these were found in the Saudi desert and are mid-1950's Patrols. Extremly rare, very old and very cool! I could have pulled these out of the middle east and saved them but it would have ran me about $15k. I don't have that kind of cash to toss at old Patrol junk. These are getting crushed and scrapped then sold to make rebar for a Chinese damn. That saddens me alot...



you can read up on this more @ our forum on my website. You may notice the starter of the thread is importing a 1977 Patrol pickup from Saudi that is clean and has the original bed.

http://www.rmp-o.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=986&postdays...storder=asc&start=20

Cool...have never seen old ones like that. Nissan must have simply reverse engineered an American jeep to build those.

$15k for those things is steep....man, it'd be a lot of work to resurrect those things.

It might be worth $15K just to baffle a few know-it-all Jeepers.

I know these look like a heep more than any other Patrol but other than the fenders it doesn't look much like a heep to me! Grill, hood and rest of body looks 100% Nissan Patrol.

Thing is these came with a flat head inline-6 and a 4spd tranny, 1st is a real crawler gear. Rear diff is a full floater. The steering wheel is super awesome, way old school bling! In the 1950's heeps came with what a tiny little 4 banger, 3 spd and whimpy dana 30's? These are actually a fair share larger than a Jeep from the same era too. I don't even think Jeeps came with a 6cyl. till what the 1980's!?

Parts would be nil to zero but there is 3-4 of these sitting in this junkyard. So plenty of stuff to build 1-2 complete Patrols. Other stuff could be fab'ed/machined.

I really wanted to save these but $15k was just to much for my pocket, especially with the 83 MQ and 64 ragtop needing cash. If you read the thread @ rmp&o you will see I have found some late 1950's Patrols in Colombia. To me not as cool as these but close.

Anyways, I hope to own one of these someday. And man can picture one of these with D60's, a 350 v8 and all that jazz. The heep owners would really shat their pants when you came blazing past them to the tone of a v8 rumble!

To Fud, Old school patrol. Give me a contact ,, #, e-mail.. Parts patrol 65-67 +

[QUOTE]Originally posted by froggy:
To Fud, Old school patrol. Give me a contact ,, #, e-mail.. Parts patrol 65-67 rb1construction@aol.com

Neat!, they had "run-flat" tires way back inthe 50's who would have thunk.

sorry....I am not selling parts at this time.

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Originally posted by Fudd:
I don't even think Jeeps came with a 6cyl. till what the 1980's!?

first year of the inline 6 was 87, they did use a chevy V6 that was a gutless wonder from mid 70's -86.

CJs could be had with 232 and later 258 CI inline 6's from the early 70s forward.

In the 60's, a Buick derived V6 was available.