You can’t get more authentic than The Real Deal, and this, folks, is The Real Deal.
Forward Control cab, 56 years of patina, vintage vinyl seats, a massive original steering wheel – complete with suicide knob – and an old-school CB radio bolted to the dash. You can’t get much more authentic than this, and they call it the Jeep FC150.
This seriously has to be the coolest restomod Jeep has done yet for the Easter Jeep Safari. They started with a 2005 Wrangler chassis fitted with the 4.0 liter six cylinder, which has been around in some form since the early ‘60s. From there, Jeep has managed to take one of the coolest old body styles and give it modern(ish) capabilities. Think of it as a farm truck that you can take to Moab.
Under the truck you will find a Dana 44 leading the way and a Dana 60 taking up the rear to assure whoever is lucky enough to drive this piece of history that they’ll be able to crawl right over the rocks smack dab in front of them. That’s the awesome thing about a cab-over design. Since you’re sitting over the front wheels, you’re literally on top of everything.
The coolest part of the whole thing has to be the body itself, though. Jeep left the original FC body, sourced in Colorado, pretty much alone and just clamped it down onto the shortened Wrangler underpinnings through a series of custom body mounts. You can’t fake the kind of story a weathered old truck can tell. Judging by the battle scars on this baby, it doesn’t just have stories. It has volumes. Add a full-sized bed to the novel and you’re hauling hay the proper way.
There’s only one more thing we want to know, and that’s when Jeep is going to make a modern version of this beauty available. We have a farm that needs some serious off-road herd tending.
