SavageSun Willys
Sharpest Tool
Wife and I are moving back to Texas and in this case my home place of San Antonio, Tex. I grew up there and left in 1962 and life and a career in the military, then a consultant to major corps keep me where the Army sent me and later living in Dallas, Tex. I lived next to DFW airport and a member of several Million Mile flyer clubs.
But at this stage of my life I am no longer happy calling home where my hat hangs, I want to be close to home, the Alamo. We just got back from a trip down there and are now in the process of buying a ranch just NW of San Antonio, outside a town called Boerne, Tex.
I need to sell my project Willy's Wagon, I am also selling off my two other Jeep projects. Why? 1) Getting them down there would not be easy nor cheap and 2) I can always buy another Willy's - Jeep.
Factor in 2-3 years of seat time in a tractor cleaning up the place like I want and doing a lot of upgrades on the 1945 farm house and any projects will lay fallow for several years.
Fianlly I am also losing the battle we ALL face and its called age. Time I get ready to Jeep again I will closing in on 70 years. My health is good now and if it stays that way another Willy's -Jeep is on my radar.
I have given this much thought and its most likely the best route at this juncture in my life.
I will post in the for sale section my rig: At this time It still has the OEM frame and running gear except the Chevy V8. It runs and starts good, stops and does what it should. I have picked up a couple of $thousand bucks worth of chrome replacement parts for some that were not in as good a shape as I wanted and a set of '06 Tahoe electric power and heated leather seats for it than are near new. My goal is to sell is as is with everything I have with it. It will be a good deal as it will need to go as we are trying to be in Texas by Christmas if at all possible.
Yes, I am crushed as I had a lot of mods in store and the joy of building and merging my '03 Rubicon Jeep running gear into the '55 Willy's. I will REALLY miss that.
As I get my act together I will get pix and do a writeup (sometime in Sept). I will consider delivering it in the Southwest.
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But at this stage of my life I am no longer happy calling home where my hat hangs, I want to be close to home, the Alamo. We just got back from a trip down there and are now in the process of buying a ranch just NW of San Antonio, outside a town called Boerne, Tex.
I need to sell my project Willy's Wagon, I am also selling off my two other Jeep projects. Why? 1) Getting them down there would not be easy nor cheap and 2) I can always buy another Willy's - Jeep.
Factor in 2-3 years of seat time in a tractor cleaning up the place like I want and doing a lot of upgrades on the 1945 farm house and any projects will lay fallow for several years.
Fianlly I am also losing the battle we ALL face and its called age. Time I get ready to Jeep again I will closing in on 70 years. My health is good now and if it stays that way another Willy's -Jeep is on my radar.
I have given this much thought and its most likely the best route at this juncture in my life.
I will post in the for sale section my rig: At this time It still has the OEM frame and running gear except the Chevy V8. It runs and starts good, stops and does what it should. I have picked up a couple of $thousand bucks worth of chrome replacement parts for some that were not in as good a shape as I wanted and a set of '06 Tahoe electric power and heated leather seats for it than are near new. My goal is to sell is as is with everything I have with it. It will be a good deal as it will need to go as we are trying to be in Texas by Christmas if at all possible.
Yes, I am crushed as I had a lot of mods in store and the joy of building and merging my '03 Rubicon Jeep running gear into the '55 Willy's. I will REALLY miss that.
As I get my act together I will get pix and do a writeup (sometime in Sept). I will consider delivering it in the Southwest.
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
