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Hey guys, I was pointed over to this forum to share my willys addiction with other like minded folks. I have been into willys since I was a little kid. My...

285: Joe Blanchard's 1959 Willys Truck This is my 1959 Willys Truck. Thanks for helping me with the restoration. I couldn't have done it without y'all. Kaiser Willys Jeep Blog Story - Joe Blanchard If you would like to share your Willys Jeep Story please send us a line. We ‘d love to meet your Jeep. Like Us. Facebook Looking

what a very nice willys mb,i like it....

I like vintage jeeps (especially my rare 1950 Willys CJ-V35/U)! If it's a Flat Fender Willys Jeep, round fender AMC, or it's got Square Headlights, I'm inte...

I merged the design and construction elements of some great built Willys Jeeps, added in some of my design elements (ergh... I mean BA elements) and Cooper Works stickers and this came out. I like that it is 5 and a little bit wide without hanging figure arms over the sides. Otherwise it is just another Lego built Willys Jeep...

109: Tomas Havelka's 1946 Willys CJ-2A Hello everybody - I am from Prague, Czech Republic - This is my Jeep CJ-2A - stylized as U.S. Border Patrol. I hope You like it:) - Tomas Havelka Have Willys Jeep photos? Submit them to our blog webmaster. Go to Kaiser Willys Community PHOTO GALLERY for more Great Willys Jeeps! Get Connected. Stay Inspired. Build

I have owned a WIllys- Jeep since I was 16 years old, and now I am 58 and still have two. Found a '58 wagon to restore , and it's like the one my father

Here's another one from Montana. This 1959 Willys Wagon is in Park City, Montana, about 25 miles west of Billings on I-90. It's here on craigslist for $2,500. There's that classic grille! This Willys looks like it's in overall decent condition but you can see that it looks like it went through some sort of ball-peen-hammer...

The legend M38 army Jeep restored in Garibaldi-Brazil - Click here for more restoration photos My admiration and interest for Willys Jeeps started since I was an adolescent when I used to watch war movies and see them doing amazing things. I'm also an enthusiast of antique objects and like to know about wars history as

This is "Elmo," my '54 Willys Pickup. Like many projects, it took two trucks to make one finished product. Now 29, I've owned one of the two since I was in high school and was always determined to make the time to restore it, but knew I needed a lot of missing parts. About two

Here are some pics of my 1952 Willys Jeep Truck. I purchased this truck in April of 2009 and have slowly started to restore and rehab this truck. It has the original F134 Hurricane motor and is in working order. The flat bed is not original to the truck but, I like the style so

The Jeep spent his life in Switzerland and had been stored in a barn for the last 20 years. I don't know much of the history but it looks like it has rather low miles. This summer I will try to get it back on the road and see how much work as restoration this would be... Willys Jeep

Just what the Doctor ordered. My Willys has seen me through some trying times. When I first found this Jeep I was 32 years old and working as a police officer in a patrol car in Columbus, OH. But my Willys Jeep story doesn’t start there, as a young boy I was very interested in the outdoors. My family had a number of camping trailers over the years, actually we started with tents, then to pop-up trailers and finally to several hardtops. Every vacation was an adventure to a National park or some remote location where we would hike, canoe and just enjoyed the outdoors. In addition to that Dad is an avid hunter and shooter and I spent many days tromping thru the woods with him on great adventures. We alwaystalked about how great it would be to have a Jeep and as a kid I had a toy box full of CJ’s and Jeepster Tonka trucks and Matchboxes. I loved Jeeps and before I could drive I was saving for a Jeep. In 1976 I bought a 1946 CJ-2A in remarkable condition. I drove the Willys through High School and several years of college and sold it before joining the Army in 1983. I always regretted selling that old Willys and in a few years decided someday I’d find another one. Then life came along and there were lots of things that needed my time and attention a lot more then I needed a Jeep until one evening in 1993 when I rolled slowly down an ally in my cruiser and discovered an old Willys sitting at the rear of a business, very neglected and slowly rotting away. Turns out the owner was a WWII veteran, a retired Colonel who stead fastly refused to sell the old Jeep but he loved to talk about it and his time in the military and his plans to someday restore the Willys. Keep in mind this was 1993 and WWII had ended some 50 + years before so this old soldier was, well old! Over the next year I’d stop into his shop and we’d chat about the Jeep and I never left without asking if he’d sell and I always got the same answer, “No Sir I gonna fix her up one of these days!” Until finally as I headed out of the shop one day I asked, “Ready to sell her to me?” To which he replied, “Nope, not gonna sell her... well, will you give me $200 for her?” I told him I’d be back and 30 minutes later I was the proud owner, for the second time in my life, of an old Willys Jeep. Having a young family there wasn’t much extra money around for a restoration project so I started doing things that didn’t cost much and slowly over time the Jeep started its transformation. There were a few setbacks along the way, I was called to active duty in the military twice. In 2010 just as the project was nearing completion there was a fire in our home that destroyed our garage and caused a huge set back. Then a very unexpected heart attack caught me completely by surprise because I am an avid bicyclist and runner! Nonetheless, I never gave up on my dream to finish the little Willys Jeep. Finally in 2011 I completed the Jeep and we finally got to get her out on the road and trails. My family loves the Jeep especially my 12 year old son Spencer who just can’t wait to have his turn behind the wheel! We have been to a number of shows including the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival in Butler, PA. Next year we plan to be at the Spring Midwest Willys Reunion as well as the 2014 Butler show, hopefully with a brand new overdrive. This old Jeep has been just what the Doctor ordered! Kaiser Willys Jeep Blog Story - Bob Moledor If you would like to share your Willys Jeep Story please send us a line. We ‘d love to meet your Jeep. Like Us. Facebook Looking for, Willys Jeep Parts,  Willys Jeep replacement parts, Willys Jeep body parts and much more for your 1941-1971 Willys vehicle, you have come to the right place!

1940 Willys Coupe. I really like this rod,but not my choice of colour. It would look so much better in black Check Out My Archives for High Definition,Muscle...

Some have called it my mid-life crisis – this obsession I’ve had with the Willys Jeep for the past two years. Those of us who grew up with one on the farm, learned to drive in one or merely rode in one for our first hunting trip will understand the passion that comes with owning one of these little character-ridden tubs. With a grill and headlight configuration that seems to have its own soul, each Jeep could tell you so many stories about where it’s been and how many different people have been for a ride in its “luxurious” seats. I bought my first 1949 CJ-3A from my good friend’s parents at age seventeen. They used the Jeep twice a year to get them and their gear up the hills to deer camp, deep in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. It was ugly! With a face only a mother could love. Hunter green, loads of character-dents and scratches, orange wheels and a square hard top that made it look like a household appliance rolling down the road, but I was a teenage boy, and this was a Jeep! I saw plenty of potential for a nifty ride to get me through my high school years, oblivious at the time, of the following these Jeeps had around the world. Only later did I develop my own respect for how well this ugly little guy out performed many of the SUVs and four wheel drives it traveled with. A new metal flake, midnight blue paint job, a “home” paint job by the way, accomplished in my best friend’s garage (we’ll talk about my best friend Richard later) with an exhaust fan in the window that promptly coated everything in reach a soft blue, new chrome wheels, a roll bar made in my high school metal shop class and a soft top from the Sears catalogue. Suddenly I had a ride the girls loved to be seen in and one that could still out-climb most of the rigs in the four wheel drive club at school. I converted that Jeep to a 12-volt system and with a few adapters and some help from Ray, my brother-in-law, we dropped in a V6 motor which finally enabled me to reach the speed limit. Then came the day I’ve regretted for thirty years. The day when out of the blue, a man on the street offered me twice what I had invested in my little Jeep…. and I sold it. Every day since, when I’d see a flat fender on the road, on a trail ride in Moab or even rusting away in a field somewhere, I would wish I still had my little blue Willys Jeep. Well, that was then and this is now. I’m older, wiser and fortunate enough to have income and time on my hands to finally realize my dream of finding an old CJ-3A and fixing her up just the way I wanted to. Introducing my 1951 CJ-3A “Willys Woody”. My 12 month labor-of-love started by combing the classified ads, ebay and magazines until I got lucky and found a somewhat mechanically sound 1951 CJ-3A in a community just north of Salt Lake City. I bought that Jeep the next day from Elaine. Elaine is a widower who had purchased the Jeep as a gift for her late husband. He was a Vietnam War veteran who suffered through and finally succumbed to the effects of Agent Orange. He and Elaine loved all things military, especially World War 2 era. The couple had even owed an amphibious vehicle at one time. She thought he would enjoy driving and owning his own Willys Jeep. The Jeep was painted and detailed with military insignia and on it were mounted all sorts of accessories like gas cans, a shovel, and an ax. Even the tires were military. This Willys Jeep had been transformed, given a new identity if you will. Transformed to resemble something from a veteran’s past memories to help him better cope with his situation. When I handed Elaine the cash for the Jeep she expressed how important it was to her that the new owner appreciate and enjoy the Jeep as much as her and her late husband had. As I loaded the Jeep onto a trailer I shared my vision for “our” Jeep. She seemed excited, insisted I send pictures and asked if she could ride shotgun in the Jeep’s first parade. I told her she could. Months later, when I was deep into the body work on the Jeep - grinding and sanding through different layers of paint, bondo, welds and lead body patches, work that was obviously performed by different craftsmen, in different time periods.  I couldn’t help but think of how many times in the past sixty plus years this little Jeep had been repaired or repainted and transformed to meet the new owner’s concept and needs. Much like Elaine had done for her husband. However, before I tackled any of that body work, this Jeep needed a top. Why not a wood top? I had a pile of used red oak I had salvaged from a construction remodel and a best friend, yes, the same Richard from high school, with an auto/wood shop. (See Gamut Design) Richard was fabricating and building four wheel drive versions of the 1940 Woody Wagons. Staging them on Suburban chassis with custom made composite fenders and body parts, then custom building each body cabinet to suit the owner’s specs. So with my “vision,” no drawn plans, except a few sketches on a napkin, and Richard’s woody know-how we cut and often re-cut, clamped, glued, screwed, sanded, shaped and assembled the hard top and doors you see here, one stick at a time. Did I mention SANDED?!  With all the rounded and shaped corners and edges, there is a LOT of hand sanding involved in the making of a wood top for a Willys Jeep. Throughout the project Richard often reminded me that my choice of wood (red oak) was more difficult to work with than most other hardwoods, and harder to SAND!!  But I had the wood and loved the wood grain patterns and knots the oak had to offer. My 1951 “Willys Woody” is basically a restoration. Except for the removal of the oil bath air filter, to make room for a custom built heater, removal of the tailgate, which was filled in with a quarter inch steel plate and the seats, which were swapped out for a pair of center row buckets seats from a Windstar van, the Jeep’s motor, body tub and parts, drive train, chassis and suspension, steering and brakes and 6-volt electrical system are all original. Along with new gauges, signal lights, rubber boots and seals ordered and purchased from the great folks at Kaiser Willys Auto Supply. We etched, primed and painted the Jeep right there in the middle of the shop, opening the front door and placing an exhaust fan in the back door…  just like we did thirty years ago in Richards’s garage. Huge thanks go out to my buddy Richard who helped me with both CJ-3A restorations and didn’t laugh for too long after I told him of my Willys Woody idea. Larry Olsen, Jeep expert and owner of On-N-Off Road Haus in Salt Lake City whose expertise and knowledge of the flat fender is unsurpassed, at least in this region. Larry’s shared input, direction and knowledge on this project was priceless. Thanks you old fart! Honestly, this Willys restoration has been more fun than work. Not to mention very rewarding as each process was completed and assembled. I can’t imagine a more fun hobby or project for a father and son, family or just a group of friends. Finally, I write, record, produce and perform parody songs and jingles for radio and television clients all around the country. So I thought it would be fun to take what I do for a living and share the fun and passion that I have for these little Jeeps and pickups with my fellow “Willyites.” Please enjoy I Get Around ..In My Willys,” a parody of the original song by the Beach Boys. Kaiser Willys Jeep Blog Story - Robert Lund If you would like to share your Willys Jeep Story please send us a line. We ‘d love to meet your Jeep. Like Us. Facebook Looking for, Willys Jeep Parts,  Willys Jeep replacement parts, Willys Jeep body parts and much more for your 1941-1971 Willys vehicle, you have come to the right place!

Now a staple of the hot-rod community, the Willys was a modern-looking and cheap compact car that gradually evolved into a Ford-like appearance. The 1941-1942 models were called "Americar" following the patriotic trend of the time and sold 29,000 units in 1941 and 1942 at about US$ 630. The 41 Willys body is still being manufactured as a street rod or hot rod. A little over a year ago I tried building a Willys coupe but didn't quite pull it of, with the result looking more like a resto-mod Ford. I really wanted to recreate this iconic hot-rod so I went at it again. I re-shaped the rear end, changed the rear wheels, built new fenders (using a technique seen on Nathan's excellent '40s Ford truck [https://www.flickr.com/photos/proudlove/4642340721/in/faves-126492293@N08/] ) and redid the roof. I shortened the body, straightened the grill, and upgraded the engin. But the real eureka moment was the hood. I struggled a long time on my first attempt with the hood and disliked the result. This time I finally got it down. A couple of new pieces from the Caterham 21307 tidied things up. Now I have a Willys Coupe I can live with!

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