Hot Rods Hows about some pictures of the '40-'41 Willys "Gasser" pickups..

Holy crap!!!!!......

 

They’re still out there , after a 50+ year hibernation my son and I became the new caretakers of this ‘41 yesterday .. Northern California truck has “Troy Ward” on the drivers door and more writing on tailgate just haven’t been able to get to it yet

 

Strip Tripper. Paint on this thing is still amazing considering it's been on the truck for quite a while.

 

I mentioned this on a different thread a long time back. The photos of the orange truck with the laid-back windshield style chop were taken at [then] Seattle International Raceway, [now] Pacific Raceways in post 20 sure looks like the same cab that was sitting on a mud bogger project that sat in the bull pen of a 4 x 4 shop in Lynnwood WA. This would have been mid 80's to early 90's. Cab was painted flat black. Shop and truck are both long gone. Kinda looks to be set up center steer, altered style. With the location of the injector hat the motor looks to be sitting pretty far back, driver would almost surely be straddling the trans. Wonder where it ended up?

 

Hello,

Look what I found in my drawing book from back in 1961. That is what the notes said. But, I also found a note with the Willys truck showing a 396 c.i. lettering on the nose of the hood. The 396 only came out in 1965 and I was already in college. So, it is safe to say it was a drawing from those long 100+ college kids sitting in a deep seating sloping auditorium lecture on some sociology class or some other “boring to death” class. Not all classes were boring, but for every good class, there are an equal amount of required boring classes.

This artwork made the 100+ student class and lecture, less boring.

I was projecting what our next step would have been if our 1940 Willys Coupe had not blown up at Lions in 1960. A high school student with time between homework assignments. What a small world. I must have put in a number on the hood like 352 c.i. or such nonsense as a 372 c.i. What???

When I went away to college in 1965, I drew another version while dreaming into space during one of those huge lecture hall classes. That one had a real designation based on the current super stock motors from the GM Chevy dealers buy lists. A big block 396 and in allowable to order in a Malibu SS version, not an El Camino… until 1966.

After riding in my 327 powered 65 El Camino to the desert races, my friend got a 1966 El Camino and it was an open market to order a 396, bucket seats, A/C and a 4 speed as a custom order. That is what I wanted to order in my 65 El Camino and got laughed out of several Chevy dealers in So Cal.

If the GM designers or marketing folks had a brain in their heads, this 396 motor/4 speed/Positraction/bucket seats in my own 1965 El Camino could have been a longer ownership proposition, even after we got married and moved on in life. (The 396 combo was already in the showroom models, but there was a rule… only for the Malibu Chevelles.)

Jnaki

That 40 Willys was the last version of a possible get together with my brother and make one last shot at the class racing group. But, by 1966, the majority of the street classes were gone and lost forever. That was the last day of drag racing future competition or attendance for us.
The original drawing was done when Gas Coupes/Sedans raised the front ends due to the powerful motors and full acceleration at the start of a run. The “up in the air” pit stop look did not show up until many years later. I was trying to draw some tire smoke and the result was awful. So, the truck looks like it is doing a small wheelie.

Note: It wasn’t until much, much later with some scribbling and detailing the fine items and shapes, that I was able to get a stock 40 Willys truck on the drawing boards with several different scenarios.
January 2022 Friday Art
Spring Break Friday Art thread, a 40 Willys truck with a 39 nose, grille, fenders and hood with the huge Chocolate Easter Egg contraption being towed to a week long party… for our granddaughter and her friends.

The final version for the two brothers during the Precision Racing Engines stage would have necessitated a pickup to cart around parts and motors. Perhaps, even a heavy duty trailer for larger motors to be doorstep delivered.


No more 671 sticking out of the hood, but a nice Paxton Supercharger on an SBC motor underneath the hood. Enough power to deliver parts, motors and get us to the local surf spots. YRMV