Welcome to May 2025, I know this update is a little close to the April one but I have a very busy month with some great projects I volunteer with in the month of May, so I wanted to take the time now to do this Months update.

I really appreciate the support from everyone for eWillys, things are getting worked out and we are moving forward.

Comments

So I did some digging into the comments and as expected nothing I can see has changed since before my time with eWillys.

EXCEPT: All permissions got deleted moving servers, including all approvals to post comments. Which was fully expected and normal its a brand new environment and no way to move those.

Please use the same name and email when commenting.

The way it’s set up is that enter your Name and Email then you post your comment, the first time you comment with that exact Name and Email it comes into the Authors or Admins inbox to review and approve the comment. It gets approved and posted.

Once approved one time the next time you visit use the same Name and Email and you will be able to post comments directly.

There are two additional work flows that we have decided not to go with,

1. Logged in Users with passwords
   1. The login is a management deal with forgotten passwords and the sort that’s a hassle on the admin side.
2. Allow anyone to just comment who is not approved one time.

   1. The allow anyone and everyone to post and comment out of the gate allows for tons of spam comments that has to be managed.

I looked back many years and don’t see the ability to add pictures to comments so I don’t plan on adding that to the site at this time.

Posts

If you need to send something over info@ewillys.com is up and running.

My preferred method to getting post information would be as follows, I use a unique number for my posts so that I can sort the list and I run a separate Word Document for the posts I run.

149 <Tim’s Internal Number, I use this to load the pictures using this ID number.

WWII Jeep Willys Chevy Flatbed $30 Greenville, SC <Title of the post, this is in the body and is the title of the post.

This looks pretty neat if you are in the local area.  <Your comments on the post.

Information from seller: < I have settled on this term to separate the Authors comments from the sellers comments. There are a number of reasons I have settled on this term, the word Seller, may change to Dealer or Auction House, or…….the title of the provider.

This is a diecast set of a 1941 Chevy Flatbed and Jeep Willys. Released in 2001 by Daimler Chrysler. The vehicles are in excellent condition. I don’t list an item as new if the package is opened. No shipping, cash only.   < Next I paste in the sellers terms good, bad, indifferent, I do make some small corrections but for the most part this is their text how they posted their item for sale. 

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Fn3cndYmd/  < Add the link to the posting or reference material.

Here is how it looks with out all my notes:

149

WWII Jeep Willys Chevy Flatbed $30 Greenville, SC

This looks pretty neat if you are in the local area.

Information from seller:

This is a diecast set of a 1941 Chevy Flatbed and Jeep Willys. Released in 2001 by Daimler Chrysler. The vehicles are in excellent condition. I don’t list an item as new if the package is opened. No shipping, cash only.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Fn3cndYmd/

Authors

Are you interested in being an Author for eWillys, please contact me @ info@ewillys.com, this is not something we are going to open the flood gates too, eWillys is not a Forum not looking to make it into one, there are so many great platforms that have great support systems and moderators for those sites.

There are no paid Vendor advertisers, yes we run AdSense its a necessary function of pretty much any website, I put a lot of thought into the ad placements and blocking ad’s that contain anything I would not want my kids to see, there is thought behind pretty much anything you see on here so please ask if something is off.

Some Additional Thoughts

We are kind of at a point where we don’t know of anything glaring that is wrong with the site transfer. If you see something say something at the end of the day we want you to have a positive experience and keep this great resource going. We have access to a great IT group of professionals at NetFire that are passionate about solving problems and providing solutions.

If you have a project and are looking to partner with a great host / solution provider please take a look at them.

NetFire

Some of the projects I work on in May……..

If you are interested and able in giving back a few hours and had a small group of Willys or Jeep friends, search out these types of local projects, they are great ways to spend a few hours together.

Hope in the Hills of Warren

MISSION STATEMENT

Seeking to put God’s love into action, Hope in the Hills of Warren brings youth and adults together to restore homes, community, and hope.

I have done this for about the past 12 years and its small home repair program for elderly, disabled, low income in a few communities in Warren County, NJ. We get a great group of volunteers that go out and together will work on about 20-25 homes in one weekend.

Hopefully by next year, I have my one 1963 Wagon and M-416 Trailer fully outfitted to do Hope in the Hills, that’s one of my long term goals and how that will tie back to the Willys content, it will be a mobile support rig for the crews is how I have it planned out.

Memorial Motor Madness

Save the Date!   5/25/25/  Memorial Motor Madness Car Show returns!    Hackettstown, NJ

Hackettstown Rotary puts on a great show each year at Mars Wrigley (M&M Factory) and its a great fundraiser for all sort of local projects. I have been able to volunteer the last 6 years when the show was held and its a great day with lots to do to keep busy and then you get to see a wonderful show.

We had a great Willys turn out last year, and I met a few folks who I have become good friends with and continue to keep in touch from the show and they have some really neat Willys.

https://hackettstownrotary.org/

Hope everyone has a great week.

Thanks, Tim

A Found Jeep

Barry sent this over, I need to catch up with you soon, Thanks for sharing. Little ad-hoc on this post on my side.

Time travel back to August 2020 when we wrote this –

In June 2018, Barry posted a note at earlycj5,com, a “discussion board for ECJ5 enthusiasts”, asking for farming stories. One of the members, Dan Montgomery, responded that he had home movies of a large custom baling operation using CJ5s in Northeastern California from the late 1960s. Dan’s CJ5 story has since been published in The Dispatcher Spring 2020 magazine. We asked Dan to post a version of the story, along with video and stills from the home movies………

Head over to FarmJeep to continue the story..

Welcome to the end of April! Wow that went amazingly fast.

Spring is a great time to renew some interest in long term projects after the cold of winter has begun to shift to warmer days, yet still cold enough to be chilly in the mornings and evenings.

Some really exciting stuff has happened at eWillys over the past month and its still work in progress, so Thank You to everyone for the encouraging comments.

EVENTS

There are so many events this spring to get out and meet other Willys folks, we will be putting them back to the top of the list often, please support one of these events and the great Vendors that help put them on with sponsored give aways, shirts and covering all sorts of hidden costs.

A lot of personal time is put into these events and adventures, if able please support them and get out and enjoy the time together.

It can also be a stressful time for some folks, maybe this is your first time attending an event and you have questions on the best route, is there trailer parking, is it pet friendly…, if you post up any comments we will try our best to make sure there is contact info for you or try to direct you to the correct forum who is running the event.

Typically most events someone we know is tied into one of the many great Forums that support our hobby, so lots of help out there to get you to and from the events as stress free as possible.

This does not give you a free pass to skip some really basic service and safety checks prior to departing on your adventures, be safe out on the roads and take the basic precautions and safety checks so you can enjoy your day.

WEBSITE UPDATES

The site now has a secure SSL version, I recommend you update your bookmarks to the HTTPS version of the site, I will ask about if there is a something further we need to do to force that over. But if you notice the “NON SECURE” notice at the top of the page on your browser you are most likely on the plane vanilla HTTP version.

https://www.ewillys.com

We have fixed the site email!!!!!!!! This is really exciting, I get it some wont get it but having a cPanel goes such a long way to getting things moving along. I don’t know what most of the cPanel stuff is or does and you can break a site fairly easily, but so far I have learned a lot of new stuff along the way.

info@ewillys.com is able to be used to reach out to us and we will be updating the contact us forms.

We are working on cutting over the Ads to a new account so expect some new Ad’s to appear, I think 30 or 40 ads per page should do pretty well, pop ups and all sorts of click things that open even more ads, is going to really up our game. (hopefully everyone gets the Sarcasm), but it will be very similar to how it was working before, but the new version will need some tweaks I’m sure to get them to balance out properly.

There is work going on for some of the older posts related to some folder permissions, so we know about it, you are welcome to let us know, we have all negative comments on auto delete so keep them coming.

EDIT 4/29/25 6:00PM EST: Looks like we got all the photos of the old posts working Dave provided the feedback on the main issue and the Host worked up some steps to fix it, then I took a leap did a back up and made the updates to the SQL where the issue resided. It looks like we got it. Thanks for moving forward with us! It may not even be visible to the user but that one fix is huge on the quality of the preservation of the information, it was a little fix that improves the site that much more with less broken parts.

EMAIL US

info@ewillys.com

VENDORS

Any vendors who we had on the site before please reach out to us, send us the webpage and the small photo you want us to use so we can put you back up on the site. There is no charge for this, we know most of you, but please reach out and remind us of what you would like us to link too!

I plan on reaching out to folks when time permits and we have a stable environment to provide the links to people.

Thanks to everyone for supporting eWillys,

Tim

So we are successfully over to the new hosting company, I think it went OK, there are always bumps in the road and things break and get fixed, its still got some work in progress, timelines shift and are what they are really.

Huge thanks to NetFire’s team and Dave for pushing through this process.

Onward and Upwards! We get it for sure, doing what we can with what we have, it was not an easy process.

TONS of credit to the NetFire team and Dave to keep this alive and kicking and working together to figure it all out.

Was it what we all expected of course not, did it take longer yes, as far as paying for eWillys never in the cards or future, it’s not a dollars and cents deal.

No advertisers pay for anything, so please support all the great Vendors who keep our rigs going, we will get them back up and on the pages some of the stuff has shifted around we are working on it but everyone knows the Vendors are super valuable and need all the support they can get.

Yes some things got lost in the mix and are being worked on, but I know we are doing the right thing and just takes time to get it all figured out.

The backend of the site is really impressive, I know most wont understand what goes into the sights unseen, but the technology and support team is very talented.

Thanks to everyone for hanging in there.

Scott from The Willys Jeep Rally Event Committee sent over the reminder for the 2025 Willys Jeep Rally Event!

http://www.mw-willysjeep.com/

If you are in the area and able to attend please add this to your Spring To Do list!

We really appreciate everyone hanging in there with this transition.

Dave and I spoke today, it was good to catch up and chat.

As mentioned we are still working out the transition and will be back to regular posting real soon.

Spring is here in many parts of the eWillys world. Other spots still are getting some snow, there is always that off chance possibly of a storm here in NJ, but for the most part it won’t hang around that much.

I was able to get the Wagon and Willa Dean out already this year and had a few good drives.

Please remember there are some really cool upcoming events in the Willys world, if you have time to check one out please do and support your favorite Willys vendor or club sponsors.

I have seen some great giveaways from our Willys key vendors and it’s pretty awesome they can do that, it’s all of you who make that possible by supporting them.

Most of all it’s about getting out and meeting people and seeing old friends and making some new ones!

Willys Only Event Wrightwood, CA

Some great Willys only will be getting together on May 10th, 2025.

https://www.oldwillysforum.com/forum/index.php?threads/may-10-2025-willys-only-gathering.30898/

32nd Annual Spring WILLYS Jeep Reunion & Swap Meet

Thank you for interest in the 2025 Spring Willys Reunion.

May 16 – 17, 2025

North Canton, Ohio

http://www.willysreunion.com/springcheckback.htm

Epic Willys Adventure

June 5th – 15th, starting and ending in Butler, PA.

https://www.epicwillysadventure.com/apply

Brian posted up a farewell video on his metalshaper channel, it was shared on OWF today.

I personally never crossed paths with Brian in person but his videos are a great resource to our Willys community and will be missed.

Thank you Brian for all you have contributed to our small slice of the automotive world. You have helped alot of people over the years.

Good luck with your future endeavors!

If you ever need anything feel free to reach out to us at eWillys!

https://m.youtube.com/@metalshaperJeep

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1964 Jeep FC-170 Emporia, KS $35,000

“Andy’s Picks”

fc-170 restored w front winch

https://www.facebook.com/share/1DMMGCS6jx/

Seller’s description

It’s for sale good running jeep. That’s not the price should know how much soon serious buyers only Motor 226 v6 super hurricane

Good Reminder Be Careful! Watch for SCAMS!

100% to me this ad was fake, it’ was posted on Craigslist out of Brooklyn, NY but it’s in the incorrect area of the site for Jeeps / Willys and vehicles in general.

The photos and description shared are from a different site where the rig was for sale for double the price

1952 Willys M38A1 – $12,000

1952 Willys M38 Military Jeep. Fully Restored, museum quality, no rust, always garage kept. This Jeep served in Korea. Lots of fun to drive, starts right up. Everything works, Horn, fuel gauge, wipers, lights, all gauges, everything.

Too good to be true it probably is…. it is a nice looking Willys.

Update: Says Pending on the ad. Not surprised these move quick!

1962 FC170 DRW North Ridgeville, OH

“Andy’s Picks”

https://www.facebook.com/share/1AtNQSSjDw/

HOT POST! This may not even be available by the time I can get this post out the door! FC stuff moves pretty quickly.

FC170 really it’s parts of one. But not horrible and priced to move bring cash and hope you already have your trailer hooked up!

Cab lights are way cool, lots of interior parts there.

Seller’s Description 

For sale or possibly trade

1962 jeep FC 170 drw

I have a clear oh title

It still has the hurricane flathead 6 engine

And transmission bellhousing.

Front axle, steering, front driveshaft

Cooling system all still there. Missing trans transfer case and rear axle

Frame is rough behind the cab

Glass is all in good shape, interior is pretty complete. I have both seats in great shape.

It did still run a couple years ago before the transmission was removed for another project. Definitely could be restored, or buy it for parts. Price negotiable open to trade