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Willys? Why wouldn’t he? Icon reimagines the Willys-Overland CJ3B

What you see here is not a modified Willys-Overland CJ3B. Nor is it a vehicle built from the ground up to look something like the old flat-fendered, snub-nosed CJ3B, although that’s what its builder, California-based Icon, says it is. Rather, it is a fetish. It is the embodiment of the idea of a CJ3B, meticulously constructed from modern mechanicals—cut-down Dana 44 axles from the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, Fox remote-reservoir coil-over shocks at all four corners (for two feet of wheel travel), four-wheel disc brakes, and a 210-hp, GM 2.4-liter Ecotec four—along with detailing that is obsessively industrial chic.

The body’s finish, like that of the company’s more familiar Toyota FJ re-creations, is a matte Teflon-polymer powder coat that promises durability. The seats can be covered in optional and fashionable Chilewich-brand woven vinyl. The interior knobs are unique knurled, engraved, and hand-enameled minor works of art.

The thing is a jewelry box. It starts at $77,000.

 

570 comments

  • Larry R.  •  5 months ago
    jeep needs to get back to their bread and butter, enough of the over priced junk aimed at rich folk who don't want something that rides like a truck. lately the new jeeps look like crap and 17 mpg is simply unacceptable for such a small vehicle.
  • Ray  •  5 months ago
    Overpriced...just like everything else Jeep makes.
  • OLEHIPPY  •  5 months ago
    It has the wrong grill and cost too much for such meager power plant
  • G I JOE  •  5 months ago
    for 4x4 people, the fun isn't only owning one but also building the way one wants, and that most deffenetly requires a VERY LARGE CU.IN. V-8 engine with LOTS AND LOTS OF BADASSD PONIES UNDER THE HOOD!
    • Amish Sniper 5 months ago
      Yeah, you probably need something to bolster your manhood, such as it is.
    • JollyPete 5 months ago
      I agreed with you until you started saying what it required. Uh. no.
    • D 5 months ago
      G I Joe = Small penis.
  • josh  •  5 months ago
    better have a better engine than that 210 eco tech for 77k
    • Angry American 5 months ago
      For that price tag the damn thing better have a Ferrari engine under the hood.
    • Sage Advice 5 months ago
      Your not drag-racing with it; your are rock climbing; anything bigger will mean more pounds and possibly LESS use-able low-end torque.
  • hits2b  •  5 months ago
    I love it...age old technology..."retro" and yet a "hefty" price tag. They're gonna get theirs one way or the other.
  • josephn  •  5 months ago
    There is no substitute for cubic dollars?
  • Elle  •  5 months ago
    I've said it before, but I will say it again... um... bump it up to a Dana 60, 4 link the rear, put it on 37's, swap the engine with a Cummins, and for Pete's Sakes...Get MetalTech 4X4 to build you a wicked roll cage (if you can't fab one yourself) then drop the price by50K!!!
    BTW, It's not by Jeep, it's by Icon (custom builds)... Though I prefer our built up 69' Toyota FJ40!
  • Penrodz  •  5 months ago
    Just give me one that says MASH 4077 on the side, and blonde LOL
  • Daniel R  •  5 months ago
    I like the idea but for $77,000 I could build a full turnkey buggy dressed to the nines. Keep the idea but lower the price to something everyone can afford something like $24,000.
  • doc  •  5 months ago
    looks like and performs like an overpriced suzuki samurai
  • Gary R  •  5 months ago
    way over priced. The idea of the original Jeeps was, simple, strong enough, easy to keep running.

    Build a CJ3A for $10000 then give me a call other wise I will build it my self
  • BLEXUM  •  5 months ago
    For that much money I'd rather have the real jeep. Or two or three at that price. What a load.
  • A Yahoo! User  •  5 months ago
    If I could have a jeep ir would be the old army M151A2. It was small, sported a 4cylinder engine that was easy to fix in the field and when handled by a skilled driver was very nimble.
  • bobby  •  5 months ago
    There is no way this thing is worth 77 grand. Just in my family we have 3 jeep tj a 98,99,00. with just the purchase price we have have 20 grand in them.All 3 are modified and all 3 are very capable off road as well as on road.Who ever buys one of these I wish they would get a hold of me cause I could build one for a 1/3 of the price and still make a nice profit.
  • K.C.  •  5 months ago
    Very Cool!
  • ZAHID  •  5 months ago
    I like it, it's well built but the ecotec WILL NOT RUN UPSIDE DOWN you best bring lots off engine oil and a extra intake manifold cause the PCV system is in bult into the head, headcover and intake manifold, turn it sideways floor it and it's game over.
  • M  •  5 months ago
    looks like it should be worth 15,000 more like a fun car but its not fun if its 70,000 and to afraid to rough it up
  • jj l  •  5 months ago
    that thing looks like a rollover waiting to happen
  • Cpl. Smitty. U.S.M.C.  •  5 months ago
    I want one of our old Jeeps we had befor getting the hmvee.
    Of course I want a hmvee also.

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