Features 1937 to 1942 Willys Picture Thread

At the same show this 39 sedan showed up,pretty clean & nice!

 

I've been loving this car since Kiwi Kev posted the magazine article at post#2899. I love the fact its almost stock looking but with wide rear steels and slicks and cut-out rear arches. I thought it must be the same car and with you saying it's from the Lorenzen collection confirmed it with the magazine article. Thanks for posting the additional pictures, nice to see it in color. Sure looks like a great collection he has

 

:drool:---love this thread

 

I don't think the rear arches are cut out - those look like 1937/38 fenders which have a larger cut out than the later 1939 Overland and up type....

 

You guys keep talking about the running boards and wing windows BUT what about the rear tail pan? I have never seen one like this!!!

 

That's a first for me too!!! Looks like a VW tail pan!
g-willys

 

A little something for collector of memorabilia.

 

License plate says PR Curitiba which puts the car in Brazil. That would explain the VW tailpan - South Americans like Cubans are resourceful and use whatever they have to fix old cars....

 

I recently heard that the same person that owns The Kirby's Challanger, chopped Willys coupe now also own's The Mura Brothers Willys Pickup. Does anyone also know that to be true?

 

Guys just had this sent to me, we don't get this TV Show in
England anybody seen it that can tell me what happens ???
Paul.


http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/fast-n-loud/videos/willys-gasser.htm

 

I believe that episode does not air until Sept. 10. This is the description
from the program listings.

The Gas Monkey crew revives a rust-and-rat filled 59 Rambler to make it SoCal surf-worthy once again. Richard haggles for a 31 Model A. His new Willys Coupe Gasser could be worth $200K if Richard can prove its connection to a legendary drag racing team.

 

Thanks I will just have to wait and hope one of you guys tells me the outcome.
Paul.

 

Here's a link to a preview of the episode. They think it's SWC car because it's blue.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/fast-n-loud/

 

Well if it`s blue it must be right,(LOL)

 

Whoa, wait a minute! Isn't this the same car that Bass just found???
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=708678

 

I'm confused...

 

That tailpan on the babyblue didn't come from a VW.

 

Fast n loud video. Did you catch the statement that ALL Stone Woods and Cook cars were blue? Hmmm.

 

I believe everything that I see on T.V.

 

Sounds to me they better submitt to this thread

 

Looks like BASS got the car from the Fast And Loud guys,both are in Dallas TX. I'm sure it's better off in his hands. It's hard to tell what those guys would have done too it.

 

heads up== theres a 38 and 39 sedan projects on the bay for sale ....if anyones interested 38 is all original the 39 is almost street rodded needs to be rescued

 

I found that clip earlier today and thought the same thing. I saw those front wheels and that rear tailpan, and immediately knew it was the same car Bass bought recently.

Thank God Bass got it before those guys "built" it. I can only imagine what the Gas Monkey crew might have done.

So... I wonder if all blue Willys gassers were once SWC cars?

 

Yep, and all red ones are Big John Mazmanians

 

They would have painted a BIG monkey on it!

 

Wow, My car was also blue back in the day when it was raced. It must be a SWC car! I guess I dont have to research the history now!

 

im not going to argue because i sure as hell dont know. but it sure does look like one. what did it come from.?

 

I won't claim to know Willys, just love them. But I do know VW's. Could this have been an export only panel for Willys? Any other assembly plants in another country?

 

I believe that Australia , the Netherlands and New Zealand were the only countries to build Willys bodies outside of the U.S. and Canada. Export Willys would most likely have been shipped from Canada or the U.S. as complete cars - some RHD but of North American build. South American cars are notorious for being fixed with other car parts not original to the car....

 

Hey guys, I only mentioned VW because that is what it looks like. I have an article somewhere, way back before Marcel, Roland, Kay and the other metal guys were making sheet metal for Willys, about using a VW tail pan to help repair the usually rusted, dented tail pan on a Willys. It wasn't a perfect match, but it had some of the same compound curves found back there. Maybe that's all they had available.
For the VW guy(noboD)...are there any VW wiper set ups that might work on a Willys???
16 inches on my '39, and 17-1/4 on my '36, center to center on the holes. Possibly from some of the flat glass cars, but ones that had 12 volt systems...I don't know those years and models.
Thanks.
g-willys