Willys

[SeniorCitizen]

Any guesses as to the year of manufacturer. Old enough to have a fresh air vent but new enough to have wipers. If I was younger I'd love to have it to restore.

 

[reynoldston]

They made them 1947-1965. It looks like 4X4 so it has to be in the middle 50's up because the early ones were 2 WD. I see that they were classified as a 1 ton truck so whey must of been a heavy Duty old truck. Dose it have a six cylinder engine or 4 because the newer ones had the 6 cly. engine?

 

[reynoldston]

I was looking at the history of that Willys pick-up. They used the Continental engine in them from 1954 to 1962. That brings back memory's of when I was living on the farm, all of the larger of the equipment had Continental engines in them. It was a flat head 6 Cylinder with the distributor that sit in the middle of the head. It was a work horse.

 

[exotion]

I think that's the v6 model (cj-6?) The front bumper is lifted so I'm guessing 2wd early 50s

 

[SeniorCitizen]

I be thinking the red one beside it is a 1 ton. I haven't any information on them as to years or engines. They are to be auctioned but none of that information seems to be in the listing. May not even have titles.

I drove jeeps while in the army that were the old WWll style ( 1948s )that were similar to the pickup pictured. The newer Jeeps were 1952 or 1954 era with OHV engines.

 

[Mad Mackie]

This thread has me digging back into my mind from the 70s. I don't recall any being rated for more than 1/2 ton. I had a 1963 Overland station wagon that originally had a factory overhead cam six installed in it, this engine is still down in the woods behind my house. I repowered it with a 307 Chevy, reworked transmission and transfer case. I also had a CJ5 that was AMC 304 V-8 powered that I did plowing with, I repowered it with a 283 Chevy and related power train. I also repowered two Gladiator pickups and a Wagoneer for other folk.
The red truck in the pic is late 40s-early 50s I think. The light green truck has the wrong front end as the 10 flute grill and fenders look like a 40s Jeepster. Mix all this in with a 50s Land Rover and several International Scouts, the Land Rover was almost unstoppable, but with a 40 MPH top speed!!!
These trucks came with 6.70 X 15 tires originally, possibly 6.00 X 16. The Warn locking hubs on the front were optional and I installed a pair on my 63 Overland station wagon. I bought it in 70 or 71 from the Navy Chief that I worked for on my last submarine.
In 1961 the windshields changed from two piece to one piece on both the trucks and station wagons. I think that my wagon still had the air vent. I've got slides of most of the conversions that I did back when, but I have some unlabeled boxes with thousands of slides in them in the closet with a half inch of dust on them!!!! Chances of me digging them out and looking at them are slim to none, but you never know!!!
Mad Mackie in CT:laughing::biggrin::smile:

 

[BWH]

Any guesses as to the year of manufacturer. Old enough to have a fresh air vent but new enough to have wipers. If I was younger I'd love to have it to restore.

I'm not quite sure but the green one is a dead ringer to my 1948 Willis and the tie rod in front of the axel is correct also.

I bought mine for $100.00 in 1969 I was 13 years old and used it to drive around our farm hunting pheasants.

How times have changed:smile:

 

[Mad Mackie]

Back when there was a Jeep dealer in North Franklin, CT that was deep into Jeeps. The modified transmissions, transfer cases and adapter plates came from them. I had a friend that worked at a local Midas Muffler dealer and they were the only place around that had an exhaust pipe bending machine and he fixed me up with the best fitting exhaust systems that I ever had. The overhead cam 6 cylinder and AMC V8 powered ones had a nice dimple already made in the firewall that accommodated the distributor on small block Chevy engines. I had a local radiator shop make me up radiators with enough cooling capacity to cool V8s and I was producing 100% functional conversions. I did one with a 300 HP Chevy 327, but it was way too much torque, so I stuck with mild 307s and 283s for the rest.
When I sold my 1963 station wagon, I had a lump in my throat of doubt for a year!!!! It would go from zero to 60 still in first gear very quick and still had the power to haul my heavy 22' fiberglass fishing boat, which originally had a Chevy 307 and of course I had to put a Chevy 350 in it, of course!!! Then my wife and I adopted two girls and not long after we had our own son. So we went from no kids to three kids in 1973. You all know what the rest of the story is, but in the case you don't, the toys started to go away!!!! The Jeep station wagon and the boat were sold in the same week of 1977, I still have a broken heart!!!! Oh well, then we adopted another child!!! Then the cars, college expenses, staying awake until they got home, the I need more money, the weddings, it seemed like it would never end!!!
I still would like to have my Jeep and boat back although I've had other 4WD trucks and many boats since, but they just didn't have what the old Jeep and boat had!!! But I'm not 25 any more, I'm 71!!!! Our oldest is 47 and she tells me that she is getting old!!!! College, sports, cars, she tells me and I just smile!!!!
Mad Mackie in CT, still mowing, well not until all the white stuff goes away, still pushing snow!!!:laughing::biggrin::smile:

 

[SeniorCitizen]

I'm not quite sure but the green one is a dead ringer to my 1948 Willis and the tie rod in front of the axel is correct also.

I bought mine for $100.00 in 1969 I was 13 years old and used it to drive around our farm hunting pheasants.

How times have changed:smile:

That was about the year our rural mail carrier bought a new lime green willys. He also used it to pull a harrow preparing wheat ground for sewing wheat in the fall. When we saw that it was really wild being everything else was black or black.

 

[RobertBrown]

Any guesses as to the year of manufacturer. Old enough to have a fresh air vent but new enough to have wipers. If I was younger I'd love to have it to restore.

1948-49
L134 Go Devil 4 cylinder flathead rated for 63 horsepower with the carter carb and oil bath filter