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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 .
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.
Here’s a nice looking Mule.
“Bill Watson totally restored this mule 4 years ago. It has a Hercules 2 cyl 14 hp engine (AO 42). This mule is in fine working order, electric start, 4 wheel steer and super nice deck. It has always been stored inside.
I am selling this Mule and several vehicles to reduce my personal inventory. If you have any questions at all or if you would like additional pictures feel free to contact me by email or you may”
This looks in good shape.
“For sale original RUSSIAN JEEP GAZ69 of 1968y. Vehicle in good cosmetic and running condition. Was recently repainted. Engine past all necessary services and work properly. Stay Brand New rarity tires. All seats rebuild. All other systems works also good: light, turn signals, brakes, horn, wiper blades.
So you can ride safety and legal on rarity vehicle. We added ammo-boxes , extra canister, machine gun mount on hood and army helmet in this auction.
Vehicle specifications:
Dimenissions ( feet): Length 12.6 / Width 6 /Height 6.6
Engine volume: 4-stroke , 2120 cc
Engine power: 55 h.p.
4 wheel drive
Maximum speed: 90 km/h (56 miles)
Fuel tank: 48 L (12.6 Gallon)
Geabox: 3 +1
Wheels: R16
Weight: 1500 kg.”
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Craig forwarded the below excerpt and photo from his local coop paper. I went to the website and spotted an additional photo (above). Here’s the location of the caverns.
Here is the text from Craig’s news article:
“Missouri is blessed with a number of remarkable show caves open to the public. One of the most unique is Fantastic Caverns, located just north of Springfield. The cave, which is served by Ozark Electric Cooperative, was first discovered in 1862 when a farmer’s dog crawled through what was then a narrow opening.
It wasn’t fully explored until 5 years later when a group of intrepid women responded to a newspaper challenge. What makes Fantastic Caverns so unique are the Jeep trams that carry visitors through the cave on a guided tour. This makes the 1 mile, 50-minute tour accessible to just about anyone, including seniors, children and those in wheelchairs.
Inside the cave are natural wonders created by the constant drip of acidic water through soluble limestone. Tour guides point out stalagtites and stalagmites, towering columns with colorful mineral stains, large deposits of flowstones and delicate draperies.
They also tell how the auditorium room was once used for weekly country music concerts in the 1950’s and mid-1960’s. A trip through Fantastic Caverns combines equal parts of awe and wonder with a lesson in history and science. In fact, the cavern is known as “Missouri’s oldest classroom.”
The tour costs $22.50 for adults and $14.50 for children. A discount for groups of 20 or more is available. The cave is open from 8 a.m. to dusk year-round except for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas.
For more information, call 417-833-2010 or visit www.fantasticcaverns.com”
It isn’t Willys, but it is a cool fire jeep.
“This is a very unique, 100% functional Fire Truck.The title reads as a 1994 Jeep Grass Fire Truck.The logos from the former Fire Dept is off, therefore you can put your own on it.All the lights & sirens work great!This is a rust free jeep.The entire under body and all the inside floors is rubber coated to prevent rust.This truck runs & drives like new,very nice jeep wrangler!This Fire Truck was well maintained and always kept indoors.
Due to it coming from the fire Dept. the title reads as rebuilt salvage because they rebuilt the Jeep into a Fire Truck.This truck was built heaver to hold the 100 + gallon water tank.This truck is a great investment to your Fire Dept or to you as a collector item,whatever you would like to use it as!
* Gall’s Street Thunder Sirene
* Poly Tank (Water or Foam)
* Water Pump with a Honda GX 160 5.5HP Motor
* Hannany Reel
* 4 Cylinder
* 5 Speed
* 4 Wheel Drive
* 113,000 miles
* New Tires”
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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $7000.
This is a $7000 package deal.
“91 wrangler needs starter and possibly other work. Been sitting 2 years. 61 cj been sitting needs work. 52 willys needs work. All have engines in them and 52 willys has engine in the rear. If interested come by and look. $7000 package deal or if interested in one will consider splitting them up.”
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.
This was made from 2 CJ-5s. The seller provides a variety links and pictures for this neat project.
“This auction is for a custom four door CJ. The Jeep was built using all CJ5 parts. The front door is modeled off of a CJ7. The rear door is modeled off of a CJ5. The bed is extended to the length of a CJ6 or CJ8 Scrambler. The frame is stretched 36 inches in the middle and 14 inches behind the rear axle. The frame was boxed from the front to to the rear spring perches. It has Dana 30 and Dana 40 axles both are open diffs. The transfer case is a Dana 20. The transmission is a 3 speed. I believe it is a T150. The engine is an AMC 360 from a 1972 Wagoneer. It was rebuilt about 15,000 miles ago. It was bored over. The crank was turned. It got all new bearings, new pistons, new valve guides, and hardened seats. It has an RV cam, an Edelbrock SP2P low rise dual plane intake, and a Holley Street Avenger 570cfm carb. The motor has more than enough power for a vehicle this size. I drove it about a month on the new motor when I broke the input shaft on the old transmission. I then put the heaviest spring in the secondaries of the carb and backed up the timing a little bit to take some of the grunt out of the motor. The Jeep was built in 2009. It got all new floors. There is no rust in the body or frame. The color is Rescue Green from a 2008-2009 Wrangler. The seats are new from Bestop. The seat belts were new in 2009. It has a super thick aluminum radiator, power steering, and front disk brakes. It has a 20 gallon gas tank from an 86 CJ7. The tires are 33 10.50 15 BFG Mud T/A KM2. The fronts have about 5k miles on them and the rears are new. I have no idea how many miles are on the Jeep. It has about 15k since built. Almost everything was replaced at that time. The tub and bed have bedliner throughout. It looks funny in the pictures, because it is a little wet from washing the Jeep. The leaf springs were upgraded to the wider springs from a 76 model CJ7. It has front sway bar mounts on the frame, and I have a sway bar for it. It will need new rod ends and bushings if you plan to install it. I will also include the stock front bumper if you want it. You can see pictures of it on the link below.
This Jeep was my daily driver for almost 3 years. It draws a crowd everywhere you go. You can’t buy gas or go into Home Depot without someone stopping you to talk about it. Since it was my daily driver, it has all of the scratches and dings you would expect of a truck used for that period of time. It runs and drives good. The four wheel drive works fine. Since I had to rely on this as my driver, It hasn’t been thrashed off road since built. The four wheel drive has been used in the snow, pulling trailers out of the muddy pasture, and around the deer lease.
Negative issues: This is no trailer queen, so it has normal dings and rock chips and scratches that you would expect from a driver. There is one good dent in the left rear fender well. I included a picture of it. The speedometer doesn’t work. The gas gauge half ass works half the time. The gauge is new, it needs a sender. While you are replacing the sender, you could replace the oring on it that leaks gas if you overfill it. The oil gauge works, but is falling apart. It needs a new horn switch. You have to hit just the right spot to make it honk. If you romp on it in reverse, it will pop out of gear. Driving sensibly prevents it from happening. The transfer case shifter needs new bushings, but it shifts fine for me, so I don’t worry about it. It has a top and doors that need recovering. I don’t have any pictures of it, but you can see it in the snow video below.
See it run and drive on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5oef9OP4lE
See it play in the snow in four wheel drive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-P8n3qoWf8
See some of the build pictures at http://myaffordaplane.com/jeep”
This appears to be an early GAZ 67B that’s fairly original (though I’m no GAZ expert). Here is a similar example at a Moscow Mueseum. The bigger question is whether to bid at all given this is located in Armenia.
“GAZ 67, a Soviet military jeep dating from 1941. All the parts on the vehicle are its originals. The car doesn’t run. It needs to be repainted, the seats need to be rebuilt.
If you are really interested in the car, but want it fixed, we can get it done. But obviously, the price will go little higher.
For the payment, PayPal, deposit/transfer on bank account or contact by e-mail for other arrangements. The car can be shipped worldwide, the price can vary from 500 to 3000$, depending on the location.”
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UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay
Here’s a rare UAZ that appears in good shape.
” This may be the only Russian UAZ military jeep in the USA. All terrain vehicle. 4 cylinder engine, 4 wheel drive, left and right fuel tanks and removable canvas top. Original Russian tires. Vehicle is in running condition and all electrical items appear to operate correctly. Spare parts are readily available from many European sources. 1976 four-door model. VIN 71202153. Vehicle has clear USA state title. Vehicle is sold in as is condition without warranty. The license plates do not go with the car.”
If you have seen Pixar’s UP movie, then you know what a ‘squirrel’ is, something that distracts you from what you planned or should be doing. Well, at least that is the terminology Ann and I use.
Obviously, the internet is notoriously full of squirrels. Today’s squirrel relates to a search I was doing this morning, something I do in the normal course of producing (and by producing I mean borrowing) the incredibly high quality, unparalleled content published herein. That’s when I spotted this (http://lascruces.en.craigslist.org/cto/3151068039.html only $800!) fiberglass flat fender dung buggy body. I instantly recognized it as the body style of the dune buggy the my neighbor Bud across the street used to build his dune buggy when I was a kid. The distinguishing feature were those flat fenders in the front, which for obvious reasons seemed comfortably familiar to a lover of flat fenders like myself. After spotting this ad, I spent about an hour this morning, chasing this squirrel of a buggy to learn more about it. It turns out it is a Barris designed T-Buggy kit that Barris had hoped to sell through dealers in every state (I don’t’ know how far he got creating the dealer network).
Now, my neighbor Bud was quite a character. He was a machinist for Boeing until he retired and machined a couple parts for me that really helped when I was building my first jeep. During the 1970s he purchased an electric wedge car like this, which on a full charge had just enough power to allow him to drive down Renton’s South Hill into Kent in the morning and return up the hill in the evening. When Bud’s son Tim, who was my age, turned 16, we’d go for a drive occasionally. Thank goodness we never got in a wreck, because that vehicle was a coffin waiting for bodies.
At some point before he purchased the ‘cheese wedge’, Bud built a dune buggy. Every so often we would go for a ride in it, sometimes on the roads and sometime down a power line trail (that was the good old days when you could still go down a power line trail). One day, we drove into downtown Renton to the former Sears outdoor shopping mall off of Rainier Avenue. However, instead of parking in a parking spot, Bud drove onto the sidewalk, between a couple stores, and into the middle of the walking mall. We drove by a few stores until he got right in front of the store he wanted to enter, where he came to a stop as if he belonged there. We got out and people walked by checking out the cool dune buggy as if it belonged there. When we were done at the store, we just hopped in and drove back out.
I never knew what type of dune buggy he had, until today’s search. Based on what I’ve read below, he must have purchased a Barris T-Buggy kit. The dune buggy he built had all the Model-T elements you see below. His body was painted a metallic dark red. It had the faux leather straps across the hood, the chrome roll bar, and a small soft top. Bud ended up selling that in the 1980s I believe. I’ve never seen it since.
If you want to chase some dune buggy squirrels of your own, check out the Dune Buggy Archives or Samba.
Here’s an example that is as close as I’ve found to Bud’s:
This is example the way I remember Bud’s, only it was red and didn’t have the stripe around the edges. Bud had wider, more aggressive slicks that improved the ‘hot wheel’ look, too.
Here’s an example of a kit.
I was looking up some PTO parts when I landed on the Jolly Jeepers website. According to their website, the Jolly Jeepers is Oregon State’s oldest jeep club, having been founded in 1962. Two of the jeeps owned by members are custom 6x6s. You can see more 6x6s here.
Coincidently, just before publishing this post, Blaine happened to send me pictures he took of one of these 6x6s at the Orphan Car Show hosted by the Studebaker Drivers Club in Oregon City, Oregon, this past Sunday. I’ve seen “Gator” listed both as a DJ-6 and a CJ-6, so I’m not entirely sure what the base platform was.
Here’s an early shot of the Gator:
And here are Blaine’s photos
This one is built from a CJ-8 or Scrambler:
UPDATE: Still Available
(05/24/2012) The tail light set up is interesting. This looks in great shape.
“1985 Jeep J59 51,000 Miles CJ3b
In 1953 Mitsubishi secured the rights to build the Willys under their own name and the Mitsubishi Jeep was born. In the USA the Willys was built till 1965 but in Japan Mitsubishi had a good thing going so they kept the line in production till 1998. Mitsubishi installed the 5G52 Astron 2.0L 4 cyl These engines put out a much more useful 100 hp and moved these Jeeps down the highway comfortably at 110 km / hr or 65 mph.
This is a true turn-key off road capable unit. They have full time hubs Ready for the rugged out doors. Pick a trail and enjoy one of the best off-road vehicles ever made. The beauty of the Willy’s body style coupled with the strong and reliable Japanese engineered drivetrain using the D44 out back and the D30 up front, gear to gear t/case with a 2.3 low range, 4.77 differential gearing and you are ready for the great out doors.
Crawl down the steepest hill or race up the nearest dune, this gutsy miniature tank can handle it all. The very sharp approach and departure angles will be the envy of all and the superb break over angle will be hard to beat in any stock 4X4. This stock J59 can run 31” tires with absolutely NO LIFT.
Absolutely Mint Condition, runs as NEW. These Jeeps are some of the finest manufactured vehicles in the world.
$10,900.00
Sean
404-384-4774
see other info at www.paladintrucks.com”
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/3102520144.html
