Vintage Willys pictures

scramboleer said:
Yeah, I think you're right. It's definitely the low roof and not the tall one. It's also missing the chrome side trim which the Travellers had. Maybe it's a Parkway Conversion... or something else.

I'd love to see those dealer docs... there seem to be a few special order wagons in the 60s that are factory wagons modified at the factory with the barn doors of the Delivery.

Good catch!
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The old dealer guy ,Louie Larson, owned Willys Minneapolis in Farmington Minn. He had owned Park Jeep for a long time and retired. Really nice guy with lots of stories. I lived about 10 miles from him back then. When I first showed him my wagon he thought is was a regular panel wagon someone put windows in. On a latter visit he said he was looking at old "micro fische" (spelling?) records he had as a dealer and found that mine was from a forest service contract back then. I never thought to get copies (not much interest in these back then). He sold his business and retired again. I tried to contact Willys Minneapolis (was still operating then) but they never answered me about the files. I thought many times about those records, what if...... I guess we will have to keep looking for info, someone else may have those records also.
 
Here are some great ones of the Kilauea volcano eruption of 1960:

(There seems to be four Willys in this picture.)
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From the H.A.M.B.
 
2 wagons....1 truck ...1 regular jeep...

And very possibly a Fifth....

extreme right hand lower corner .. tan colored vehicle partially obscured the tree....could be another wagon ...or not .... cant really tell from angle has both upper liftgate / lower tailgates open....


Larry
 
Louie's nephew is still very active in Jeeps and is a great guy and a great resource.
I spoke to Louie about old records, and I spoke to Ray Cowdery and Merrill Madsen, the 2 previous owners of Willys Minneapolis and they denied ever having any records like that. There are however several hundred thousand pages of Willys records in the hands of a few dozen collectors, so I believe an answer is out there.
 
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The photos of the pink surrey a few posts back were used on a postcard. It wasn't until today I realized it was photographed at the Punchbowl on Oahu. It is the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Nuuanu HI. I was there in April.
 
Keith,
This is from National Service Data, 1961:

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I've come to suspect "El Goucho", shown under 1959
"475 2x4 El Goucho 58547 10001 10003 3**"
on Nort Young's list, might be this Willys-built four door type (produced specifically for Henry Kaiser):

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http://www.ewillys.com/2019/02/05/four-door-wagon-dayton-va-ebay/

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See also 21:27 into the first of the two videos here:
https://www.oldwillysforum.com/foru...-the-spring-2014-midwest-willys-reunion.7687/


Now that you mention it though, "El Gaucho" does also sound familiar as having been a moniker for a specially-optioned J-Series.
 
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I'm missing 1958 and 1959, but here is a bad copy of 1960.
MS= Maverick Special 58147-12655 and up CALENDAR YEAR 1960
EG= El Goucho 58547-1004 and up CALENDAR YEAR 1960

1960 Jeep Model ID -MS Maverick EG El Goucho--.jpg
 
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