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Willys Pickup (1958)
for sale

Price: US $200.00

Description:

Here is a nice old Willys pickup that has had a lot of work done to a nice original. This was the pride and joy of a guy I knew that owned a trucking company here in western Montana, he had it for years, put a Chevy 350 in it with an Advance Adapters kit, it has a 4 speed behind it and a bunch of what I call Good Buddy trucker stuff like a CB radio, dual exhaust stacks in back of the cab, extra gauges for everything you can think of and a trailer towing brake kit as well as a great steel diamond plate back bumper with a trailer hitch receiver. I used to see this parked at the truck stop once in awhile and always thought it was really a cute little pickup. It was and is. Don died a year or so ago after a pretty long bout with illness and I bought this from the widow. It had set for two or three years without being started. I put an electric fuel pump on it and a new battery - $100 from Batteries Plus - in it and it fired up on the first few turns over. It has a 4 barrel Edelbrock on it, it runs like a scalded dog. Then I took the CB antennas and the CB out of it, took off the green marker lights on the side and have been driving it since. It's fun but a little small for 275 pounds of 6 foot 2 inch me.
I would guess it's had one repaint in the original green color. I can't see where it has had much body work except a little on the fenders. It's easily the best body on any Willys pickup I've ever owned.
The running gear is still all Willys as far as I know, you can see the aftermarket wheels on it and the photos pretty well tell the rest. This would be an easy one to finish up. It needs a lot of little things like the dash lights don't work very well, the cab lights don't work or at least have a mind of their own, etc. All the big stuff is done. I just had all new wheel cylinders, a new master cylinder and new hoses and some new brake lines installed last week. Now it has brakes. We put new shoes on the front, it could use a set on the back and could use a set of drums. These looked like they were dragging and had worn the drums quite a bit. I might have a set of better drums off one of the parts pickups. If I do, I'll throw them in on the deal. It still needs a little brake work. I don't think the guy got it bled right, sometimes it has brakes on one pump and sometimes it has brakes on two. They need to be checked. I think one of the shoes is dragging, sometimes when you back up it feels like something is dragging a little. Not in forward that I have noticed.
The fourwheel drive works, it has hubs on the front. I've not ever had it off road except out in the pasture at the ranch but it shifts to both gears in the transfer case and the in and out works. It has hubs.
It runs down the road at 60-65, steers like all the rest of the old Willys pickups I've had - meaning it wanders around a little - rides pretty well and gets a lot of attention. Lots of waves and smiles. But it probably would benefit from a little work on the steering, too. The tires are older than they look, not much wear but you can see some weather checking. I don't have a spare for it.
Rust? That's always the question on 57 year old pickups. Virtually none. Surface rust on the frame, almost none anywhere on the body except a couple small holes in the front of the box and a little on the floorboards. The floorboards have been whacked a little around the shift levers and some pretty scabby tin put over them and screwed down. You can cover it up with carpet, which is what they did, or do a little fixing on it to make it better.
It needs somebody who has time to work on it a little, fix the door lock on the driver's side, fix the dash lights, do something about the seat, figure out the mess of wiring under the dash, fix the backup lights, fix the wipers, etc. But other than that it is good to go. I would not be afraid to drive it anywhere.
The tires are getting old but have lots of tread and should be good for a lot of miles.
The transmission is a little noisy but I think they are on all of these, especially since I have the floor mats on the hump removed. The noise comes up through the holes pretty good. It's pretty close to 60 years old so it has a few faults. The tailgate is a little bent, the door handle is a little pair of vice grips, the hood doesn't fit down all the way unless you really push on it, the driver's side windshield is cracked, the wipers don't work, etc. BUT! That 350 and the 4 barrel will make it set up and take notice. It's pretty fun to pull out around some jerk in a big diesel who isn't about to follow some old Jeep down the road. I can smoke a new Dodge diesel up to about 55 or 60 from any stoplight. The body is in pretty great shape for its age, the mirrors are good, etc., it has a gauge for everything you can think of except gas -- which of course doesn't work. No gas leaks, no coolant leaks, no brake fluid leaks. All of the important lights work like headlights and turn signals and brake lights. It has a brand new battery and a brand new alternator (last week) New electric fuel pump and a brand new fuel filter feeding that Edelbrock 4 barrel.
Those dual stacks sound really cool, they are not dummies. It has small mufflers under the cab, the exhaust pipes go right up the inside of the stack. Just like a big truck. It sounds great even idling but really tunes up when the cam in the 350 comes to life. Zoom Zoom!!
I've never looked under the seat, I don't know what's under there.
It just had an oil change with Valvoline 10-30 and a Valvoline filter. All the zerks were greased, the transmission grease was dropped and new 80-90 Valvoline put in. All the other boxes were checked and topped off.
So if it is so good why am I selling it? Because I have waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy too much Willys stuff and not near enough time to work on it. I'm working on a 54 pickup for myself, a 48 CJ2A for my 15 year old girl, have an FC170, three other Willys pickups and another CJ2A as well as some parts pickups and extra engines, etc. You guys know how it accumulates. The CJ2a for Savanna needs some money put into it, the 54 needs some money put into it and I don't have time to work on all this stuff so this one is going down the road along with a couple others. The FC 170 may end up on here too, as well as one of the others.
Like Yogi says, for people who like this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like. You'll like this. If somebody gave you a pretty nice body free and you did the work to put in the 350 and everything else that's been done to this you couldn't do it for what I want for this. If you want it, step up and hit the buy it now, the price is fair. If you buy it for that and there are some things you have to fix -- you won't feel bad and that you paid too much. Or you can try to out wait everybody else and steal it at the last second. HHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.. That's what makes this fun, isn't it? Jump in a take a bite. Bid early, bid high, bid often. Just like voting in Chicago.
I am in Helena, Montana, right on I-15 about 450 miles north of Salt Lake City or east of Spokane, Washington 300 miles. Shipping out of Montana is pretty cheap if you are willing to wait for a good price. I've shipped a couple pickups to the east coast for less than $1000. For more fun, fly in, drive it home. It would be a little slow but a lot of fun. I'll help you get it shipped or pick you up at the airport and send you down the road with it. I'd like to have it gone before winter so it's not here after I go to my place in Texas for part of the winter around Christmas. Other than that it can stay here at no charge. I have lots of land to park it on. Come to Montana, buy a new Henry 30-30 to put in that gun rack and go hunting for a few days the way we used to hunt. It would be a trip you'll never forget.
Payment: $500 via paypal, the rest by cash or check within a week. It doesn't leave until the money is good. I would prefer nice green Benjamin Franklins. I have a clear Montana title in my name, it is currently licensed and insured. I've driven it probably 1, 000 miles since I got it and have had not problems with anything significant except the brakes which have now been rebuilt.
Stan Howe, 406-949-3448 No Text, I won't respond. Messages through the ebay system. If you have zero feedback or look suspect as a bidder to me I'll just cancel your bid. I had some teenager in Mobile, Alabama this summer bid on a pickup I had for sale, no feedback, no money, just playing around on ebay. Don't do that. Play fair.
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