In December 1956, Jeep was the first American truck manufacturer to introduce a production light-duty forward control (FC) truck. Ford, GM, and Dodge would soon follow, but Jeep would always be a step ...

Mark McNabb was a contributor at TopSpeed from 2013 to 2018. Growing up, Mark always had a mind for tinkering on random items throughout his home and dad’s garage, including a 1953 Ford Mainline and ...

The Forward Control (better known as the FC series) debuted in 1956 (for Willys Motors) and was euthanized in 1965 (by Kaiser Jeep). Its quirk was that the cab was forward of the engine (creating ...

What happens when you take perhaps the best Jeep engine of all time, the AMC 4-liter, and plop it under perhaps the sexiest Jeep body of all time, the FC pickup? Answer: borderline perfection. The ...

As a kid I found myself attracted to small Jeeps. My home was the small town of Woodland Park, Colorado. At a nearby Gulf Service Station was an olive-green Jeep FC-170 wrecker. The wrecker had a ...

Having done its part during the second world war, Willys Motors returned after the conflict, as all others, to making products for civilian use. A number of vehicles were made by the company, ...

It was 2012 when Jeep brought the cab-over truck design back under the spotlights with the help of the Mighty FC concept, so why aren't they building a production version? Our guess is that the matter ...

Jeep celebrated its 75th birthday, which just so happened to coincide with the 50th annual Easter Jeep Safari, by bringing seven concept trucks to Moab. And then they invited us to trek out to Utah to ...

On the heels of Jeep introducing its first pickup truck in more than 25 years in the 2020 Gladiator at the Los Angeles Auto Show, let's enjoy a trip through time as we look back on each past pickup ...

Whenever one of Mark Stranahan’s two young sons rides in his pickup, the lad’s face becomes unusually serious. There’s something prepossessing about being surrounded by 19 square feet of glass while ...