History 1933 - 1936 Willys, picture thread

Micky...YES..! He does some nice work..I recommend him highly!

Rocky

 

I know this is 33-36 but on the Minneapolis craigslist their is a beautiful unrestored 1932 willy sedan delivery for sale for $11k. I've never seen one, looks really cool.

I have no connection to the sale, just putting the word out for Willys fans, but this must be super rare.....

Eric

 

Here's the "tribute" K.S. Pittman 33 Willys in south Florida....parked right next to the legendary gasser of Dave Hales!







Me, Fred Bear and Dave Hales.... (Im the good looking guy in the middle...lol)

 

This was outside my shop last year...it was cool to have all three of my cars together... Dave Cobb owns the Flashblack now..... He has done a great job running her...running a best of 8.30...!

 

Rocky, pm me his contact info if you have it please. Thanks.

 

Bob Chipper's 1933 Willys!

 

A wild looking panel truck! I'm not into the snorkel scoop, but still give it points for being BAD..!

 

K.S. and Johnny Rocca in the staging lanes....Denver Colorado.....

 

The original and re-created Ellison & McGarvey 33 Willy's "Magic CARpet" of Rick McGarvey and the late Bob Ellison

 

Bob Ellison was a good guy and a good friend.... It was tough hearing he passed away after the crash.. If New England Dragway ever does a memorial race for him, I'd be sure to attend..... God Speed Bob......

 

Looks like the old Gas FX gang is in here, just like old days!

 

lol...yea...we had a lot of fun in the early days of Gas-Fx....! Byron is in the process of doing a message board for the "New" Gas-Fx... Hopefully a lot of the guys that made it great will participate on the new board...

Rocky

p.s. How you doing Dave? Did you ever get the 40 done?

 

Bob was a wonderful friend and mentor to me for many many years, am putting together a memorial album to have at the nostalgia races at New England Dragway, if anyone has any pictures of Bob and or his cars (the willy's or the Boston Strangler Funny Cars or his chopped blown Merc) they would like to include I would love to have them in the album, credit for the photos will be captioned with the pictures.

 

Here's the article where Bizio ran the 8.48. It wasn't a fluke. He was flying all night.

 

Mark,

He has it set up now....there are a few of us doing some tuning work on it... should be up next week....I'll post the info. here once it goes on-line....

Rocky

 

I met Bob when he was building the replica....sorry I don't have any pics to share. Like I said earlier, I really enjoyed our conversations and was looking forward to getting the chance to have some races with him... I'm sorry for your loss, he was definitely one of the good guys.....

 

We have 4 nostalgia races at New England Dragway every summer, usually the last Sunday from May through August, it'd be awesome to see one of your Willy's make some exhibition passes there, I would like to try and establish a Bob Ellison Memorial Award for the nostalgia series, something I need to work on with the track officials that were friends of Bob.

On a positive note Bob's Willy's lives on, the motor and trans has gone to the chassis builder to be put in a 32 Roadster built in Bob's memory, and the Olds rear, parachute, spare motor, and some other various small parts are being used to re-create Ed Pearson's Bantam Fuel Altered, which will be debuting at Bowling Green this year. Not a Willy's anymore, but used to create a couple cars Bob would've been proud to wrench on.

 

More Ron Bizio...

 

Sometimes they look good standing still. First up, Bizio truck in a spring car show 1988, in Washington state.




Second up the Jack Coonrod car after re-purchase and upgrade.



Thirdly, I at one time thought this was an authentic Ohio George car, but earlier posts in this thread have me confused. A tribute car perhaps, was there a later one? Kindly educate me please.



Like the 33 cars the best. Have a teenage memory of one on the street. Not a comon sight where I grew up.

 

Thanks for the cool pics. The Wilford and Coonrod car show pics are great. The last car is indeed a tribute car. I forget the owner's name, but it was unlettered for some time. The lettering may even be removeable vinyl. Thanks again for the pics.

 

OK, I'm waiting for some blocks to come back from the machine shop...so I have some time on my hands...lol I have a ton of 33 Willys pics, I'll post what I can.... If any are re-posts, my apologizes..!



The restored Ohio George 33 at the first Hot Rod Reunion in Columbus...



This is a neat shot of my Dad's ex-Boss Hydro (renamed Pure Acid) running against the legendary Jungle Jim...



My Flashback 33 Willys after I sold her.... I don't know who owned it at this point... I believe it was in the Detroit area at this time...

 

This photo is of my Dad's original Boss Hydro after we bought it back. He sold it in 1968, we got it back in 1981....



I remember seeing this on the Jackson Bros. tapes...

 

Clean 33 Willys...



Tim and Diane Burns beautiful street rod....I believe its the ex-Ontario George gasser...




Virgil Cates record holding gasser...still around today!



Jack the Bear Coonrod....Jack's cars always ran well...

 

Cool photo of the Dog Catcher... I always liked the panel truck...



The Hill Bros. Another hard running gasser..

 

A couple more of my Flashback 33 Willys... First shot is from Englishtown NJ.







The shots above are from Epping NH... We ran up there as part of the Wild Bunch and Hot Rods from Hell.... I really loved running there..!

 

A couple of pits shots of my Flashback.. These are from Milian Mich (I think lol) The little kid walking in the pic is my younger brother...he's a doctor today! Boy time flys.... My Dad is the guy in the front.. boy I miss him..!



Same race I believe...

 

Neat shot of the Hill Bros. flip top 33 Willys.. I'm building a car like this....



I believe this shot is after they sold the 33...







Some more shots of the Hill Bros... I always liked this car... Ran real good too!

 

A pic of Jack's 33 in later years... This is probably sometime in the late 80's or early 90's ????

 

I heard this was a good running car too..... Definitely a BAD ASS looking ride!