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Welcome to eWillys.com, a website for vintage jeep enthusiasts. I update this website nearly every day with jeep deals, jeep history, interesting reader projects, jeep related info, and more.
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Importantly, the allure of buying a project jeep can be romantic. The reality of restoring a jeep can be quite different, expensive and overwhelming without the right tools and resources. So, tread carefully when purchasing a "project". If you have any concerns about buying a vintage jeep, or run across a scam, feel free to contact me for help, comments or concerns .
Mike sent over this nice 1954 Wagon Video that has been body swapped, at the end it hits the trails and really shows off its capability, it looks like it rides amazing.
Some background……
Here are a couple of screen grabs from Instagram that I found of this one.
I feel this might be a very early shot that was still up on Instagram about 4 Years ago, kinda fits the time line and description mentioned in the Video. Lots of work was performed to transform it into how it sits today.
This was shared on OWF and I thought it was a fun video. I’m not a purist for all the details I think he does a good enough job for the scope of just showing how much fun these are to drive and own.
I needed to set one up to host a few videos for the site, but after I got done setting it up I don’t think they were for posting just for me to see, so either way check this one out.
Sent over via email it’s from a collection of videos on an FC adventure around the world that has been documented on eWillys prior and there are many other stories out there on the trip to dig up.
In 1959 Noble Trenham and Dean Fisher went out on a “three year adventure to the ends of the earth”. At 9500 lbs the FC was a beast. While the one review I read related to Dean Fisher’s book “with only one companion and a vehicle that broke down endlessly” . That part missed the cut on this exact video, but overall the rig did make it back, I would not expect anything less, there have been alot of Adventures Around the World and they are just brutal stories of the places they went and hw they made it through.
David, a reader from Texas, shared this video of an abandoned jeep made to run again. Called a CJ-3A in the video, it is clear it was was originally a 2WD DJ-3A. Given the Stewart Warner gauge coupled with the lack of a passenger-side heater vent, this is likely a ’58 or ’59 model. The jeep was adapted to 4WD using the axles from a WWII jeep (steering on the front axle; full floaters on the rear). The transmission cross member is likely WWII as well, though it could be from a 2A. I didn’t watch the entirely of the video, but maybe there are more clues (such as T84 vs T90).
UPDATE: This is a very old post (which likely needs updating), but Mauri added a nice addition to it, a video of Jay Leno driving this rig.
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Originally posted April 28, 2011: The National Automobile Museum (the Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nevada, opened in 1989. Most of the collection is based on Bill Harrah’s (gaming pioneer and avid collector) automobile collection. Following Bill’s death in 1978, the Holiday Corporation bought Harrah’s Hotels/Casinos and more, including the collection. Then Holiday announced they were going to sell the cars. This ticked off Nevadans, so the governor stepped in and helped negotiate a donation of the cars by Holiday to a special non profit organization established for the purposes of a museum.
The museum was named among the top ten museums by Car Collector magazine, has been ranked as one of the best 16 car museums in the world by Autoweek, and has been selected the best Museum in Northern Nevada in Nevada Magazines’ Annual Readers Poll.
The collection appears to have only two jeeps. One is a slightly modded CJ-5; the other is a Wagoneer that was outfitted with a Ferrari engine and called a Jerrari.
Here is the Jerrari as photographed by RenoDesertFox from Flickr. Note the color of the first image is the correct color and the remaining images have had the colors tweaked by the photographer, but still show a good deal of detail.
