Projects 1938/41 Willys build shots

What a ride , huh Mick.

 

Hi Mike, yeah, it's been a kick.
Got to meet a lot of cool, cool fellas along the way too.

 

Hood props, my friend Bruno's rare 42 Ford;
we both use sticks.

 

Today is our wedding anniversary, married my best friend, so blessed!
Mick and Elaine

 

Thanks for the info and thanks for checking!

 

My 72 pickup came in handy...

 

A Willys coupe and a front engine dragster at my friend's shop in Concord and no, he won't sell either one.

 

That dragster needs to be brought down and cackled.

 

That dragster looks great buy zoom in makes me wonder what carbs/manifold. Do not see normal blower but big tube behind twin carbs - maybe?

 

Actually it's a cross ram intake manifold with two Holley 660s.
I had that intake on my 30 pickup in the late 60s/early 70s.

 

Yes! You KNOW I tried to buy it....

 

Mick, you’ve been at this a while, haven’t you? I was just thumbing through an old magazine and saw this:

 

Wow! Mohr hp, thank you, thank you, thank you!
I haven't seen that magazine in 54 years!
My friend Dave sent in the article w/photo for me in71,
[no, it's not sectioned].
I still have the cut out shot of it but not the magazine, nor this page.
Wait until I show him., what a shock.
Made my day, Mick

 

Just came across an old shot of the coupe when I finally got it in all one color, grey primer.
Blown SBC at first, stock 38 front axle, no cage, no flooring, no glass, steel rims, so exciting!

 

Here's a picture of my friend Dave H. who put the hot rod article and photo
in the Rod and Custom Magazine in 1971 back then, still close friends...

 

Great! Here's a shot of the cover, if you want to hunt one down:

 

Wow, where's the Munn's Root beer sticker?

 

Thanks again mohr hp, I WILL hunt one down,
Mick

 

That's what it needed!

 

The 1942 movie "The Male Animal" is on this morning on TCM started at 7:30am.
The opening scene is a Willys coupe, attached,

 

Moh hp, so how's the sedan coming along?
Something similar attached?
Mick

 

[/QUOTE]
My Willys has been my regular driver since 2010. I bought it in San Raphael with the intent of driving it daily, since I already have a heavy hitter in my '53 Studebaker. The Willys was built as a mild street rod in the mid 70's, but we don't know who did the work. It had a good running stock 289 Ford and C4, 9 inch, and a narrowed Econoline front axle. I wasn't a Ford guy, but the price was right. I've made numerous changes to the car over the years, including swapping to a 'glass '41 front, and flat black paint. The car has been really good to me, I've covered over 100,000 miles in it, and the little Ford seems eager for more.

 

Souza coupe has a lot of history. I watched it race in Nebraska in the 80's, was owned by Grasso & Mills.

 

My Willys has been my regular driver since 2010. I bought it in San Raphael with the intent of driving it daily, since I already have a heavy hitter in my '53 Studebaker. The Willys was built as a mild street rod in the mid 70's, but we don't know who did the work. It had a good running stock 289 Ford and C4, 9 inch, and a narrowed Econoline front axle. I wasn't a Ford guy, but the price was right. I've made numerous changes to the car over the years, including swapping to a 'glass '41 front, and flat black paint. The car has been really good to me, I've covered over 100,000 mile in it, and the little Ford seems eager for more.[/QUOTE]
That really came out nice!
100,000 miles on it, incredible!
I couldn't do that in my car, with quarter elliptic rear leaf springs it's not a Cadillac.

 

Then later the Dennis the Menace car, right?

 

Last night the wife drove her 34, I drove my 30 pickup to our Friday Night Gathering.
Our friend Robert's yellow Willys coupe and our friend Bill's yellow Anglia [Thames] were there as well.
Pretty good turn out, beautiful weather....

 

I installed a 60 series B&M shifter to keep the nostalgia look, I even had a shifter plate made on a DCM
to improve it but I didn't like the way it shifted.
Seems to me it could easily go into neutral at a high rpm [scary].
I removed it, now sitting on my garage shelf, installed a new one.
I also installed a "shifter riser" for better positioning....much better.

 

Here's the shifter pedestal I mentioned...

 

My friend Tim Williams who did the sheet metal work on my car [flooring, my "not so secret" secret compartment,
trunk area, etc.] has this 56 Ford pickup he built for himself.

 

Nice surprise yesterday, this cup was delivered from an old friend that I haven't seen in over 15 years.
Calling him today...