Features 1937 to 1942 Willys Picture Thread

Wanda, I guess you didn't get the name change I suggested......her new name is "Miss Blue" no lady likes to called old, and she is so elegant, respect dictates using "Miss"

 

2007 NHRR at Columbus

 

Paul Frost 1963 NHRA NATIONALS Indianapolis D/Gas Willys

 

And don't forget, that paint job is 45 years old!!!!!!!!

MISS BLUE looks really good!

 

Mr. Bear,
Thank you for setting me right on this. I only have the highest respect for Miss Blue but is this why i get called Miss Wanda?????

 

Here is one of my favorite pics of our car that my son John took in 2008. He was 9 years old at the time. I'll go through my files later and post some other 37-42 pics I have.

 

is "Miss Blue" a candy over a solid? Unusually intense color!

 

Grist Bros. Shiftmaster Special

 

Grist Bros. Shiftmaster Special

 

Its Schwinn bicycle paint.

 

Here is a 39 Willys Overland 2 door I had about 10or12 years ago. it had what was left of the original gray paint with a red pinstripe on the beltline

 

More vintage shots

 

Back in the day

 

if i see all this pics i start to wonnder if anyone of this cars is left without a race history in present or past

 

Fred Bear...2010 York U.S. 30 Reunion

 

York U.S. 30 Reunion

 

The Grist Bros chopped coupe, a few posts above, has been found and is being rebuilt in the Atlanta area. It was originally a Southern California car. The rebuild is locateted here on the H.A.M.B.:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=400697&highlight=willys+chopped

Ether is doing a most excellent job with the sheet metal. The new owner is putting a really nice modern chassis under it, which is probably what dad would have done, if he were still alive and had it. It has been 46 years since I've seen it. I'm planning to make the trip for the unveiling when it is complete.

There are so many nice Willys on this thread. I remember many that race back in the early 60s. I was 13 when dad and my uncle Ralph sold the car ... for $600!

 

"Hurricane"..Bowling Green

 

Fred Bear's B/Gas Willys 1964 NHRA NATIONALS Indianapolis

Standing room only for Gas Class Eliminations back in the day...

 

1966 NHRA NATIONALS Indianapolis

 

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I agree...been a Willys guy since 1960...raced '62-'67...sold the car in 1969 for $695. I am amazed by all the Willys on this thread that I had not ever seen, and I've got all those coffee table gasser books, but there are quite a few that are not in publications I've seen. Have got very few pictures of my 1st coupe, and the ones I have, will have to be scanned (don't have a scanner) to post here, but we sure had fun back then in D & E/gas (all steel) with a hilborn small block. Keep digging up those pictures...they are great. As I said on another thread, coupes were not a large percentage of Willys automobile production (mostly sedans), so it makes it even more amazing that there were so many out there, and that so many are left, and(one more -so many...)that so many are, and have been found in the last 10 years. I am building my first early car, so the 33-36 thread is also of great interest.
G-willys
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Ron Norman's "Airoso Bros" .. 2007 NHRR Columbus.

 

A cool post, David, thank you, the main reason this is one of my favoites....if you read above the door, it says, "Dave Hales"....so this was eliminations, Sunday, Indy 64.....with you doing the driving......

 

FEB...you talking about these two young guys????

1964 NHRA NATIONALS after your "substitute" driver red-lighted away your chances to win the NATIONALS!!!!

 

Dave,
Is this the meet where you were M.I.A.?????

 

I've never seen this one before. What handsome young men.

 

Wanda....AWOL is the proper terminology!!! Shhhhh I'm not sure about the statute of limitations...

 

hahahahahahaha

 

no, i didnt know that. i saw that car at garlits place. damn, thats a pretty blue !!