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Clean title 1952 Willys Overland Manual Transmission with a AMC 232 engine, with a transfer case driven winch. Engine runs. Also have loads of replacement parts that will come with it (replacement doors, glass, hood, front grills, various interior parts). Mileage is exempt on title, true mileage unknown Needs a new brake master cylinder. Needs hand brake pull trouble shooting. Needs Carburetor float work but runs. Needs gas tank drop and clean out. After that good to go and ready to show off. Will need to be towed after purchase.
1961 Willys Jeep Fc150 truck. 3 speed manual, 4×4. I purchased this truck 10 years ago and began the restoration. 2 owner truck from Middletown RI. Not sure the mileage. The cab and all interior have been restored and painted. Seats are brand new best top replacement seats. I have one extra motor, 2 transmissions. Two rolling chassis, one with a motor and half of a cab for parts. Cherry hardwood boards and metal strapping for the truck bed deck. Fuel tank was sealed with por-15. All parts are there to restore the truck. Truck bed is primed and needs the decking finished. Looking for $12,000. This is rare classic truck. A Real statement. Please reach out if you have any questions or need more photos. Will not respond to “is this still available ”
Will no respond to “is it still available” if the ad is up it’s for sale 1951 Willys Overland Wagon Clean title (NOT salvaged) fully registered and insured On a 2002 Chevy S10 2WD chassis with BellTech dropped spindles and springs Full EV conversion Runs and drives well, used as a commuter car, drive to work and plug into a 110v outlet and then drive home and do the same It has about a 50 mile range depending on how you drive and terrain Has regenerative braking So fully serviceable with disc up front and drums in rear Motor is a HPEV AC51 CanEV adapter to S10 5 speed transmission Battery is made up of 54 first gen Nissan Leaf modules for 150 total volts Electric power steering Thunderstruck BMS Zivan charger 110v 20amp Charging port on Willy is an RV 30 amp charging port, to use a heavy duty rv charging cable It retains the S10 trans and clutch – you can unbolt the EV components and easily convert it back The Willys body is very solid with great patina Original vintage CarPac roof rack New windshield and factory green tinted glass all the way around New glass weather stripping all the way around New ABS interior door panels, rear panels and headliner A lot of thread left on tires, new tires on the rear 12 volt heater Electric wiper work, horn, turn signals and lights all work as they should and are fed of a 12v car battery
Dave here: Seth and Roger both shared links to his Facebook post showing a Cutlas Automatic Hub, which is a rarity to see in the wild. That got me thinking that I’d never done a post about the different, early attempts at creating auto-engaging hubs, which appeared to generally be a failure (none ever caught on).
WARN INDUSTRIES Mid 1950s:
I believe the first commercial attempt at an automatic hub was Warn’s hub by that very name, the Warn Automatic hub. This hub appeared as early as 1954 in this brochure (from this post), Willys Motors was promoting the hub as of October of 1954.
Hugo Vidal, through his Brazilian company, AVM, also produced the Automatic Model, an example shown below (from this post):
According to Hugo, the technology was never perfected and customers had problems, so eventually the hubs were pulled from the market.
THOR AUTOMOTIVE early-mid 1960s:
The next production hub with claims to being automatic was the Thor Industries Automatic hub, advertising for which appeared in the early-mid 1960s in Four Wheeler Magazine. While the company’s Electro Hub was sort of automatic, in that you could electrically engage it from the dash, the compass Automatic Hub claimed to be fully automatic. Over the years I’ve seen a few of these, but again this hub didn’t become popular, though I don’t have any reports as to why.
This Thor ad appeared in the July 1963 issue of Four Wheeler Magazine (front this post):
Ad from the July 1963 issue of Four Wheeler Magazine
Here is an example of the hub. Allstate also private labeled this hub, as can be seen at the top of this post.
CUTLAS ENGINEERING early-mid 1970s:
Around 1960, Cutlas advertised an “Automatic” hub, but it wasn’t actually an automatic hub, but rather it had ‘automatic axle positioning’, which I believe meant that it made engaging the axles easier (so don’t be fooled by this advertising)!
