1958 Willys Pickup

Pickup

Chevrolet 350

4 speed with 2 speed transfer case & hubs

Clear

Gasoline

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. On Aug-30-15 at 08:16:02 PDT, seller added the following information: Thanks for all the bids, guys, the reserve is met so the pickup will have a new owner and I will have money to finish the 54 Yellowstone Park fire support pickup I am working on with the F head and original wheels, etc., and the CJ2A for my girl. Let me address a couple questions I've had. Hood: The main problem with the hood is that there is a bunch of old weatherstriping that needs to be scraped off. It will close and doesn't appear to be bent but it is tight when you close it. It has the original latch and the hold down hooks on the sides. Engine: T parts house where I bought the plugs for it told me it is most likely an early 350. One of my buddies looked at it and said it was an early 350. I'm not a small block Chevy guy, they are. It runs great, starts quickly and is quiet except for one lifter that rattles a little. The rattle has mostly gone away as we have driven it more and more. It has Valvoline 10-30, a new filter and a pint of Lucas in it. The Edelbrock on it appears to be nearly new. I don't know what cfm it is. Transmission: Yes, it is a 4 speed. I would guess it is a later Willys one but I can't say for sure. Driveable: Yes, we have been driving it. My guess would be about 1,000 miles or a little more. I was driving it back and forth to the ranch -- which is about 21 miles from my house -- until I bought a Ford Ranger to drive. The Willys is a little slow, no air conditioning, bad wipers, radio works but not very well, can't hear on the phone while you're driving, every time you go someplace you have people wanting to talk about it, tell you about the one their grandad had, etc., no matter how busy you are, To be honest, this thing is more fun going for coffee in the morning that it is trying to drive it as a work truck. The Ranger is a lot faster and more practical for a work truck. (I wrecked my Dodge quad cab, it is in the Dodge Hospital, might be terminal) Also, I am antsy about having employees drive this one. It is too much fun to stick your foot in that 4 barrel. I also don't think the insurance company would be happy about somebody wrecking this. I had a guy take it to the dump one day and he had way too much fun. It is fun to smoke off some hot jock kid with it a big jacked up truck and an attitude. Brakes: It has brakes. One pump and maybe, two pumps and hope, three pumps and panic but they work. Actually, they just need to be bled to have first pump brakes. The idiot I had do the work for me wouldn't bench bleed the Master cylinder before he put it on. Said it didn't need it. Slip in the Raybestos box said it did. Other than that he did an OK job. New: Every wheel cylinder, Master cylinder, hoses, some of the steel lines, new shoes on the front. Back shoes and probably drums need to be replaced. As I said, I may be able to come up with a set of drums but they are cheap from Walcks. I drive it in traffic here and don't worry about the brakes, they just aren't as solid as my 54 pickup brakes are. I've been going to bleed them, haven't got it done. Lights: The head lights - both high and low beam - brake lights and all the turn signals work. Some of the other accessory lights work, some don't. The cab lights came on once. There is a fuse block under the dash with about a million wires coming out of it. I haven't had time this summer to work on them but my guess would be it needs some fuses and some work on the wiring for all those lights. I'm pushing 75 and laying on the seat with my head under the dash gets old in about two minutes. History: I bought it from Don's estate in mid April this year. I brought it home and got it running, put a new fuel pump on it, new battery etc. in early May. Again, it is a 1958. It was built when I was a Junior in High School. I am now an old man. So is this Willys. It's a nice one but it is a driver, not a show car, not a bolt and nut restoration that is ready for the Peterson Museum or the LeMay. It's fun, it runs good and it drives down the road pretty well. Don't expect it to be a new Wrangler or Tundra. It is an old Willys. An overall NICE old Willys but an OLD Willys. You can contact me at stanhowemt at aol dot com or 406-949-3448 if you need anything else or have any questions. If you want to see some of the other stuff I have you can check montanabarncars, just click on Willys. I'm taking one of my other collector cars to the summer corn feed today and going tomorrow to haul home a 57 pickup I bought off craigslist about 200 miles from here in June, haven't had time to go get it. Fun for old guys, of which I am one. On Aug-30-15 at 08:22:57 PDT, seller added the following information: Forgot to answer one question. Frame Rust: Nobody here ever thinks about rusty frames. This is dry windy Montana. Anything that gets wet here dries off pretty quick. There is surface rust but no, the frame is not "rusted out." If you are anywhere close by you are welcome to come take a look or if you want me to I can put some photos of the undercarriage on my web site.