some details that might help someone recreate the 1954 Cavalcade of jeeps. As mentioned before, page 8 covers the Yakima Ridge Runners, among other stories.

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