UPDATE: Thanks to Josh for alerting me that Sunday night Craigslist was hacked, which brought down the site. Therefore not many posts this morning.

UPDATE: Still Available

(08/11/2014) Motor may run.

“1948 JEEP WILLYS PANEL 
NEEDS RESTORATION ( has rust all over the car)
MOTOR IS ORIGINAL WAS RUNNING GOOD 
ELECTRIC SYSTEM WORKS 
NEW BRAKES
IF INTERESTED”

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/cto/4763042419.html

UPDATE: Price dropped to $6500.

(09/17/2014) This may have a replacement body. It looks like the gas inlet is large enough for a M-38 tank.

“1948 willys 
67 chevy Camaro v8
3 speed
New tires
Lift
new top with new doors 
very clean and garage kept”

http://scranton.craigslist.org/cto/4751088300.html

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was make offer

Boy, that license plate has been hammered.

“1951 Willy Jeep, needs a lot of work or to use as salvage. Will run but motor and transmission need work and transfer case has a crack in it. Make an offer.”

As you might have noticed recently, eWillys was offline. This was as much a surprise to me as it was to everyone else.

What happened? Last Wednesday eWillys’ web server stopped functioning correctly. When rebooted the server would function correctly for a minute or two, before becoming overwhelmed. Successive reboots proved useless.

What caused the problem? We still don’t know. After fiddling around with the server, we (meaning the McDonagh Brothers .. not much I could do) determined that the web server ran fine if it was not allowed to communicate with the wilds of the internet. What we concluded was that something might have been injected onto the server that was feeding back onto the web, consuming the resources of the web server. But, truthfully, we don’t know, because it didn’t work long enough to dissect.

The solution? After discussing the problem, I learned the McDonagh’s had built a cloud platform and were moving clients to it. I made the call to move eWillys to their cloud sooner than planned and move it onto the latest installation of a clean version of WordPress.

Why did that take 5 days? The problem was that they were already in the middle of moving other clients, so I needed to wait. While we waited, they tried restarting the server from time-to-time, but the same thing kept happening.

So, the good news is that eWillys is now on a faster platform. And, the move would have occurred anyway, so we have that out of the way!

UPDATES: During the downtime I created the code for a couple updates (which I still need to install). One is a bit of code that auto-marks post older than 6 months.

The second changes the way eWillys functions. When you click on a post’s comment or title link from the front page, a new browser tab will open. I am hoping this reduces the need to jump back and forth between the front page and individual posts. I will get that pertinent files installed in the next day or two.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $15000

Some more pics would be great.

“Built it myself in 1998. Original owner its got 16,000 miles with a small block Chevy motor 327. Asking $15,000 obo”

Looks solid.

“This jeep is awesome. Selling because I have my eye on another military item. This jeep is clean and runs. We are firm on the price so if you want it for less, do not bother.”

http://siouxfalls.craigslist.org/cto/4693573115.html

That’s one tough gate!

“This is a vintage full-page paper print ad from a magazine. Date is listed in the item’s title. This ad has been clipped from a vintage magazine and each page measures about 8″ x 11.”

View all the information on eBay

Roberto spotted this fun video from Dirt Every Day (DED) and Motor Trend showing Director of Four Wheeler Network, Rick Pewe and Hot Rod editor David Freiburger helping Fred fix a 1950 CJ-3A.