Re: [Amc-list] When was the last time you saw one of THESE!

["RetroRalph" <retroralph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There was quite a few of them used in the Black Hills in Western SD as they were easy to chain up and weight down  and get around in the snow and icy roads there.  Jeep also make snowplow attachments and many service stations had them and they plowed a lot of snow and pulled a lot of cars out of the snowbanks and up the hills.  Jeep also made special chassis weights that fit some of their models generally for traction purposes.  For pickups and these FC jeeps we just put gravel or sand or firewood in the back end.  SD didn't use road salt for melting ice and snow as was too tough on cars and trucks.

At our place we preferred to use CJ Jeeps and a trailer if needed and we had the regular pickup or two.  Much safer to drive back there on the types of roads we had.   The FC's were short wheelbase.  And we did a lot of backwoods driving and driver didn't feel that safe in the forward control cab.  They all had broken windshields, it seemed like.  Not too comfy.
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Ralph Ausmann  -  Hillsboro, OR - 
  From: Wayne E LaMothe 

  To be accurate, Willys made them, then Jeep.  I know same company but....
   The narrow track 57 150 which I had, required a 150lb weight under the
  rear of the bed.  If you removed it, you would end up with a nose plant
  on hard braking or going down steep hill with mild braking.  The 150 had
  a four banger and the 170's could be had with the Hurricane 6.  Mine had
  5.38 gears, stock!  Top speed was almost 45mph and that was pucker time
  with such a short wheelbase.  I wish I had kept it but I had no place to
  store it at the time so it went to a new home.

  Wayne
   
   On Tue, 20 May 2008, Wayne E LaMothe wrote:
  > http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v105/Superglider/Old%20toys/?action=view¤t=sideview.jpg
  > 
  > JEEP made that?! Man is it weird looking! First Jeep product
  > I've really liked, 'cept a 52 or so F-head'ed thing.
  > 
  > I mean, it's utilitarian so they didn't fly Pininfarina out,
  > but wow, that's odd. IS that wheelbase sub-90"? Missing front
  > bumper I assume.> I'll pass that photo around...
  > 
   > Was Mine, sold a few years ago though
   > Wayne
   
  > > On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:01:20 -0500 Glen Hoag <hoag@xxxxxx writes:
  > > > The first one I ever saw (didn't know what it was at the time) 
  > was at the 1999 AMO Nationals in St. Louis.  It wasn't on the show 
  > field; it was a work vehicle at the park where the event was held.
  > > > --Glen

  > > > At 07:57 AM 5/20/2008, you wrote:
  > > > >Guy I worked with had a 170 and one with a VAN body!!!
  > > > >Don't know what he ever did with them, but way old school tech on those!
  > > > >Mark Price

  > > > >From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  > > > > > Actually they were fairly common in the midwest where
  > > > > > I grew up.  A few years ago I saw four or five on a
  > > > > > used car lot near the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri
  > > > > > when I was on vacation there.
  > > > > >
  > > > > > Joe Fulton
  > > > > > Salinas, CA
  > > > > > --- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
  > > > > >
  > > > > > > I think Iv'e seen one exactly once in my life.
  > > > > > http://jalopnik.com/391551/jeep-fc170-living-oaktown-style
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