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Or spots another Tender in Israel — $10,000

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Or found this Tander for sale (thanks Or!).  The exchange rate puts the price on this at about $10,000.  I still a bit shocked I haven’t seen any original literature for these yet.  That’s reminds me .. I need to build a special page for these ….

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Anyone know anything about these trucks?

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Doing some research on Warn hubs this morning, I ran across this image on Warn’s corporate website.  This may very well be  the original Warn Motor’s Service station in Seattle, Washington, where Arthur Warn developed his early ‘Summer Hubs’ as Mike refers to them.  Note the signs atop the roof, “Jeeps”  and “Warn Motors”.

If there were just one of these trucks, i would call it a custom one-off project.  However, two of these suggest to me this was a kit of some kind?  It kind of looks like the prototype for the Willys we have named a Tender.

 
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Another Tender Truck

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Or, from our Israeli Bureau, spotted another Tender Truck for sale.  I used Babelfish to translate the Hebrew, but it was only barely understandable.  So, we can just check out the pics.  Thanks Or!

You can see the original article here and here’s the main Tender page, though I will be creating a Tender section soon.

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1957 High Back ‘Tender’ Truck Joplin, MO **SOLD**

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UPDATE:  **SOLD** LIkely a cut down wagon.

(see the original Tender post)

1957 WILLYS JEEP NO TITLE $ 350 OBO”

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Another ‘Tender’ Truck Spotted

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Here’s the back end of another Tender spotted by the sharp-eyed Israeli bureau.  I don’t know anything specifically about this Truck.  The image was posted on the Jalopy Journal (entry #39) along with some Jeep Rod pics.

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Tender Discussion

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UPDATE 3: The eWillys Israel bureau is hot on the trail of the ‘Tender’.  Another set of pics was accompanied by the following update.

Here’s what he Googled in Hebrew: “A man named Efraim Eilin had a vision of an Israeli car industry. In 1950 he made partnership with Kaizer Enterprises and in 1951 he opened the Kaizer-Eilin  assembly plant. The plant[S] made more then 100,000 cars [Kaiser Frazer, Dofin Renolt, kontesa , Lark Studibaker…] and at some point the plant export was 28% of all the Israeli exports! I couldn’t  find info on the Willys  except that they made the panel, the wagon and the pick-up [we say: ‘Tender’].  All the body parts were made in Israel in another plant in Israel; so, I guess that the trucks  used the low part of the panel/wagon + special design for the back as an original Kaiser-Eilin. The Willys had 2 engines: 2199 cc 4 cylinder  and 3770 cc 6 c‘”

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And here’s a special Willys Police Wagon (here’s the page for our Hebrew readers):

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As I note in the comments to this post, a couple days ago I did a number of searches (and found some interesting truck sites that I will include in upcoming posts), but I found no references to the ‘Tender’ or ‘high back’ trucks.  If anyone knows anything about them, please let me know.

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