Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Hey Wrangler owners...here's your future truck

Jeep is contemplating (but not for certain) producing a modification kit for Wranglers. This is what's on the drawing board:

I like it.

Looks like a good way to ensure insolvency AGAIN.

That's some pretty heavy modification with the portal axles and all. Looks like a UNIMOG with Jeep badging.

I like it.

I wonder where the engine went. Under the bed like the old '50's VW pickups? This bed looks like them, very shallow with fold down sides. Look familiar?

If that thing was a four door it would be perfect

Hell has anyone looked at the sticker on one of the new Jeep pickups. Good luck selling any. My cousin bought a new SRT Challenger. Said that the price of those trucks were within a grand of his Challenger at the lot he was at.

I bet the engine is in the original location.

The Jeep Gladiator is one COOL lookin' ride. Mute this vid.

If they make one of those I would seriously consider buying one. There really is'nt much in the American made off road selection.

Looks for the FC 150 and 170's!

Jeep (willys?) had a pickup like that in the late 50's. or early 60's.

The gear shift linkages got pretty wobbly after a while, I think. You could really see the rocks you were driving over, though.

Sycamore

I'd forgotten about those. I haven't seen one in many years. Ford, I think, had a very similar one but I don't know if came in 4x4.

I once had a 1970�s Ford farm truck that was easy to see all the rocks I was driving over.

I just looked down between my knees and my feet on the floorboard.

This was the Ford version. IIRC, they were crap. It was basically just a sawed off van.

I know where one of those is. It's in VERY good condition, just needs a little TLC to put it back on the road.

My daughter got a flier in the mail from Jeep a short while back about these kits and it said that you could by the components now from Jeep's off-road catalog of parts. The cost would add over $25K to an existing Wrangler!

Ed

I had a '65 Econoline Pick Up , 170 CI 6 cylinder. I wouldn't call it crap , it was what it was. Worked for me.

Mike

How on earth would you climb in that thing without a ladder. Think of a lady in a dress getting in.

You'd probably get up on the nerf bar then step on the fender. Reminds me of a tall, slender young lady in our church who brought her boyfriend to church with her. The arrived in a jacked up pickup about 3' off the ground. She was wearing a skin tight skirt. Watching her get back in was entertaining for everyone.

If the GVW on that rig would allow for something like a 4BT diesel that would be an awesome rig, done right, that would last for decades. Awesome camper hauler.