Projects My Willys Gas Coupe build

Thank you !!! Personally i don't get the steel v fibreglass thing, they are all cars to me !!!

 

It's 3 am here.....just read the whole thing. Amazing.

 

I'm enjoying the thread - is using a taxi chassis very common here?

 

No mate its not but the Taxi frame makes a lot of sense as its strong and already boxed.

 

Thanks dude, you need to go to bed earlier

 

As I said earlier the wingnuts were temporary, after searching the net for some tri eared spinners and not finding anything suitable i decided to make some instead.
First i started with some stainless acorn nuts and turned off the hexagon part, next some ears were cut from 3/16" stainless and blended & fettled and pre polished, next a small jig was made for TIG welding them, then more polishing, then i had some custom tri bar wingnuts that i could tighten by hand








cheers

 

cool!!!

 

Those spinners came out awesome!

 

Thanks Tony, nice truck in your avatar.

 

holy shyte .... amazing work... I am always at awe with your workmanship Langy.. I look forward to following your builds... as I have with them all....

Roy

 

Normally I'm in bed by eleven. I just couldn't stop reading. Keep up the awesomeness.

 

, Many thanks, i'm glad you enjoy what i do, cheers.

 

Thanks, appreciate the comments.

 

thanks, I just try and be a little different while hopefully still nailing the right look, appreciate the comments, cheers

 

wingnuts are awesome, really nice attention to detail.

 

Thanks dude

 

I haven't read all of the posts on your great Willys build,but I see you are using the long 400 Caddy trans. Did you know that a Buick,Oldsmobile,Pontiac, short shaft 400 bolts right up to the Cadillac?

 

Thanks for that but yes i did kniow, appreciate the heads up though, I have a full manual Art Carr BOP400 short shaft 400 with a trans brake sitting on the floor here

 

The attention to detail is beyond amazing! right down to the spinners for the collectors! Really a great looking car Langy!

 

Thanks mate, I tried not to do as much detail in this one as i do on my other builds, I may have got carried away a little bit though !!!
Thats an interesting car in your avatar, whats the skinny on it ???

 

Thanks to Jason (fatguyz) who collected my TH400 from Steve & Mitch (thanks boys) who in turn collected it from Zane at Zannetec (more thanks Zane)
I bought the Art Carr with Transbrake box secondhand with 2nd gear slipping and Zane kindly rebuilt it for me, I would highly recommend Zane he does an excellent job and is a nice old boy too

Over the Autumn i need to strip it back to bare aluminium and epoxy prime and paint Porsche India Red to match the motor and also fit the larger capacity aluminium trans pan i have.








Another recommendation is for Paul at Southern Axles, Paul has been racing for years and knows his stuff, His shop is only a block away from mine so was the obvious choice to assemble the axle parts i had collected, Diff case is a brand new item with 3.89 Zoom gears mounted on a 31 spline Spool, with a 1350 yoke, all new bearings etc etc, again this needs to be epoxy primed and painted, i'm not sure what colour the back axle is gonna be yet, suggestions welcomed.

 

Early British Austin A10, 327 Chev bored .040", balaneced, Holley Pro Dominator tunnel ram, dual 500 Holleys, fenderwell headers, TH350 manual shift kit 2500 stall, narrowed 10 bolt GM 3.73 gears, Speedway axle, ladder bar/coilovers rear suspension. Just tossed together, nothing detailed like your Willys.

 

Looks cool

 

On saturday i finally finished the drivers side header, took longer than i thought !!! Now the really hard part is making the other side match.
I just wanted the bottom of the collector showing and easy access to the wing nut for uncapping.

















Its getting dark early now, winters coming !!!

 

Ha ha ha, hopefully it won't be wet all of the time mate.

 

Steve,
Had any time to think about laying up another one? Ready whenever you are...

 

More Fabulous Craftmanship Steve...... Bloody magnificent.

 

Laying up more is not a problem mate, shipping is the fly in the ointment, I've been investigating it for ages now but it seems shipping to the states is much more expensive than the other way round
They also said it has to be crated in a certain type of timber

 

Just incredible work langy, as per all your builds.

Watching on from down under

 

Hey, mate, I'm thinking of the "dust could" I'll follow at the next Supernats behind the Willys! Just kidding - looking killer as always, Steve. It's all in the details and you are the detail man, that's for sure!