UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $1500.
This ad is funny. Given the rear PTO, the blade in front and the Meyer hardtop, this jeep looks to have value.
“1962 Willy’s Jeep Model CJ5 4×4 w/6′ Snow Plow and 8,000# winch
134cid F-Head 4 cylinder engine, manual 3-speed transmission with Hi/Low range and PTO
This Jeep has worked hard her entire life. I personally have owned her for more years than I can remember. It has served as a utility vehicle to help gather firewood in the fall and plow the road in the winter. During the summer she mostly just sits around gathering wasps. She’s old, she has cancer and she smokes 5 packs a day but by golly she still runs! Unfortunately, the long years of hard work have finally taken its toll and she just doesn’t have enough compression in the old pistons to push the plow like she used to. Her tired old engine could really use a rebuild.
Although we have worked this old girl hard over the years, we have done much to keep her going! She has new springs and shocks that gave her a much needed 2″ lift so she could hold those 31” tires. She got a new gas tank about 3 years ago, along with a new clutch, carburetor, starter, alternator conversion (she originally had a generator!), all new brakes, and just last month she got a brand new battery! She has also been rewired front to back and now has a fuse box!
Apparently they were optional back then. She doesn’t have power anything, but the lights, horn, wipers and heater all work well enough. But please keep in mind, this is NOT a street Jeep! She is geared pretty low. Top speed in high gear is only about 35mph so your not going to use this as a daily driver. You could however use it out on the farm, plow your roads, teach your kids to drive a clutch on or turn it into a rock crawler. The sky is the limit.
I would rebuild her myself and keep on going with her, but I got one of them fancy side by side UTV’s that I use now. But instead of just parking her in the back corner and letting her rust away, I figured someone out there might want to do something with her instead. And yes, I do have the title for it!
I looked her up on NADA to get a price idea and was shocked to see the lowest value was nearly $7000!!! What??? Why that’s just crazy talk right there! But if you wanted to pay me that much, I wouldn’t stop you. But I’m happily married so don’t ask me to kiss you. Luckily, I ain’t asking nothing near that price. Shes a tired Jeep with a lot of wear and tear, but she’s got good bones and a lot of good parts on her. I would love to see her go to a good home.
So if you think you might want to take her home and make her your own, hit the reply button up top and let me know. You can get a complete rebuild kit off eBay for less than $500 so it wouldn’t take much to get her up and going strong again. Heck, I’ll even deliver her to you with a full price offer. But if you want to take her home yourself, I’ll include a tow bar at no extra cost.”
I wonder if that willingness to deliver “with full price offer” includes delivering to RI? Ha!
hahaha … yes, but if the seller wants to get rid of it bad enough to drive to Rhode Island, then you must wonder what is wrong with the jeep!!