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January 1960 Willys News

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features • TAGS: Jeep-Willys-News. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

In the ‘sometimes it’s better to be lucky’ department, eBay blessed me with a huge win the other day: 10 Willys News issues from 1960 and 1961 for only $20 (and free shipping)! Here’s the first one. It includes a lot of DJ-3A Surrey articles, a note about future President Lyndon Johnson checking out a Willys truck for his ranch, and more. The 1/4 ton jeeps (CJ-5s and CJ-3Bs) take a back seat to the FCs, Wagons, and DJs in this issue. There’s also articles demonstrating how dealers felt TV shows were helping to drive sales, which is likely why Willys Motors moved forward with other TV show and movie tie-ins.

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March 1962 Tornado Engine Brochure

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This March of 1962 brochure (form 62-03) includes a chart that highlights the performance claims of the engine vs. other engines of the day. It was part of a series of brochures from Willys Motors during 1962 that had ‘wing’ pages that opened horizontally. It’s hard to capture that sense using a scanner, but using a phone Madi those wings more apparent (see the second pic).

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1955 Swedish Photo of Jeep and Log-Peeler on eBay

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: I called this a saw when it was actually a peeler.

This photo out of Sweden shows a CJ-5 with a ventilating windshield with a bark-peeler trailer behind it.

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“THIS IS AN ORIGINAL VINTAGE PRESS PHOTO. ONLY THIS ONE COPY AVAILABLE ORDER SOON SO YOU DON’T MISS OUT
The forest in the center. Jeeps and Barkers
1955-09-16
Sweden
Photo size: 6.6″ x 9.2″ inches”

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General Box Company Cardboard Toy Jeep Middletown, CT $90

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features, toys This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: This was on eBay in March.

(03/19/2020) I’ve never seen one of these. The seller has a variety of jeep-related toys and Willys stuff for sale. The seller also has a variety of toys hanging in his shop.

“Cardboard boxcar USA Army Jeep Little General PUSH l car, circa 1960s, made by the General Box Company in Illinois.
VERY RARE. NOT MANY SURVIVE.
$90.00 OR BEST OFFER”

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1948 CJ-2A Nampa, ID $8500

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ-2A This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Has a variety of updates. Sports a set of Cutlas Bulldog hubs.

https://boise.craigslist.org/cto/d/nampa-1948-willys-jeep-cj2a-v8-disc/7132329944.html

“SOMEONE CALLED THIS A “REDNECK SPORTS CAR”…ABOUT SUMS IT UP. THIS IS 1948 CJ2A WITH AN EARLY 60’S CORVETTE 283 V8 THAT RUNS WELL. IT DOES HAVE LOUD MUFFLERS ON IT…NOT MY CHOICE BUT THAT’S HOW IT WAS WHEN I BOUGHT IT. THE SEATS ARE NEWER, HOWEVER I WILL THROW IN THE ONES I WAS GOING TO REPLACE THEM WITH BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE RACING SEATS (SEEING HOW THIS ISN’T A RACING JEEP!).

IT HAS A MUNCIE 4 SPEED THAT SHIFTS WELL AND A DRUM-REAR, DISC-FRONT SET UP. THE DISCS ARE NEWER FROM KAISER WILLYS AND THE RIMS ARE NEW REPOPS WITH DECENT TREAD ON THE SCHWAB TIRES. THE PREVIOUS OWNER DID A RE-WIRE WITH A “PAINLESS” JEEP SYSTEM THAT WAS FOR A NEW JEEP AND HASN’T BEEN PAINLESS. I HAVE ALL THE NECESSARY THINGS WORKING BUT THERE IS A LOT OF CIRCUITS LEFT IN CASE YOU’RE INTO STEREOS, LIGHTS ETC. IT HAS A NEW BATTERY BUT AFTER 3-4 DAYS IT DRAWS DOWN. Continue reading →

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Year? CJ-3B Pocomoke City, MD No Price

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ-3B, Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles • TAGS: Odd Body. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

A later model 3B turned into a golf course jeep, hence the steel mesh.

https://easternshore.craigslist.org/pts/d/pocomoke-city-willys-jeep/7130908868.html

“Willy’s Jeep for sale. Was at a golf course.”

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Koenig? Hardtop Roseburg, OR $500

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Parts • TAGS: Hardtop. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This could be worth a look. Looks in good shape.

https://roseburg.craigslist.org/pts/d/roseburg-cj2a-hardtop/7131408543.html

“I believe this came with my cj2a but it won’t fit with the roll cage I built for the Jeep so I have no use for it. It doesn’t have any nameplates or anything so I don’t know the brand. Glass and everything is intact and I don’t think it has ever been assembled”

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1970 KID 8×8 ‘Tractor’ Confier, CA $4700

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Other 4x4s This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Mike’s got this KID 8×8 for sale. Contact him at 303 816 0387 if interested (leave a message if no answer).

“-I am selling a 1970 KID 8×8 “tractor”
-it was mechanically rebuilt in 2000
-it runs and works very well
-includes a front plow, hydraulic, and a rear 3-point blade, also hydraulic
-body is original with minor sheet metal damage
-located in Colorado
-asking $4700.”

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1948 Sedan Delivery Wagon Jefferson City, MO $24,000

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Willys Wagons This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: Still Available. The price has been bumped to $24,000.

(01/04/2020) Nicely updated.

http://www.sellajeep.com/mjs/sale20/adm088/adm088.html

“1948 WILLYS DELIVERY VAN
RESTORED FROM GROUND UP.
Mustang frame, 350 C.I. motor, Auto Transmission, A/C.
Everything new.”

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Warn Overdrive and Other Parts Quakertown, PA

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Parts This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Seller has several parts for sale, including a 26 tooth Warn OD.

https://allentown.craigslist.org/pts/d/quakertown-willys-jeep-parts/7126731263.html

“Headlight buckets $50 Inside door latches and handles $60 window cranks new $40 Bumper $65
Input shafts part. #936448 $50 each Trans bearing retainer $35 Speedometer $50 Heater control
$35 Hood hold downs $5 Overdrive 26 tooth $800 Wing window parts”

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Industrial Engine Nemasket, VA $300

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Engine is stuck.

https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/pts/d/alexandria-willys-cj-2a-industrial/7131773512.html

“Complete Willys CJ-2A 4 cylinder flat head engine with all accessories and governor. This item sat in a shed for about 25 years and has been covered by a tarp for a couple of years after originally going out of service for fuel tank reasons. Item is stuck from sitting and is still attached to the arc welder it powered and on the trailer it is transported on. Sold as is.”

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1948 CJ-2A Boyer Fire Jeep Utica, NY SOLD

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ-2A, Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $25,500.

(03/24/2020) This former Fly Creek fire jeep includes some raised lettering on the side.

“1948 Willy’s CJ-2A Jeep mini-pumper fire truck. In running, driving and pumping condition. Always stored inside when not being used for a fire or in a parade. Shipped from Willy’s to Boyer fire apparatus in Syracuse NY to be up-fitted with the fire equipment for use at Griffiss Air Force base in Rome NY. It stayed at GAFB until 1966 when it was passed on to a small volunteer fire dept here in upstate NY and was used there until the 90’s when it was retired from active fire service. From then on it has had an easy retirement life doing parades, car shows and Fire truck exhibitions.

There are only 7010 original miles on this truck from new. It starts up and purrs like a kitten. It has all the original equipment with it to go to a fire right now, including the original 2 way radios, siren, hand tools, axes and even the helmet worn by the chief engineer who was in charge of this truck until its retirement. The ladder rack is full of all the tools, hoses and ladders that came with it.

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Western Snow Plow Pottstown, PA $250

May 31, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Parts This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Could be a good price.

https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/pts/d/pottstown-wester-snow-plow/7124927358.html

“7 FT. WESTERN SNOW PLOW HAS NEWER ANGLE CYLINDERS. PUMP, RELIEF VALVE, CONTROL VALVE, HYDRAULIC TANK AND MANUAL CONTROLS. MOUNTING BRACKETS, ARE OFF OF A 61 WILLYS PICKUP.”

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Bob Christy’s Ice-Cream PTO

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Check out Bob’s PTO powered ice cream machine. Well done Bob!

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Prototypes at Fort Custer, Michigan

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features, Old Images, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Fort Custer, Michigan, appears to have been a testing ground for Ford and Willys prototypes. Along with the articles below, there are press photos posted from years passed. You’ll also note that some of the press photos have captions that are printed identically, but pencil-marked up differently. It’s possible someone was selling those as originals when they may not have been.

Here’s an article and a photo showing a couple Ford GPs being run hard, originally printed in the March 09, 1941, issue of the Battle Creek Enquirer:

1941-03-09-battle-creek-enquirer-fordgps-lores

It didn’t take long for the offload vehicles to become a hit with soldiers. This article appears in the March 25, 1941, issue of the Detroit Free Press:

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And, just to set the record straight, at Fort Custer a jeep was a jeep and not a ‘peep’.

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These press photos have been gathered from older posts. First, a couple Willys MA photos from eBay:

This was posted on ebay in June 2017: “1942 Photo WW2 Era Fort Custer MI Versatile Jeep Military Push Ball Game Rare. You are bidding on an original Press Photo from a newspaper archive. The photograph measures 6×7 inches and is dated 9-25-1942.”

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Battle of The Bulge Stamps and Photos

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Charles shared these photos of the Battle of the Bulge, along with a series of Belgian stamps commemorating the Bulge.

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1961 Willys Wagon Ad

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, Old News Articles This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This May 17, 1961, ad that appeared in the Boston Glove for the Jeep Wagon has art that feels more like a late 1940s ad than a 1960s ad. On the same page as this ad was the photo at the bottom.

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1975 Perjeco Jeep Parts Catalogs SOLD

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: Catalogs, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.

This seller has two Perjeco catalogs on eBay. I’ve never run across that jeep parts seller. Anyone familiar with it?

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1949 CJ-3A West Jordan, UT $10,000

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ-3A This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Looks like a good build.

https://classifieds.ksl.com/listing/59227120

“This has a new body, fenders, hood and windshield frame. 231 Buick V6 with stock running gear, T-90 with over drive. Front axel has been converted to disc brakes. 4” lift with reverse shackles. Corbeau bucket seats with rear seat. Removable roll bar and windshield folds down so it can roll into toy hauler. In total just over 30k invested and less than 1000 miles and nothing crazy. It really is a must see. Call to schedule to come have a look.”

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1959 CJ-3B Waco, TX $7500

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ-3B This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: Still Available.

(05/18/2020) This has a PTO, but I can’t tell if there’s a PTO winch on the front.

https://waco.craigslist.org/cto/d/marlin-1959-willys-cj3b/7119658668.html

“Have a nice Willy’s Jeep in excellent condition. This was the last model of the flat fender jeeps. All new parts, carb, shocks, leaf springs, newer exhaust, new upholstery, paint, gaskets. Jeep runs excellent. I am the second owner. Call for more details.”

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1946 CJ-2A Clearwater, FL $18,000

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ-2A • TAGS: Nice, Stock. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Nice jeep that’s likely had some body work.

https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/d/safety-harbor-1946-willys-cj-2a-jeep/7127673347.html

“In excellent condition with 2232 miles.”

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VW VEEP Clinton Township, MI SOLD

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: VEEP (VW Jeep), Scamp, Others This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD**

(04/30/2020) This was for sale in Grand Ledge, MI, and appears to have sold. It’s now for sale in Clinton Township, MI. Though listed as a 1947 body, it looks like a standard reproduction VEEP body.

“VW VEEP jeep. 1947 willys body. Vw drivetrain $5000”

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1949 CJ-3A Oshkosh, WI Auction

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ-2A This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This auction ends June 2nd. Note that the jeep has two different Selectro hubs on the front.

https://appleton.craigslist.org/ctd/d/oshkosh-1949-willys-jeep-cj-3a/7128470088.html

Auction site: hansenauctiongroup.com/auctions/detail/classic-autos-trailers-tools-equipment-collectibles-more-osh-bw47188

**FOR SALE**
#2986: 1949 Willy’s Jeep CJ 3A (NO TITLE BILL OF SALE ONLY) (VIN PENDING PAINTED OVER CANT READ)
Doesn�t Start But Will Run – Wood Dash Panel – Wyoming Vehicle – 4 Cyl – Manual Trans – 82000 Miles-

**INFO**
Will sell online auction with the Hansen Auction Group. Bidding Starts at $1 and ends June 2nd.

**BIDDING**
Bid now (copy and paste) at
hansenauctiongroup.com/auctions/detail/classic-autos-trailers-tools-equipment-collectibles-more-osh-bw47188
or at
HANSENAUCTIONGROUP.COM
This item can be found under our Classic Autos, Trailers, Tools & Equipment, Collectibles & More auction ending June 2nd in Oshkosh, WI.

**OPEN HOUSE**
Monday, June 1st (10am-3pm)”

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1972 CJ-5 w/ Bed Fairview, UT SOLD

May 30, 2020 • CATEGORIES: CJ5 • TAGS: CJ2A-Truck, Extended, Hardtop, Stretched. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $2500.

(05/18/2020) Coincidently, $2500 ($1500 in cash, key fob, and other stuff and $1000 in tires) is how much it cost us to get out of Spanish Fork when we were there in 2018! This modified CJ-5 is kinda ugly and cool at the same time. Given he top, the winch, and the turbine rims, there just might be some value here. No description provided.