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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.
These quick searches can help you find things on eBay. People list in the wrong categories all the time, so don't be surprised to see brochures in the parts area for example. This section used to be split into jeeps, parts and other categories, but recent changes to eBay will require this information to be recoded.
The links to posts below show jeeps grouped by models, condition, and other ways. Some of these jeeps are for sale and others have been sold. If you are unsure whether a vehicle is still for sale or not, email me at d [at] ewillys.com for more info.
There are plenty of interesting, unusual, historic and surprising stories related to Jeeps and their owners. In addition, some of these features have nothing to do with jeeps. This link will display all featured stories starting from the latest.
Looking for parts and not sure where to go? There are a variety of large and small new and used parts sellers both online and offline.
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 .
It seems the Americans waited until after they landed in France to start teaching some of the GIs how to speak French. Lacking blackboards, they turned to the underside of a jeep hood. The following Fox Movietone silent video clip is a collection of outtakes. The blackboard lesson begins at the 16:22 mark and lasts about a minute.
http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A16017
The October 26, 1943, Fox Movietone featured a one minute clip about a Toledo, Ohio, Fire Jeep. It appears to be built on a Willys MB Slat Grille. The clip appears at the 6:53 mark of the video. I managed to get a few still images:
http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mvtnwarfilm/id/783
This is a classic.
“You are bidding on an original press photo of Toledo Farmers Using Vintage Willys Overland Jeep . If the listing shows thin red and/or green lines, they are the result of a bad scan & they are NOT on the actual photo. Photo measures 7 x 9 inches and is dated 7/10/1945.”
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Jay’s liquidating a variety of parts.
For the entire month of August, you can visit and walk through the warehouse and pick out exactly what you need or think you might need in the future. While we have been great at collecting this huge selection of parts, we are not quite as great at “perfectly” identifying every part. For that reason, if you are too far to visit, and choose to e-mail or call us, consider sending some pictures and/or measurements of the parts you need. This will help to ensure we send the correct parts on the first try.
If anyone or business is interested in buying any parts in bulk, we will certainly work with you to get the very best pricing possible. Bring a trailer, but of course, shipping is available for anything that won’t fit your vehicle.
Please take a look at the attached pictures to understand the scope of the parts we have in our 8,000 sq. ft. warehouse.
We have transmissions and transmission parts, transfer cases and parts, engine cores and engine parts, axles, a Willys Pickup chassis, 50 original wheels, hub caps and rings, CJ hard doors, seat frames, body frames, Utility bumpers and fenders, roll bars, head light buckets, Meyer Cab doors and sides, starter, alternator and generator cores, and literally tons of parts of every kind. We even have a few vehicles out back.
Jay
WillysOverland Motors Monday-Friday 9:00 – 5:00
562 S. Reynolds Rd. Saturday 9:00 – Noon, or later by appt
Toledo, OH 43615
888-265-5337
419-531-0707
Franziska Gygax shared pics of this jeep on Facebook. He wrote, “Was made by Kaspar Gut a swiss carosserie maker. In the back is place for 4 swiss milk cans. And on the weekend you rebuilt the back to 1 seat for 2 people“
Lots of jeep action. They drive the jeeps pretty hear near the end. At about the 8:30 mark there some hard driving video. The jeeps were bouncing pretty hard!
From archive.org: “Not the greatest film quality. National Archives description: “A 4.2″ mortar fires high explosive and phosphorus shells which explode on targets. Transportation of mortar and ammunition in large truck (10 men-10 rounds) is compared with that of a jeep towing a trailer bearing a mortar and ammunition (2 jeeps-6 men-48 rounds). Jeep and trailer units are tested at various speeds and on all types of terrain, fire mortars from barge landing craft as an island is approached, drive off barge, and are freed from ditches and other obstacles by their crews.”
National Archives Identifier: 24456”
This 1955 July Willys News article highlights the naming of a Navajo baby named Jeep Chee. My attempts to learn more about Jeep Chee weren’t very successful. I did find this odd movie script. There is a more extensive article about Gwen and Marvin Walter in the July 1958 issue of Desert Magazine.
UPDATE: This jeep kicked off a parade in Sante Fe, Kansas, this weekend.
(03/02/2015) Tom Pestinger restored this former KSAL radio station jeep. The station owned the jeep for decades, but it had deteriorated by the time Tom purchased it. The restoration took several years, but it looks to have been worth it. You can read the whole story at the KSAL website.
http://www.ksal.com/iconic-ksal-jeep-lives-again/
This archive.org Signal Corps video has some good shots of jeeps along with the everyday life of a photographer/videographer. Here’s the original link: https://archive.org/details/ADC-4647
Frazier came across a fascinating post on the Land Rover Series One Club forum. Apparently, there were discussions between Land Rover and Kaiser Willys about working together or a merger. According to this book about the British Motor Industry, the talks occurred in 1958. After exchanging information and design ideas, it appears Kaiser backed out of the deal.However it happened, Land Rover engineers apparently built a hybrid CJ-5 Land Rover. All the photos can be seen at the Rover forum. You’ll need to sign up with the forum to see all the photos.
According to one of the photo’s captions, Using the transmission and chassis from an 88 inch model (shortened to 83 inches) this hybrid LR/Jeep prototype was created by Land Rover as potential partnership discussions between the two companies were held. Ultimately no association was formed but an interesting prototype all the same.
