The Obscure, Forgotten Spanish Jeeps of the 1960s

We found these quirky, boxy Jeeps from Spain to be too unique to not share.  Under a licensing agreement after World War II, Spain created a line of Jeeps off of the original military-spec version.

These included the Jeep Toledo, Jeep Furgón, Jeep Campeador, and Jeep Duplex. They were almost comically rectilinear and boxy, yet also approachable and appealing from a utility standpoint.

Under the moniker VIASA, or Vehículos Industriales y Agrícolas, these European-born Jeeps weren’t ever sold in North America, and one would be hard pressed to find one for sale on either side of the Atlantic.

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VIASA, based in Zaragoza, built Jeeps under license from Willys and later Kaiser from the 1950s until the 1980s, when the company was folded into what became Nissan’s Spanish operation. The boxy vans and pickups here were a home-grown attempt to turn the military CJ chassis into a family car and a delivery truck for a country that was only just starting to motorize. The Spanish designs never crossed the Atlantic, but the same instinct, to put the plainest possible box on a rugged chassis, is exactly what has made the Land Rover Defender and the old Toyota Land Cruiser so beloved. For more oddities of automotive history, see the Citroën Karin, the two-level minivan concept of 1992, and the impossibly narrow Fiat Panda.

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