Brand New 40 Willys "Speedway" $495.00

It's all true!
...or, it was true!
Here's the Willys "Speedway" at a special preview
at the New York Auto Show on September 6, 1939!

Check the license plate.

Damn! Just missed another one!

 

Damn 67 years late and $495 short! Great pic .

 

I always said I was born too soon...

 

wow - that's cool.

 

That picture is proof that God intended those cars to be gassers.

Good photoshop material right there.

 

According to the inflation calculator:

What cost $495.00 in 1939 would cost $6847.64 in 2006.

Also interesting to note, that things that cost $495 today, were $35.78 back then.

Still a good buy!

 

wonder how many 39-41 willys where built?

 

some of these old cars look sorta awkward stock. maybe my perception has just been skewed but it looks so big for the wheels

 

man, them old WIllys hold their value pretty good...there was just a pickup on here a few days ago for $500!

 

Is that what you scrawled on the wall of that cave???

...I always wondered what that said!!

 

To get off the Willys for a moment....I remember an ad in Hot Rod where Ed Roth was selling the "Tweedy Pie" for $2300.

Now back to the Willys....

 

What was the "monthly payment"? LOL

 

You'll find monthly payment to be very attractive Mr. New Car Buyer! Just $100 delivers your new 1940 Willys and $17 a month for two years buys it. Plus tax, license, fees, and delivery surcharge from Toledo.

Just sign here....

 

What the hell, I'll take two! Damn, I didn't know they ever made stock ones!

 

Yeh I think they made 70 stock one,s so the rest could be gassers,I think it was something like that?

 

man you sure know how to make a girls heart sing. A friend of ours owns a bone stock 1941 willys. It doesn't see the light of day much but its COOL!!!!!!!!!
GASSER GIRL

 

Somewhere I have a book with production figures for Willys. I know they made around 50,000 in '37 and a lot less the next 4 years.

 

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...meant in a nice way...Fucketh Thou...

 

Production:

1940 .. 21,418 est.
1941 .. 22,102 est.

Source: Encyclopedia of American Cars 1940-1970

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Whoa! I always heard those things came from the factory without blown hemies and with skinny tires,....but I was skeptical. Who knew?