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Technical Willys That DIDN'T run a Hemi

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Speed Gems, Aug 1, 2016.

  1. gary terhaar
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    That's the car,pictures are elusive at best for me so thank you for posting this.
    Jack has a engineering degree and modeled the rear suspension from a jaguar design he found in a sae paper he had read years prior to the build.
    It used a open olds diff,and canceled the spider gears by means of a torque arm placed in a specified spot determined by the gear ratio.
    This and many other details show what a true innovator he was and still is.
    There is a radiator in the front not used for water but fuel,cooled as mph increased. Helped on the hot days running on gasoline.
    To this day I will visit his shop where he goes and still works with his son Scott 6 days a week and always leave learning at least one thing before I leave.
     
  2. Speed Gems
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  3. elgringo71
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  5. Speed Gems
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    Safeway Sandblasting Willys.
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  6. Speed Gems
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    This one ran a 482" Dodge.
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  7. FrozenMerc
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    Now, that is splitting hairs a bit isn't it??? Still a Hemi, just not a Chrysler Hemi......:D

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  8. Speed Gems
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    I guess i wasn't thinking about that when i posted. :rolleyes:
     
  9. Fordson
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    This is mine raced in California through the sixties and ran a olds engine ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1478203796.281404.jpg
     
  10. LAROKE
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    The Bill Carroll and Roger Taylor Drag Racing Team campaigned a small block Chevy, Hilborn injected '40 Willys gasser in the sixties, winning the Indy Nationals in 1966. I'm told by Bill that this photo was taken around 1967. Bill (driver) and Roger (wrench) are sitting on the push truck behind the Willys.

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  11. midnightrider78
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    A favorite of mine because it was run by a couple brothers about 20 miles from where I grew up. Car competed at Indy several times and I believe won their class one year(but I can't recall for certain). The Grove Boys Gladiator Willys out of Fort Dodge, IA. In the early '60s the car had a 394 olds then later switched to a 427 Chevy. Car was found in the desert a number of years ago and restored to 427 configuration.
    Pic is of the 427 configuration. Somewhere(perhaps on the Iowa Dragstrips thread) there is a pic with the Olds and steel front end.
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  12. Speed Gems
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    Flathead powered.
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  13. Speed Gems
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    Bing's Speed Shop.

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  14. nochop
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    from norcal

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  15. This one was raced in the 60's by my good friend who's passed away a few years ago now. I can't remember all the details, but I know it had ran a small block Chevy at one point and a 430 Lincoln at another. When my friend got the car back in the 90's he built a 534 big block ford for it. He ran a 4 spd toploader and it ran hard.
     

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