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Title: Old Willis 4X4
Post by: coyotehunter_1 on May 06, 2013, 10:17:29 PM
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.  :laf:     

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/coyotehunter_1/aa4591d4-174f-4d29-b710-e9dbc146a340_zpsf002b803.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/coyotehunter_1/media/aa4591d4-174f-4d29-b710-e9dbc146a340_zpsf002b803.jpg.html)

Check out the Original Mossy Oak Camo...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/coyotehunter_1/2013-05-06111855_zpsd20bcd4e.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/coyotehunter_1/media/2013-05-06111855_zpsd20bcd4e.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Old Willis 4X4
Post by: Yotehntr on May 06, 2013, 11:35:54 PM
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.  :alscalls:  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.   :doh2:  Hit one once that was a little too big and had the front tires about 5' up before I got 'er stopped.  :confused:  How'd we live through all that stupid teenage stuff I'll never know!  :laf:
Title: Re: Old Willis 4X4
Post by: KySongDog on May 07, 2013, 06:14:58 AM
Looks like it's got a nice set of rubber too.  A little Sea Foam in the carb and you're good to go.   :yoyo:
Title: Re: Old Willis 4X4
Post by: Hawks Feather on May 07, 2013, 07:05:19 AM
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
Title: Re: Old Willis 4X4
Post by: Ladobe on May 07, 2013, 11:02:56 AM
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.   :eyebrow:

Title: Re: Old Willis 4X4
Post by: FinsnFur on May 07, 2013, 07:48:21 PM
How do ya find something like that? Is this on your land?
Title: Re: Old Willis 4X4
Post by: coyotehunter_1 on May 10, 2013, 09:25:44 PM
It's not mine, if it was I'd be driving it.  :laf:

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  :laf:



Title: Re: Old Willis 4X4
Post by: FinsnFur on May 10, 2013, 10:20:05 PM
Picker fodder indeed