1960 Jeep FC-150 free to good home (NY) (NMNA)

Lunch-time CL crawl netted this "gem"

https://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/cto/d/monroe-1960-jeep-fc-150-free-to-good/7257876151.html

Never seen one of those.  I love it

holy crap someone's gonna make a profit on that. I wish I was closer.

Can someone pick it up and hold it a few months for me?

I remember fairly recently when that SWB Forward Control would have actually been something that was regularly given away.    


I see well over a grand there now, and I am notoriously cheap.

 

In reply to Stampie (FS) :

Seriously. This is close to my family's cabin in the Poconos and I will be dragging a car trailer (currently empty) back. from there later this year. I clould deliver it to Stampie.

Sweet baby Jesus, if I was close that would be mine

Wow, I would really like to own that. They're super sketchy, but I actually prefer the 150 to the 170.

My uncle had two of them at his lawnmower shop when I was a little kid.

That's even the desirable five window cab.

My in-laws inherited three of those. Two that I've seen in CA, and one that allegedly lives in TN. One of the CA ones was partly restored and lives inside. The other has been parked outside forever. It hardly rains in the central valley though, so it's still in ok condition.

I'm copying the photos here before they disappear.

I think that third, upper wiper was added by someone.

It would be in my yard if it was closer

To just give an idea of size, the wheelbase of the long Forward Control is the same as a Jeep Scrambler or Jeepster (103")

This is the standard one, and has a WB of just 81", which is the same as a CJ5 or an inch longer tha a Suzuki Samurai. 
I made an exocage for a friend of mine who used his $200 FC150 offroad.    It routinely would lift the rear end off the ground on downhills.    This was a common occurrence, and Jeep added a couple hundred pound weight behind the rear axle in later years just to keep them from flopping onto their homely little faces.


I personally love them, and believe Brooks Stevens knocked it out of the park with the design, which is probably understandable from the guy responsible for the Harley FL,  Jeep Wagoneer, and Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.

 

In reply to hobiercr (FS) :

Deleted before I could try and work out some strange no meet deal from 1500 miles away.

My neighbor in Northern CA had one when I was a wee lad of 3. It was green with an aluminum camper on the back. Inside the camper was a map of the world and I remember him telling me that it had been driven around the world. He had a cool 3 wheeled fiberglass electric car too that he had built.  I wish I knew what happened to them.

I have always liked how this one is done with a corvette suspension and a LS motor placed sorta midship.

I've seen 'em, but do not know model numbers at all. I do hav a 4 x 4 chassis waiting to be modified for that, if it does not find a home mighty fast!!!

Opps, looks like it found a home might fast!