Hello everybody.
I'll start off by saying my name is Woody and I'm new to the Forum. My Willy's is a 1950 Truck. I've always been a Jeep Guy. A few years ago I bought a 95 Wrangler and I put a lot of work into it. New suspension parts new frame all kinds of stuff hard top doors I just wanted to keep it on the road and enjoy it. After realizing that my Jeep tub was beyond fixing in pieces literally I put it in my shop and I pulled the tub off. Trying to decide what I wanted to do with it seeing as though I had just put a new frame on it I jumped on craigslist and spotted a 1950 willys pickup truck. I was automatically in love with it. It was just a cab sit on the frame with the drive train no bed didn't run no interior lots of rust. But I figured instead of doing the normal thing and putting a Jeep body on it I have a good frame with a good engine why not build a truck. So my gears started turning in my head and I went and bought the truck the next day.
A few weeks later I started building my new shop and as you can imagine time went by I built the new shop and now I'm back to working on the Jeep. It has the normal issues the rockers are pretty much gone the floor is real real bad and I actually have no cab corners. But seeing as though I want to put the truck cab on a Jeep Wrangler frame I figured I'd just make a Floor. I watch a show called road kill on YouTube and they made a stubby truck and I thought why extend my Jeep frame when I can build my own stubby truck. it'll look great!
so the hunt began for a truck bed. It seems every willys pickup truck bed that I found was way way over my budget but I did come across to 1931 Ford pick up truck bed it's perfect. The way I think I need to mount the cab on my frame it only leaves me with 4' for the bed so a 4' Bed it is. Looking at my doors they have the typical bottoms rusted out and I found the patch panels no problem. But then good old craigslist lol. I ended up finding a parts Truck. I didn't like the 31 Ford fenders on the bed but on the parts trucks I found I am getting a nice set of Rear fenders And a set of doors off the same truck.
So that's where I stand right now I have the body just sitting resting on the frame with no floor And the truck bed waiting to be cut up to fit the frame. I understand it's a lot of work and I'm really excited to do it.
I'm really excited to be part of the willys community on this forum. I plan to post lots of pictures of what I have what it was when I got it and where I'm going with it. I'm sure I'll be back with lots and lots of questions from all you experts and just car tinkers thank you very much.
I'll start off by saying my name is Woody and I'm new to the Forum. My Willy's is a 1950 Truck. I've always been a Jeep Guy. A few years ago I bought a 95 Wrangler and I put a lot of work into it. New suspension parts new frame all kinds of stuff hard top doors I just wanted to keep it on the road and enjoy it. After realizing that my Jeep tub was beyond fixing in pieces literally I put it in my shop and I pulled the tub off. Trying to decide what I wanted to do with it seeing as though I had just put a new frame on it I jumped on craigslist and spotted a 1950 willys pickup truck. I was automatically in love with it. It was just a cab sit on the frame with the drive train no bed didn't run no interior lots of rust. But I figured instead of doing the normal thing and putting a Jeep body on it I have a good frame with a good engine why not build a truck. So my gears started turning in my head and I went and bought the truck the next day.
A few weeks later I started building my new shop and as you can imagine time went by I built the new shop and now I'm back to working on the Jeep. It has the normal issues the rockers are pretty much gone the floor is real real bad and I actually have no cab corners. But seeing as though I want to put the truck cab on a Jeep Wrangler frame I figured I'd just make a Floor. I watch a show called road kill on YouTube and they made a stubby truck and I thought why extend my Jeep frame when I can build my own stubby truck. it'll look great!
so the hunt began for a truck bed. It seems every willys pickup truck bed that I found was way way over my budget but I did come across to 1931 Ford pick up truck bed it's perfect. The way I think I need to mount the cab on my frame it only leaves me with 4' for the bed so a 4' Bed it is. Looking at my doors they have the typical bottoms rusted out and I found the patch panels no problem. But then good old craigslist lol. I ended up finding a parts Truck. I didn't like the 31 Ford fenders on the bed but on the parts trucks I found I am getting a nice set of Rear fenders And a set of doors off the same truck.
So that's where I stand right now I have the body just sitting resting on the frame with no floor And the truck bed waiting to be cut up to fit the frame. I understand it's a lot of work and I'm really excited to do it.
I'm really excited to be part of the willys community on this forum. I plan to post lots of pictures of what I have what it was when I got it and where I'm going with it. I'm sure I'll be back with lots and lots of questions from all you experts and just car tinkers thank you very much.
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