NEW ISSUE - The January/February 2022 issue of Vintage Truck magazine is available in our gift shop now and will be available on newsstands soon. Our cover story features Dave Black’s FC-170. The article was written by Patrick Foster and photographed by Nick Devost.
Willys Motors, the new name for Willys-Overland after Henry J. Kaiser bought the company’s assets in 1953, had occupied a unique niche in the United States automotive market since mid-1945. Left without conventional automobile body production tooling or equipment when World War II ended, the company could not reintroduce its prewar cars, and existing body suppliers were too busy filling more lucrative orders from the Big Three. Willys had little choice but to continue producing the military Jeep, albeit in a somewhat more civilized version known as the CJ-2A.
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