Or has it come back?
Out driving with my wife today and I did a double take when I saw a Willys logo on what (to my untrained eye) appeared to be an ordinary modern Chrysler product Jeep. I thought maybe someone had a decal made as a joke, then my wife said that she saw another one last week on a different color vehicle, so it wasn’t the same one.
Okay, so maybe Willys is back. Not my kind of vehicle so I wouldn’t know. But the military vehicle enthusiast in me had to know!
This article seems like the most complete one I could find when I searched for Willys Jeep history. But it looks like the brand has been long-dead:
So what gives? Is the company back? Did they never die? Or did someone make some decals? I’d think that the Willys purists wouldn’t take kindly to anyone faking the brand name or insinuating that a modern vehicle was made by Willys if it wasn’t. I used to live downstairs from the owner of a 1944 Willys MB, and I used to wrench on it with him, so I know the level of fanaticism.
Out driving with my wife today and I did a double take when I saw a Willys logo on what (to my untrained eye) appeared to be an ordinary modern Chrysler product Jeep. I thought maybe someone had a decal made as a joke, then my wife said that she saw another one last week on a different color vehicle, so it wasn’t the same one.
Okay, so maybe Willys is back. Not my kind of vehicle so I wouldn’t know. But the military vehicle enthusiast in me had to know!
This article seems like the most complete one I could find when I searched for Willys Jeep history. But it looks like the brand has been long-dead:
Willys Jeep History - Military Jeep Specs and History | Kaiser Willys
Willys Jeep History - Military Jeep Specs and History | Kaiser Willys
www.kaiserwillys.com
So what gives? Is the company back? Did they never die? Or did someone make some decals? I’d think that the Willys purists wouldn’t take kindly to anyone faking the brand name or insinuating that a modern vehicle was made by Willys if it wasn’t. I used to live downstairs from the owner of a 1944 Willys MB, and I used to wrench on it with him, so I know the level of fanaticism.