Keith Fuller of San Antonio, Texas recently purchased this FC-150 from Danny Hartling. Here he is picking up the Jeep from Ipswich, Massachusetts getting a hand from Danny Hartling's nephew, Daniel.

Danny Hartling purchased this FC-150 in the spring of 1987 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts and towed it over to the college campus where he was employed on the grounds crew and began working on it each evening. The Jeep was running and only had 13,000 miles on it. The previous owner said that it had only been used for plowing his gas station and his driveway at home.

The headlights were the only electrical componants to work. He rewired the tail-lights, brake-lights, directionals (new turn signal control) and the horn (new horn button mounted on steering column). He also added the cab top running lights and wired them through the headlight switch. The dome light works with a toggle switch. This truck has a rectangular dome light rather than the round light of earlier FCs.

The truck was originally a pick up, but the stock bed had completely rusted through, because leaves had been allowed to accumulate and were never cleaned out. I still have the tailgate and one fender. The homemade flatbed came from a rusted out 1970 Ford F-100. It is attached with threaded rod through two stacked 6x6 pieces of lumber on the frame rails. The original fuel tank and straps hang under the flatbed on the left side.

Though the truck was running up until 1992, it has not been operated since. It still has no functioning brakes. This truck uses the rear wheel brakes as parking brakes, an option as the standard configuration was a transmission brake.

The Fuel gauge and temperature gauge are inoperative. This will need to be fixed. The low oil light and the generator light function properly. A direct reading oil pressure gauge was added to the dash which ties in to a "T" threaded into the engine where the oil light's sending unit is mounted.

Here are some photos of the 1963 Willys Forward Control FC-150.

From the front and still in primer. That's a dealer installed "Jeep Approved" Meyer Electro-Lift snowplow frame and pump assembly.

A look across the left side from the front. No those mirrors are not stock. Neither are the running lights nor the large signal lights.

Here is the engine with the "doghouse" removed. The cartridge type oil filter is mounted on the back of the engine.

The engine from the passenger side. Note the location of the radiator cap on the fill canister. The battery compartment is behind the passenger seat. The distributer and coil are on this side as well as the generator and starter (not visible). The oil bath air cleaner is just inboard of the battery compartment at floor level. (note the air tubing reaching up to the carberetor.)

Here she is with the plow mounted.

Some red and white paint makes it look better, but there is still more work to do.