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Ramsey Rear PTO Gearbox for Implements
“Andy’s Picks”
I was unaware Ramsey made a rear PTO gearbox for implements. I thought it was only Spicer… there. I learned something today.
Original Kelsey Hayes Combat Wheels Rockford, IL $1,300
“Andy’s Picks”
combat rims and tire package for mb/gpw
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Seller’s Description
Original combat wheels and tires… perfect for someone restoring a WWII 1943-45 Willy’s MB or Ford GPW…
1964 Jeep FC-170 Emporia, KS $38,000
“Andy’s Picks”
fc-170 restored w front winch
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Seller’s description
It’s for sale good running jeep. That’s not the price should know how much soon serious buyers only Motor 226 v6 super hurricane
1961 Wagon Marianna, AR $4,000
“Andy’s Picks”
Wagon with winch
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Seller’s Description
Runs and Drives, No Brakes!
1950 Truck Yard Art Savannah, GA $1,500
“Andy’s Picks”
Yard Art truck with winch bumper
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Seller’s description
Jeep truck… is very rough good frame and differentials shoot me an offer. Need it gone
Dave here: Seth and Roger both shared links to his Facebook post showing a Cutlas Automatic Hub, which is a rarity to see in the wild. That got me thinking that I’d never done a post about the different, early attempts at creating auto-engaging hubs, which appeared to generally be a failure (none ever caught on).
WARN INDUSTRIES Mid 1950s:
I believe the first commercial attempt at an automatic hub was Warn’s hub by that very name, the Warn Automatic hub. This hub appeared as early as 1954 in this brochure (from this post), Willys Motors was promoting the hub as of October of 1954.
Hugo Vidal, through his Brazilian company, AVM, also produced the Automatic Model, an example shown below (from this post):
According to Hugo, the technology was never perfected and customers had problems, so eventually the hubs were pulled from the market.
THOR AUTOMOTIVE early-mid 1960s:
The next production hub with claims to being automatic was the Thor Industries Automatic hub, advertising for which appeared in the early-mid 1960s in Four Wheeler Magazine. While the company’s Electro Hub was sort of automatic, in that you could electrically engage it from the dash, the compass Automatic Hub claimed to be fully automatic. Over the years I’ve seen a few of these, but again this hub didn’t become popular, though I don’t have any reports as to why.
This Thor ad appeared in the July 1963 issue of Four Wheeler Magazine (front this post):
Ad from the July 1963 issue of Four Wheeler Magazine
Here is an example of the hub. Allstate also private labeled this hub, as can be seen at the top of this post.
CUTLAS ENGINEERING early-mid 1970s:
Around 1960, Cutlas advertised an “Automatic” hub, but it wasn’t actually an automatic hub, but rather it had ‘automatic axle positioning’, which I believe meant that it made engaging the axles easier (so don’t be fooled by this advertising)!
Russ sent along an update on this years Willys Rally, which takes place May 30th & 31st.
This is Dave .. my wife ran across this package the other day. Seems like a good price. It includes a Warn OD.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2113825515703738/
“1955 M38A1 military jeep with m416 trailer 1. Original F-head 134 engine with T-90 3 speed manual transmission and warn overdrive. 2. Changed from 24 volt to 12 volt 3. Good tires, new spare 4. Runs, stops, and drives good. 5. Trailer is in good condition. 6. All lights are military. 7. Has original military slave cables for jumping batteries. 8. Extra T-90 transmission and transfer case. 9. Extra parts: ex: oil filters, touch up paint, Other items also. 10. 2 battery system. 11. Has permanent 1955 plate. 12. Stereo system included.”
Ran across this event, 10th annual Salt Lake Off-Road and Outdoor Expo. Might be some Willys stuff here.
Feb 28th – March 1st
Volunteer opportunities are available.
It was posted on OWF as a cross post from ECJ5 about Novaks NovaDrive unit will be on display. It’s an overdrive for select transmissions, don’t have a ton of info on it, but seems like a coming soon deal.
But Novak is a great vendor to our Willys community providing some really slick transmission and powertrain swap products. They also have a great research area and library of information on all sorts of stuff.
No skin in the game here for eWillys, not associated with the event just sharing what looks to be a quality event if your in the Salt Lake area looking for something to do maybe check it out.
While doing some book research, I ran across the Missouri Historical Society’s online archives, which includes some images of jeeps, mostly photos of jeeps at schools, probably related to bond drives. It may be of use for folks looking for military era jeep photos. https://mohistory.org/collections?text=jeep&images=0
There are also a few pre-war Willys-Overland and John North images: https://mohistory.org/collections?text=willys-overland&images=0
I thought the below photo is neat, as it is a reminder that there was a big push to recycle metals (along with other materials).
According to the sign:
The Beauty Industry Helps Beat The Beasts
Throw It On The Heap
It Will Help Build A Jeep
http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/1026297
Photo from the Missouri Historical Society, CREATOR: Sievers Studio. Miss Elengo, who probably worked for the Modern Beauty Shop magazine, is one of the clients and rights holders.
This photo may show a Holden jeep: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/736142
A reproduction of a photograph of American soldiers attempting to pull a Jeep out of the mud using a Holt tractor during the Battle of Okinawa (April 1-June 22, 1945). Photo from the Missouri Historical Society