Features 1937 to 1942 Willys Picture Thread

Ron is a great guy and when he gets into something he's all in. Yes the Airoso car was built as a tribute car and was on a PPG calendar when it was first completed by another guy named Ron. The car is now being converted to street duty with a tamer engine combo so he came drive and enjoy it more. The engine from that car will go into his red race car for that other kind of fun.

 

a BUNCH of good history in that thread.

 

1934coupe-
That's right. My dad bought the car from "Big" Jim Haase who managed the (I believe) Rockville Center S&K Speed. My dad has a picture of the car with the S&K paint job on it, but no nose. I was told that the original '40 front end was wrecked at one time and before fitting the fiberglass '41 front end (in this picture) it was raced with a Ford grille in front of the radiator. I'll have to try to scan that in to put it up.

 

Black Mouse



Chilly Willy



Graham Bros



again

 

Tech inspectors check out the record-setting Herrera B/Gas Willys as driver Hedrick looks on sometime in the early 1960s.



Tom Kasch



Tangerine



SWC

 

OK let me get this out of the way While searching for photos found this site and it is FULL of Willys photos and a couple other brands like Henry J, Austins, and Anglias. OVER 2000 photos of KILLER Willys. The problem is most are not HAMB rules friendly. Be warned the photos and cars are so GREAT you get hooked and look up and a couple hours have passed.

It is NOT my site and I have no connection to it what so ever. Have fun.

http://www.marsh-racing.com/willys.htm

OK back to our regularly schduled posting.

Some HAMB friendly shots are from that site. But too many to separate out.

 

Hes-I-Ta-Tion vs Saul Bros running A/MP




Hes-I-Ta-Tion

Hill & Zartman




Hydro Therapy



Jack Merkel AUTOMOTIVE

 

Chopped

 

Kananen Bros




Linc Auto Body running altered




Littleman's Fury






Mallicoat Bros

 

Arteaga & Hellmuth Day

 

Dave Hale's



Golddigger




Graham Bros



again



Hall Chevrolet



again

 

Rinaldi Bros



Roadsters




Roy & Carolyn Beggs Flintstone Kart



Russo & Santo 4 door




Sheffler Bros

 

Another Willys that ran out of Jack Merkel's shop Russo and Santo (was Russo and Allen also) sbc powered, now owned by the father and son team of Jack and John Olcott with bbc and turbo 400. Car was for sale this summer I think, they ran with the East Coast Gasser group.

Pat

 

that the one that got wrecked in the pits?

 

Yes.

 

Yep

 

Yes, that's it.
BTW, the Olcotts sold the car last week and it now resides in the Detroit area.

 

MINNESOTA TIN...ran across many photo's from over the last 20 years of many Minnesota cars, and a few from the surrounding states...they all still exist.

 

My first coupe...summer of 1961
My first sedan after I got back into Willys, early 1981

 

Wow talk about early Willys, in 1961 (about) a couple of guys I didn't know at the time went out to southern CA. to live, they were buying up all the willys they could find, fast forward a few years after sending a 36 Willys pu back to NY one guy Ray Kobel moved back to NY and brought his 40 Willys coupe back with him and built this C/G car I uploaded, he drove this car to work everyday in LA. Fast forward to 1972 I buy a steel Willys coupe and build a street rod out of it. My long winded point is that people didn't even know what a Willys was at that time. Many asked me if mine was a jeep and some thought a VW. Second picture mine, they are not the same car.

Pat

 

Minnesota Tin,
My Pickup...note the license plate. I miss that truck

 

MORE MINNESOTA TIN...Same car (Lutz & Lundberg
And then Straka/Tschida
Willys Picnic 2015

 

MN. TIN
Al Tschida built the car above many years ago(the late 60's)...brought back to life by a local car guy Johnny Z.
The other green one on the right was Al's last build just a few years ago...with lots of work done
by fellow rodder, and great builder, Greg Gruber. Two neat cars!

 

This truck has a 409 in it, and the owner takes it everywhere. It was thought to have been a factory truck used to move stuff around in Toledo...extremely low miles on the odometer...neat ride. This is one of the coupes I found in the early 80's (didn't look anything like this) I found it in Forrest Lake, MN., and it had a 390 Ford in it. Sold to a good friend who enjoyed it for many years. This coupe has been driven coast to coast...extremely dependable...(no longer in MN.) g-willys p.s. My friend had a big block chev. in it.

 

Agitator




Antelope Valley Speed Center





Brown Nitsche & Dyer




Burgin Bros





Canode Velasquez & Stoltz

 

The coupe (4 cars above) with Antelope Speed Shop on it...is the same coupe as shown in post #5619 with Wild Willy on the door. Started in Minnesota, spent several years in California, and then returned to Minnesota sometime in the mid to late '70's...now restored to how it was back then (with a different sponsor) mostly built by Al Tschida, it was owned by his brother-in-law (see post # 4829) g-willys

 

SWC day




Swindler A vs KS Pittman


Pair of SWC



Note the top of the convert behind it.

 

MORE MN TIN, at the Meltdown, back to the 50's, and my '38 stocker(it went to Sacramento CA...haven't seen it since) g-willys

 

Shuttes Racing Team



Teixeira II



again




Tommy's Auto painting ???




Underdog

 

Caruso Bros




Cooper's Speed Shop



again




Joe Mallard
EDIT: from 1934coupe it is the Grist Bros sponsored by Joe Mallard




Keith Black Racing Engines