058: Jose Rafael Vera Vera

This 1951 CJ-3A Willys Jeep belonged to my father, was initially bought for farming purposes in the small town of Moca, PR.
During the period 1996-1998 I restored the willys to maintain its original parts including a L-Head 134  engine, canvas top,wheels, original rims and the front and back original seat frames.

-Jose Rafael Vera Vera

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057: Russell Winje’s 1958 Willys FC-150

This is a short wheel base, wider track FC-150 Willys Jeep. Fully stock. Very good original condition. Though the vehicle has been passed down through the family we purchased it from, we are basically the second owners, as far as the Jeep would consider. Most of it’s life must have been under a good roof and with a careful eye on upkeep. It was used but not abused. Like all my fleet of antique vehicles it was a driver and as driven required attentions in my shop till a year later we could trust it to desert and mountain trips out from our farm or a journey across our own wetland to repair a fence.

Now it puts on more miles in our remote North Eastern California outback than our other vehicles and is especially suited to the snow and ice of winter. Game watching is especially fun with the fishbowl of glass and closed cab heat on those 6 months of high desert cool temperatures. Now my other classics collect dust in the barn while we put the FC to the test most every day.

-Russell Winje

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056: Alexander Schingerlin’s 1943 Ford GPW

Greetings from Salzburg – Austria! Bought my Willys / GPW mixture in 2001, not perfect but almost conditions. During the last years I added several items to it like the A-Frame, Radio, M1 Garand, some stuff from the GI’s, during the winter I would like to mount the Capstan Winch that I recently bought – a lot of the things on it lead to the Signal Corps (Signal Flags, Telephones, wiring tools, etc.)…
I think there is space for a lot of more adds to it, like the 30. or 50. cal perhaps. Our best trip was D-Day 2004 in Normandy, very impressive to see! Two years ago we did a long trip through the Alps between Austria and Italy – that was really cool – only old Jeeps. This summer we had also a small trip trough the mountains – no Jeep was “younger” than 1955 – that was cool!

-Alexander Schinglerlin

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