Projects 1938/41 Willys build shots

Remember the panel truck the DJ was driving in that same movie?
Look above.

 

and more

 

more at Steve's place

 

Bones!

 

The wife driving it with a tunnel ram BBC, then switched to a blown 468.

 

I was a member of Byron's Gasser Madness [also known as Gas F/X],
our "leader" was Byron Stack, unfortunately he passed away a while ago
however he came to visit us in 2008.
I'm 5'9 and 1/2" tall and as you can see he was 6' something.
What a good sport, I got him to squeeze into my 30 pickup.

 

Desperate to mount a side view mirror to take the car on an outing,
I had an old door stop and mounted it to the cage;
it worked for the day.
Then I installed a new one...

 

Off topic for a moment, I swapped the battery in the wife's 34 yesterday;
Optima red top, lots of cranking amps.
Of course the battery is in the trunk, in front of the rear wheels, in a cubby hole surrounded by upholstery.
Took two Advils and a nap afterwards.

 

More on Byron Stack, sticker still on the rear bumper today...

 

How tall are you? Looking at the picture of you in trunk hurts.

 

I'm 5'9 and 1/2" tall and I'm 78 years old.
Took me 2 hours to swap the battery, I'm getting too old for this stuff.

 

My friend [track photographer] Dean and I.
Note: I'm up on the curb, he's not.

 

When I had the stock '38 front axle...

 

Visiting our friends on a Sunday

 

So blessed to live in this neighborhood...

 

This would be a nice engine combo for a steel Willys coupe...

 

That would be a nice combo for just about anything you could shoehorn it into!

 

I'll say!

 

Gateway Gasser Gathering in St. Louis 1999, we had a great time!

 

Looks like a 59/60 El Camino rear window.
I asked several fellow SF natives if they ever heard of this club, nope.
Sleepers with a Willys coupe,
Mick

 

Drive 'em!
Went to lunch at the next city over, Concord.
GN restaurant, great food...

 

Contra Costa Times

 

My friend Tim stored his T at my house while he built the sheet metal portion of my interior.

 

Another burger run [a while ago/not this past weekend]...

 

Car Show at a local muffler shop

 

Tried a different location for our Friday Night Gathering [quite a while ago]...

 

My friend [the late] Wayne B, here's his pickup he found for his wife to drive.
These are the "before" shots, day 1.