Old Willis 4X4

[coyotehunter_1]

You never know what you may run upon in the woods around here. I'll bet with a fresh battery and bit of gas this classic would crank and fire.       



Check out the Original Mossy Oak Camo...

[Yotehntr]

Chet that is cool as heck!  My 2nd vehicle was a Kaiser Willey's Jeep. I'm guessing they don't have helical cut gears as when you reached 45 or so you could no longer hear anyone talking.    I do wish I still had it... no telling how many creeks and rivers I rode down in it... being 17 when I owned it many a cedar tree got run over too.     Hit one once that was a little too big and had the front tires about 5' up before I got 'er stopped.    How'd we live through all that stupid teenage stuff I'll never know! 

[KySongDog]

Looks like it's got a nice set of rubber too.  A little Sea Foam in the carb and you're good to go.   

[Hawks Feather]

I did a senior picture the other day and that location and cab would have been great.  Just a bit of a long commute for the shoot.

Jerry

[Ladobe]

That sure does brings back some great memories of deer hunting from the late 40's thru the 50's, early 60's Chet.   Uncle Bud was a serious Willy's man, preferred the wagons.   Grandpa Pooh drove Studebaker pickups during the late 40's and 50's.   I'm still undecided which one of them was the craziest.   There were not a lot of roads in the high Rockies in those days... that is not until one of them wanted to get from where we were to where they/we wanted to hunt.   So I learned at a young age that the shortest distance from point A to point B was pretty much a straight line.   With either of them it mattered not at all what was between them... straight up or straight down or straight across a steep hill, over boulders, deadfall, trees, crossing rivers (not creeks/streams - big rivers).  And they seldom gave you warning to "hang on".   No seat belts in those days, so bouncing off the walls/roof like a BB in a box car was standard if you didn't have the steering wheel to hang onto.    Which brings up the second thing I soon learned at a young age when with them... to tell them that it was MY turn to drive.   

[FinsnFur]

How do ya find something like that? Is this on your land?

[coyotehunter_1]

It's not mine, if it was I'd be driving it. 

I found it on a customers property, setting in the woods, near a old barn. It's in rough shape and Willis parts are pretty hard to come by plus  I don't have the time to invest in a restoration or else I would ask if they wanted to sell it.  American Picker Fodder 

[FinsnFur]

Picker fodder indeed