Can you help ID an old race car?

Can any US readers tell us more about the history of the ex-Willys g***er featured in www.drcreview.com this week?

 

Are you Mike? Sorry I have no info but Mike and a friend stayed a night at my house many years ago and I just wanted to say Hi!

 

God did not intend for Willys to be slammed.....

 

Hi Kiwi Kev, no I'm not Mike, I'm the guy who wrote the feature. I'm just trying to find out more about the car while it was in the US all those years ago. I will mention your message to Mike and no doubt he'll be in touch.

 

for some strange reason ....i wonder if von dutch striped that ride...? it looks similiar to a photo i saw a couple years ago.... neat car ... brandon

 

hi kevin perry, mike taylor from england here.hope you are doing well.i finally finished the willys and i am having tons of fun.

 

Each to their own, but no kidding, if there was ever a car made to be nose-up, it's a Willy's.

 

well thanks guys.i thought it was about self expression.lets see what you got then?

 

it is, absolutely. not dissing your car, just expressing an opinion. I saw "hot rod" again the other day and it got me longing to see an old willy's g***er.

You can't be that surprised that people here might prefer the car in its "groovy green" days..

 

Great looking car Mike! Is your car rhd? or did they flip the photo. That must be a lot of work to convert. Anyway, welcome to the HAMB!

 

here is my expression..............what a beutiful car the "groovy green" car was............while your version is nice, some day someone will buy it from you to put it back to groovy.....

 

At least it doesn't have 20's. Good looking car before and after.

 

hi 327 it was a ground up rebuild so yes i had problems but the rhd steering was fairly easy.all cars in the uk are rhd so there are plenty of donor cars for steering parts.my coupe is a 1938 with 1941 front sheet metal,fire wall and dash .the dash has a central gauge cluster and a glove box door either side so that just stayed the same.m.t

 

when i was building the willys after a long night in a cold garage nothing better than watching hotrod.

 

yep, much like me watching two lane blacktop - again.

still have fond memories of growing up in bristol..my wife still doesnt believe there is a place there called "blackboy" or "white ladies road"...hey, perhaps there isnt anymore in this PC world..

 

hi roadracer are you from the uk ?

 

yep, moved to atlanta in '98. gas was 67c when i got here..not quite as cheap anymore