Penned by Brooks Stevens and inspired by the cab-over ... pickup truck, the M677 four-door cargo truck, the M678 carry-all truck, and the M679 ambulance. Not the big seller that Willys had hoped ...

The Willys Jeep 4x4 Truck, produced from 1947 to 1965 ... Kaiser Jeep built the Jeep FC from 1957 until 1965. The cab-over style of this Jeep vehicle set it apart from other versions. The standard ...

Jeep produced pickup trucks continuously between 1947 and 1992 ... an endearing and brutally capable experiment that wore cab-over styling evocative of the original FC’s. Jeep's longest-running ...

Stranahan’s 1958 Willys Jeep FC-170 is unique. The FC part of the name designates “forward control.” This cab-over-engine design had long been applied to heavy-duty trucks, but Willys ...

And one that remains Jeep’s calling card to this day. As importantly, Willys designers turned their attention to the little truck’s under-powered engine. They replaced the Bantam powerplant ...

Jeep has been hinting that it will ... There is no mistaking a Forward Control for anything else. Their cab-over design was based on heavy-duty trucks of the era in a smaller, more maneuverable ...

We're referring to the cabover trucks that ... a modern-day Jeep Forward Control, but, before discussing this, we need to remember the original. The FC came to be as part of Willys Motors' post ...

with the introduction of the Willys Overland truck. Since then, the manufacturer has released about seven truck models, featuring the Scrambler, J-series, CJ-8 Comanche, and Gladiator. Newer Jeep ...

A front view of Mike Patton's 1947 Willys Jeep Overland pickup truck. (David Krumboltz for Bay Area News Group) The uses of the Jeep during the war were numerous. It carried personnel, was used as ...