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jaber

jaber

Gear Grinder
Oct 2, 2010
7
Chino Valley, Arizona
First Name
Jeff
Willys Model
  1. Other
Willys Year:
  1. 1951
New member- long over due update.

Hey guys.

I am mainly a full size Jeeper, but have always wanted a truck like dads old '53. With me, the sickness runs deep. Dad bought a CJ5 new in '74 and I was taught to drive it as soon as I could hold on to the steering wheel. When my wife needed reliable transportation, I built her an '88 Grand Wagoneer, with 4" lift and fuel injection for driveability. My dd was a stock '77 J-10 up untill a month ago, when I put my project on the road to work out the bugs. Its a '75 J-20 that I put a service bed onto, dropped a Caddy 425 into it and put 454 throttle body injection on it.

2 years ago I got a call from a buddy that he knows where to get a Willys wagon for $150. Well, lets go look. Turns out to be a Willys Parkway Conversion (full window with bard doors on rear). It still has the original 4 cyl and column shift T-90 in 2wd form. I plan to put the body onto an '85 GW frame and axles and put a '95 Jeep 4.0 into it.
I also have a '51 Willys P/U that is in rough shape. I think this one will get rat-rodded.... :D
 
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Welcome. Post a few pics of your projects if you get a chance, we like pictures.
 
Welcome to the forum Jaber-

Pete
 
Welcome. Are you on the FSJ forums as well? I look through a lot of the jp forums because I like them all. There is a guy that drives one of those old fullsize pickups to the beach around here. ( I'd like to have one of those too but I think my wife would flip if I added anything else to my junk collection) :D
 
Imposter71 said:
( I'd like to have one of those too but I think my wife would flip if I added anything else to my junk collection)
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DITTO. I think those older FSJ pickups are some of the stoutest and coolest things out there.
 
You asked for it...

The Pickup...

Willys004.jpg


The wagon...

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The wifes DD...

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And I switch between these 2...

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More of my pics are here...

http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh14/jeffaber/

I am a regular on the Full Size forum... http://www.ifsja.org/forums/vb/

Same user name. Roundss is the guy that turned me on to this forum. He was on the other one asking questions for his project.
Thanks for the warm welcomes... :thumbup:
 
Thanks for putting up the pictures. Looks like you have some good 'bones' there to work with.
 
Welcome to the forum, look's like you found a gold mine there...the wagon is a jewel!
 
Thanks for the welcomes guys. :cheers:

One of my long term projects is a '75 J-20 wrecker. Do you think they will let me use it for my avatar?

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jaber said:
Thanks for the welcomes guys. :cheers:

One of my long term projects is a '75 J-20 wrecker. Do you think they will let me use it for my avatar?
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Since "they" is me, I don't see why not... :cheers:

Pete
 
I was linked over from FSJNetwork by a guy building a J4000. I then realized I have an account and had started a thread. My apologies for being an airhead...

I have done a lot to the pickup since I brought it home. I scraped the body off a '77 Jeep J-10 short box because it was all rusted out. After some quick measurements, I discovered that they were the same wheel base, so the swap was on...







Then I positioned a '94 4.0 and AOD and made mounts...







Now it just needs money thrown at it...
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