48-63 Willys pickup or panel?

I owned a 51 Willys pickup about 45 years ago, sorta wish I still had it as it would be perfect for my putt-putting around the homestead nowadays.

It had a four-cylinder F-Head engine, three speeds on the floor with High-Low transfer case. It had 5.38 gears  and topped out at about 55 mph wound out to the absolute max.

Sold it to my Bro-in-law who swapped in a 4.3 Chebbie V6 and used it to plow snow; he promptly destroyed the rear end so swapped in a set of Toyota Land Cruiser axles, the next to explode was the transfer case so he put in the Land Cruiser transmission and transfer case.

That worked fine until the frame started cracking so he fish-plated it, which was all still holding when he sold it after 10+ years of abuse.

He is a pretty good mechanic with a really heavy foot!

 Kinda reminds me of those that take a basic old farm tractor and do all they can to modernize it with all kinds of hydraulic and hitch ad-ons and nothing ever really does just what they wanted in the long run, when they shoulda just gotten a 3pt, IPTO, hydrostatic 4wd cab with AC tractor to begin with.