Projects 1938/41 Willys build shots

Just came across something I had hand printed in 1995 when I first bought the car.
No, it's not Doug Cook. Shows previous owners.
I bought it from Mike Mahoney,
Mick

 

A real Willys nut, had the front end in the living room for quite a while;
needed room in the garage. The neighbors must have thought I was pretty strange.
Made for an interesting Christmas,
Mick

 

The tree skirt around the bumper area is great. Love the Christmas display.



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Mick,
I have a friend who does the same thing...we are all WILLYS Nuts...literally. g-willys

 

Ha! The wife did that, I hooked up the headlights.
So you've got one of my favorite cars 65 Mopar, cool!
Like to see it...

 

Glad I'm not alone!

 

Thanks. I have a few of them actually. Love the 65s.


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Nice cars!
Jealous, always liked those Mopars. Keystone mags?
A local fella and his family all have Mopars, here's a few shots of them.
He also has this really cool 426 Hemi powered 32 Ford, not to mention a dragster [ not shown],
Mick

 

A couple observations...

1. That '32 five window looks like she would be a handful to drive with that elephant motor in there...

2. I love the fact that the 5 window looks like it actually gets driven and it not a museum piece or a trailer queen...

Mick, thanks for sharing.

Steve

 

Wow. Nice cars love that 65. The Coronet is a nice car and that 32 has to be fun to drive. Thanks.


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Steve and 65pacecar, the 32 runs on alcohol.
Has large jets and a large fuel cell, no doubt a handful to drive.
This year Satellite is my favorite Mopars, especially in black.
They also have this track t, check out the engine, just not my thing,
Mick

 

Another shot of the cool, cool Satellite at one of our gatherings,
Mick

 

A woman we met in St. Louis in 1999, Kari from Nebraska, asked f we knew anything about this car being that we are from California.
Eric bought it from Bill Comstock and it's registered in 1963.
Anybody recognize the car?
Thanks,
Mick

 

Good time last night,
Mick

 

65pacecar, forgot to mention my friend Mopar Dave's car, it was even in American Graffiti 2 movie.
Took this in 2010, he has since sold it [yep, I should have bought it],
Mick

 

Steve, how's the 47 doing?

 

That’s pretty cool. Nice 64. Love that body style.


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Came across some more pictures, here's some of modifying the headers.
Bought some fenderwell headers from Mike Nordahl, good quality but with my 10% engine setback
Choke had to heat them up and use a come along to get them away from the fenders.

 

Burger run yesterday; some met here at the house, others met at the restaurant.
Fun group!
Back to Willys build in a few minutes,
Mick

 

Back to Willys build shots.
Found more pictures; building the rear bumper,
Mick

 

Eric, any thoughts on your radiator yet?
Mick

 

While my chassis was being built at Choke's he had a few front engine dragsters
lined up to get rebuilt...

 

Just came across a few MORE shots of the Pure Hell altered when it was at my
fabricator's [home] shop when my suspension was being built.
Must be quite a ride!
Mick

 

I previously showed a few shots of the coupe front end in the living room at Christmas,
so here's a Thanksgiving pumpkin pie for Willys lovers, might as well get the silly crap out of the way.
"Pie crust slicks?" This is what retirement does to ya.
Back to build shots tomorrow,
Mick

 

Had an office/laundry room between the kitchen and the garage.
Thought I'd install a window at first then realized how much fun a sledgehammer can be.
More room in the garage now but there's never enough of that,
Mick

 

Maybe I should have elaborated, I took the entire room out.
Happy Friday,
Mick

 

the pie is so cool. I will have to start doing that. hot wheels makes a car strikingly similar to my avatar. I put a few on the Christmas tree.

 

31 Chrysler on a pumpkin pie sounds good to me.
A little whipped cream, pretty funny, please do!
Mick

 

Met up with some friends last night, getting a lot of use out of the car,
Mick

 

I had a headliner installed a while back; the front portion came out fine but
the rear portion didn't so I removed it.
I'll have a round two one of these days.