Little Willy - The Carson City Willys Postal Delivery Van

[wayoflife]

So, I saw this awesome hot-rodded old school Willys postal delivery Van the other day painted up in Nevada colors and with the Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau logo on the side of it and decided to so some looking around on the web to find out more about it. As it turns out, this awesome van called "Little Willy" belongs to Joel Dunn who is the Executive Director of the bureau. From what I have found so far, it has a small block Chevy 283 motor in it and with a 700-R Ford transmission and it looks badass! I so wouldn't mind having one of these in my collection!

Here are just a couple of photos I could find so far. I'm gonna have to look for it around town again and take more and better shots if I can. :yup:

 

[OverlanderJK]

Too cool! I would love to own a postal jeep.

 

[Linebacker]

Little Willy is incredible and I love the license plate!

 

[MR.Ty]

Wow, nice find!

 

[RKJK10]

she's a beauty! just needs DTD front and back and 40s :clap2:

 

[MTG]

Very cool! I've never seen that before.

 

[piginajeep]

It's a 1961 FJ-3, they are getting really rare and expensive to buy

 

[wayoflife]

Crazy it was called an "FJ" 3. Threw me off when I started doing some research on it. :crazyeyes:

 

[piginajeep]

Yep, gets mixed in with the FJ cruisers

Like any other Willys they had ton of variances. FJ-3A, FJ-6's which is closer to today's postal van. It's one of those cool Very odd Willys designs. I read the other day, Willys out sold Chevy for a period of time after the war.