1952 Willys Truck $6,500 Waseca, MN
Going to be posting some older listings that are still up will try to add how old these are first some of these might be long gone but still never know. Will be building up some stock for the Holiday week.
Listed 11 weeks ago, they are selling for a friend so this is 4th party here at this point on my end, quality of lead for a listing I give it a 4/10 stars.
F-134, listed as extra parts come with this which is a challenge at time if you don’t have physical room for spares.
I’m torn on the spares at times, I tend to take anything and everything to a fault then I wind up with tons of crap that needs a home. I do know Willys folks who have a nice collection and it does not include all the junk (rusty gold really) like I have, and I don’t even think I have a lot of stuff compared to thousands of other people.
Information from seller:
1952 Willy’s pickup, runs and drives good. have a separate frame with spare rear end and trans. 4 cylinder. Have owned for 14 years no time to drive. Selling for a friend call or text Randy at
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EDIT> Rick pointed out the 2 Batteries, I think they are in Parallel, not sure. Looking at some stock photos from Deka the positive shows in the front right when the label is in the front, and they look to have paralleled the 2 positives. The ground on the drivers fender is probably not my first choice of a great “ground”.
See this pretty poor mark up. Yellow Neg, Red Positive. And I can not see the connections at the engine at all.
Nice catch for sure on this set up.
Is that 2 six volt batteries? 12 volt conversion?
Thanks
Good catch, I updated the post with my ideas, really don’t know, looks like they paralleled them. Not sure what the frame on the front was either.
It’s 12V. They are in series, as the driver side right post goes to ground. This was a common but expensive set up in English cars like Jaguars in the 50’s. Not sure why anyone would do that unless it was some obscure original Willys option, given theavailability of multiple form factors for 12V batteries for many years.
Got it, yeah that’s one way to do it. I tried to figure out from the Deka site which side was Pos and it looked like they tied the 2 positives together.
I thought I made out a second positive cable on the left battery, not the best picture.
It is different for sure.
Tim, I think you have a point. If the far left cable is also a ground, then these batteries provide about 2X the current through one of the center posts. The problem with the parallel battery design design is that unless both batteries degrade identically, one will always be feeding a bit into the other on charge and discharge as their voltages and internal resistances will not be identical. I’m not sure how impactful that will be to battery life.