Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
Article about: It is a Willys CJ3A. Still worth buying if you like Jeeps. But it will never be worth the same kind of price as an wartime Willys MB or Ford GPW Jeep. Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
Don't know much about it...to me it looks commercial?
But, even if it is swamped, you could clean the outside, put your company logo on it, and display it outside your company. Kinda a cool advertisement? I've seen people do that before near my town.
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Re: Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
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Blitzkrieg Bop
Don't know much about it...to me it looks commercial?
But, even if it is swamped, you could clean the outside, put your company logo on it, and display it outside your company. Kinda a cool advertisement? I've seen people do that before near my town.
It's got a plow attached to the front. I'll try to get a pic of it ASAP.
I was hoping it was maybe a surplus jeep from the war that someone got on-the-cheap after hostilities ended and then went to town modifying it for use as a work truck/ snow plow.
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Re: Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
Looks to be highly modified with lots of extra sheet metal, to fend off those Upstate winters.
You'd have your hands full with this one. Restoring an old car with all the correct part is hard enough, doing so to one that has been modified as such would be down right knuckle breaking and probably cost more than you could pick up a decent restored one, in my opinon of course. On the plus side, these things are still pretty easy to find parts for here in the states.
Good Luck!
Russ
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Re: Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
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MySonsDad
Looks to be highly modified with lots of extra sheet metal, to fend off those Upstate winters.
You'd have your hands full with this one. Restoring an old car with all the correct part is hard enough, doing so to one that has been modified as such would be down right knuckle breaking and probably cost more than you could pick up a decent restored one, in my opinon of course. On the plus side, these things are still pretty easy to find parts for here in the states.
Good Luck!
Russ
Do you think the modifications are factory made that just bolt right on, or are the parts that the owner fabricated himself?
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Re: Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
Looks pretty barn your modified to me...probably served someone well once upon a time.
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Re: Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
The bonnet has Willys stamped on it , therefor post WWII and so is the windscreen, looks more like a CJ2a than WWII. John.
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Re: Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
I was able to get in contact with the owner. He said it is a 1951 Willys bought new... so it saw no military service.
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Re: Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
Did he say if it came with all the fancy sheet metal work or was that his handy work?
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Re: Willy's Jeep found in NY field.
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MySonsDad
Did he say if it came with all the fancy sheet metal work or was that his handy work?
He said he didn't know. All he knew is that his aunt's family owned a feed store and they used/ abused it at the family feed business.
I asked if he had any plans for the jeep... the conversation somehow drifted to him knowing my father (he was very excited to learn that... "Oh, you're Peppy's son!")... so we'll see where this goes. Maybe I'll get a jeep to restore out of this!
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