4x4s.org BASE MODEL · 1953–55
BASE MODELSerbia

Willys licence (1953–)

Zastava's first four-wheel drives: Willys off-road vehicles built at Kragujevac from 1953, two years before the Fiat licence that replaced them.

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Sources & evidence
MODEL LINEWillys licenceBUILT BYZastava, KragujevacPRODUCED1953–55PRODUCTIONNot publishedLAYOUT4 wheels · 80″

The record

The works had built Chevrolet trucks for the Yugoslav army before the war and turned to Willys afterwards. The Willys vehicles are the least documented part of Zastava's four-wheel-drive history — no production figure is published — but they are why the Campagnola licence of 1955 was a change of supplier rather than a beginning.

Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1953–55
ENGINENot published
PRODUCTION RUNNot published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINSerbia
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDBase model
MODEL LINEWillys licence
FAMILYWillys licence
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE80″
BODY STYLESoft top
VARIANTS1

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Body styles & colours

Factory colours

  • JNA Olive

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

AI rendering impression

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Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the specification, the photographs and the cited sources on this page.

Sources

  1. 1Zastava Trucks ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-23 · status: draft