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Willys-Overland is best known for the World War II Jeep — the vehicle that earned the name "Jeep" and launched an automotive legend. Classic Willys Jeeps, wagons, and pickups are rugged collectibles.

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Cadillac, MI

1933 Willys Model 77

$174,995 22,390 miles

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1951 Willys Hot Rod

$32,495 100,000 miles

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Frequently Asked Questions about Classic Willys

Willys was built by John North Willys on the foundation of the Overland automobile, which Claude Cox first produced in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1903. Willys, who had been selling Overlands, took control of the struggling firm by 1908 and moved it in 1909 to the former Pope plant in Toledo, Ohio. Sources differ on when the Willys-Overland name was adopted, giving dates from 1909 to 1912. From 1912 to 1918 the company ranked second to Ford in US output.

Willys is pronounced "Willis," the way John North Willys, whose surname the company carried, said it himself. The Toledo Blade reported in 2002 that a local Jeep historian had spoken with people who knew Willys, including his private secretary, and all said he used that pronunciation. The same historian acknowledged that many Jeep workers said "Willies," a pronunciation that is still widely heard.

The Willys-Knight was a line of cars built by Willys-Overland from 1914 through the 1933 model year and powered by the sleeve-valve engine devised by Charles Y. Knight. The engine used sleeve valves in place of poppet valves and valve springs, which the Willys-Overland-Knight Registry credits with quieter running. John North Willys gained access to it in 1913 by buying the Edwards Motor Company of New York, which already held a Knight license. Most Willys-Knights had four or six cylinders.

The Willys 77 was a compact four-cylinder car that Willys-Overland introduced for 1933, the year the company went into receivership, and sold through 1936. It rode on a 100-inch wheelbase and its engine made 48 horsepower. A restyled version continued as the Willys Model 37 for 1937, after the company had been reorganized in 1936. The 1933-1936 coupes later became popular with drag racers as gassers.

Yes, Willys-Overland was the Army's primary jeep manufacturer and built the Willys MB from 1941 to 1945. The Army asked automakers for a light reconnaissance vehicle in July 1940, and American Bantam delivered the first prototype. Willys answered with the Quad, designed by engineering chief Delmar "Barney" Roos around its 60-horsepower Go Devil four-cylinder engine. Sources credit Willys with about 360,000 wartime jeeps, and Ford built roughly 277,000 to 280,000 more under license.

Willys began building its first civilian Jeep, the CJ-2A, on July 17, 1945, before World War II had ended. It added a tailgate and a side-mounted spare to the military design, and 214,760 were made through 1949. In 1946 the company followed with the Willys Station Wagon, styled by industrial designer Brooks Stevens and widely described as the first all-steel station wagon sold in the United States. Four-wheel drive became available on the wagon in 1949.

The Willys Jeepster was an open four-seat phaeton introduced in 1948 and styled by Brooks Stevens, using the platform of the Willys Station Wagon. It had side curtains instead of roll-up windows and was sold only with two-wheel drive, never four-wheel drive. Early cars used the four-cylinder Go Devil engine, and a six-cylinder was added in 1949. Production ran through 1950, and leftover cars were sold as 1951 models.

Willys-Overland was sold to Kaiser in 1953 and renamed Willys Motors, and its last US passenger car, the compact Aero introduced for 1952, was dropped in 1955. The Willys name left the corporate title in 1963, when the firm became Kaiser Jeep Corporation. American Motors bought Kaiser Jeep in 1970, and Chrysler acquired American Motors, and with it Jeep, in 1987.

The 45 Willys listings on Classic Cars Arena right now are priced from $5,995 to $174,995, with a median asking price of $29,900. These are the prices sellers are asking today, not sale prices, and the figures change as cars are listed and sold.

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