Start with what the Jeep Forward Control is: a car with 134 cuin Willys Hurricane engine#F134, built from 1956 to 1985, at the height of the post-war boom. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Brooks Stevens.
The background
The Jeep Forward Control is a truck that was produced by Willys Motors, later named Kaiser Jeep, from 1956 to 1965. It was also assembled in other international markets. The layout featured a cab over (forward control) design.
The Forward Control models were primarily marketed as corporate, municipal, military, and civilian work vehicles. Regular pickup box beds were standard, and customers were offered many "Jeep-approved" specialized bodies from outside suppliers. These ranged from simple flatbeds to complete tow trucks, dump trucks, and fire trucks. The vehicles were also manufactured under license in India and Spain.
The engineering
The engine is 134 cuin Willys Hurricane engine#F134; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a 3-speed Borg-Warner T-90 Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed Borg-Warner T-98 manual (from 1958) / 3-speed Cruise-O-Matic automatic (FC-180, FC-190). The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. The wheelbase is 81 in FC-150 / 93 in FC-160 / 103 in FC-170, FC-170 DRW / 123.5 in FC-180 / 150 in FC-190. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Jeep line-up the Jeep Forward Control has a clear place: it handed the line to the Jeep Gladiator (SJ); the factory was Toledo, Ohio. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Nissan Skyline, the Fiat 500, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. Its Jeep stablemates include the Jeep Wrangler (JK) and the Jeep Wrangler (TJ).
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Jeep Forward Control — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.