saw this interesting little jeep?-ish thing a couple of months ago. anyone got any info on what it is? maybe an airport tug?
that's a jeep coe. late 50ies.. and looking at the snow plow at the front, I;m guessing it was used to plow snow.
It's a '56-'65 Jeep FC150 (FC=Forward Control, but I think it means "****in Cool") My cousin & uncle restore Willys Jeeps and have one of those. Very cool. Here's some from the internet that might help make this a HAMB friendly thread based on the kick *** factor...
Those darn things turn up everywhere we go. Don't know what they were originally used for or sold to be used for but we've seen them with all manner of rigging on them for work.
I'm speaking under correction, but I believe that those things were made in Spain long after US production ended.
I always liked them. When I was in the Army I drove a 5 ton wrecker. On night one of the troops stole the wrecker and went to town. Yakama, Wash. On the way a farmer pulled out in front of him with a COE Jeep and he drove the wrecker right up in the bed and hit the cab. Destoryed the Jeep and I had to replace the bumper on the wrecker. Not sure what happened to the troop.
I used to work at a Jeep restoration parts supplier, I loved these oddball Jeeps. Give me a FC or a DJ. Leaf springs front and back. I'd love to see that FC sans plow and sitting as low as the stock rear wheel wells will allow.
They sold a lot of them here locally to the farmers and ranchers. The idea was rugged 4x4 with short wheel base and a good load capacity. If I remember right from when I worked on a few of them they were pretty slow on the road and weren't popular with people who did a lot of highway driving. If I remember right the axles were pretty popular with the CJ croud and didn't stay in the wrecking yards long.
Sure is an odd lookin' dude...I think my grandpa's buddy has couple of them, he is real big into Yeeps... Hmm slammed, with a 401 AMC, flat bed to haul your favorite toy, duals in back, www's, and a nice black paint job, with gold flake...Oh ya it needs a custom grill too, maybe canted chrysler lights, and the chrysler grill opening too? white, gold, and black guts...gold flake steering wheel...hell paint the dash gold too....57-60 Ford truck gauge cluster, cut a hole in the roof and give it a pleated insert to match the guts, '47 Buick tail lights, the bed would have to have a wood floor, a couple tool boxes on the sides (loaded with old tools), a wench (every tow rig needs one), oh and then you need some lettering on the sides of the bed and doors which of course would have liberal amounts of gold leafing...Yep..That's the ticket!
Mostly military and had a REALLY bad habit of tipping forward. The FC170 is longer and has less of an issue, but they had to retrofit the 150s with weights in the rear to keep it from tipping when you stop as your going down hill.
Build it and you will never have to worry about being a little different and its cool looking and the first one I have ever seen.
Freind of mine had a 4WD FC in High School. We thought it was ugly and funky then (1970's) and still do!
I saw a cab for one of those for sale recently. Thought it would look cool on a 70's dually frame with a nice long flatbed.
The 150 and 170 stand for wheelbase, in inches. The short one is built directly on a CJ ch***is, all they had to do was change the steering gear. Easy way to get a truck using most of something already in production. So they came with either a flat head or F-head (overhead intake, in-block [flat head] exhaust valve) four. A V-8 would be a tight fit, but could be done. A V-6 might be a better fit, the Buick 231 was a popular swap in the CJ-3. Might be tight side to side being this is a COE design though.
I ***ume that's an accessory for the p***enger seat? A neighbor when I was younger had one for a daily, bone stock. very utilitarian machine. I run across them now and then but the salt here really ate up the bodies on them. But it's basically a COE Jeep or Jeepster pickup.
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